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?

There's a lot of drama here for the painting of a small hallway. You could have that done in half a day with a roller. No-one made you take annual leave to do this, surely? It's what people use AL for sometimes!

Dulux Blossom White is clearly very pink/lilac when looking at the photos online.

I would leave it for a while and save up to buy the F&B colour you originally chose and then just paint over it. I have several rooms painted with F&B, it's very expensive now but I have not needed to repaint those walls for over 10 years as the colours still look lovely and they wash down well when marked.

Honestly, it doesn't look awful! It's pretty and warm.

@5foot5 But by that logic surely you then have to do a coat of white paint over the entire wall before you start applying the colour.

Well yeah that’s exactly what you have to do.

Yes. I just paint the walls white.

I would just get some white paint and some rollers and the whole family can do it in a weekend.

Mines nutmeg white and is gorgeous

I do see what you mean, OP. I wonder if it was incorrectly mixed at the shop?

Nah! We never do that. Two coats of the new colour always seems to work

I've had quite a few FnB colours made up in B&Q over the years and have been happy with them all. Valspar paint. They do a 'scrubbable' version too and it is. Good for busy areas with 'traffic' passing through

@TailorTack this thread has reminded me of a story relating to me dear, late MIL. She was wonderful in many ways but notorious for haggling and looking for a deal.

Anyway she was redecorating the spare room ( funnily enough a similar shade to your pink) and went and had the paint mixed. When it was done she said it was wrong and far too lilac rather than the soft pink she wanted so the man offered to mix up a new pot. She considered this and then asked what would happen to the first batch. We will sell it at a discount he said, so she negotiated down to half price and bought it and that room was an unpleasant shade of lilac for evermore.

She was quietly (not very quietly) delighted with this outcome for the rest of her life.🤣

I recommend you change yours.

And that’s fine but that doesn’t mean they’re a close match to the actual colour.

I think this is a case of being overly perfectionist. I fully understand the desire for a home to be warm and lovely, and have tried to do this in my own home - but paint is never going to look exactly as on the tin/website; the shade and light in the room, the colour you are painting over, the curve of the wall etc will impact the vibrancy and intensity of the colour. If you really cannot live with it, I would choose a much more neutral shade - Dulux cotton white, and add pops of colour with artworks and light fixtures.

no problem. mad how the other two look brown in that picture. They are F&B Calamine (top) and and Pink Ground (bottom).

I don’t think it’s ’overly perfectionist’ to not want a colour you hate on your walls. Im
sure the OP wouldn’t have minded so much that it didn’t match the sample if she still liked the end result, but she doesn’t. We spend lot of time in our homes and it’s fine to not want to look at a colour that you actively hate on your walls.

I always use Johnstone for farrow & ball colour matching. They have a huge machine that does the mixing so the proportions come out right. Your husband was being a bit mean but I would leave him be and repaint the walls myself if I was that driven to it. Do it over the course of a weekend. Your son should absolutely help if he’s complaining so much!

@onetrickrockingpony - that looks really great. Is the top one Sulking Room ? I put that on a wall in my room once - meant to use setting plaster. Didn't hate it but didn't love it. Middle one is lovely.

Calamine (top) and and Pink Ground (bottom). But the jpeg for those two look so much darker than in person. The Tailor Tack is fairly accurate.

There's a touch of purple in Calamine.

I agree the bottom looks EXACTLY like Setting Plaster in the pic.

doh! Just seen this @onetrickrockingpony Calamine does look much darker than I'd expected. !!

You can get farrow and ball colours matched with Johnstones trade intelligent Matt at Brewers decorating shop. Colours are an exact match.

That colour is completely different so if that was a match it’s not right

If the sun comes out I'll try and take a second picture and see what that does haha

I don't like it but it is a hallway not a lounge or bedroom where you are there for more than a few minutes.

It is very cool, making it look lilac I agree. Setting plaster by F&B is lovely, we got Dulux to make us a match of it (much cheaper). I would suggest next time using a test pot to see how the colour goes in that lighting etc.
It's not bad at all, just more lilac looking than light pink.

Will people please stop saying this as it gives a completely false impression.

I use Brewers and I have used Johnson’s intelligent Matt and it’s not an exact match. No colour match is ever an exact.

I can give examples: Green Ground came out like pea soup - too yellow; Dimity came out bogstandard beige; Slipper Satin, which should be a subtle cream grey came out sludgey beige etc.

It's ok. Tbh, the pale pink that you wanted looks like fresh, bare plaster.

Hi @TailorTack. This exact thing happened to me. Brewers mixed the wrong colour. Only realised when I Came home after work and my decorator had finished.

i complained to Brewers quoting the right clause in their T&Cs and they refunded my paint costs AND my decorators costs to come again and re-paint.

Brilliant. Do this, OP.