Greige

[JanieB]

I am so fed up with trying to buy furniture with colour. I had actually chosen my new sofa from Ikea to match the Ikea sofa I already have. They've gone from about 15 colours down to about 7 and they're all grey/brown/beige. Why? all the colours in the world and I can only get greige.

I put it down to the bl00dy awful programs that say your house is worth more if it's bland for other people to put their stamp on it. How's about people (millions of us) who have no intention of selling our houses and want colour.

I'm really p1ssed off. I want the sofa that matches the one I've got but I don't want greige and they no longer sell the extra covers in colour.

I've ended up with a grey kitchen. The only colour is the cranberry cooker (expensive).

[Bigmallly]

There is a multitude of colour here:

Search result - IKEA

[Jungle Jane]

It could be that the floral/colourful sofas will be available in the spring summer months. Colour by season. I have green carpet with brown sofas,they're nice earthy colours,it's like having the outdoors indoors.

[JanieB]

Look at Ektorp which is what my sofa is. And most people don't change their colours according to the seasons it would be too expensive. I don't want "earthy" colours, I want vibrant, Which is also outdoors, indoors. They've had the multi colour for years and years until now.

Furniture isn't done by season but by current fashion.

Several years ago the fashion was for (teenagers and early twenties) great clumpy boot type shoes. It was very difficult to get anything else. Just because it's a fashion doesn't mean that people should have to go with that fashion. It makes them fashion slaves. The shops and other retailers are missing out on the people who couldn't give a flying whatsit about fashion and just want their own style for houses and clothes.

Oh. And I don't do floral.

[JanieB]

BM have you actually looked at that. Most of it is grey beige etc or retro violent red or orange. There are 100's of other colours in this world that aren't included but were until recently.

[Nicos]

Janie...you can get a bright red cover for Ektorp..

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/pr...49/#/S49875839

[Alison]

I found the opposite a few years ago, I could only get what I see as gaudy colours that I knew I'd get fed up with after a year or two. Big cost items tend to be with you for years so I prefer natural / neutrals which I then jazz up with colour on he cushions, curtains, blinds etc.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I'm with you on that Alison. I do have colourfull urges mind but I limit that to shirts and ties.

[veggiechicken]

I like neutral colours for furniture - because you can change your colour scheme at the drop of a hat with cushions and throws. Most of my furniture is covered with summat anyway because of the dogs. I'd buy mud-coloured from choice.

I doubt there are many furniture retailers who stock the same style of sofa for years, let alone the same colour. They'd regard it as old stock and bung it in a sale.

[Scarlet]

I found the opposite a few years ago, I could only get what I see as gaudy colours that I knew I'd get fed up with after a year or two. Big cost items tend to be with you for years so I prefer natural / neutrals which I then jazz up with colour on he cushions, curtains, blinds etc.

Totally agree. This is also true with fashion. Expensive items come in the neutral palette, smaller runs in a less costly item are made with the brighter/fun colour for some interest. Colours can look tired and old fashioned very quick.
If you are having two settees in a room it will look much more interesting to have a different colour and tie in with a contrasting colour than going with it all matched.
The queen matches all her outfits, head to toe in one colour including her shoes, hat and gloves. That drives me nuts!

[bearded bloke]

The short version ......... If it wasn't popular it wouldn't sell
If anyone wants anything that is not following the current trend they go to a specialist manufacturer/supplier & pay accordingly, take ladies underwear as an example most are happy with whats available in the high street others shop from Anne Summers, then there is the upper, upper end of "naughty knickers", a mate of mine is a bouncer at a burlesque (sp?) club & he says the girls pay a small fortune for their "work clothes"

[Bigmallly]

Anyone still got a maroon or avacado bathroom suite?.............................you may just have to adapt with what's available Janie.

[scarey55]

I still have a maroon toilet in an otherwise white bathroom, drives me mad but I haven't got around to changing it yet. Well, to be fair, I have only been here for 10 years

[sparrow100]

Anyone still got a maroon or avacado bathroom suite?.............................you may just have to adapt with what's available Janie.

My Mum has....! Hopefully being ripped out this year.

Janie, have you had a look at the Sofa Workshop? You can get your sofa covered in whatever you want. Yes, it's more expensive than Ikea, but they have HUNDREDS of fabrics to choose from, a sale on now and everything is British made (which is important to me). I've just treated myself to a turquoise footstool.

[veggiechicken]

I still have a maroon toilet in an otherwise white bathroom, drives me mad but I haven't got around to changing it yet. Well, to be fair, I have only been here for 10 years

There was a Flamingo pink bathroom here with matching wall tiles. You needed sunglasses to go in there but it was a major job to change it as all the tiles needed to be hacked off, so we lived with it for years.
We changed it for a greige suite