How awful is this colour?

[RachyB86]

We have just spent a small fortune having the majority of our home decorated for the first time ever, it’s still ongoing. It has been a huge upheaval and I am fed up of living around the decorator, it is actually making me quite depressed as we are now 4 weeks in…however - I hate this colour paint!! I adore the emerald and gold wallpaper, but the colour is just so drab. Should I book a repaint?! If so - what colour?! (In case it’s not clear, I am not good with this stuff, I thought this would look nice but clearly I got it wrong 😩) everyone is telling me to live with it because I am finding the whole decorating process so stressful they think I’m crazy to voluntarily go through it again, partner included even though he doesn’t like the colour either.

YABU - it’s not that bad, just live with it

YANBU - yes it’s awful, change it (please give a suggested colour too!)

Wallpaper: Boutique Marquise Emerald Geometric
Paint: Dulux Natural Wicker

I thought the same!

The shade of magnolia isn't what I'd choose, but it's the wallpaper that's dated.

Is your whole house decorated like this or just the hallway (can't understand why it would have taken 4 weeks to decorate a hallway if thats the case).

I would personally just have the yellow-ish paint repainted to white (and maybe then change the wallpaper down the line).

You have two problems.

The colour clashes with the wallpaper - you need a colour that complements the green rather than matching the yellow/gold pattern.

The floor tiles, stair carpet and woodwork colours do not work with either the wallpaper or the walls.

I'd either go for a pale green that will complement the wallpaper, OR a neutral like pp posted, OR get it done in dulux timeless - a lovely fresh white that has a tiny bit of warmth to it but not yellow. The last option might be safest, to ensure you have something that works and then you can go for it with pictures to add more of the greens, monochrome, other complementary neutrals

The contrast between the paint and the paper is too much. That said, I'd keep the paint and get rid of the paper 😀

colour looks like classic 90s/early 2000s magnolia to me. Dulux bleached lichen 3 is a nice warm neutral. Similar to Farow & Ball Shaded White

I think the cream colour is both too warm (~) and too strong (~~) to go with greys.

~too orange-y
~~ too intense/saturated a cream (or not grey enough, depending how you understand colour)

It may match the cream in the wallpaper (can't tell from the photo) but that doesn't mean it's the right cream for the wall- on the paper, there is only a little of it proportionally by area, on the wall, that's all there is in one great big mass)

I like timeless, I use it for woodwork, but I think on that wall it would just look white. And not in a good way.

And the wallpaper looks like 80s Christmas wrapping paper - that’s the bigger problem.

It's too yellow. I'd bring a piece of wallpaper to the paint shop.
Buy a tester of Dulux Happeny Grey and Egyptian Cotton.
Paint those on a piece of cardboard and hold up to the wall.
Might take a couple of testers along those lines.
You weren't to really know until the paper was up.
It's worth getting it right while you have the painters there.

I think it needs warming up.
something like this

https://crownpaints.co.uk/product/market-day/

but also need to bare in mind the lighting situation will completely change to colour!

Before you do anything drastic get some sample pots and paint sections next to the green wallpaper. You need to take out the yellow and I would personally do a warm white (someone upthread mentioned cotton white or similar). But you need to do paint test first to check what it will look like in the light of your room. Paint can look totally different colours in different rooms depending on light etc

Just checking in again to say thank you - I feel extremely validated as everyone in my real life saying ‘live with it’ was starting to become tiresome and making me doubt myself!!

Also had a good laugh at the comments about the wallpaper 😂😂😂 I absolutely love the paper it looks stunning and has been put up incredibly well but I understand if it’s not your taste. No plans at all to change it though, my home finally feels like MINE and I love it 😍 I am just randomly staring at it multiple times a day…I think that’s why the paint colour is so upsetting 😩

Maybe leave it on the stairs and landing but change it in the hall and see if you can find a colour that way? It doesn't look as much of a problem on the stairs, possibly the light is different. I have my staircase side wall in a cream and my hall in a dusky pink. Where the hall wall (pinky) meets the stair wall (creamy) in a corner they look like the same colour unless you look very, very closely. It's just the light on the walls that makes them look the same.

I'd try sample pots on a wall or two in a situation like this before committing to paying a decorator.

Wallpaper is great. Paint is bland

Definitely get some sample pots, OP, the issue with doing HS&L is there are usually walls facing in multiple directions, all of which can look different once painted.
I agree with a previous poster that you also need to untangle what's going on with the white woodwork, white tiles, dark grey doormat and beige carpet. Working with that combo and the wallpaper is quite challenging. I think I'd attempt a dark green similar to the background of the wallpaper, and change the grey door mat to maybe a coir one.

The colour matches the accents in the wallpaper well.

It needs a decent rug, plant or some other things going on. You are focusing on the walls because it's so bare there.

A few months ago we had our kitchen painted in the same colour, OP, and I absolutely hate it. I've been hoping I'd get used to it, but NO! I still hate it. My husband says it's on and we're not calling the decorator back, so I'm going to wait until he goes away next and do it myself (a bit hazardous as the ceiling is high and I'll have to paint the walls above the cupboards....)

The colour isn’t your problem.. the walls with that colour could be completely saved with some panelling the same colour as the dark green in the wallpaper. You also need a dado rail type thing running along where the wallpaper is only halfway up the wall.

Sorry but it all looks off. The wallpaper gives me a headache just looking at the photo.

It's a warm shade, which is what you need with green and gold wallpaper. I actually think paint against paper look like a good fit in your photos. However the chrome frame on the hall mirror clashes badly; and the stair carpet looks wrong (greyer/cooler?) against paint and paper. I wonder if you're mixing warm and cool tones throughout and that's throwing things off?

I really like the wallpaper! The paint is a bit yellowy for my tastes, I'd go over it with a cooler neutral shade, it seems to battling with the wallpaper for attention, whereas the wallpaper should standout iyswim. A stone shade would work well I think.

I have a similar wallpaper in our office (not a big space) . Obviously very different colour!
I left that wall on the left in magnolia originally, and it was just meh and I couldn't stand it, so I took the wallpaper and got a colourmatch at B and Q and painted it and I love it now. (Sorry for any MNetters that hate my choice off wallpaper and/or paint 😂)

Whilst yours is a lot darker, and may be too dark to colour match the emerald (who named it that - it clearly isn't emerald?!) I would tend to get a colour in the same tone but much lighter.

I would live with it for a while though. See how you feel.

I’d go for a mellow pink like this to complement the green though have to say I’m not a massive fan of the paper sorry OP.

Everyone who is saying paint it green! Do it!! They have it spot on, the colour you have picked is too yellow. And very rental. X