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 would put it down to the fact you are not taking into account what direction the room faces

It might sound like hokum but Feng Shui has something right

Look at the direction the window of the room faces and then look on the colour chart and it will give you colours that work with that direction

I am guessing it was a north facing hallway so you want brilliant white/blues etc anything pink red or warm colours are just going to end up looking glum

I have tried F&B and never again. It was so thin it was like painting with milk. Then came to wash the walls down just as we were moving out and wiped the lot off. Ended up going to B&Q and doing a colour match to what the buyers saw and hoping they didn’t notice

Never ever again will I get F&B. I spent so much on paint for my living room think it took 8 coats) and it was the biggest waste of money.

OP, in your picture I see lilac. I'm guessing it's a trick of a bluish light- north facing, or light bulb related. It's way more emphasized in a small space, particularly in corners, which I don't think you see with sample sizes.

Id probably live with it now, as stairs and entrances forever get dinged so it'll need redone soon enough! If you still loathe it in 3 months, then redo it then.

@TailorTack Your paint doesn't even LOOK the same. Are you sure you have a new pot? Rather than someone tampering with it?

Blossom Pink

I painted a room a pale pink...the room had blue metallic venetian blinds and blue carpeting. The resulting look was mauve. The walls were pink up close.
We ended up repainting after one year.
Eta sorry about the quote, accidentally did that

If you put Tailor Tack into the "e paint converter" it comes out as Eastern Spice 6 in Dulux Trade. Then the next match in Dulux is I think Frayed Hessian 3.

No mention of Blossom !

Try the "e paint converter" - it's quite helpful

Sorry!!!!!!
We wanted Blossom White
And the Dulux tin plus the label the Brewers guy stuck on the tin says Blossom White.
Blimey I've completely confused things now, sorry! Don't know why I typed Blossom Pink. Must've been cos I was thinking so much about pink!
I don't think Dulux Blossom Pink exists anyway.
So ignore my mistake.
I meant to type Blossom White.

I'm sorry, I typed the incorrect word.
So sorry to confuse everyone that's trying to help me 🙆
I meant to type that the sticker on the Dulux tin that the Brewers guy stuck on says Blossom White.
I wrote Blossom Pink in error. Because I'm thinking about pink and looking through multiple shades of pink!
My error, sorry.
The tin label says Blossom White.

It's boring now.
Either keep up with my updates on the thread, or if that's too much for you to manage then move along.

My painter had a brand colour I liked made up. The make and name I gave him was a lovely rich taupe. Good thing I was in the house when he started putting it on the walls as it was a very definite grey. I was able to paint a patch from the match pot beside it to show him the vast difference and he went off and got a supply of the branded one I wanted in the first place. So I learned that sometimes you really can’t rely on colour matching services. It looks very much as though this has happened with your paint.

My daughter has the pretty pink and it is kind of lilacy. Confused why you couldn't have just bought the pot of blossom white, why was it made up?

Do Dulux still do the offer where if you don't like the colour that they will change it for free? Check online OP. I changed something years ago because I couldn't live with it. It's a bit in your face for a small hallway and I too have a small hallway. I couldn't live with it.

Colours look different in different lighting. Lesson learned and buy a few tester pots next time, paint a large square from each tester pot and live with it for a week, then see which one you prefer.

I get paint colour matched to Coat paints.

https://coatpaints.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorNfcC0tVo8iYYBQrXMig_vz321mFXk2hllQAlMZJzwfM3Qi2km

Instead of tester pots you get A5 sized stickers in the exact colour. You can then easily move them around a space and see what it looks like on different walls in different lights.

@TailorTack I just replied to another thread about this, and tester pots etc.

After years of agonising, and spending a fortune on posh paint samples, I discovered Dulux Heritage.

You have to get the fandeck. https://www.duluxheritage.co.uk/en/products/details/dulux-heritage-fandeck

I haven't bought a tester since then, nor regretted a colour choice.

The colours on the fandeck are exactly the same colour on the wall. Fuck all the stuff about getting the daylight-facing wrong, or the lighting wrong.

I guarantee, choose a colour from the fandeck which looks good, order it, paint it. And everything will be fine.

I am so invested in this thread 👀

Will you repaint OP? Do you think DH will come round?

This is a crisis? Really….

Was not my experience with Dulux heritage at all. I bought multiple testers and tried them in various places in my kitchen. All were different.

I couldn't find the ready made version anywhere local to me. None in stock at 3 different B&Q stores within driveable distance. Our nearest Homebase closed down. Then I tried local Brewers, it said 18 in stock online. I called them to be sure and a very helpful man said that meant 18 pots of base in stock and then they add the Dulux colours to make it up to Blossom White. It wasn't a colour match in a different 'Brewers own' make. It is Dulux, in a Dulux tin with a Dulux label. He said they do it like that because they're a trade place. I didn't question it at the time really, I was just pleased to be able to find the paint to buy.

I did.

It was a tongue in cheek title.

So they didn't mix what you asked for.

It must have looked very different to the tester though!

Ha! I'm invested in it too!😂
Will you repaint OP?
ATM I'm trying to work out whether to re-paint by myself which will cause DH to argue and fall out with me. I mean he really will fall out with me and get in to an awful mood about it, which I need to weigh up. He will see it as a waste of his A/L time. And a waste of his money as he bought the paint. It still cost a lot of money even though it's 'only' Dulux.
Do you think DH will come round?
No. He likes it.
Although I will add that he says he likes any and every colour. When we put the green on the walls first up, and it looked grey and sludge like, he said he liked it. When we painted the walls white as an undercoat, he said it looked nice. I think DH saying he likes it simply means "It's paint/I don't care what colour it is/I'm point blank not redecorating/so it's fine/end of discussion."
Basically, I'm over invested in this colour and DH is underinvested.
Honestly if we'd painted it Magnolia or Majenta he'd just say "It's fine, I like it, I'm not re-painting".

It did, yes. And I immediately said so. But DH was saying it's because I was looking at a much bigger surface area once he'd rollered it all over the walls and was saying paint colour all over a wall looks different to a tester patch colour because the brain takes in much more of the colour so sees it as a different colour to how it sees a tester patch colour surrounded by the original wall colour. He was telling me this theory every time I said "Hang on, it looks a very different colour to the tester pot, it's got much more blue in it!". Then he was saying the light was affecting the colour of what we were painting on, that you can't tell its true colour when it's wet, that it would be the same colour as the tester once it had dried out, that it would take a few days for the colour to settle down. He was saying this throughout! So I went with it but I did keep saying it's not the colour I wanted and I've spent weeks looking at the right shade and using tester pots and now we're painting on a colour I didn't choose and which is different to the tester pot patch. That's when he started arguing at me.

I’m still laughing about the DS who doesn’t want to talk about it.
What a lot of fuss from you all about nothing!
Hilarious.