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?

You're showing yourself up now using such misogynistic language. Plus, everyone else thought the same. You've now added on the extra work, which explains the time taken but your original post didn't.

Hmmm that's interesting thst you make sure you go to Brewers.
We did go to Brewers. But it's different colour to the Dulux tester pot patches we painted.
So I am questioning whether Brewers made it up correctly.
I just held up blossom white on Dulux website on the iPad, held it against the walls we've painted, and DH looked and completely agreed it's a different colour, he said our walls look purple/lilac, and said it's nothing like the Dulux blossom white tester patch we painted first of all.
But he says he refuses to redecorate and paint over it.
I hate lilac!😣

I can absolutely see all of that taking 5 days especially if you had to stop at 3:30! It's very time consuming! It takes me absolutely forever to do decorating and I'm currently putting off doing our hall because of how much work it is. You've done a great job. Maybe the colour will grow on you? It's not awful. But if you really hate it then sadly I think it will be another couple of coats of something else on top 😣

Tailor Tack may even be too strong and bear in mind you will be painting it on pink not white which will affect the shade.

Check out RIBA Plaster I

Dear me, 5 days of annual leave to make it look like the waiting area in a community health centre. It sounds like the paint got made up incorrectly.

I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but I only recently discovered peel and stick paint samples. The paint has already been painted on paper for you, and you can stick it on the wall and remove again. Much easier than buying sample pots, painting a patch or paper yourself to then try to stick on the wall.

Several companies sell them, and often cheaper than a sample pot. Strangely, I ordered some from brewers last week online and only 85p each compared to a sample pot which was I think £3.50. One colour I tried was Fondant: 'Fondant is a warm, pastel pink with great versatility.'
https://www.brewers.co.uk/product/AA501190/fondant. The sample I have is a pale pink and looks similar to what you wanted. I hope you get it sorted.

Having seen the photo you posted, it definitely looks lilac. So disappointing after all your hard work.

For what it’s worth, I think the F&B Tailor Tack is a much ‘cleaner’ pink, and, tbh, the cost is worth it. I used F&B in my kitchen over 12 years ago, and it doesn’t fade at all. I had to repaint a few bits over the years, and there’s absolutely no difference in the colour. I think that’s good value.

Of course it’s not the same colour on the iPad. The colours you will see online and on the chart near no real relation to the actual colours.

You can try your luck with Brewers but they usually have some disclaimer about it not matching.

Painters World online are brill. I always use them - order Dulux Trade Vinyl Matt Tinted Colour, then just type in “Farrow and Ball Tailor Tack” and they will colour match it for half the price of F&B, but for a great quality paint.

If you order by 1pm(I think) it’ll arrive next day. Never let me down!

You can make any colour look great with accessories. Nice family prints, matching frames. Plants and coordinating textiles.

I know it doesn’t help now, but I usually go a shade lighter than I like, as when painted in a large space, colours often darken. You’ll get used to it, it’s nice!

DD loves it. So it's a 50 50 split.

Yes, op might do the work herself, but there's still costs involved.

It would be better to discuss and find a compromise, like leave it for a month to see if it grows on her. Rather than making a unilateral decision

Colour matches are never the same shade.

It’s better to find a live paint colour similar to the F&B shade you want, then you can be sure what you’re getting.

At the risk of sounding incredibly dull and boring, there is a reason why all my walls are white. I use paintings, furniture and in some cases soft furnishings to inject colour.
I only have stripped floorboards in most rooms (colour through rugs), bathrooms and kitchen/hall are tiled.
It is possible that I get overwhelmed with too much choice, so the decision was easy.

I bought 'made-up' paint which was completely the wrong colour, took a painted sample of both the original and the made-up one back and they agreed and did me a new pot. It's important to take painted samples rather than photos, though.

Sometimes you can find 'secondhand' (but perfectly good) F&B paint on Ebay etc.

Good luck. And yes to the posters saying that you've the done the hardest bit so repainting shouldn't take too long.

Yes I did. Painted a large square with ready made dulux tester pot. Liked it.
The colour we've painted from the big tin we got made up in Brewers is different to the tester patch we painted.
This isn't just me. DH completely agrees it's a totally different colour.
Difference is, he says he likes lilac. Whereas I don't like lilac.

We’ve had the same experience with dulux actually. We were looking at a wheat shade, which was fine in the tester pot but when we painted the whole room had a lilacy/ rose hue.

We asked Dulux about it, and from memory, were told that it was to do with curing of the paint. It settled down after 6 weeks or so and we’re now totally happy with it. Maybe look it up, but I think it may be a known dulux thing!

Paint colour is always stronger once you’ve got a whole wall of it not just a section, and it will be darker in the corners. In hall you have 2 walls fairly close together intensifying the effect.

Omg we did the same! And we did it with F&B

Basically this is a problem in all rooms; but much worse in hallways imo.

You have the double height wall
Weird light interactions - a flood of natural when you open the door
Your facing amplifies things ten fold as the paint and light reflect off each other and bounce. There’s also little to soften it.

Basically you really need to study your aspect/ facing.

Get the colour books out and really stick to the rules. You either go light white/cream or you go dark. There’s no in between for halls with little light.

You also need to pick your lightbulbs to go with the paint undertone.

So if you are north facing; you either lean into that and go very cool - blue undertone with white lights. Or you go yellow under base. Red is tricky against north. It should neutralise it but often ends up more purple than red. Green is a tricky one. It’s possible but hard to get the right one because green is a combo of blue and yellow.

Basically we did the same thing. Wanted plaster colour. It’s very much pink! Not in a good way. So now we are going cream based yellow.

I think it looks nice, but I don't have to live with it. Maybe go to Brewers and have a word?

Nothing worse than when you want something, put in time, money and effort and it turns out wrong. 😔

I'm always wary of getting colours mixed, in case it goes wrong, and if we need some spare for touch ups etc in future. 🎨 🖌

We wanted F&B paint, but it was ridiculously expensive, so I basically tried to find a similar shade in B&Q within their Homesense range (off the shelf) and found it for half the price of F&B on both occasions (our hallway is bottle green and white, our lounge is a deep sage) which was lucky really. 🙏

Random to add but would you pop in pink light bulbs or warm bulbs, to try and make it look more pink? Or would that send your DS over the edge? 😆

Sending hugs 🫂

I painted my bedroom in Dulux blossom just a week ago, it looks nothing like your photo. And I added a bit of dark salmon pink to whoosh it up a bit...no idea why yours looks purple

You are right OP. It does look very different. Who cares if others like it if it's not what you want?

I’d second doing this. We had a dulux colour (also in hallway) that I was convinced wasn’t same as the tester we’d used. The place we bought it from agreed it wasn’t but said we needed to raise with dulux. From memory I had to send them brush samples from the tester plus the paint we’d used. They ended up confirming the “recipe” for a 5L tin was incorrect and gave us vouchers to buy replacement paint alongside details of the correct recipe.

Sympathies OP, the lilac colour looks identical to my bedroom walls after painting with Dulux Dusted Fondant. This picture shows what I thought I was getting. It could be the light in my room that distorts the colour but it's the same in daylight, artificial light and shade - I don't like it but can't be bothered changing it for now.

Surely it’s better to find a colour everyone likes though, instead of 2 family members liking it and 2 hating it?
I wouldn’t leave a colour in my house that I hated. My home is my sanctuary, I spend a lot of time in it, and to actively hate the colour of the walls wouldn’t work for me. My DH wouldn’t care if I repainted though.