To ask DH to decorate again (He finished today and I HATE it)

[SunflowerOwl]

DH has painted our bedroom this weekend. The tester looked nice but now that it's all done I hate it so much I could cry.

We have lovely new bedding and curtains and the walls just spoil it, it doesn't suit the room at all.

I want to go to Homebase tomorrow and paint the whole thing again but I feel TERRIBLE. I'd happily do it myself but I'm pregnant so he didnt want me doing it (Might also explain the crying)

Would I be a total cow to ask him to redo it? I've not confessed that I dont like it yet as he seems pleased and it feels a bit wasteful. Or should I just try and live with it?

A big colour change can be a bit of a shock initially but it's down to how the room is dressed. You may be able to add a wall hanging or picture which looks good and also not such a block colour. Definitely don't go in with a change straight away, if that isn't right either it turns into a terrible thing!! You do have time, new carpet? Assume you have skirting boards so what would be the problem re painting the walls, that's one of the functions of skirting boards !!? One way forward would be to overpaint one wall a bit lighter same colour range. Don't do anything right now I bet you grow to love it!

I’ve got denim drift in my spare room/ office. I didn’t like it at first but I’ve added mustard bedding & accessories & I love it now. I’d stick with it, it will grow in you xx

Did you paint all the walls or just one? Try adding some white picture frames to break it up a bit? Did you try the paint sample on all walls?

I bought a pink for the bathroom a few years ago, sample seemed fine on one wall, turns out it looked salmon coloured on the others....it didn't' last long!!

Sick it up and live with it, it might grow on you and if it doesn't then you do it once you've had the baby.

Suck it up, not sick

I painted my bedroom denim drift last year, it did not match the wallpaper whatsoever!

I hated it so much, I ended up redoing it all 4 months later and love what I changed it to so much more!

I'm also pregnant right now, I cried hard last week because my DH didn't paint the nursery the way I wanted it , but there was no way I'd be able to do it which I'm a bit teed off with .

@Harmonypuss sick it up 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

If you have painted all the walls could you not repaint just one wall or alcoves a different colour to give it a bit of a lift

I have done this a couple of times. We had a decorator do the hall stairs and landing, he was halfway through and I declared that I hated it so we made him do it again in a different colour. DH painted the porch and I hated it so he did it again. DM and MIL painted the kitchen, I again hated the colour so they changed it for me, the last one I was pregnant with their only grandchild so was excused for that one!

I arrived home one day to see the DH just finishing painting the bathroom a weird ginger colour. I was like wtaf?! Fortunately he hated it too so re-did it the next day.

Just googled it, not sure I’d like that colour in my bedroom either, so drab! But I like light colours and I am in the process of repainting a room done a few months ago as it’s too grey.

Let it dry completely, it sometimes changes , and after a week or so if you still don’t like it .. change it