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?

Might be an obvious question but did you stir it properly before you started painting?

I have it in a bedroom and it looks pink to me.

I have read everything you’ve written. You can’t claim you’re not trying to police what people are saying when you literally said ‘will people stop saying this’.
You can make your point without telling other people to stop making theirs.

The website says it’s pink. Anyway whether pink or peach, it’s a really lovely colour.

I’d call that peach.

I'd resign myself to repainting as I wouldn't be able to live with a colour that didn't feel right. And I have done so many a time. biggest regret was Just Walnut which turned lavender in my living room. Have also had fails with a F&B copy of Middleton Pink which turned white in my overly sunny bedroom, like the colour just vanished, and a buttery yellow that went a bit 80s Pat Sharp in a yellow shellsuit in my current bathroom. All down to lighting. You can paint swatches all you like but until you do the whole room you'll never completely know how it's going to come out.

You are not in my bedroom though.

😂

Peachy pinks work well in north facing rooms or rooms with little natural light. I tested literally all of them haha.

I wasn’t talking about your bedroom, I was talking about the colour in front of my eyes on your post, that I quoted.

Yes and in my bedroom it looks pink.

It does look completely different, but YABU to be so dramatic about it and feel sorry for your 14 yo. He's not going to have his life ruined by not liking the hallway colour.

I’ll take your word for it 👍

That’s good to know as I’ve just invested in Pink Ground based on samples I’ve painted around my dining room and it doesn’t look anything like your photo! Not that the colour in your photo isn’t nice, but I was expecting it to be lighter and panicked a bit at your photo! I agree Tailor Tack is lovely.

Yes agree, it needs to be a proper paper sample produced by dulux to test if the shade is right. All screens produce colours differently.

OP - I agree that it is more than shadows created the lilac in your paint. TT is a yellow based pink (like setting plaster / pink ground etc) and your wall in a blue based pink (like dusted fondant)

It's possible your mixer got it wrong - so start there.

I would re-paint, it will annoy you every day.

Blossom White looks lilac more than pink to me!

Not as lilac as the pic of Op's hall though.

Why is paint being mixed or do Dulux not sell it ready mixed?

Having struggled to choose colours for our house I hugely sympathise. The visualiser APPS looked nothing like the existing colours, so I had no faith they’d show other potential colours accurately. The tiny thumbnails of colour most companies provide are too small to show what the colour would really look like. I chose a few colours and bought sample pots ( which quickly adds up) that I painted on to walls in different places but again they seemed different to the thumbnails & I didn’t like any of them. Ended up paying for a F&B fan of swatches, which I undid, so I could move them around rooms, within rooms and at different times of the day. Finally chose Drop Cloth for our main room and Tailor’s Tack for our snug & craft room. The finished walls match the swatches perfectly and I am really happy with them but it all seemed like hard work.

I would repaint it as it would annoy me too much that it was wrong.

Dulux Blush pink is much more like Tailor tack. I have it on one bedroom wall and it's very subtle and gentle, pale dusty pink not at all blue/lilac.
https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/colour-details/blush-pink

I think if her husband is telling her she often does this, it is not about the colour on the walls.

My daughter has pretty pink in her rooms and it does look a lot like the pics you have posted and is a VERY bright colour, so if this mistake has been made you need a refund and to repaint because it's not a really a neutral hallway shade.

Tell your ds tgat when he buys his own house he can choose the colours

It wont help your current predicament, but in future use B&Q valspar paint. They offer a colour guarantee that if you hate it, you can buy a 2nd paint and they refund you for the first hated colour.

B&Q also have a light box by their samples so you can double check the colour under different lights.

We have used Dulux Linen white for years. It is a very subtle pink if you want something calmer. We had it in the bedroom for a while, now that’s been changed and we have it in the living room. We have used the Dulux decorator centre to mix it. Link ; www.duluxheritage.co.uk/en/colours/1780091/linen-white

Oh that's so interesting, you are clever....the pretty-pink link you've posted is literally what's on my walls!
But the tin says blossom pink and the guy who did it stuck 'blossom pink' label on tin.
Do you think he could have still made a mistake?

So you asked for Blossom White & were given Blossom Pink & unfortunately didn't notice?