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?

I misread the title as Bright Blue Horse and was expecting something entirely different…

I can’t believe you genuinely asked your neighbour to change their house because it’s not to your taste!

Has anyone done the blue house song joke yet?

It’s pretty rude to challenge what she chooses to do with her house so I think it was a warranted response. My neighbour has gravelled his entire garden with shiny white gravel. It’s hideous but it’s his garden.

Your lucky neighbours. I have been trying to find someone to paint the outside of my house for several months and haven’t found anyone who appears both trustworthy or sober enough to climb a ladder.

Id love to live somewhere with vibrant houses, like Brighton or Beaumaris, near the coast.

I love the blue of Greek homes, it’s lovely. Maybe you can all follow suit and repaint your homes similarly in bright colours? Start some vibrancy in the area. I recently had a discussion with a bloke about colourful homes and he said he hated anything like that. Imagine hating colour, people never fail to amaze me.

But it’s not rude for you to insult her house colour of choice and then think you are so mighty important that you should be allowed to dictate what colour people paint their own homes?
You are ridiculous and insane to even think so. You sound entitled and delusional.

It's beautiful! Better than ugly eyesore beige! I am not in the UK and am always shocked at how ugly and filthy dirty-looking the brown houses and buildings look like in the UK and in London especially and have always wondered why people over there don't use paint. Good on them! Hopefully it will drag London out of the 1800s and more people will use colour and get rid of that filthy beige looking depressing colour.

What's the story in Balamory 😁

I have just remembered this story from the distant past. Well, ten years….https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/24/red-white-striped-house-zipporah-lisle-mainwaring

i wonder if it is still a stick of rock!

I love coloured houses. There’s a house I have driven past a few times about 20 minutes drive away that has an English flag and roses painted on it. Not so keen on that!

You just have to admit that their taste is different to yours. Nobody is wrong here.

why don’t you plant a row of pleached trees close to your boundary to obstruct your view of it a bit. This would obviously be at your expense as it would be your choice.

or move.

Yes, it would be great! 😃

I would not have responded and closed the door in your face, OP.

Avert your gaze.
Wear sunglasses.

The husband did it. I do admit that the job has been well done (in that it is neat and tidy), albeit I can't stand the colour. He does seem to do a manual job for a living (has a van, always dirty/ covered in cement etc).

I wonder why he's not done the front as well? Perhaps he'll do that another colour.

Ooh a compromise could.have been great. What about this

I don't give a shiny shit what colours my neighbours paint their houses so long as they don't expect a contribution from me.

The back was rendered and unpainted by the previous owners, so I had been expecting them to paint it. Just not blue. The front is brick with a bay window (white). I hope they don't paint that blue because it's a beautiful Victorian house and the white is traditional - though as I wouldn't have to look at it from my garden, so would be less bothered.

A colourful house sounds quite fun. I like the idea of that. Kinda wish my neighbours would paint theirs something exciting. I don’t love blue but maybe a lavender colour or a peach.
Life is boring sometimes, don’t let a splash of colour ruin anything for you. Decide that you’ll just accept it. And grow some pretty flowers to draw your eye elsewhere. Or embrace it and grow blue flowers!

Well at least it's a good landmark now. "I live next to the bright blue house. You can't miss it. You really can't."

Better she did that than telling you to
fuck off, which she was probably tempted to do!

Perhaps a mellow colour like yellow or peach?. I saw a house recently that had been painted a lovely lemon yellow, and the windows a deep forest green. It looked lovely.

Very amusing

Someone near me has wrapped their entire house, which is painted white, in a red sash so it looks like the England flag, like a giant version of those Christmas door bows.

It's already painted white and a large detached house up on a hill, so you can't miss it.

It will likely fade a bit. A neighbour on our street painted their house purple, which was actually great, but it has now faded to a lilac colour. So if you can hang on a couple of years you may end up with more of a powder blue.