I’m hardly Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, but if I had to guess.
Grey windows, erm… probably. They look better than white at the moment, but they could become very dated in a few years, the problem with window frames is they look pretty terrible in white, we just got used to them. There were a few years when people had wood effect ones, which just look horrible now. If Grey goes out of fashion, there’s not many places to go. That said one of our clients makes UPVC ‘stuff’ like windows / door and ‘glass extensions’ aka conservatories. I saw some windows there a few weeks ago with TINY frames, the effect is quite striking, on the right house I think they’d look amazing, on the wrong it’ll look like an office. They’re a sod to fit well apparently, not longer can fitters just tear a hole in a wall and use a load of sealant and plastic facias to hide it all, but they certainly catch your eye.
Grey in general, spent the last year decorating and generally fixing up our first home. Mrs Jay choose all the colours, I warned her, but she’s a lot happier than me to rip out perfectly good stuff when it’s no longer fashionable, but I’m living in a monochrome nightmare. I’ve got Elephants breath on the walls, stormy morning on the floors, polished pebble in the bedroom. We’re redecorating the eldest’s room at the moment… yep, it’s going to be Grey, after that one of the living room walls is going to be ‘French Grey’. I’ve really tried to avoid too much grey in permanent stuff.
Gloss White Kitchens, every house we went to see that was either ‘nice’ or freshly renovated had these glaring bright, white kitchens, white everything, even counter tops. Every time I saw one I thought it would look pretty crap unless you kept it immaculately clean and would probably wear quite badly.
Hot Tubs / sex ponds, like large enclosed trampolines, they went from aspirational middle-class must-have to everywhere, to about as desirable as a discarded shopping trolley next to a rusty old banger on bricks on the front lawn in a few short years.
