Hallway colour crisis

[TailorTack]

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?

I am saving this post for future reference, it’s spot on! OP- it ALL depends on light, aspect and you can use light bulbs to good mitigating effect. I would leave it for a few months tbh, see how it settles with you as you live with it.

Brewers would mix to a swatch they ‘scan’- or was it already pre programmed shade? Did you not confirm it before the lid went back on for you to take to till? Maybe next time double triple check the liquid mixed, oh, and you can get websites which show you the shade of paint in north, south east and west aspects- amazing how much it changes.

(And I would gently challenge your 14YO son hating it- assume that’s because it’s pink, and pink=girly, I would be having a convo about such gendered thinking)

OP you need to paint over it when you can afford the colour you want. You will laugh about it one day. Even your husband will in ten years ;-) I can see why you want it changed.

People can 'see' a colour' differently though, especially in different lighting situations. a times there can be arguments about blue, green turquoise for example. Perceptions can be very different.

Ok enough now, this is just silly.

Particularly as you’re telling me what I can and can’t say.

Was it a colour match paint or was it a dulux colour mix?

if it’s the first one, they’re never the same. Sometimes you get away with it, other times you don’t.

if it was a dulux colour that you had made at a dulux paint station (even if it was in a different shop) then it should be exactly the same colour.
I had a thread on here, a few months ago I chose a dulux colour that I wanted in bathroom paint, I went Wickes and had it mixed at a dulux paint station into bathroom paint.

it didn’t look right after I’d used it and was too light, I took it back and after arguing it out a bit where the Wickes bloke tried to tell me it was just the finish that made it look lighter (satin vs matt) we realised the paint had been mixed into the wrong size tin so there literally wasn’t enough pigment used to get the right colour.

he remixed it for me (again dulux paint, dulux colour, dulux paint station) and it was perfect.

so mistakes do happen.

You don’t need to take annual. Your kids are big enough to keep themselves busy over a weekend and get it done. Better yet, they can help out

of course I'm not a nasty snidey little bitch for that comment. However, it does take one to know one so....

LIGHTHEARTED KLAXON

I paint sets for a living and it involves mixing paints up for base coats then putting top coats of fancier paint that generally match the base coat (to save money). I’d be quite confident in saying they made a mistake and you should be refunded. Purple tones are so poisonous when mixing colours. If you put too much in it’s very hard to mix your way out of it! Why not try get a refund for the lilac, then use the money for the paint you want in about a years time when you cba painting it again?

we have farrow and ball on most walls (I get a lot of free paint through work 😎) and I have to say the quality of pigments and how they morph in the light (in beautiful ways, not turning lilac) is worth it, esp. for a smaller space. I literally gaze at my dix blue hallway walls. They over estimate what you need I think, we always end up with too much which is annoying.

I’d be quite confident in saying they made a mistake and you should be refunded.

If I've read/understood correctly they made up Blossom Pink which the tin was labelled with instead of Blossom White which was asked for.

@TailorTack so which is it?

Upthread at top you say you chose blossom white (probably close to tailor tack) but a few posts ago you wrote:

But the tin says blossom pink and the guy who did it stuck 'blossom pink' label on tin.
Do you think he could have still made a mistake?

Do you now think maybe you guys made the mistake? 😂 I suspect you meant blossom white but instead asked for blossom pink in error and didn’t check the tin….

Oh my god, this is literally my life right now! Horrific, isn't it?

I've painted (some of) the hall in a deep sage green from coat because I used it in the kitchen as an accent colour and it's beautiful. In the hall it looks grey and sinister 😭 so not were looking at plaster pink shades (which mum likes) but I can see a lot of them are lilac toned whereas I want a yellow pink.

All complicated by the fact that the colours on the paint charts that I have spent by now hours agonising over look entirely different in real life.

I've found what looks like a good colour but it's by some bougie paint company and costs ££££, which I can't afford to risk.

Currently have a sludge green hall with additional squares of tester pots. It's all terrible! 😆

Please go back to where you had the paint mixed - there is no way on this earth that is how it should have come out. I had a similar thing once but stopped painting very quickly! Take the actual spot tin back and let them see it, and then compare with what it should be.

I know it doesn’t solve your time and energy issue, but a refund from them can go towards what you really want, or just get the Blossom White made up properly.

I still can't get over it taking 5 days 😮😂

That’s very useful to know! Just in the process of choosing between two valspar shades (although I am getting the tester pots not just the little swatches so that should help)

The stuff in your pic looks nothing like Blossom White. There is a mistake. Phone the shop manager. Take in a sample and the remains in the tub. Don't throw away the label or the receipt or the tub.

Which is why I only ever use F&B and Little Greene. You can’t recreate them because of the pigments they use.
I know F&B say that if the colour is not a match for their colour chart they will come out to see why.
Light changes their colours during the day.
Also for those who don’t know (and I haven’t RTFT) don’t use a sample pot to paint a patch on the wall. Paint a piece of backing paper (or several) and place them in different places on the wall. Then as the light changes during the day so should the colour reflect that.
IMHO if you want a particular F&B colour then bite the bullet and pay for it rather than living in permanent disappointment that the colour you wanted isn’t the colour you are living with.
Worth £100 for the peace of mind to get what you want IMHO.

I feel your pain. I have returned a tin of Dulux 3 times now, because the colour on the chart and even in the shop lighting looks completely different when home and under my house lighting conditions. That looks so like Perfectly Taupe that I bought and hated it as soon as I loosened the lid.

I really like the Valspar website as it gives really good information on undertones and groups together in sub colour groups. You can also order "paint chips" I haven't received mine yet so can't comment on how useful they are however... Big shout out to Crown for the A5 paint cards. They are fantastic you get 5 for £4 and can hold them up and move them around your room to see the shade. I got them because I have gone very bold and wanted to be sure - currently painting bedroom in Woodland Wanderer which is a very dark green and I have paint card for dark blue for the living room and picked Midnight Navy.

One of the cards I got was Creme de la Rose which is going to be my complementary colour to the green in the bedroom. It's really subtle.

Highly highly recommend the Crown cards.

I will add a point here, because I've been meaning to post something on this subject, going thru the same process.

If you are doing the ceiling and strip above the picture rail as white, as in Pure Brilliant White, you should use that as your benchmark, or ground zero. When doing a colour testing, do a big strip of Pure Brilliant White tester, then apply your tester of the other paint below it.

This is because the other paint - in our case Dulux Heritage Piano White - will, if you will, show its true colours under the PBW. If Piano White ordinarily seems pretty damn nice and white on an old dirty wall (and note of course, most if not all paint colours - but especially whites - look several shades lighter when you first apply them; but the next-day second coat application and then leaving it for a week will show what the colour really is...) it won't in the final analysis. Under the Pure Brilliant White of the ceiling, Piano White looks like Ivory White which is what it really is. It looks like yellow teeth, or a bandage and in the darkness of the hall, looks darker and more shadowy than I'd have liked. I might have avoided this if I'd realised to put the Pure Brilliant White on to compare.

Most Dulux so-called White colours are nothing of a kind, many paints don't do much variation on Pure Brilliant White - imo because they can't sell them in magazines. House Beautiful type mags can only sell bold, dark, dynamic colours because they look good in the photos, variations on pure white just don't.

Benjamin Moore do a pretty good range of almost whites and I think the quality is better so if you did go for Pure Brilliant White all round, their one might look better.

I'm not totally sure about painting a sample on a white card because while it's not an awful idea, the Benjamin Moore samples came out a bit different. Another problem is picking an inconspicuous part of the room or hall to test your paints, because while that's good for a starter, it's not the typical part of the room, it may throw a false reading.

Hi OP, you said in a previous post that you wanted Blossom White, but you said the sticker on the tin says Blossom Pink.

Maybe that's the issue?

Re 5 days surely it depends on how much prep and what else done eg woodwork, spindles and doors. Also if only working 9.30-2.30 when kids at school it’s short day. Last time we had hallway and landing done it took a professional a week inc stripping old paper.

They claim 99%, I think
They used to scan the paint chart, but now have a different system - better accuracy???

Of course they do 😄

Just leave it and arrange some counselling for DS.

It looks quite nice to me.

I knew a staff member had mixed it before I even read that post. Same happened to us. Took it home, slapped a bit up on the wall and was scratching our heads. DH called them and said it looked nothing like the sample wasn’t right, they said go back and they would change it, free of charge which they did.

I’m in the “it’s too late now” camp. You should have realised within the first pot it wasn’t right.

Why so snarky??????
Just why?
Laughing emoji - but you are anything but funny