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?

With respect, you need to get some real problems.

You have to admit it sounds a little bit entitled to want to compromise about paint colour. OPasked and has been told she's being u.
There are some odd neighbour issues on MN recently along with 'prancing in bikinis' and now this. [Shakes head] 😀

Pay for it to be heightened, only.

Sure it will be a good sign post for directing visitors/ deliveroo s/ parcels
Look on the bright (mykonos blue) side

This is peak mumsnet. You're getting a smashing in the comments because while it's OK to be annoyed about anything, it's bonkers that you've let the back of someone else's house get to you this much. Also, that you'd have the audacity, the gumption, the gall to suggest that they go to the expense and effort to repaint it a shade that you approve of. It's their home!

My mate painted her garden walls a bright blue and it's a gorgeous space to relax in. Someone else here's already referenced the stunning garden in Marrakesh with the iconic blue walls. This is the colour I'm imagining: YesColours | Blog: How to: Majorelle Garden design with Electric Blue masonry paint

I'm honestly baffled that you'd let someone else's back wall impact this much on your own experience of your garden retreat. Plant some taller plants or trees, turn your chair around so you're facing the other direction.

I can't decide whether this is satire or not @Toveylove ? I'm leaning towards yes.

Maybe they are sisters

Why would they pay to make their fence higher because you don’t like it lower?

It's only at the back.

This is batsh!t!! Make up a disability to guilt their neighbours into painting a different colour - totally normal and acceptable thing to do.

If her ND makes her colour sensitive to blue then she should probably avoid days with clear skies.

The "shutting door in face" yes, this is rude... but we've no idea how the conversation went, was OP rude? being aggressive? because I certainly would be OK with my neighbour shutting their door in my face if I went round ranting and raving about their poor taste.

There was a stripey house in Kensington where the owners were taken to court by the council, but I don't see anything wrong with a blue one.

https://www.bidwells.co.uk/projects/stripey-house-kensington/

if its their fence, ask politely if you could put up a trellis along the top - and grow a honeysuckle - grows a mile a minute . Or a couple of clematis , winter and summer flowering to you always have something that will break the colour up

Oh dear OP. It’s not nice living next to inconsiderate neighbours. I don’t blame you for not wanting to live near them. Perhaps you should put your house on the market and move far, far away.

I didn't see what was wrong with this stripey one!

All depends on your council. As pp have said there have been cases where people have had to repaint exterior areas due to complaints. While it wouldn't bother me it obviously annoys you so give it a go!

Its a bloody awful shade of blue imo. But im not sure seeing a blue house when you're in your garden should be affecting your happiness like this. It's just a colour.

I now imagining the cast of the 70s tv show "robyns nest "

I quite like this.

Me too!

How is he a lout

Around 20 years ago I lived near a house painted black! The neighbours reported it to the council and newspapers but nothing could be done about it. The neighbours struggled to sell up for years, until the black house people needed to move and realised no one would buy it! They ended up painting it white and moving much to their neighbours delight!

Ha ha. Wayne & Waynetta Win the Lottery.

**It doesn’t quite feel the same in south London.••

@Katey83 are we talking F&B Elephant Breath South London?
Or "we could really do with a sturdy gate across the front door" South London?

I mean either option would benefit with an injection of colour I guess.

Does the sky bother you?

What is wrong with these people! So inconsiderate, and think they are so cool. Yuck.

Loud. Drinks beer day and night. Shouts at the children when they are playing in the garden. Wears clothes with holes in even though they live in a £500k house. Odd.