I don't personally hate grey and grey can look great inside or out.

The issue I have with grey at the moment is everyone seems to play it safe and copy the other grey houses. As you noted it's now the mission brown of a few decades ago.... that so many at the moment now dislike! It was too much brown on brown now we have too much grey on grey.

My own house is grey.... Windspray Walls with Ironstone roof..... that was done in 2005 when there were no other grey's! As its Colorbond its not ideal to repaint.... wish I had just used Monument everywhere as I know the masses won't be that game.... I'm planning on painting the front door an eye-searing lime green or violet to move away from over copied grey walls!

One of my awesome clients has just painted their newly renovated and extended house in 'Poppy Pink'.... I do need to get some photo's as its stunning!!

I don't find the colour depressing but the blandness and sameness get's rather boring....

The trouble with any fashionable trend is that as soon as everybody starts doing it then the fashion is over, as it has become generic and common. People buying houses in 10 years time will be put off by the grey interiors as being so mid 2010's. Such a pity that so many people have lost confidence in using colour in the their homes.

Dr Retro

of dr Retro House Calls

Yes I am with you! We are in a brand new street and I think we will be the only house that is not grey! I do not care about trends - I despise grey and it is not used in our interior either. Glad I'm not the only one!

I like some warm greys, but mostly I find grey dreary and depressing.

Yep completely over grey, especially as an exterior colour, I must confess though our previous house was 2 different shades of grey with a white trim, but this was before the grey trend took hold....

Yes so over grey so many other colours out there do somthing diffrent your own thing love colour

What a refreshing post! We are building and I have a very strong aversion to grey. This is problematic when the first options for flooring, cabinetry and colour palettes in general are a choice of grey, grey and grey.

Oh Wiz Zie, why am I not surprised? Grey is the new mission brown, but even more pervasive, as it carries from the external into the internal. Dare to be different and your house won't date as the grey trend fades. I'd even go for dusky pink as an alternative and I am no pink girl. Pale olives rock too. Very pale yellows are a treat to use on interiors to bring in a little sun to your day, every day! As for exteriors I'd go for something bright, cheerful but tasteful and timeless. I love the blues and vivid whites of Greece, the fabulous sandstone tones of Sydey's natural environs and the terracotta and mustard hues of Italy, or vibrant ones of the Cinque Terre! Until people stand up to the building and decorating industries and say grey belongs to yesterday we may be stuck with it for a while!

To me every grey house I currently see is a statement that "I am a fashion victim" and my owners mere followers of trends!

My own house features lots of lime green highlights, like backsplashes and some furnishings, bright orange, blackwood cabinetry, deliberately white, true to the 60's appliances and my most loved room, the sunroom, has a 60s knotted pine feature wall, which I totally love for its warmth. Walls are cream throughout! Bathroom is entirely without tiles, which are a haven for mould and an ongoing pain to clean. I chose cream lamipanel and a vibrant vinyl white flooring with black squiggles as an alternative to tiles. Yes, I love bucking trends it seems!

Dr Retro, you are a designer after my own heart! My triple fronted brick veneer house was built in 1965, extended in 1970 and I try and stick to furnishings and influences from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s! I am its third owner, but have discovered its history via my elderly neighbours. I also have lots of antique vases, crystal and fine bone china, as was popular in the 1960s and 70s in my lounge room. Cannisters in the kitchen are all straight from the 1960s purchased by my mother, then handed on to me. Meanwhile my sun room is an explosion of plants , cane, colour and knotted pine feature wall. Whilst I have double glazed and slightly tinted the lounge room windows for privacy, I try and maintain the period integrity and hope to heritage list my property. So many glorious homes of this era are being knocked down for building town houses and macmansions, especially those on huge blocks, like mine. It is an easy house to live in and I am grateful for my separate kitchen, with easy access to the open plan dining room and lounge, as it keeps my dog out of food preparation areas. I love the cosiness of my kitchen in a home of otherwise vast spaces too! The separate living areas and kitchen have at times, made it easy for 3 generations of the family to happily coexist here, which in a totally open plan home would have been difficult!

I love grey as a base and it can look fabulous against woods... Whites, zingy colours like mustard or muted tones like duck egg... I just detest 'all grey' decor I honestly hate it... Completely lacks imagination and personality.. I don't like 'perfection' either as I think decor should reflect personality and or tell a life story

I love to really mix it up -- I am going to do a flat mid grey on the walls , window surrounds and doors , and mission brown carpets . Would yellowy beige be the go for the ceiling , or should I stick to grey ?

I hate grey, browns, plain white, stainless steel and open floor plans

It dependson how well it is done. like all things.
I'm going to try and link 2 houses which are very similar in the modern aspects (although one is a reno and the other a new build) and I think one gets it right and the other fails and is a bit flat.
one link here (hopefully):
https://stylecurator.com.au/the-stables-house/

This is the other place:

Check out this project on Houzz - http://houzz.com/projects/6372498

now maybe that second one has a dodgy filter on the photos but it looks so flat. Even the timber accents are failing to add sufficient warmth. And the walls seem pale grey and yuck.

And how cute is the puppy in the first one???

In days gone by every room was a different colour theme, a blue lounge, a lilac bathroom a pink bedroom.
You shut the door and moved to the next coloured space.
Today people have open plan and want flow and consistency.
Grey doesn’t seem to work in my place, thank goodness I skipped that trend.