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?

Example:
Before

After:
Just hideous.

Didn’t you already post this on Reddit?

Answer: because it's fashionable and the world functions better with conformity 🙄

There were some nice 60s/70s houses on my way into town. They are being bought one by one and transformed into white and grey identikit houses. I appreciate that it might be external insulation, but they look very out of place in an otherwise traditional area... especially amongst the houses where the neighbours are refusing to move out! I hope that the "look" doesn't take over, as there are quite a few nice art-deco houses dotted about locally, and they look lovely. My 1930's house is grey on the outside (pebbledash render), so I have tried to brighten its dreariness up with window boxes full of bright flowers.

Internally, grey and white looks very sterile, and surprisingly like the nearest dental surgery.

I am hoping that pale green doesn't take off. It would be unheard of for me to be fashionable!

and if you had any knowledge of history, or even just flicked through any history-based X or insta or youtube or webpage you will see hundreds of historians wailing and gnashing their teeth at all those movies and documentaries for being so historically inaccurate! The current 'uprising' film with Andrew Garfield is a key example.

The middle ages was full of colour (in terms of clothes, religious buildings and iconography, any home or civic building of anyone with any money, etc.). Have you literally never visited a cathedral or historic house?

The 'depressing and grey' colour scheme is a dramatic device to convey 'times were 'ard,' but is far from historically accurate.