Hate my new flooring which costs me £3.5k

[freesoul12]

I dont know what I want from this post . I chose the flooring from sample and now its laid in 70 percent of the floor. It looks fine at night with lights on but looks greenish tone in the morning. I am so upset with myself not making the right choice . it is LVT. Fitter is coming on Monday to finish the job. Still got £1700 flooring left in garage which can be returned.
I am thinking of just cut losses and return the rest of it then I thought I ll keep it for couple of years and then change it. I cant make a choice and on top of it have not discussed with hubby yet . please help me how can i make a decision as I am all over the place with my emotions.

Can't see a green tinge but anyway why was it so expensive? We paid about 500 for the whole house

Newsflash. Flooring comes in different thicknesses and qualities. I don’t know how big your “whole house” is, but to have a mid range LVT flooring supplied and professionally fitted would usually be about 40/m2. At 500 quid, that’s barely enough for the labour costs.

The wall paint choice will entirely change the way you see the floor. I can promise you that you wont even see the floor after a few weeks. More important things in your life will take over. I think youve chosen a great neutral floor that will go with so much. Don't fret

Rugs!!!

It looks nice to me.

I am anxious now. Yea re having a new bathroom floor fitted in a few weeks and I have had 2nd thoughts about the colour, but the company supplying it said it was too late to change my mind.

OP it looks very nice.

What about painting the walls a very very pale shade of willow or sage green to actually embrace the green tones? Those colours are very "in" just now anyway. The green colour in the colour chart the previous poster uploaded is lovely (I think).
My teen daughter just had her bedroom redone (from pinks and greys) and chose all natural willows/sages/beiges/browns. I thought she was mad but it actually looks brilliant. Very calming, natural and zen like. We painted the wall a sage green colour and it is really nice.
Embrace the green OP!

Take a sample of your flooring to somewhere like Farrow and Ball, where I’ve always found the assistants really good with colour and small differences in shade and tone. Much more helpful than just going into b&q for some random samples. If you don’t want to pay F&B prices for the actual paint you can always get a colour match with a cheaper brand

Every professional decorator I have worked with hate F&B paint with a passion. It is horrible to paint with, needs more coats for a good finish and is definitely not worth the price they charge for it.

Are you sure your not colour blind so seeing a tinge of green that isn’t actually there to others?

Put some rugs down, paint the walls white and won't see it anymore. Unless you're cleaning them, it's not like you spend time looking at your floor anyway, you'll tune it out.

@theyhavenothingbuttheaudacity

Can't see a green tinge but anyway why was it so expensive? We paid about 500 for the whole house

Wow! Don't know how you managed that, we're having ours done now and we're nearer 5,000 for half the house. OP, you will get used to it, it's not that dramatic, just not what you intended. Decorate round it and I'm sure it will grow on you. You can always lay a rug on part of it .... I am so nervous about my choice, like you I've chosen from a sample. You can never really tell what it's going to be like once it's down.

We have lvt (karndean) and love it
It's soft under foot (not spongy, but not brittle feeling like laminate)

Every professional decorator I have worked with hate F&B paint with a passion. It is horrible to paint with, needs more coats for a good finish and is definitely not worth the price they charge for it

I'm a Dulux girl myself
I don't get the love of F&B at all, I think the colours look sludgy. It's ridiculously overpriced for what it is.

I imagine your floor is very exposed as you’ve moved stuff for the fitting. Once the furniture is back and you’re moving about on it, I think you’ll not notice and as you say it will only be part of the day. It’ll be a really solid, easy look after floor

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

@MimiSunshine

It’ll be because it’s half finished and the magnolia coloured walls. In your situation I’d have it finished and while the fitter is in go and get some tester pots of shades of white - timeless or jasmine white and crown sail white are places to start) plus a big roll of lining paper. Paint big squares of the samples and stick them on walls at floor level. See what works best and brings out the right tones in the floor. Then getting painting.

Much cheaper and better than wasting the flooring.

Excellent suggestion.

It certainly looks fine.

Magnolia makes everything look awful IMO.

So many things can affect the colour. Sunlight, lightbulbs and even paint colour on the walls.

I remember picking tiles for my bathroom and not understanding why the tile look so different from the showroom until I realised they use cool white lights and I had warm white lights. Switched the bulbs out and voila it looked the colour I had seen in the show room.

I also painted a bedroom in what was a very light grey, except the sunglight makes it appear a very light baby blue and on a cloudy day its more like a light blue/lavendar shade and on a dull day its grey!

Don't return it just change the paint colour on your walls. Cheaper fix.

I couldn’t stomach losing that much money to be honest. I’d get a few rugs and make it work. It’s cheaper to buy some rugs and paint the walls to enhance the flooring than basically chuck the flooring in the bin and start again. Plus as mentioned above, when you’ve got your furniture down it won’t be as obvious.

And another idea, when you talk about in the morning do you mean when you’ve got your lights turned on? Maybe changing the tone of lightbulbs will help (maybe a cooler or warmer bulb will make it look less “green”).

Could you hire someone to you use a wood stainer to change the colour rather than losing all that money?

@Kinko

Could you hire someone to you use a wood stainer to change the colour rather than losing all that money?

Its not wood, it's LVT.

Wow I love that think it’s fab.

It doesn't look green at all to me, it looks lovely.
What is outside? Could you be getting a greenish tinge from lawn reflecting the light back, which is why it looks OK at night?
Changing the wall colour will make a difference and help tone down any greenish tinge you might see. Having said that, green is super-stylish at the moment and looks good with lots of other shades.
I would also reiterate what a PP said - please don't change it and add to a massive pile of waste. Live with it for a little while and change it in a few years if you really don't like it.

I can see the pictures. It looks great!

@freesoul12

You don't like it.
It will "niggle" with you every morning (it has already).
Return the unused stuff.
Either cut your losses or replace.

I know what I'd do, as life is too short (e.g. Ensuite installed by a blind gorilla🤦‍♀️) to put up with shit you hate.

Don't throw good money (spare flooring you hate, which can be returned) after bad (the stuff already fitted).

Looks nice to me and I can’t see any green in it. I have LVT in my rental property and so far so good, it’s standing up well to very hard use.

I'd halve your losses, and the rug suggestion made earlier is a good one.

It doesn't look green to me but I think I know what you might mean as our floors have a very mild look of that in the deeper grey sections. Honestly you will get used to it and probably won't even see it . You're being ultra observant now because it is so new unlike the time my MIL sat and watched our first flat get fitted with brown carpet when we had told her it was grey. She didn't think once to make a comment to the carper fitter 🙄