Who has a grey house

ka7e

Davesnave wrote: »

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.

The availability of coloured doors has been hugely impacted by the fact that they were sprayed and lacquered in Italy. Many suppliers have dropped them from their ranges as the fall of the £ has made them prohibitively expensive. DIY kitchens imported the spraying machinery earlier this year but had lots of teething problems resulting in delayed orders and bad press. I looked at buying plain wood cupboards and painting them, but worried I wouldn't get a really professional finish!

phoebe1989seb

Davesnave wrote: »

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.

Indeed, ours came as unfinished tulip wood with minimal MDF and oak veneer interiors. I primed before painting in eggshell, but wanted a 'hand-painted' look

Recently we needed to buy a couple of additional cabinets - DH has built bin cabinets to match but wasn't quite up to building a curved cupboard - and ended up going to a different, online retailer because the lead time from Handmade Kitchens was too long [STRIKE] plus they wanted £900 to deliver to Wales![/STRIKE].

Delivery on these was 'free' but they are definitely of an inferior quality and came spray-painted in what they called Old White. I've since repainted them to match our other cabinets

PasturesNew

JuzaMum wrote: »

....Same grey carpets ...

I see those grey carpets in 99% of the refurbished houses/flats for sale. I despise them.

Somewhere there's a man making a fortune flogging rolls of this stuff to every "developer".... and I want him found and shot.

pimento

There are way more than 50 shades of grey. Warm pinky greys are lovely, battleship grey not so much.
Grey in every room? No.

Skiddaw1

Oh I so agree. It's so flipping trendy isn't it? It's going to look so terribly dated in a few years when grey goes out of fashion. Not that I dislike grey- a bit of grey is fine- but as I said on another thread recently, it's getting to the point where it feels like living inside a cloud.


One house we viewed was grey to the point where even one half of the (very long) garden had been covered in grey decking. We agreed afterwards that we'd have felt as if we were on the deck of the HMS Belfast if we'd sat out for a drink in the summer.

hazyjo

Had grey in the hall of my old house but it's a bit old hat now isn't it? I've not got any in this house. I don't mind it if people add colour, but trouble is most people ain't that good when it comes to colour matching and tend to just have grey with grey with a bit more grey for good measure!

NurseNelly

I quite like a grey wall/interior to a certain degree but only when it’s got a nice contrasting colour. Otherwise it’s very cold/clinical/morgue like!

Owain_Moneysaver

Norman_Castle wrote: »

I blame 50 shades of grey ... I tried the film. I lasted 10 minutes, it was as unimaginative

The sex parts were pretty unimaginative too.

I've seen raunchier episodes of Are You Being Served?

Owain_Moneysaver

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.

I have a grey kitchen. With lime and tangerine accent units. :rotfl:

JGB1955

Both of my adult children have grey houses. I find it really depressing, but guess it's no different to the magnolia/barley white/cotton white house I've had for the past 30+ years. There is ALWAYS space for one unexpected colour scheme though - ours is our downstairs cloakroom/loo - currently apple green, it was fuschia pink before. Perhaps banana yellow next?......