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 can’t police what other people say on a public forum.
I have had F&B Green Smoke colour matched (amongst others), and while it was very slightly different due to the quality of the pigmentation, the vast majority of people wouldn’t have noticed. I’m sure the OP can make her own mind up.

Gosh that really does look like whats on your walls (from pics anyway). I would definitely take this up with Brewers, buy another test pot for the correct one. I don't think you would have to paint white over the top and could probably get away with one coat straight over the top as the colours are so similar. 2 coats would be safer though, I reckon could do that over one weekend. Good luck OP

I’m not trying to police anything.

The point is that if you assure OP that Tailor Tack colour match is en exact match and it’s not and she doesn’t like it, you’ve just wasted more of her money.

What other people notice is irrelevant they won’t even know what the shade was supposed to be; other people probably won’t notice her hall colour as it is.

I agree with this.

They are not exact matches.

They are often good enough matches.

Personally I think it depends on how particular you are.

It sounds like the OP is particular.

I get a great deal of pleasure from looking at the colors on my walls, how they change in the light, how they work with furniture or flowers or views outside.

Personally I just save up for the color I want, or in a pinch just do top coat in chosen color.

Little Greene is my favorite 😍

OP, if you don't want to risk mixing paint again, use e-paint to find the closest match to Tailor Tack in other brands.
FYI they misspell it Taylor Tack, it won't come up if you search Tailor Tack.
E-Paint.
At Brewers, the Albany paint match is 'Spice'.

It looks wrongly mixed. Blossom white isn’t lilac. I’d get a tester of blossom white and paint it on and take pics and go back to shop.

Try a brighter white bulb before repainting, one listed as 4000k in colour. It might look better with it than the usual yellow white of 2700k or 3000k.

Will attach a photo of Tailor Tack in my bedroom, it definitely came out pinker than I imagined.

Did you do this with a tester pot?

It sounds to me like it has been mixed wrong...

Well that's very interesting. I mean, you would never expect to see lilac in 'wheat'!
And interesting that it settled after 6 weeks....
Is the lilac/rose completely gone from your wheat colour now?

He has definitely mixed it wrong

Here’s what I learned after painting every single room in our huge house:

• Buy the better paint. If you like the colour, go for the higher-quality one. If you buy a cheaper paint and end up hating it, you’ll spend more money repainting later.

• Don’t mix colours. It almost never turns out the way you expect.

• Always buy a tester first. Paint colours can look very different depending on the light in the room.

• Don’t plan painting for your day off. It’s easier to do it in smaller pockets of time—after the kids are in bed or over the weekend.

• Use a paint holder with a lid. Wrap your rollers and brushes in cling film and store them in the container. They can stay usable for days (sometimes even a week), so you don’t have to keep washing them or changing rollers.

The colour you shared definitely had a blue undertone to me. Good advice to wait a while to see if it settles before rushing to change!

The pink you have on your walls has quite a distinct blue undertone - so I think it may be pretty pink rather than blossom pink although the latter also has a bit of blue in some of the pictures on the website. The problem with blue is that it really over emphasises itself when it is up on the walls in bulk compared with a sample.

You could try playing with the lightbulbs to see if it helps. Useful article here https://www.behr.com/colorfullybehr/how-lighting-affects-color/
If not then I would suggest that you bite the bullet with F&B paint and choose one that has no blue undertones at all. Dimity might also be worth a look. You could perhaps also think about a warmer undercoat colour - perhaps a very pale orange to warm it up a bit.

Exactly this ^

In my experience, having a paint matched to a Farrow & Ball or Little Greene (or whatever) colour is never great. The finish is totally different too - the likes of valspar etc will never have the chalky finish of those brands.

I still recall our joiner who'd taken what felt like forever (literally two years!) to make our new casement windows for the front of our last house a few years back. We told him our other windows and doors were Little Greene 'Silt' exterior eggshell and he said he'd get this and paint them ahead of fitting. I was so disappointed when they turned up a horrible brown colour that was nothing like LG Silt! He'd had the paint colour-matched, not sure who by now though. We did live with it because we were selling.

I have heard that Johnstone's are the best for getting colours right, but haven't tried it as I'd always much rather pay the extra to get the real thing.

As it's the first thing you see when coming into your house @TailorTack, I'd definitely redo it in actual Farrow & Ball Tailor Tack (having first tried large samples on white card/paper in various locations at different times around your space!).

‘Will people stop saying this’

5 days 😂

It will be the light. Dd's bedroom is North facing and the paint on her walls looks a totally different colour depending on the time of day and which direction the sun is coming in. The paint in dh's north dacing office looks entirely different to the same paint in our hallway.

Blossom white has pink and lavender undertones

Benjamin Moore Opal is a lovely sophisticated pink.

My dining room is also lilac when it was supposed to be a dusty pink colour, can't remember the actual name (dulux tin from B&Q). I have no energy to re-do it so we just eat in our purple room for the next 5 years until it gets painted again. But I feel your pain!

That's not pink.

That lilac would have to go, and I'd go over it with Egyptian Cotton or Natural Hessian.

Don't even think of mixing your own paint colour at home.
(Remember when the DC experimented with plasticine)

I think it is.

If you the rest of my post and subsequent posts by others you will see what point I was making.

It's peach.