Why has Britain become obsessed with depressing grey houses?

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Why do people actually choose to make their entire house grey? You see these houses on Rightmove they it genuinely look like doctors surgeries.

People will call it 'classy' but where's the personality? Colourful walls, weird wallpaper, bold choices? Why are people decorating their homes for imaginary buyers on Rightmove instead of themselves?

Genuine question: do people actually love grey or are we all just terrified of having a personality?

Have you seen the viral purple house video that's been doing the rounds? If you hate grey and like 'bold choices', I think you'll like it:

It baffles me and my house is full of colour, but I don't think people go all in on grey because they're terrified of having a personality, or are decorating for future buyers. They do it because they want their house to be on trend - grey was fashionable, grey shit was everywhere in the shops, so they did their houses grey.

Whatever makes people happy is fine with me. I don't want to live in a grey house but if other people do - I'm happy they're happy.

I think the Millennial Grey moment has passed now though. A new colour will be hitting RightMove soon: everything will be green.

for selling a house - which you are viewing on rightmove - especially in a tricky market , dull and simple is usually advised

cars too, anything new is mostly black, white, silver or grey.

I have a theory that modern decorations and furniture are now so shit that the only way to make anything interesting is to rely on it's colour "popping" against some shade of turditity.

Grey is out now. I say this as I am currently doing up my son’s house for him. (He is in the military and has his first house so a lot of the work is being done by me.) Grey is on the way out for carpets and flooring.

Not sure if that made sense but he is choosing everything and I am doing most of the work. So he has chosen on trend colours.

As a millennial I am saddened we got this thing named after us 😕

OMG. Just watched this and it's absolutely BONKERS, but I genuinely love it. I've never seen so much purple in one room!

I'm sure they're not obsessed. Just fond of the grey.

I know. Someone has taken a lovely 1950s house near us. Detached, rural in about 12 acres and "renovated" it so it looks like a Borstal, utterly bleak and miserable.

It has grey wood cladding, grey windows, grey front door, even a grey fence. Hopefully they renovated it to sell, and someone sane will buy it, strip off all the dreary rubbish and return it to its pre-makeover state.

I think it'll cost 6 figures just to restore the outside though. A very expensive mistake.

Coats as well

”do you do this in a colour rather than black”
”no - we sell a lot of black - it’s popular “
…. But you only sell black so you have no idea if other colours would be popular?

grey carpet was the cheapest as few years back
white

I did think that, when the grey trend took off, I would hate buying a new house for this reason. Endless grey, and on carpets , walls and anywhere else it could be squeezed in. We’re going the same way with beige.

But grey has long gone as the governing trend. I think everything is sage green at a moment, or maybe that's also gone, and I've not kept up?

And there’s also the dark green trend. A few years ago it was the navy trend. All ugh, because everyone wants the same for a while, and the colours are so often on every surface, instead of being designed in.

I like neutrals but not grey throughout. I think it’s depressing as well. I much prefer sage, cream, wood etc - pleasant but not drab

Oh no, has my house accidentally become a trend! Green has always been my favourite colour and I’m finding it very hard not to give every room a green accent.

Grey is definitely out now. Seems to be all beige/cream/sage green/brown, florals and gingham now.

There's an Instagram account called "weeping1930shouses". If you haven't gone off white render, black window UPVC double glazing and imprinted concrete driveways yet, then you will after browsing the horrors on that account.

All the walls in my house are white, and I’ll tell you why.

It means I can chop and change the colour scheme in any room whenever I fancy, without having to repaint the entire damn thing every time.

For example, our lounge has white walls, but we’ve used natural wood, gold and cream accessories to create a look that’s absolutely stunning.

Our bathroom also has white walls, but the overall aesthetic is 1920s teal, which gives it a completely different feel.

Our bedroom has white walls, a red velvet chaise longue and red accessories, with lots of different textures, from velvet to faux fur, to create a look that feels luxurious, elegant and classy.

Personally, I find garishly coloured walls really horrible to look at. I have absolutely no desire to live in a house that looks as though it’s been decorated to resemble a children’s TV presenter's shirt!

Thank goodness we’re all different, eh?

I like grey. And beige. Any kind of natural stone colour, really. I find it restful. Maybe that’s why spas often lean into the same sort of natural stone palette.

I like to keep walls and furniture in neutral tones and use rugs, curtains, lamps etc to add colour.

Easy design choice for those of us not confident in such matters! I don't have a grey house btw, but I have gotten colour wrong so many times - I can see the allure of these 'colour' (or not) schemes. Like magnolia 30 years ago.

Like wearing a flowery dress, white trainers, cropped denim jacket in the summer. Nice and easy to get right.

I have it on good authority that the colour Cashmere used with various golden browns is the new grey.

And I would say that, wouldn't I because my house is painted cashmere with brown and golden splashes here and there. Very nice it is too - of course 😊ha ha.

These colours remind me of Catherine Tramell's wardrobe in Basic Instinct.

Her wardrobe was a gorgeous combination of beige, gold, white and grey, and she looked absolutely stunning.

Now imagine her delivering those same chilling, seductive lines while wearing a lime-green top, hot-pink trousers and a multicoloured cardigan that looks as though it’s been knitted by a toddler on a sugar rush.

Somehow, I don’t think the effect would be quite the same. 😂

A lot of our newish young neighbours paint outside and inside dark greys or greens, i find it depressing, ours is mostly white inside with bold bright colours and colour washing on some walls to brighten the house. But they all seem to dress the same also in beige boring clothes...We have a nickname for all these types " They of the beige "