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.

@Mummyoflittledragon

If you want an off white, you could try linen white (dulux colour). You’d have to have it mixed up on a dulux mixing station as linen white is no longer sold as one of the colour hints.

Here’s the colour in our house (against the white doorframe and ceiling) and a pic from the dulux site with the reference code so you’d know what to ask for. It has a very subtle pink tinge, which is opposite on the colour wheel to green.

I ll get the tester for this.

@RVN123

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!

I have taken the screenshots of the colors . I have ordered some samples for green paint

I love it OP. I find many wooden floors have an orange tinge to them which I hate. Is it something you could learn to love?

I get buyers remorse after any big cost. It is a horrible feeling and I tend to fixate for a few weeks but then move on and get over it.

@freesoul12

I have taken this photo against light wood floor (another sample - not current flooring )Ours was supposed to be look pretty much same but more creamish. Hope you can see greenish tone in this one

I can the colour difference, OP, but honestly, don't panic at all.

It's not finished. The room(s) need decorating so the shades work together, as everyone has said.

Flooring is expensive. We've just had similar LVT which cost £4K+ for materials (solid wood was 3 times more, for the poster who said 'could have had wood for the price).

I always hate everything when it's a work in progress. I'm not visually creative need it all completely finished before I love it.

You still haven’t said if your husband thinks it’s green?

It's down. The environmentally responsible thing to do is learn to live with it.

I have clicked more photos with light and without light , showing magnolia wall color

I suspect it is your lights . However I still don't see any green on it.

@freesoul12

I have clicked more photos with light and without light , showing magnolia wall color

That's the same floor ? That's a heck of a difference!

I can see the green tinge, think you need whiter walls and whiter lights. The daylight bulbs or cool white bulbs make a big difference on this and much cheaper to replace than the floor.
Hopefully after it's been in a while you will learn to like it, I'm a bugger for noticing what's wrong with new things I put in my house then realising there was a reason I picked them in the first place!

@chickenstripper
Its changing so many colors , looked very different in morning sunlight and now looks like this. Perhaps green tone is more visible now

[quote freesoul12]@chickenstripper
Its changing so many colors , looked very different in morning sunlight and now looks like this. Perhaps green tone is more visible now [/quote]
Yes the magnolia definitely has to go.

@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.

But I’ve found their assistants to be helpful re colour. That’s the point. The OP can then use whatever brand she wants with a colour matching service

Or Little Greene

@Wedonttalkaboutrats

Magnolia has a pink undertone. Once you paint walls with cool undertone, the floor is less likely to look green. It looks lovely in the photos. I’ve just done a huge reno and spent months deciding on floors, worktops etc. I thought I had made a couple of mistakes at the time but now, six months in, I don’t notice any of them.

I was just coming on to say about pink undertones and how they make other colours look greenish.

Paint the walls white, then see....

I think it looks lovely flooring! I would love that in my house!

Yep this is 100% a paint colour issue. Look how nice it is against your radiator, not the wall. I’d go for a bright white to match.

I love it, it's really nice 😍

The last photo definitely proves the magnolia is the culprit here!

@Cheeeesecake

Yep this is 100% a paint colour issue. Look how nice it is against your radiator, not the wall. I’d go for a bright white to match.

Agree the magnolia needs to go.

I can see the green in the first few photos - like splashes if green mid plank and in the latter photos the greenish tinge is more apparent. . I think you should paint the walls and perhaps too change your lightbulbs. Some are warmer than others.
It doesn’t look cheap. It looks very nice.

I would never thought it paint could make such difference. I will definitely give it a go

We had trouble finding bigger samples of kardean and amtico flooring. Even main sellers have changed to tiny squares recently. Where with last floor we could take big sheets home and try them on our house to see how they matched kitchen units

It still looks lovely as it is, OP.

But maybe even better with new paint.

@WilsonMilson

I actually like your floor. It’s probably the walls and perhaps the kitchen units that are enhancing this green tinge, although I really like green and have pale green/stone colour on my walls in kitchen/sunroom.

We had LVT laid in kitchen a couple of years ago, it’s a big space with a sunroom. I bloody hate it and it was around £2000 so not changing it. I like the colour but I hate the finish, feels cheap but wasn’t. On the positive, it’s warmish underfoot and it’s forgiving if you drop something, it doesn’t tend to smash, but it’s easy to get scratches on, and take divots out of when you drop a knife or something. Also, because the sunroom gets very warm in summer, the tiles have developed a rise in them at the joints. It’s only for half the year, but it’s awful and lumpy in the sunroom in summer. It’s not a fault of fitting I’m told as there were ample spaces left for expansion, it’s just the nature of the tile if fitted to be floating. I wouldn’t get lvt again, I might get Amtico which is glued to the floor.

I gave glued down LVT, there are different types, not all floating. Looks like ordinary tiles only softer obviously and I can replace any damaged ones easily if it happens, have spares!