Hallway colour crisis

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Go to b and q today, buy a tester pot and paint over a patch of the hall. Then post a pic on here once it's dried so we can see the difference!!!

Edited to add - I am 100% in your court and honestly think it was mixed up wrong.

I would repaint it again. If I'm not happy with the colour, no way would I settle for a colour I was not happy with.I drive my husband nuts! As he hates painting & spending money even more! I would Google paint colours.Read reviews.Paint swatches, in the similar colour palette untill you are reasonably confident you have found the one that you are most happy with.
Since I moved to this house I have purchased numerous paints.Dunelm, Dulux,Crown,Wickes, F&B.As you are painting a hallway, buy a hard wearing paint.Not many colours look the same on the wall as on the charts or tins.When I purchased F & B .I painted swatches of five different greys in brilliant daylight, checked it again in the evening,then again with artificial light.Only one out of the 5 I liked.It can be a challenge,but well with the effort.

This is getting like Viz Top Tips.

"Wrong colour in your hallway? Simply tie a blindfold over your eyes each time you enter and exit!"

As I said before colour is a very personal choice. Tailor Tack is a lovely colour in areas with good natural light that allows the delicate pink tones to come through but for me personally in lower light areas it comes across a bit beige.

Change the light bulbs to see if it affects the colour

5 days for a tiny hallway? It should take a few hours!

OP didn't keep painting. That would be her DH, in spite of OP's multiple attempts to get him to pause.

Great. Property developer & interior designer for 30 years.

Pink Ground is still pink it’s not neutral. I think OP was on the money with Tailor Tack.

What prep did you do? I know you're meant to sugar soap walls, but I didn't. Did the landing, hall stairwell this week, several coats. It's odd re lighting, I took down wheat coloured paper square shades, mostly enclosed and put up open white material ones. Crazy difference. Painted over what I thought was extremely pale yellow with green tones using Dulux Timeless, an almost white. The difference is mad. Took a fair few coats and the yellow looked dirty!

I thought the kitchen ceiling (filled in a crack) was yellow yesterday, it's just the weird spring afternoon light.

I vote for living with it (sorry, ds's opinion is not important) and see if it cures/grows on you. I'm selling so couldn't care less.

We will have to agree to disagree. Blossom white has an entirely different undertone which is where the difference occurs and why Pink Ground will appear more like a warm neutral where light is limited rather than appearing too pink. Colour and lighting is very complex as I have studied it and worked in the industry for over 20 years

Pink Ground is gorgeous, but if Blossom White is too pink for OP in this small space, Pink Ground will be too strong - albeit a different shade of pink. Tailor Tack would have been spot on - it’s slightly paler than Pink Ground. She doesn’t really want a pink hall.

I also suggested RIBA Plaster I

I completely disagree with you although as an interior designer I appreciate that colour choice is a very personal thing.

Pink Ground is a very subtle shade of pink which looks great in smaller spaces and because it has a lot of yellow pigment it warms up north facing rooms or rooms that lack natural light.

We had most of the interior of our house painted and it took us absolutely ages just to choose colours 😩 we used the visualiser apps which made us decide against some colours immediately.
We ordered some tester pots online , bought some from the trade shop too ( 2 of those had to be mixed so it was larger than a typical tester pot )
we painted on the walls themselves in different areas of the rooms to get a good idea in different light , looked at it at different times of day and so on .
We were delighted with the results in every room , but I’m not as keen on the hallway colour.
I suppose that’s the nature of a hallway , there are shadows and only when I have all the doors open upstairs does it look good .
I can live with it but it’s making the carpet look “ wrong “ on the stairs and the upstairs hallway .
Yet we did everything you’re supposed to do.

Based on your most recent post, as the say on Mumsnet, you have a DH problem.

Pink Ground would be far too intense in that small a space.

OP’s colour would look very different in a large room with high ceilings.

The light in a room has a huge impact on how a colour appears. From what you have said it sounds like you don’t have a lot of natural light in your hallway or it’s north facing in which case you need a warmer undertone. I find something like Farrow and Ball Pink Ground works well in those circumstances. If Farrow and Ball isn’t in budget there are a lot of places that will colour match it for you.. or Valspar Pink Beach is a good dupe

Paint will look very different if it is just on one wall vs on all the walls - the reason is that if you paint a sample one one wall, you often have the white (or whatever existing colour you have on your walls) on the opposite wall reflecting back on it which mutes the undertones. Once you have 4 walls all the same colour it emphasises all the undertones.

So something that initially looks like a very subtle off white can ultimately look a lot more saturated than expected once the job is complete.

Although you did also say that you could tell from the first roller that it was not a shade that you were after...so what compelled you to go ahead an do a couple of coats on the whole hallway is beyond me! I'd also be pissed off if I were DH.

That's definitely pretty pink to my eye OP - one of my DC insisted on it against my strong advice and I recognise the shade!

It's all true - like the black & gold dress the colours around a tester patch affect our perception of it. Our eyes only really judge colour by comparing it things around. Starting with a white background doesn't help as the white itself affects how we perceived the colour. And colours do change in the shadow and as they dry. We once had a taupe look taupe the whole time we were painting it then morph into flat grey as soon as we painted over the last bit of blue in the room. And pink and purple are particularly tricky in low light. I once tried to paint an internal bathroom pink and found it impossible. I figure by the time you add enough colour for the pink to look pink, it was too dark and looked purple. The bluish artificial light cast any pink into purple, or something. I wonder if that might be happening here.

However the tester pots are a good idea. Can you source one from Amazon or click and collect from a DIY store? Paint up a sample of your paint and the tester on cards and compare. It's pretty bad if Brewers have messed it up. I'd be surprised if they have, but it is worth ruling out as I'd imagine they would have to replace for free if so.

Nutmeg white & natural Hessian are both creamier shades with a slightly pink cast. I would expect blossom white to be an uncontroversial clean, very pale pink so I hope it is an error.

I would repaint. Loads of dupes for tailor tack online (nice colour!). Our hallway is a dupe for Coat Cargo, and I love it.

Totally agree. Dulux Heritage are no different to any other paint company the charts and the testers are different.

I don’t like Dulux colours very much they tend to be too strong, unsubtle, even Heritage. Even the supposedly very pale one are not as pale as they should be cf the OP.

I've never bought a Dulux Heritage tester. I chose entirely from the fandeck as the cards are big enough to judge. All I can say is that the painted walls exactly matched the cards, every time.

I found paint colour from the same tester pot varied a lot between card and the wall even in the same position. Different type of paint in the same colour varies hugely too.

Oh I see! OK makes sense then.