Hallway colour crisis

My daughter has the pretty pink and it is kind of lilacy. Confused why you couldn't have just bought the pot of blossom white, why was it made up?

My painter had a brand colour I liked made up. The make and name I gave him was a lovely rich taupe. Good thing I was in the house when he started putting it on the walls as it was a very definite grey. I was able to paint a patch from the match pot beside it to show him the vast difference and he went off and got a supply of the branded one I wanted in the first place. So I learned that sometimes you really can’t rely on colour matching services. It looks very much as though this has happened with your paint.

If you put Tailor Tack into the "e paint converter" it comes out as Eastern Spice 6 in Dulux Trade. Then the next match in Dulux is I think Frayed Hessian 3.

No mention of Blossom !

Try the "e paint converter" - it's quite helpful

I painted a room a pale pink...the room had blue metallic venetian blinds and blue carpeting. The resulting look was mauve. The walls were pink up close.
We ended up repainting after one year.
Eta sorry about the quote, accidentally did that

@TailorTack Your paint doesn't even LOOK the same. Are you sure you have a new pot? Rather than someone tampering with it?

Blossom Pink

OP, in your picture I see lilac. I'm guessing it's a trick of a bluish light- north facing, or light bulb related. It's way more emphasized in a small space, particularly in corners, which I don't think you see with sample sizes.

Id probably live with it now, as stairs and entrances forever get dinged so it'll need redone soon enough! If you still loathe it in 3 months, then redo it then.

I have tried F&B and never again. It was so thin it was like painting with milk. Then came to wash the walls down just as we were moving out and wiped the lot off. Ended up going to B&Q and doing a colour match to what the buyers saw and hoping they didn’t notice

Never ever again will I get F&B. I spent so much on paint for my living room think it took 8 coats) and it was the biggest waste of money.

I would put it down to the fact you are not taking into account what direction the room faces

It might sound like hokum but Feng Shui has something right

Look at the direction the window of the room faces and then look on the colour chart and it will give you colours that work with that direction

I am guessing it was a north facing hallway so you want brilliant white/blues etc anything pink red or warm colours are just going to end up looking glum

Buy orange bulbs from Amazon, it will give it an overall warmer tone, worth a try.
But in the future just buy the F&B, lick & coat paints they are brilliant.
I have also been in this situation and ended up painting again with what I actually wanted, it was a lesson learnt.

It’s fabulous isn’t it I love it

I’d say they’ve mixed the wrong colour. At best they may give new paint free of charge, but still doesn’t help with fact you’d have to re-paint it. I would want to re-paint too, even though it’s a big job. I wouldn’t be taking 5 days AL though, just keep kids out of way and you and your DH get it done in a weekend.

We have a fab decorator’s centre near us and their colour matching for F&B is spot on. We get the testers of F&B and there’s no difference, apart from the quality of the paint is much better than F&B.

We used to have a tiny house with a tiny north facing hallway and a north facing master bedroom and we had a similar issue . What worked best in the hall was Dulux Light and Space paint in Jasmine Shimmer. We had Dulux Mellow Mocha in the bedroom and it wasn’t what we wanted at all, looked Lilac like yours. We didn’t change that as we decided to move in the end. We had Craig and Rose chalky white in the lounge which was lovely.

We don’t use Dulux anymore as I think it looks so flat, we only use Craig and Rose now (goes on better than F&B in my opinion) but if I had to only choose Dulux again I’d got for something from the light and space range.

I've taken chips of actual paint into B&Q twice, and they've done an excellent job of matching them. (One was a bit of painted plaster, and the other was a bit of gloss paint that chipped off the woodwork)

Even if you buy actual f&b paint it’s usually mixed in store so the final colour could potentially vary by store. I’ve had success lately using Johnstone’s trade mixed up by decorating centre online. www.decoratingcentreonline.co.uk

Try this OP.

But usually the issue is that light is a big part of how we see colour, so it depends on how the light falls in the exact location in which you are putting it. I have used the same colour in different rooms and it looks quite different - and even one wall in a room can look different from others.

This does look quite different though, and that's why I always cough up for F&B in the first place: they just tend not to get horrible tones, even if they can look a little different. IMO those mix-up-matches are never quite the same as F&B which has led to our painter and I nearly murdering each other on occasion because he's obviously colourblind and won't admit it.

My husband could never recognise turquoise. Depending on the shade, he always said it was either green or blue.

It is definitely lilac I’d have to change it . 7.5 litres sounds an awful lot of paint for a tiny hallway stairs n small landing did it need 3 coats ? . Our b and q sell valspar paint which they mix up for you . You can give them a swatch card of farrow and ball or any other paint you can even take in an item like a cushion cover my friend did this and they’ll mix it to match .its 99% accurate match . We’ve used this probably 5 x now and it’s brilliant . It’s brilliant paint loads better than dulux and crown too

Havent you ever bought tester pots?

I’ve been disappointed with colour once a room has been painted. One trick I use now is paint test sections straight on the wall (all 4 walls), particularly next to windows, doorway trim etc. Your perception of the colour can really be affected by the old colour next to it, time of day and type of lighting used. I live with it for at least a few days AND I cut a small square out of a piece of paper and hold it up to look through to access the colour without the distraction of the old colour next to it. It allows me to gauge what it truly will look like next to our chosen trim colour.

Just paint over it, @TailorTack , you're not happy with it.

Was saying 100% to @FasterMichelin, who said accessories help, but it didn’t quote-post.