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?

So pretty and really cheers up an environment. I'd love to see more painted houses. When we visited Bavaria, some of the houses had classical mural type paintings on them. So lovely and cheerful.

There's a village in Poland where the houses have folk art patterns painted on them.

You’re joking surely? If you’re offended by looking at the colour blue I hope you never raise your eyes to the sky 😂

I wish more houses were brightly coloured, bring a bit of happiness to the streets

My next door neighbours house is blue. We live in a conservation area. They've been allowed to keep it blue, we've all had letters telling us that we will be fined and have to paint it back to white within 30 days if anyone else follows suit 🤷‍♀️

I don't mind it, looks nicer than beige to be fair! But it has weathered a bit weirdly, the top half is already lighter than the bottom half.

I found it quite rude!

You can also change your own attitude or wear yellow tinted glasses so it looks green or something

@Poppingby you just made me chortle out loud, this is hilarious. now the OP can swan around her own garden looking like a female Bono.
Brilliant!

I think you should report it @Katey83 . It's Monday afternoon, no one wants to be at work, and it's still a full 4 and a half days until the weekend. I'm sure the housing department at your local council would appreciate a bit of a laugh to get them through the rest of the day.

I had a childhood friend whose house was yellow and green. It was hideous but it made a change to the awful brown houses we have where I currently live

How is it at all rude OP? You literallly told her the same thing in reverse.

Even better if she uses ChatGPT to write a really long winded letter of complaint, including a extensive description of the effect it has had on her mental health and bullet points detailing contraventions of laws that do not exist or only apply in another country.

I meant the shutting the door in my face was rude. At least we could have had a conversation about it. But it seems I Abu so I shall have to get over it.

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It's a lovely colour.

Right!

The OP finds it rude, but I wouldn't dream of telling someone they need to change their house colour because it offends me 😢.

@Poppingby gives good advice 😂.

Who would you report it to?? The colour police? The vibrancy inspector?

Similar happened in Edinburgh. A women painted her door a pink colour but the council made her change it back due to the area she was in.

I think it's intensely rude to knock someone's door to tell them you don't like their taste so they should instead copy yours. What a strange thing to do.

I prefer real grass and bee-friendly flowers. I'm not going to knock my neighbour's door and tell them I hate looking at their fake grass out my window. Because that would be quite rude. And also irrelevant.

You were rude to her first, though, by informing her that you didn't like the colour of her house.

You don't have any right to tell your neighbours what colour they can and can't paint their house. Living next door to someone doesn't mean you get to have a say in their aesthetic choices. Your neighbour was absolutely correct to point this out to you.

The house opposite mine, which I have to look at all day and every day while I'm working, is a 1930s property which has inexplicably been covered in some really hideous faux stone cladding and white UPVC. Do I like looking at it? No. Is it any of my business? Also no. You don't own the view from your garden. You're being absolutely ridiculous.

I thought there might be planning laws that stopped this kind of thing - it seems mad you can just paint your house whatever colour you like! But apparently not.

That one made me sad. It was a lovely door and really in fitting with the area.

Non issue as far as im concerned, just because you dont like someone's else's personal colour paint choices,.dose not make it offensive. In the same way if a car you didn't like was legally parked outside your home ect. Its freedom of choice, as long as it legal there isn't anything can you do about it.

Offensive colour?! 😁

It's really oppressive living around busybodies who think their taste is the only acceptable option.

Do you really want to be this person? What if - as your neighbour said - somebody reports you for being offensively dull? Would that be fine with you?

Sounds ghastly and I love all shades of blue, but what exactly do you think the council will do?

Sounds lovely

OP who have you complained to when the clouds clear above your house?

You sound hard work