Who has a grey house

ibizafan_2

We don’t have any grey, but I like some of the paint shades. What I don’t like is the dark grey carpet you see most days on Homes Under The Hammer. Hate dark carpets.

Faith1960

I think grey is definitely the colour of the moment but it does remind me of the days when everyone wanted a beech colour kitchen and now that is completely off-trend. We painted our kitchen walls earlier this year light grey and have a light grey floorboard effect cushion flooring which sets of the light cream kitchen units. I do love it. I am not too sure what colours we will decorate our potential new home though as I am starting to get a bit bored with grey now.

trailingspouse

I have grey carpets and ivory walls throughout - but then ring the changes in each room. Egg shell blue in the lounge and an eggshell blue kitchen (with grey floor tiles), burgundy with grey in the spare bedroom, and so on.


Grey is a nice practical colour for carpets - I've had my fill of biscuit-coloured carpets and pine kitchens!!


Also, so many other colours/textures work with it. It works with real wood, it works with bright colours, and it works with neutrals. What's not to love.


And as others have said - it all depends on the grey.

cloo

Our bedroom is grey as husband balked at strong colours in there, even though I said grey is the magnolia of the 2010s. At least got some colourful curtains. It's quite nice, but I don't want to have it everywhere. Our hallways, which are a large proportion of the house, are white and blue at least. The carpet (which we still haven't fitted) might end up being grey, but that's the last grey I am going to accept in the house!

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oystercatcher wrote: »

I hate grey but then I'm old enough to remember black and white TV.

In a few years grey will look really dated and something new will have taken over.

I'm gradually painting my house white , goes with anything.

We're currently painting everything white purely because we're rubbish at painting and we can't do the cutting in! Looks nice though and as you say its goes with anything

RelievedSheff

Doozergirl wrote: »

You know the forum is dated or we're all getting old when not one person posts a photo. It would be so much more dynamic with pictures rather than paint brand varieties.

I can't talk as I haven't posted a picture on my own self-build thread, but someone very kindly posted some for me from my instagram account. :rotfl:

The pictures don't really do justice to how grey the tones are in our house. They are showing it as more of a beige when it really isn't!

Here are a few pictures anyway. They are from when we moved in so they are a bit clinical still!















We are going to start decorating at Easter when we will have been in for 12 months and hopefully any shrinkage and settling in of the house should have finished. We are still going to stick to a grey theme we think but with highlights of other colours, for example we will pick the yellow from the taxis in the living room to find some new cushions for the sofa.

freeman3030

+1 for grey I'm afraid. I think it's clean and modern so long as everything isnt grey. I like to used the 60/30/10 rule. 60% white, 30% grey, 10% colour if your choice for a POP! We recently sold our house and every agent that came round to value it said ours was the best example in the area (could have been just to get us onboard with them) but we had 2 viewings within a couple of days and 2 offers, one of which was full asking price. So thanks to grey, we made a few quid! I think our next house may well be 30% grey again!

dan958

I'm not really into a lot of colour, and try to be as minimilistic as I can. My flat;

(I will be putting some art on the walls soon)

kdotdotdotdot

Grey came in about 15 years ago when Farrow & Ball released 'elephants breath' colour paint (aka 'grey'). Over the years, it's filtered down from cutting-edge fashionable to mass-market. If you follow interior design, it's not a question of everything grey becoming dated because it already is. Interior design style has moved on but unlike high fashion which can go from raising eyebrows on a catwalk to selling out in H&M in under two years, it seems interior design trends take longer for critical mass to build and manufacturers to change colour palette and supply their shops etc.

That doesn't mean it's in any way bad to have a grey colour scheme. If you like it, then you like it and that's how it should be.

ka7e

One or two kitchen retailers have introduced "clay" (a very dark brown) this year. It looks as though it is already being withdrawn, no surprise. Magnet and Ikea have new ranges in dark forest green, they look almost black in dim light.

I am about to order a kitchen in F and B Citron, very, very yellow. I have a kitchen unit door painted in that colour and it makes me smile every time I see it . It's my home, not likely to be put up for sale for a long time and my kitchen/diner will be sunny all year-round! It's not a statement kitchen or a brave choice - I just need a new kitchen and don't feel I need to be constrained by what is deemed fashionable at the moment.