To be devastated with my new carpet

[Justalittlelemondrizzle]

Had a new carpet fitted on my landing and stairs today. It looked darker in the shop than it looks on my stairs. So it's a mid/light grey. But it looks blue. I hate it. I'm devastated. We can't afford to buy another carpet so I was wondering if there was anything we could do to tone down the blueness. We have off white walls throughout and light oak laminate in the hall. It looks fine upstairs but on the actual stairs it looks hideous. Any ideas?

It looks really nice and goes well with the floor.

I have the same issue with our new sofa! It looked dark grey in the shop which would have gone lovely with our yellow and grey wallpaper (sounds hideous I know but it does look lovely) but when it came it looked blue! Not the end of the world and very much a first world problem but I can understand your disappointment.

I'm sorry to hear terrible things have happened to some of you but it's not a competition and there's no need to try and make the OP feel worse.

Wow some posters are so unkind. The OP has spent a load of money on something she is now very disappointed in, she is allowed to feel devestated about it if she wants. Of course there are a million worse things that happen but it's not a competition. At this moment the colour of the carpet is a huge deal to the OP and making snippy pompous comments are just rubbing salt in the wound. Point out that you don't think 'devestated' isn't the right word if you want but how about trying to do it without coming across so nastily.

OP, I don't like that blue-grey colour either as I find it cold. How about some rugs or experimenting with some different wall colours. A beige might work. I've mixed beige carpets and grey walls and I like the look.

Energy saving bulbs come in warm and cool coloured versions. You could try getting a warm/ yellowy energy saving bulb above stairs, or, even easier, just swap the upstairs and downstairs bulbs to check if it is the light (rather than wall colour) affecting the colour of the carpet.

It’s grey. In both pics.

It’s grey. In both pics.

but it's not a competition

I couldn't agree more - Not sure why people are trying to make the OP feel more shitty.

OP I had the exact same carpet in my old house and can tell you it does start to look more grey the longer you have to get used to it.

Grey can be an odd colour. Is there any room for wall art in your hall?

I remember painting my first living room apple 🍏 white (got to forgive me it was very early ‘90s!) and buying a lovely green carpet to match, when it was laid the carpet looked blue....very fetching with green walls. The plastering/painting was a lot of work, and the carpet cost a fortune to us, I was in tears so understand how up setting it can be.

Wasn’t as bad once the furniture (suite which was heavily patterned shades of cream, peach and beige!) was in. Lived with those walls and carpet for 6 years and got used to them.

The colours look completely different don't they so I can see why you're upset. It's a massive investment and a bog deal to replace. The stairs look bluey-grey (which I think looks lovely) and the landing looks browny-grey. I agree with PPs, try different light bulbs. Also the links that annielouise have some really good advice on how you can alter the way colours are perceived.

it is really upsetting when you were looking forward to something nice, and have been saving and paid a lot of money for it. especially if you have no chance of changing it for several years.

however, from experience, it will feel less bad in a day or so. also you will be able to think about solutions to getting it to appear more grey.

light or background colour are likely to be the culprit.

It’s grey. If you look at pics it’s the shadow creating the bluey effect. I’d add dark blue framed pictures on the wall to reiterate the greyness.

Looks good!

I would be devastated too if I'd spend a shed load on money on grey that turned out to be blue. Lighting pays a massive part in how colours look in a room - I think you can sort this OP, you just need to try a different colour on the walls. Grey is such a difficult colour - It took me ages to find the right shade of grey for my living room. In the end we chose taupe which strickly speaking isn't grey but every single shade of grey we tried looked blue. The light in the room wasn't having any of it.

Colour changes with light, we once had a car described as aubergine, dark blue or green, depending on the light and weather.

All I see is grey

If you don't like the carpet colour, and it is too expensive to replace, then I would repaint the stairwell walls. The grey will look different with a different wall colour. Go to a proper paint store and borrow some colour boards, farrow and ball and other brands have them to loan and find a light neutral that works with the grey on your stairs.

www.mariakillam.com/what-everyone-should-know-about-gray/

I can see what you mean, you wanted a steel grey and you’ve ended up with a bluey grey. Grey does this, we painted our sitting room ceiling three different shades of grey trying to coordinate with darker grey walls. They all looked lilac when dry. In the end we gave up and used trade white and bingo - grey ceiling.

Don’t be disappointed, it looks lovely.

It looks grey to me, but I agree that the upstairs looks a slightly different shade from the stairs. That's due to the amount of light and shade, as others have said. I also think that with the stairs one's eye is influenced by the orangey colour of the laminate flooring in the hallway. The two colours seem to be opposites and I think the orange makes one see the grey as more bluey coloured. Perhaps if you painted the walls grey, that might help the brain to accept the greyness and not convert it to blue.

Dh won't repaint. He only did it the other day. It's a warm white so I don't think it's that. I'll have a play around with some bulbs and I think the floor in the hall needs changing to a grey laminate. More expense 😔
If spent ages planning the colour scheme. If it was the slightly darker grey I saw in the shop then it would be perfect.
Any ideas on laminate that would match?
The pps who said they had the same carpet. Did you find it a bit blue? What did you do to combat this?

its an ugly grey to me, and the laying doesnt look great either, might be the picture but the stairs look loose and ragged cut at the base id be more pissed at that to be honest

Looks blue, to me.

The carpet fitting looks fine, I don't think it's been vacuumed yet that's all.

Plus I see grey too.

OMG this really is like the dress 👗 saga!

Do you lot not see what I see? I see 2 completely different carpets.

The first 2 pictures of the stairs are blue. And I'm afraid not a very nice blue, IMO. Sometimes those greys of paints/carpets and sofas etc look so grey, really, but then in a different light they look so blue, and it's actually quite disconcerting.

The 3rd picture of the upstairs landing is grey. And lovely. IMO.

But they look like 2 completely different carpets, different colour charts, and actually don't compliment eachother.

I get why the op is gutted. She has carefully chosen something and it doesn't look anything like what she expected.

Come on. Show a bit of compassion. She can't be the first to whom this has happened.