Hate my new flooring which costs me £3.5k

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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.

I've used many professional decorators and none has hated the farrow and ball or the little greene paint I usually use. I think that's a myth like fitters 'hating' ikea kitchens

£3500 for a vinyl floor? Fuck. Me. I paid about £400 for engineered Oak flooring, and laid it myself- although imagine that my house is a bit smaller than OP's 😆. I came on to say not to worry, the flooring will gain a lovely patina over time- but not if it's plastic, it won't!

Well that was a useful post: bully for you!

@crackofdoom why make that comment? Mean, unhelpful, gloating. Way to make OP feel better - we'll done you!

@NinaDefoe

Now look at colours with the same undertone as your floor. There isn’t a clash so the green undertone in the floor isn’t accentuated, it’s neutralised.

(Even the actual green paint next to your floor makes it look warmer and not at all green).

Wow! So true, this is great, knowledgeable, professional advice.

Don't panic op, it is lovely. It will be ok with the right paint. I think its normal to panic after such a large expenditure. It will be ok

@crackofdoom

£3500 for a vinyl floor? Fuck. Me. I paid about £400 for engineered Oak flooring, and laid it myself- although imagine that my house is a bit smaller than OP's 😆. I came on to say not to worry, the flooring will gain a lovely patina over time- but not if it's plastic, it won't!

Engineered wood (or real wood veneer) certainly does develop a ‘patina’ 🤣 Not in a good way either. It fades, dents, scratches, shrinks and expands...

We have engineered wood in one room and LVT in another. The engineered wood is a mess.

I honestly can’t see any green tinge and I’ve zoomed in on your ours, enlarged them etc.. it’s either reflection from walls or curtains or contrast with what is still bare floor. I think once you’ve got it all down it’ll look fine. I want to replace the cheap and nasty laminate that’s in my house so will look at LVT.

We paid similar for new flooring all downstairs when had extension done. Hated it. Two years later it's all up and stone tiles gone down. £4.5k. Had to suck it up. Our fault for being picky

I don't see a green tinge and it's nice flooring. good neutral colour. Once your furniture is in it may look different as the light bounces off the furniture. Do you have a lot of greenery outside your house? Could it just be the morning sun coming in through trees etc. that's why you only see it at that specific time of day?

@userxx is it not possible to stain LVT?

Can you check out the rest that is in the garage? Grab a few tiles and see how they look in another room. Did the sample have a green tint?

E.g some sort of coating applied on top?

I genuinely have zero idea!

[quote Kinko]@userxx is it not possible to stain LVT?[/quote]
LVT is just a picture of wood or tiles on vinyl.

"Patina"? It is printed vinyl, surely? I have never seen LVT priced in the thousands tbh. It is not a high quality product however you dress it up in marketing terms.
I have engineered. It's not great either but for completely different reasons. The top layer is real wood and looks, feels and behaves like real wood. It feels ten times more substantial if you hold a plank of it compared to LVT which is very much in the non-trade retirees doing DIY on a bank holiday territory. There will never be a comparison between the two. and usually (but strangely not in your case), the pricing reflects this too

What if it is your eyesight? Can your husband see the green tinge? Is it even possible for something that colour to have a green tinge? Can the tradesmen see it?

@milkysmum

I don't think it looks green at all. It could be picking up colours from the magnolia walls though so yes I would change those to off white like you say.

Things often look different in different lighting situations or day/night. I once had a car that looked about four different colours depending on the light and I've had a new shower fitted with expensive wall boards instead of tiles, it looked to be a sandy design in the showroom, once it was fitted it looks sage green in daylight, I bought new green towels and quite like it because it's different and definitely not grey!

@BoredZelda

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.

Never had a painter who moaned about anything other than the price, although the difference between the modern emulsion and the estate is marked - the estate is much more dry and powdery, I don’t personally like the finish of that and it marks more easily.

Nonetheless the colours are much better than the mainstream brands and colour matching is rarely satisfactory.

OP might look at Lime White, Slipper Satin, White Tie, New White, or House White for a warmer creamier neutral.

Its also worth checking out Little Greene and RIBA colours, they’re excellent.

OP are you regretting the LVT or the colour or both?

The colour looks fine, but it’s always hard to judge from photos. There’s not a lot of point in only doing 70% of it, so you might as well finish it.

I’ve done gazillions of properties and there’s not much that after initial regret actually needed to be changed.

Looks like a nice ashy tone to me, it might be that it’s not toning in with your magnolia as it might need something fresher with a greyer/whiter tone than the creaminess of magnolia

What’s the make and colour called? Can you find pictures online of whole rooms done in it?

I do sympathise as I don’t love the tone of our very expensive oak effect karndean, abs wish I’d gone lighter or for light stone flooring. But the practicality of it is amazing and so I love it for that and have just come to accept it.

For those of you saying OP needs her eyesight checking, stop being rude, and look at @NinaDefoe 's posts. Really helpful, and blindingly obvious that there can be a green tinge!

I would wait til the wall paint is changed as the yellow tones from magnolia may be affecting it

@MimiSunshine

Dulux timeless or Jasmine white

Was going to say the exact same thing!! It will be fine OP. honestly.

For those of you accusing me of being mean, or gloating, for pointing out that I think the OP overpaid, bear this in mind: I'm a single mum, on benefits, in social housing. That floor was the single biggest expenditure I have ever made on home furnishing. Everything else is second hand. I mix my own paints, literally make my own rugs...everything is done on an absolute shoestring. I am very proud of my living room, I think it looks great.

I frequently see people on here bewailing the fact that they can't afford to spend thousands on new floor/ decor/ kitchen whatever- because they think that's what these things cost. I have also seen people getting seriously into debt because they think they need to spend thousands to get their place looking nice. Is it so wrong to point out that you don't need to spend that kind of money? To be honest, I find the sheer wastefulness of the amounts involved obscene, when so many people in this country are having to choose between heating and eating.