Who has a grey house

babyblade41

I go for white walls and wood flooring ,with 6 dogs the walls are easy to re-do quickly.No carpet anywhere

I have a couple of grey dressers in one room but have matched it with royal blue soft furnishings

I don't mind grey but in moderation ...absolutely hate feature walls and wallpaper

Fosterdog

In our last home (rental) we had the living room painted grey, landlord was happy for us to redecorate as long was we kept it neutral and out of all the neutral colours we preferred the grey. We had laminate flooring though and rugs, curtains, and cushions we nice and bright to break up the grey. I wouldn't have it in every room, and I wouldn't to floors and walls grey but some grey is nice and easy to work with to get different looks.

In our new home we've recently had the bathroom done and I chose grey tiles but it is wood effect flooring and apart from the shower the tiles only go half way up with white on top

Davesnave

I'm not surprised grey is the colour of the moment. It fits. I'm just waiting for Farrow & Ball's 'Thunberg' to hit the shelves...

Go back to the late 60s and early 70s to see equally awful expressions of the human condition, but we had a bloody good time with it! :rotfl:

babyblade41

Davesnave wrote: »

I'm not surprised grey is the colour of the moment. It fits. I'm just waiting for Farrow & Ball's 'Thunberg' to hit the shelves...

Go back to the late 60s and early 70s to see equally awful expressions of the human condition, but we had a bloody good time with it! :rotfl:

I'm going to be really sad when the avocado bathroom suite disappears in the new year... a last fond memory of my childhood

kerri_gt

babyblade41 wrote: »

I go for white walls and wood flooring ,with 6 dogs the walls are easy to re-do quickly.No carpet anywhere

I have a couple of grey dressers in one room but have matched it with royal blue soft furnishings

I don't mind grey but in moderation ...absolutely hate feature walls and wallpaper

We have a feature wall because it will be less to decorate when we change the colour :rotfl: also it's quite a dark grey (called natural slate I think) so would make the room look really dark if it were all painted that way. Similar with the wallpaper in one our our rooms, it's lovely (imo) but quite bold (grey with copper in it), not only would it be an assault on the senses to have the whole room done in it, the paper made F&B paint look cheap so we couldn't afford the whole room to have it :rotfl:

phoebe1989seb

ka7e wrote: »

I'm one of the few that find grey depressing and drab. I'm currently renovating a house and just finished a new wet room in ochre, orange and white. I'm desperate for a yellow fitted kitchen - my last one was pale blue.

Every kitchen warehouse says they only stock white and grey kitchens because they are popular - but consumers have no options unless they go bespoke. There are sage kitchens - grey with a hint of green, cashmere - grey with a hint of pink, dove grey, pebble, graphite, slate, charcoal, stone, mist, pewter. There can't even be a backlash against grey, because there is little choice - noted that Homebase have introduced plum and peacock blue, but only in their premium range.
Trying to buy furniture, bedding, textiles and flooring that haven't got a grey element is a challenge!

We bought our kitchen cabinets from Handmade Kitchens of Christchurch. Far cheaper than many off the peg suppliers and we were free to paint them whichever colour we wanted

A few years back we had a quote for a B&Q kitchen and found it compared unfavourably price wise to another 'bespoke' manufacturer. We've opted to go bespoke ever since, but then we hate the current trendy, glossy handleless kitchens.

Regarding splash backs, there a gazillions of options out there - no reason to be limited to greys - whatever material you prefer. We chose to paint our cabinets Little Greene Knightsbridge to match a vintage Voysey style wallpaper (in turquoise, red, cream and taupe)) which we used as a splash back behind our bright red range with toughened glass over to protect it

We have used dark, earthy colours throughout as well as several wallpapers, but as these are either vintage or ridiculously expensive, they are often just used as features......no following decorating trends here, so no plans to change them. Ever.

Davesnave

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

We bought our kitchen cabinets from Handmade Kitchens of Christchurch. Far cheaper than many off the peg suppliers and we were free to paint them whichever colour we wanted .

Which is better, because the vast majority of wooden doors are manufactured in Ireland and bought-in. They all start off as Ivory and other colours are over-sprayed, which is fine, until they start to wear at the edges etc.


Once we understood that, the choice was obvious. However, if you paint your own, the base coat can be matched and there's no problem, especially with darker colours.

Zero_Sum

Thought you meant grey bricks
Lots of 70's council houses near me were built like that

Fire_Fox

Not straight-up cold grey. Sixties concrete. Battleships. Not in every room.

But part of that is the (lack of) natural light in my (Sixties concrete with tinted windows) flat. :rotfl:

ka7e

I used lots of rich colours in my last house (Victorian), but current one is 1930s with original pale green doors and tiled fireplaces. I had already decided on a fairly "sunny" palette with accents of light green, and stripping walls to original painted plaster has revealed a lot of ochre and yellow walls. I love interpreting the feel of a room, using the natural and night-time light on colours to create different moods. Using loads of grey seems such a lazy, unimaginative way to decorate a home.