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?

Precisely why I've just made my own green!! Never get made up the way you imagine. Change the light bulb and see what happens...

Oh @TailorTack I read this and thought "have I posted this in my sleep?!" because I have the exact same dilemma and was going to make a thread about it last week😭

Same as you, picked a few options out, did tester patches at various points on the hall, stairs and landing so I could see them in different lights, decided on a colour, had the decorators come in and paint the whole lot...And I absolutely hate it. Before anyone says anything, we went away for a few days whilst the decorators came in (to make it easier for us and them!) and so no, I didn't see it before it was finished 😭

It was supposed to be a very muted, dusky pink and it's literally just... pink. I don't know how else to describe it. I hate it.

DH can sense I'm not happy but like you, I was the one who chose the bastard colour and so feel like I can't say anything now.

Also to make matters worse, ours is 2 flights of stairs, a hallway and 2 landings, all in a Victorian property with high ceilings 😭😭😭so will be massively expensive / time consuming to re-do.

So no advice unfortunately but solidarity and following the thread for any tips or advice!

You call it ‘trying to get a rise’, whereas I’d call it ‘questioning the time taken to do something’.
Anyway, with the amount of prep work/woodwork etc that the OP described then I can see why the total job took 5 days. However it won’t take 5 day to redo it, as only the wall colour needs changing. So the majority of the annual leave wasn’t wasted because the prep and woodwork would have needed doing regardless of the colour.

I don't think a colour on a web site will ever be accurate as it depends what you are viewing it on. I notice that colours on a laptop can vary from those on a PC monitor and a mobile phone.

I don't blame the OP for snapping. That poster was being bitchy - we're seeing it all the time on MN these days; people ducking the actual question to make some snide dig, presumably to make themselves feel better. It doesn't add anything positive to the thread, just derailing it.

Anyway, I don't think this was your fault, OP, so I think your dh is being unfair. I'm hearing more and more of friends having issues with tester pots not being the same as the actual paint when it goes up, despite extensive research. It may be the lighting - try warmer/cooler light bulbs, perhaps? Re-painting wouldn't take another five days, remember, as all the prep is done. It might only need one further coat of a different colour.

I'm still living with a lilac dining room after 13 years which was meant to be silvery grey. After a while you learn to live with it and forget about it although I am approaching the time to get it re-done, finally

I think it helps to really get to know aspect in your home and how it affects colour. That said, Dulux could have mixed the shade too dark. Che k against the paint chart.

Another tip I once heard is that on your walls you need two tones lighter than the paint chart, to get the same effect.

Maybe. I just think you lose any moral high ground by calling someone a bitch.
Anyway, entirely irrelevant to the issue at hand, which is paint colours.

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.

That's a good idea. I hadn't thought of that. We've got no tester left as I used it all up to paint a big patch on the wall. The tester patch looked lovely. The paint from the big tin we got looks completely different. DH says it's because it's now all over walls that it looks different to the patch test.
Like I say upthread, we didn't buy it off the shelf, we got it from Brewers and a young man (looked around 19/20) made it up by adding colours to a tin of white paint. I am wondering if he's made it up wrong.
I think I'll take your advice, buy a new tester, paint a patch over the wall we've painted, and take a photo and show the colour difference to staff in Brewers....

Hi OP. Not sure this will help… I’m about to paint a north facing (occasionally white blue light) bedroom in tailor tack and the sample pot (painted direct on three walls to test the colour) looks like a muted soft pink, not lilac. So if you can face saving up and repainting maybe consider it. It will be much quicker second time round as you’ve already done the wall prep.

Wow, that's rude.

The 5 days is irrelevant anyway as it would take you a fraction of that time to redo just the walls.

Personally I'd live with it for a few months before making any decisions.

Hi, TailorTack.
Lots of good advice from previous posters. Over the years I've tried so many different paint colours and been disappointed every time. There are too many variables and the same paint will look different in every house. We're really boring now and paint every wall in Almond White. It's a great neutral and then we add colours we like in the soft furnishings. It has the added benefit in that we never waste any paint and just buy a new can whenever we need it. It makes it easier to change the "look" of a room as you just get new accessories. (so boring, I know, but I have no energy left now for painting over disappointing paint colours)
I have no advice over the problem of your family's split opinion about the colour unfortunately 😬 but, if you decide to change it, at least all the boring prep has been done already. 😊 Good luck.

And that’s ok, we don’t all have to agree on everything.
Back to paint colours… Decorating Centre Online are really good for mixing copies of Farrow and Ball colours. I use them for all of my paint.

Also The Paint Shed has given me good colour matches to F&B

Johnstones do good farrow and ball copies. Leave it a while, then change it. Maybe a pink /neutral. Coat do good ones and a paint shop can do a good copy. My whole house is done in copies of expensive paints and they look pretty good.

That's very lilac and if you fancied Tailor Tack not even slightly close. I have TT on one wall in my bedroom and it is very very pale. Almost unnoticeable. I have taken some pictures for you so you can see what it looks like.

Looks lilac to me. Just a very pale lilac. It has more blue undertones than red i think.

Taylor Tack looks much pinker.
The thing is you have done the long winded bit with all your prep, op. So not timed wasted. Is it possible you can go and just buy a colour match and whack a couple of coats on at the weekend?

The online decorating centre are great at colour marching and giving advice.

Could you go back to the shop with some photos and say the correct colour wasn't made up? They should make you up the new correct colour free of charge, I would have thought.

Hopefully it won't take as.long to repaint, as it sounds as if all the other work is done.

Have you tried painting a bit of the sample colour and then a bit from the big pot next to each other on some paper to see whether they did the colour match incorrectly?

Decorating 101 - colours (even pale ones) always look significantly darker once the full wall/room is done. Pick a shade you like, then take it down in saturation by at least 3 shades to get what’s actually in your mind. Coupled with this being in a small, presumably a bit shadowy hallway, you’re going to magnify that problem.

In this case, especially given you said the shop mixed the paint, I’d definitely compare a proper dulux sample chart to your wall to check if they made the right colour. If they didn’t, I’d be going back for a free replacement. Of course that doesn’t account for your wasted time unfortunately.

YABU. Lighting makes all the difference. I had Dulux blossom white years ago in one of my daughter’s bedrooms. It looked like the colour chart, not like your photograph.
You cannot mix the same shades with cheaper paint as you can with more expensive paints. It is due to the more expensive pigments used.

If you do that, and the colour doesn't match, then you will have to repaint.

Considering DH likes it, and doesn't want to redecorate, do you really want to force his hand like that?

No he hasn’t made it up wrong it’s just that live paint colours look nothing like the photos or charts as posters have said.

You must use testers to paint the darkest and lightest corners.

As a general rule you need a couple of shades lighter than the one you think you want on the chart, unless you’re painting the exterior when it goes the other way.

I agree with the posters recommending Johnstone's Decorating Centre online for replicating colours of expensive heritage brands. I look at Little Greene and then match up a colour. For walls we use their more expensive version and it goes on beautifully. Still half the price of the posh brands.

The other 3 members of the family don’t like it though, and assuming the OP is willing to do the redecorating herself, why should his opinion take priority over everyone else’s?