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?

Feeling bad because your son doesn't like it is frankly ridiculous, why would he be mortified by a paint colour?
I'd change it if you can afford to but I wouldn't expect anyone to help me.

Surely you buy samples and try them out on the wall beforehand? It’s why they sell them. I’d be livid if I was your DH. And 5 days? Really? I’ve prepped and painted two large rooms in that time.

Because he's a 14 year old boy.

I feel your pain when we moved into this house as a stopgap I decided to hust paint my hallway in what was supposed to be a cream colour to brighten it up as our house needed everything doing, when it dried it was primrose yellow I lived with it for four years hated it its now been redone and I love the wallpaper I now have. Like yours a small lobby bit and top bit so the yellow was very in your face

It doesn’t look that lilac from the photo but lighting is everything

that being said I can knock out repainting my hallway/stairs in a couple of days on my own With 3 very young kids around - I’ve changed colours loads of times when I’ve realised I don’t like them

check what the shop mixed up for you first but that’s always the risk when you try and colour match - it’s the reason I never buy paint that has to be mixed in the shop as if you run out or need to do repairs later down the line you can’t just do small areas as they are never exact matches

Just had blossom white in our lounge and it looks beautiful. Very calming, absolutely pale pink and nothing like the walls in your photo. Professional decorator and he bought from his trade place.

I actually love the colour in your photo. It does appear darker than the colour that I had in my room.

I agree - I would just repaint it myself. I think the pinks are hard to get right and a lot depends on the direction of the room and light. I love Setting Plaster but even that looks lilac like in a cooler darker space.
This looks like the colour has been mixed slightly wrong too. Like too much blue added to the base tho hard for us to tell.

id redo it myself - prob in a warm creamy white and then add pics mirrors coat hooks and a plant to add the personality - it's safer!

If you only need one tin of F&B I think you should bite the bullet and get it, then redo it. But do a tester pot first obvs.

Just repaint it if you hate it.
This time paint the tester pot directly onto the wall in various large sections in various places for various lights and look at it for a few days before going all the way.
Shouldn't take too long as prep has been done already. Think of whats on there as your base coat.

I DID

Magnolia is your answer 😉

https://www.decoratingcentreonline.co.uk

I use these to colour match F&B, they’ve never failed me yet.
5 days to paint a tiny hall?!

It should not take a week - I painted my hallway last week using three evenings...

Magnolia is never the answer!

It's the light definitely!
Get a new bright light and light it up and the cooler the light the more pink it will look if you have no natural light and your using a warm bulb it will look more pink x

Photo, or it didn’t happen:)
we are in the middle of decorating. DH and I did 3B, landing, stairs and an entrance hall in 2 half days. Will finish whole house in another 2 days. We did ceiling, skirting boards and door frames and windows, too. No furniture, though, in the house- and that helped a lot.

Well… on the plus side you won’t have to redo all the prep and woodwork, so just repainting the walls should be doable in a day or two.

Why are people being nasty about the time it has taken ?????
If I did a small.hallway with all the prep the OP has taken probably take me 2 weeks not everyone does things in the same.amount of time it's like a reason to be cunty !
Mumsnet is getting nastier I don't understand it !!!

I personally think that calling someone a little bitch is nastier than questioning the time taken to do something 😬

I had blossom white too as a teenager. Mine definitely looked a similar colour to the OP’s hall, my mum hated it!!

It's called Trying to get a rise and op obviously called them out on their bitchiness !

I had blossom white on the top, a pine dado rail and a darker pink on the bottom. Proper 90s chic 😂. The blossom white definitely looked pinker in my room, but it definitely wasn’t a subtle shade.

Its the light. The dulux color coild look purply in cool northern light. If you get the right light bulbs it should be ok at night time at least.