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?

Oh dear.

He's sounding like a bully who can't be wrong.

He should have just painted a patch & let it dry when it was so obvious a difference.

You could wait till he goes away on a trip, and repaint sneakily then. Once it's done, it's done, so he can hardly complain. Maybe he won't even notice......

We once had paint mixed at Homebase and the machine colours were topped up between tins being mixed. Result: two completely different shades, despite it being a computerised system. I suspect you have a combination of the lighting affecting how the colour appears on the walls and that it was colour mixed rather than off the shelf.

If you hate it, don't live with it. It'll just bug you every day. I would have Tailor Tack matched at a Johnstone's Decorator Centre and try a sample first, then redo it. The machines at Johnstone's are great and they are aimed at professionals.

To the poster who scoffed at 5 days prep: proper prep is always the key. At least when you paint over this it will be quicker.

We once picked a pale brown colour called something like Just Nutmeg from Dulux. It was bloody pinky peach on our walls. Also bought Mellow Mocha for the living room and it was lilac!! Both rapidly got painted over.

Repaint it if you don't like it.

I think the colour has been mixed with too much blue. Personally.
Tailor tack is a warm yellow paint.
Blossom white has more red. I don't think that's a good compromise for tailor tack. But that aside, I do think your colour has been mixed up wrong. Get a tester pot and check.

I would still go back to the store, honestly, if only to prove you are right!!!

I'm honestly surprised that a mumsnetter hasn't yet said LTB . 😂 🙃 🤣
Every thread I go on, someone always says LTB. But in your case it could stand for
Leave The Blossom (paint) 😆

Edited to say, I honestly would repaint 💐

I had the same colour happen to me! I wanted light blue-grey for the living room and stairs/landing. We painted test patches all over the place. We had professional decorators in who got the paint we wanted from Brewers and they painted our house the same purplish colour it looks like you have. I really didn’t like it at all but couldn’t bring myself to say so because of the time and expense and so lived with it for years. When we repainted I looked into the undertones of the paint and that seemed to work well to achieve a colour I wanted.

It’s because it’s north facing? I think north facing rooms bring out any blue in the paint hence why it’s gone lilac …you need a yellow base for north facing. Think like a concealer pallette - yellow is opposite blue.

If your room is North facing than Tailor Tack has warm pink undertones which makes it a good colour choice.

Blossom White has cooler lavender undertones which makes it not suitable for a north facing room.

My tip for the future would be to paint the tester on to a large white piece of cardboard or paper, leaving enough of a white border all around the new colour so you can see it against the white. Try sticking it to the walls in various places and keep it up for a few days so you can see what it's like at different times of day, in bright sun, artificial light etc. Agree with PPs that light bulb type and North/South facing all makes huge difference.

I learnt the hard way myself so I feel your pain. And I did repaint as it looked ridiculous in my case. Given your walls are freshly painted you wont have to prep the walls again or do ceilings/woodwork so it should be a lot quicker. (For those saying they've painted 3 rooms in a day etc - in my experience the painting is the quick bit, it's the prep if you live in an old house). The prep alone of our dining room/kitchen walls took a professional 2 days as so much work was needed.

Pay £2.70 for the blossom white tester from the dulux website. Find a big piece of white card. Paint the white card to the edges and let it dry and place it next to your walls. It will show how wrong the shop got it. You could even download their visualiser app but I would get the tester to confirm.

Oh I see! OK makes sense then.

I found paint colour from the same tester pot varied a lot between card and the wall even in the same position. Different type of paint in the same colour varies hugely too.

I've never bought a Dulux Heritage tester. I chose entirely from the fandeck as the cards are big enough to judge. All I can say is that the painted walls exactly matched the cards, every time.

Totally agree. Dulux Heritage are no different to any other paint company the charts and the testers are different.

I don’t like Dulux colours very much they tend to be too strong, unsubtle, even Heritage. Even the supposedly very pale one are not as pale as they should be cf the OP.

I would repaint. Loads of dupes for tailor tack online (nice colour!). Our hallway is a dupe for Coat Cargo, and I love it.

It's all true - like the black & gold dress the colours around a tester patch affect our perception of it. Our eyes only really judge colour by comparing it things around. Starting with a white background doesn't help as the white itself affects how we perceived the colour. And colours do change in the shadow and as they dry. We once had a taupe look taupe the whole time we were painting it then morph into flat grey as soon as we painted over the last bit of blue in the room. And pink and purple are particularly tricky in low light. I once tried to paint an internal bathroom pink and found it impossible. I figure by the time you add enough colour for the pink to look pink, it was too dark and looked purple. The bluish artificial light cast any pink into purple, or something. I wonder if that might be happening here.

However the tester pots are a good idea. Can you source one from Amazon or click and collect from a DIY store? Paint up a sample of your paint and the tester on cards and compare. It's pretty bad if Brewers have messed it up. I'd be surprised if they have, but it is worth ruling out as I'd imagine they would have to replace for free if so.

Nutmeg white & natural Hessian are both creamier shades with a slightly pink cast. I would expect blossom white to be an uncontroversial clean, very pale pink so I hope it is an error.

That's definitely pretty pink to my eye OP - one of my DC insisted on it against my strong advice and I recognise the shade!

Paint will look very different if it is just on one wall vs on all the walls - the reason is that if you paint a sample one one wall, you often have the white (or whatever existing colour you have on your walls) on the opposite wall reflecting back on it which mutes the undertones. Once you have 4 walls all the same colour it emphasises all the undertones.

So something that initially looks like a very subtle off white can ultimately look a lot more saturated than expected once the job is complete.

Although you did also say that you could tell from the first roller that it was not a shade that you were after...so what compelled you to go ahead an do a couple of coats on the whole hallway is beyond me! I'd also be pissed off if I were DH.

The light in a room has a huge impact on how a colour appears. From what you have said it sounds like you don’t have a lot of natural light in your hallway or it’s north facing in which case you need a warmer undertone. I find something like Farrow and Ball Pink Ground works well in those circumstances. If Farrow and Ball isn’t in budget there are a lot of places that will colour match it for you.. or Valspar Pink Beach is a good dupe

Pink Ground would be far too intense in that small a space.

OP’s colour would look very different in a large room with high ceilings.

Based on your most recent post, as the say on Mumsnet, you have a DH problem.

We had most of the interior of our house painted and it took us absolutely ages just to choose colours 😩 we used the visualiser apps which made us decide against some colours immediately.
We ordered some tester pots online , bought some from the trade shop too ( 2 of those had to be mixed so it was larger than a typical tester pot )
we painted on the walls themselves in different areas of the rooms to get a good idea in different light , looked at it at different times of day and so on .
We were delighted with the results in every room , but I’m not as keen on the hallway colour.
I suppose that’s the nature of a hallway , there are shadows and only when I have all the doors open upstairs does it look good .
I can live with it but it’s making the carpet look “ wrong “ on the stairs and the upstairs hallway .
Yet we did everything you’re supposed to do.

I completely disagree with you although as an interior designer I appreciate that colour choice is a very personal thing.

Pink Ground is a very subtle shade of pink which looks great in smaller spaces and because it has a lot of yellow pigment it warms up north facing rooms or rooms that lack natural light.

Pink Ground is gorgeous, but if Blossom White is too pink for OP in this small space, Pink Ground will be too strong - albeit a different shade of pink. Tailor Tack would have been spot on - it’s slightly paler than Pink Ground. She doesn’t really want a pink hall.

I also suggested RIBA Plaster I