AIBU to ask if I can report my neighbour's bright blue house?

[Katey83]

I live in a terraced house. My neighbours have painted the back of their house bright blue (think swimming pool blue / like the Mikanos blue). It is horrible and looms over my garden. It’s really going to spoil my enjoyment of my space to have to look at this every day. I spoke to the wife earlier this morning and said it was not to my taste and would they consider changing and she said ‘the beige of your house isn’t to my taste but it’s your house. This is my house.’ And shut the door in my face. WIBU to report them to the council? Can I even do so? Surely you can’t just paint any offensive colour and expect neighbours to live alongside it?

Do you have a problem with the sky, OP?

What constitutes an eyesore though is often a matter of personal taste. Your neighbour could well consider your beige house an eyesore.

This thread is hilarious thanks for the laugh OP!

😂

Maybe they didn't like it and chose to change it.

My neighbours have a back yard filled with rubbish and broken furniture, there are about 10 of them crammed into a two up two down, they deal drugs and are usually shouting at each other until gone midnight. A blue house would be as nothing...

Well perhaps the Op's neighbours will be inspired by the blue house

Sounds gorgeous, it would really lift my spirits to see something like that

😆 Wouldn't you like to know?!

From what I heard that wasn’t the case.

You can ask mumsnet to check this and you will see it’s not true. I am being roasted on here and ok I asked for it. I don’t like blue. But I don’t like being accused of underhandedness by posting from an alt account.

Get some blue tint sunglasses. It will just look white again.

I’m thinking the neighbours will be considering painting the other three walls after this.

My house is blue and my neighbours house is a sickly greeny yellow. I personally wouldn’t have chosen his green colour, but then again, he likes it so that’s ok. It’s really none of my business and my blue house, which maybe he’s not fond of is none of his business.

We are good neighbours though and we look out for each other. He’s elderly and we help him with his garden 🪏, he brings us eggs from his chickens. Life is good 😊

Your entitlement and arrogance are off the chart.

Its their house. They can do what they like.

How dare you think that somehow some authority should care about a perfectly fine paint colour .

YABVU

Neighbour paints one half of the wall white.

Neighbour paints white stripes on her house.

OP also paints her house blue so that it matches.

May be a bright colour will do you good Op, you clearly need cheering up from your beige world. Offensive is a strange word to choose!

I’d have slammed my door in your face too.

Im team blue 💙

Anyone else got the balamory theme tune in their head

South London? I see your blue back wall and raise you this:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/69ggXq5X72jtAHU49
It's faded a lot in recent years, but when I was a kid it was even more lurid than this. https://ideal-homes.gre.ac.uk/__data/assets/image/0010/356383/loampit-hill-01446-750.jpg
I could've sworn that the stonework was bright pink at one point, but can't find any photos of that.

When the flag thing was at its height last year a man at one of the towns out in the county in my area had the front of his house painted like the Union Jack. If I remember rightly it was a terrace, so the people living on either side were not exactly thrilled

YABU for not dressing as a smurf and taking a picture against it.

It was always my landmark to start getting my stuff together coming doen Headington Hill on the Oxford Tube!

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You are getting a hard time over this because you feel you are entitled to pick and choose how other people live and you seriously need to get over yourself.

There are privacy screens you can set up in your garden if you are that bothered. You could also rearrange your seating so you can look at your own house instead of your neighbours.

Think of ways to manage your own space because you have zero control over space that doesn’t belong to you.

In case it wasn’t really clear yet, no one cares what you think. This is just a fact of life you should come to terms with. Getting offended and having a tantrum doesn’t change that.