Hallway colour crisis

I think this is a case of being overly perfectionist. I fully understand the desire for a home to be warm and lovely, and have tried to do this in my own home - but paint is never going to look exactly as on the tin/website; the shade and light in the room, the colour you are painting over, the curve of the wall etc will impact the vibrancy and intensity of the colour. If you really cannot live with it, I would choose a much more neutral shade - Dulux cotton white, and add pops of colour with artworks and light fixtures.

And that’s fine but that doesn’t mean they’re a close match to the actual colour.

@TailorTack this thread has reminded me of a story relating to me dear, late MIL. She was wonderful in many ways but notorious for haggling and looking for a deal.

Anyway she was redecorating the spare room ( funnily enough a similar shade to your pink) and went and had the paint mixed. When it was done she said it was wrong and far too lilac rather than the soft pink she wanted so the man offered to mix up a new pot. She considered this and then asked what would happen to the first batch. We will sell it at a discount he said, so she negotiated down to half price and bought it and that room was an unpleasant shade of lilac for evermore.

She was quietly (not very quietly) delighted with this outcome for the rest of her life.🤣

I recommend you change yours.

I've had quite a few FnB colours made up in B&Q over the years and have been happy with them all. Valspar paint. They do a 'scrubbable' version too and it is. Good for busy areas with 'traffic' passing through

Nah! We never do that. Two coats of the new colour always seems to work

I do see what you mean, OP. I wonder if it was incorrectly mixed at the shop?

Mines nutmeg white and is gorgeous

I would just get some white paint and some rollers and the whole family can do it in a weekend.

Yes. I just paint the walls white.

@5foot5 But by that logic surely you then have to do a coat of white paint over the entire wall before you start applying the colour.

Well yeah that’s exactly what you have to do.

There's a lot of drama here for the painting of a small hallway. You could have that done in half a day with a roller. No-one made you take annual leave to do this, surely? It's what people use AL for sometimes!

Dulux Blossom White is clearly very pink/lilac when looking at the photos online.

I would leave it for a while and save up to buy the F&B colour you originally chose and then just paint over it. I have several rooms painted with F&B, it's very expensive now but I have not needed to repaint those walls for over 10 years as the colours still look lovely and they wash down well when marked.

Honestly, it doesn't look awful! It's pretty and warm.

Agree. It’s a white with touch of pink.

It will be more intense in a small space.

Well this was the colour I wanted. Tailor Tack.

So based on me wanting a pale white pink, You wanted Tailor Tack, which isn't a pale white pink

DH bought Blossom White Dulux but it doesn't look like Tailor Tack, and the walls don't look like Blossom White Dulux.

If you don't have an eye for colours just paint the walls white.

I think tailor tack looks more peachy than red-pink and you've got a red based pink. I would definitely check with the shop but I would also go with something more peachy if you like tailor tack.

It literally says in the OP that she did a tester patch

Go back to the shop - if you have the tester or can buy one off the shelf it's going to look completely different to your leftover paint if he mixed it wrong.

Also you should only need 5 litres, since the colour you’ve based out in is nearish, obviously no where near enough.

Colour patches should be done on white. You need to paint a patch white and then your tester. Otherwise the original colour of the wall interferes with your perception of the colour. Apologies if you've already done that.
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But by that logic surely you then have to do a coat of white paint over the entire wall before you start applying the colour.

We usually find we need two coats of colour whatever is underneath

No help here because I love it. When you have put pictures up and dressed it you will probably not notice it after a while

Just repaint it OP! If your hallway is lacking natural light then I think you need to look for a colour with undertones to counteract that - you need to work with the light you’ve got even if it means not having your ideal colour. Hallways are really difficult as there are lots of walls really close together and no furniture to break it up so the colour just bounces off wall to wall and makes it more intense. If it makes you feel any better I had a decorator in to pant my hallway yellow - he did one coat of the upstairs landing and I got him to change it- it was awful even after months of trying out testers in diff light on really big sample patches!

And stairs and landing. She says in her OP. Stairs can be tricky because you have to get to the top of the walls. It takes DH and I days to do ours. Mind you that includes doing the ceiling and glossing the woodwork.

You can’t get round paying for F&B, what you are paying for is natural pigment (which is expensive). When you buy cheap paint, you are buying cheap synthetic pigments, which are often shiny rather than matte. I’d see it as an expensive base coat and put two coats of F&B tailor tack over the top.