Hallway colour crisis

Oh my god, this is literally my life right now! Horrific, isn't it?

I've painted (some of) the hall in a deep sage green from coat because I used it in the kitchen as an accent colour and it's beautiful. In the hall it looks grey and sinister 😭 so not were looking at plaster pink shades (which mum likes) but I can see a lot of them are lilac toned whereas I want a yellow pink.

All complicated by the fact that the colours on the paint charts that I have spent by now hours agonising over look entirely different in real life.

I've found what looks like a good colour but it's by some bougie paint company and costs ££££, which I can't afford to risk.

Currently have a sludge green hall with additional squares of tester pots. It's all terrible! 😆

@TailorTack so which is it?

Upthread at top you say you chose blossom white (probably close to tailor tack) but a few posts ago you wrote:

But the tin says blossom pink and the guy who did it stuck 'blossom pink' label on tin.
Do you think he could have still made a mistake?

Do you now think maybe you guys made the mistake? 😂 I suspect you meant blossom white but instead asked for blossom pink in error and didn’t check the tin….

I’d be quite confident in saying they made a mistake and you should be refunded.

If I've read/understood correctly they made up Blossom Pink which the tin was labelled with instead of Blossom White which was asked for.

I paint sets for a living and it involves mixing paints up for base coats then putting top coats of fancier paint that generally match the base coat (to save money). I’d be quite confident in saying they made a mistake and you should be refunded. Purple tones are so poisonous when mixing colours. If you put too much in it’s very hard to mix your way out of it! Why not try get a refund for the lilac, then use the money for the paint you want in about a years time when you cba painting it again?

we have farrow and ball on most walls (I get a lot of free paint through work 😎) and I have to say the quality of pigments and how they morph in the light (in beautiful ways, not turning lilac) is worth it, esp. for a smaller space. I literally gaze at my dix blue hallway walls. They over estimate what you need I think, we always end up with too much which is annoying.

of course I'm not a nasty snidey little bitch for that comment. However, it does take one to know one so....

LIGHTHEARTED KLAXON

You don’t need to take annual. Your kids are big enough to keep themselves busy over a weekend and get it done. Better yet, they can help out

Was it a colour match paint or was it a dulux colour mix?

if it’s the first one, they’re never the same. Sometimes you get away with it, other times you don’t.

if it was a dulux colour that you had made at a dulux paint station (even if it was in a different shop) then it should be exactly the same colour.
I had a thread on here, a few months ago I chose a dulux colour that I wanted in bathroom paint, I went Wickes and had it mixed at a dulux paint station into bathroom paint.

it didn’t look right after I’d used it and was too light, I took it back and after arguing it out a bit where the Wickes bloke tried to tell me it was just the finish that made it look lighter (satin vs matt) we realised the paint had been mixed into the wrong size tin so there literally wasn’t enough pigment used to get the right colour.

he remixed it for me (again dulux paint, dulux colour, dulux paint station) and it was perfect.

so mistakes do happen.

Ok enough now, this is just silly.

Particularly as you’re telling me what I can and can’t say.

People can 'see' a colour' differently though, especially in different lighting situations. a times there can be arguments about blue, green turquoise for example. Perceptions can be very different.

OP you need to paint over it when you can afford the colour you want. You will laugh about it one day. Even your husband will in ten years ;-) I can see why you want it changed.

I am saving this post for future reference, it’s spot on! OP- it ALL depends on light, aspect and you can use light bulbs to good mitigating effect. I would leave it for a few months tbh, see how it settles with you as you live with it.

Brewers would mix to a swatch they ‘scan’- or was it already pre programmed shade? Did you not confirm it before the lid went back on for you to take to till? Maybe next time double triple check the liquid mixed, oh, and you can get websites which show you the shade of paint in north, south east and west aspects- amazing how much it changes.

(And I would gently challenge your 14YO son hating it- assume that’s because it’s pink, and pink=girly, I would be having a convo about such gendered thinking)

Oh that's so interesting, you are clever....the pretty-pink link you've posted is literally what's on my walls!
But the tin says blossom pink and the guy who did it stuck 'blossom pink' label on tin.
Do you think he could have still made a mistake?

So you asked for Blossom White & were given Blossom Pink & unfortunately didn't notice?

We have used Dulux Linen white for years. It is a very subtle pink if you want something calmer. We had it in the bedroom for a while, now that’s been changed and we have it in the living room. We have used the Dulux decorator centre to mix it. Link ; www.duluxheritage.co.uk/en/colours/1780091/linen-white

It wont help your current predicament, but in future use B&Q valspar paint. They offer a colour guarantee that if you hate it, you can buy a 2nd paint and they refund you for the first hated colour.

B&Q also have a light box by their samples so you can double check the colour under different lights.

Tell your ds tgat when he buys his own house he can choose the colours

My daughter has pretty pink in her rooms and it does look a lot like the pics you have posted and is a VERY bright colour, so if this mistake has been made you need a refund and to repaint because it's not a really a neutral hallway shade.

I think if her husband is telling her she often does this, it is not about the colour on the walls.

I would repaint it as it would annoy me too much that it was wrong.

Dulux Blush pink is much more like Tailor tack. I have it on one bedroom wall and it's very subtle and gentle, pale dusty pink not at all blue/lilac.
https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/colour-details/blush-pink

Having struggled to choose colours for our house I hugely sympathise. The visualiser APPS looked nothing like the existing colours, so I had no faith they’d show other potential colours accurately. The tiny thumbnails of colour most companies provide are too small to show what the colour would really look like. I chose a few colours and bought sample pots ( which quickly adds up) that I painted on to walls in different places but again they seemed different to the thumbnails & I didn’t like any of them. Ended up paying for a F&B fan of swatches, which I undid, so I could move them around rooms, within rooms and at different times of the day. Finally chose Drop Cloth for our main room and Tailor’s Tack for our snug & craft room. The finished walls match the swatches perfectly and I am really happy with them but it all seemed like hard work.

Blossom White looks lilac more than pink to me!

Not as lilac as the pic of Op's hall though.

Why is paint being mixed or do Dulux not sell it ready mixed?

OP - I agree that it is more than shadows created the lilac in your paint. TT is a yellow based pink (like setting plaster / pink ground etc) and your wall in a blue based pink (like dusted fondant)

It's possible your mixer got it wrong - so start there.

I would re-paint, it will annoy you every day.

Yes agree, it needs to be a proper paper sample produced by dulux to test if the shade is right. All screens produce colours differently.

That’s good to know as I’ve just invested in Pink Ground based on samples I’ve painted around my dining room and it doesn’t look anything like your photo! Not that the colour in your photo isn’t nice, but I was expecting it to be lighter and panicked a bit at your photo! I agree Tailor Tack is lovely.

I’ll take your word for it 👍

It does look completely different, but YABU to be so dramatic about it and feel sorry for your 14 yo. He's not going to have his life ruined by not liking the hallway colour.