Hallway colour crisis

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Well this was the colour I wanted. Tailor Tack. For our tiny little entrance, stairway and upstairs little landing. Can't even call it a hallway really because we have no hallway. I wanted to make it look lovely. But we couldn't justify the cost of F&B.
So based on me wanting a pale white pink, DH bought Blossom White Dulux and we've just spent the week prepping and decorating, it has taken 5 days, using precious annual leave time to do it whilst DC are at school and out of the way.
It's nothing like it looked online or in the colour chart pamphlet, or in the tester patch.
Online and in the Dulux colour chart it looked a very pale chilled out pink.
In my hall it is.....basically bright lilac.
It's not the colour I wanted at all😰
DH has hit the roof and said "You do this every time! We decorate a room after weeks on end of looking at different shades of different colours, then when it's done you always say you don't like it!!!". Which I can't deny. But the colours never look the same on the walls as they do on the charts, or even the tester pot patches!
Oh, forgot to say, we started off painting it what looked like a lovely sedate green on the colour chart but it looked like grey sludge on my walls so we abandoned it 1/4 way through and that caused a row in itself. And a waste of money.
I wanted a nice, very pale, calm, muted white pink.
What I've got is bright lilac, maybe you could call it bright but pale lavender.
It literally looks NOTHING like the Dulux images of the colour on their website.
It looks nothing like other images of it online.
It's done now and I will be able to live with it though I am upset because I wanted to love it. I wanted to walk in and love the colour that greeted me. Instead I think "urgh, don't like it".
DH likes it!
DD 10 is skipping around saying it's the best colour ever!!!
But DS 14 absolutely HATES it. He literally hates it. He's saying "I love our house, why have you painted the hallway bright purpley-pink?!?! It's horrible!".
This morning DH said to DS "Is the colour growing on you?" And DS said "I can't even talk about it" whilst looking mortified.
I feel really bad for him.
Should I lump it, having both spent a week of AL working on it? And just tell DS he'll have to live with it?
Or change it and risk a massive fall out with DH? He won't take any more AL to do it all over again so it'd be me on my own. And he'll argue about the time and cost involved.
And if I buy another 7.5 litres of a different colour paint, I may as well have just paid more for F&B and got Tailor Tack in the first place😪
We have an absolutely tiny little house with a tiny little hallway. I wish we could move to a more spacious house but we can't. So I thought 'Okay, just make the best of what we've got' and I was trying to create a beautiful entrance/stairs/landing. I've seen tiny houses on Pinterest/Instagram that still look lovely if they're decorated absolutely beautifully and tastefully. That's what I was trying to achieve but have failed.
So
Leave it be, or go through the pain of changing it?

Photo?

Why did you not do a colour patch test on the walls? Do a small square, leave it a week and see what you think?

If this is a regular occurrence especially it makes no sense why you wouldn’t do this.

Five days for a tiny little hallway!

Just live with it. It's not the end of the world.

You've already used up annual leave on it.

I can understand why your husband doesn't want to redo it, especially if you've got previous for this type of thing

Also you need to check the light at different times of day for paint - put the swatch on different walls not just one

i feel this is about more than paint as well op

Picture hasn’t loaded but leave it be for now! I always hate new colours when I first paint them on then they start to grow on me.

https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/colour-details/blossom-white

It does not look lilac here. Could the lilac effect be due to the lighting?

Well, either you learn to live with it, or you repaint. And yes, as a pp said, you need to start painting big tester cards and hanging them for a week and looking at them at all light levels, by natural and artificial light if this keeps happening. No colour is going to look the same in online photos or cards as it is on a specific. Which way does your entrance and stairs face? How much light does it get?

You really need to test the colour on the wall of the room, the light in the room makes a huge difference to the way the colour looks. I learned the same lesson after painting my bedroom what I thought was a lovely yellow but the green undertone shine through making the paint a sickly mud colour. We did repaint immediately and I’ve done colour on the wall testing ever since.

If you take a photo does it look pale pink or lilac? If you still have a tester, can you paint a patch under a picture frame or mirror where it won't be seen and compare? Maybe it genuinely isn't the same, or maybe it's the lighting.

Dulux have a guarantee you might want to have a read about, if it really doesn't look like the sample

I'm completely unable to visualise stuff at all, never mind repainting a room in my mind! know light changes the colour so much though. My favourite paint does actually look very different in my living room Vs my hall. (One north facing room, one south facing)

Did you not check the colour on the walls first? Paints will look completely different in different lights, depending on which way the windows are facing, what type of lightbulb you have...

Get some plain paper and paint the colours you like onto them, them blu-tac them up and live with them for a few days. Move them around the room, to the lighter and shadier parts. You'll see how the colours change throughout the day. (Even better paint them onto the walls directly, but this can be tricky to cover with deeper shades.)

Before we painted our dining room I had 18 different colour testers up around the room, for weeks 😂 I love the colour we have now though!

I feel your pain. Did you get it from a shop like Brewers that mix it, or from a shop like b&q that have it already mixed? I learned a costly and highly irritating mistake that for the colour of dulux I want, I have to get it from Brewers.

Maybe just stick to brilliant white, it's inexpensive and works anywhere. You can bring in colour and interest with artwork etc.

Colour patches should be done on white. You need to paint a patch white and then your tester. Otherwise the original colour of the wall interferes with your perception of the colour. Apologies if you've already done that.

One solution is to repaint. It won't take 5 days again, just decide to re do it and get on with it. For a tiny hallway paint won't be too expensive?

The other solution is to live with it and ignore the rudeness of your DS

I guess be thankful you didn't pay a painter to do it. Taking AL is one thing but shelling out for a painter would have been much more annoying.

Omg I could have written this exact post! I did the same - a nice light plaster colour in my hallway. It ended up looking like hell! A sort of angry bloated purple colour. I lived with it for about a year, stared at if every day, and then repainted it myself. The relief. I'd just cut to the chase and repaint! My commiserations it's a horrendous process and caused arguments with my husband just the same. I lost faith in myself and ended up painting the hallway a warm white and whilst it's boring it's not offensive to the eyes anymore.

I had " Blossom white" on my bedroom walls as a teenager. It was a very pale pink. Before that I had " Apple white" which was a very pale green. It wasn't a bright Lilac. Perhaps the colour has changed since then?

I painted two walls in our North facing shower room this colour and it looks exactly like the room sets on the website. It's perhaps slightly greyer in North light but not lilac. I left the wall opposite the window bright white as I wanted the light to reflect as brightly as possible as it's quite a dark room. Could you paint a wall or two white to offset the colour? Dulux have a visualizer tool on their website. A daylight bulb will help achieve a true colour at night (rather than warm white which is yellow or white which is blue)

I’ve looked up the colour online and am struggling to see how it could be a bright lilac. Have you done the other bits - coat hooks, mirror, pictures on the wall, lighting etc? Sometimes a room can look odd until you’ve done thst and then looks ok. Also a warmer toned lightbulb might make a difference

Really weird that this has happened to you w than once?

Did you put up test patches?

5 days and 2 people for 7.5 litres of paint makes me think you must have had a lot of priming and prep to do? If you were to repaint, you wouldn’t have to do all that. I am not skilled but if the walls were prepped and primed, I could get 7.5 litres up in 2 days.

Does your husband have any solo trips planned? Maybe you and the kids could undertake a project while he’s gone.

OMG it literally looks nothing like this colour.
I love the colour shown here!
It is nothing like it.
We got it from Brewers and a staff member made it up. He used a tin of white then added colours to make it up. It's in a Dulux tin. But it is not like the colour you've linked which is the colour we'd looked at. Do you know what, I'm starting to think he's made it up wrong......
I've added my stairway image but MN has said it's sensitive content and hidden it. It's just a stairway wall!😂

i know what you mean Op, colours often look a lot stronger once they are on the wall. To be honest though I’ve just had my bedroom done in F&B Tailor Tack and it’s a lot pinker than I anticipated! Nothing like it was from the tester pot weirdly!

Try changing your little to an orange toned filament one, put some warmer shades around- rug? Pictures? And see if that brings out the pink more. Green may help too.
if not, just repaint.
im always decorating and I just do an hour or so in the evening, could you do that?

That looks like shade/light problem creating violet shadows. As PP mentioned, is there any way of bringing in more light with daylight bulbs? But, if this will cost money, then I'd weigh up that versus slapping on a couple of coats of white. It should only take one weekend day to sort out, maybe two.

I think the photo you have added is darker than you expected because it’s in shadow , the parts in natural light look much lighter and pale pink
tbh would any 14 year old lad like pink regardless of depth of shade ?

Hmmm - I see what you mean. I would paint some onto a piece of card or something and compare it to the colour chart. If it’s different then it’s possible they have made an error, in which case you could take it back.