Has anyone redecorated and then hated the colour?

[Shadow1986]

We’ve just had a lot of work done to the house and spent A LOT of money. I really struggled with paint colours and making a decision and felt I was eventually rushed into picking a colour because the builders apparently needed to get started...but actually didn’t for a while after...anyway, room is finished. I wanted an off white but to me it just looks so yellow. It’s farrow and ball Wimborne white, well it was supposed to be but the builder got it colour matched for a cheaper version - husband likes it, it’s just making me feel so rubbish about the whole thing. Has this happened to anyone else and if so what did you do?!

A few times I have, yes. I think even when using testers and doing your research there's still a bit of a gamble involved with choosing colours. At least it sounds like an easy light colour to cover up with something else. It's annoying but these things happen.

Yes - when I left it to DH to do the utility. He did it in a cold grey/blue and went on to use the leftover paint in the spare room. Even he hated it.
I repainted.

Yep, when husband decided that we needed a bit if colour. He bought Laura Ashley sage green. Looked ok on the tin,painted the hallway and it honestly looked like snot. Was rectified by a nice shade of pastel blue.
It's hit and miss with decorating

I've just done it!! I picked a dulux heritage powder colour, which I thought was going to be a bit like the colour of plasterwork - sort of coffee ish with a hint of pink.
But it's come out SO pink!! Arghh! Wouldn't mind if it was a bedroom maybe, but it's a dining room, I've just spent ages doing a wooden floor and our dining furniture is an orangey wood colour. The pink is just so pink it's crazy. I don't know what to do! The painter has done 2 coats already, I don't feel like I can get him to start over. A, he probably doesn't have the time, B his work is really good, it's just me not liking the colour that I picked, and C it feels so wasteful.
I keep thinking maybe I repaint when he's gone but that just seems so crazy. Perhaps I'll get used to it? My husband doesn't like it at all and is really disappointed.
I'm supposed to be ordering blinds and I don't know what to do now - should they tie in with the pink or should I go with something that doesn't match on the assumption I'll repaint within the year?!
God what a dope

Oh no! Well thank you all for sharing. I’m glad in a way I’m not the only one. We really need a decorator to come along and tell us whether it would be best to say nothing, and redecorate once they’re gone or whether they’d rather we said!
My husband just keeps accusing me of being negative all the time but I’m just so disappointed with it.

Wimborne while is a very nice off white. Can you put the colours to the back of your mind and plan to repaint in three years if you really can’t stand it. There’s no rush

I painted our bedroom in a set of colours Dulux reckoned went together. It was awful. I had to repaint it and it took several coats.

We’ve had the same decorator for years. When he painted our bedroom recently I was really worried that the colour was the wrong shade of blue and would clash with the new carpet we were getting. I told him about it and he said he would be very happy to repaint it for me. He says it happens a lot and doesn’t take long to rectify.
I think if you’ve spent a lot of money you need to be happy with the final result

Yes. We painted our bedroom what we thought was a dusty pink colour and it turned out lilac.

Put up with it for a year then couldn't beat it any longer, painted it a green colour now and love it.

Yes, we painted a wall in our family room a teal colour which looked like it should be really nice. My husband loves it but I think it’s too dark yet too bright if that makes sense. I’ve lived with it for a year and still can’t get used to it so it’s going to have to go.

Totally.

I painted the living room f and b pigeon, it looked dark steel grey and was awful. So I repainted it in french grey, I then painted our bedroom in the pigeon, it looks fantastic, dark green grey ans suits the room.

I’ve also painted the bathrooms and decided I disliked it then redone.

I’ve never had a professional do it and change my mind though.

Happened to me too. The small sample doesnt always show what it will look like on a larger scale.

I honestly think you're best repainting (but take your time to choose the new paint). Otherwise you'll make lots of new additional decisions factoring in the wall colour you hate and potentially waste more money and resources in the long run.

The painting is relatively quick, it’s the preparation that takes time. Just ask the decorator and do a taster pot on a big bit of paper first and try in different lights.

We painted a room blue once, it ended up a 70s Formica kitchen blue rather than homes and gardens blue with depth and edge.

It was the spare room, I just shut the door.

Yes my bedroom currently resembles an egg yolk. Awful.

I think this must happen all the time tbh but we're all so used to Instagram perfection that we don't realise what a painful process getting paint colour right is. In the real world time and money are just so limited. How can you know til it's all over the walls? We've lived with a previous bad decision for several yrs now, only getting around to fixing it bit by bit...

I wonder would it look better if a coat of actual F&B wimbourne white paint was applied as a final coat? I'm not the biggest fan of the colour matching thing after a bad experience.

I think it’s the light - I’ve got wimbourne in the lounge and it looks much yellower than it did on the chart. I quite like it now, it feels quite sunny. But we did have the hall, stairs and landing done in ammonite and I had to get the decorators back because it felt so cold. I hated it.

I made a huge mistake in the kitchen and painted it bright red, it was just awful. It was a Farrow and Ball red but it looked so wrong.
I knew I couldn't live with it and repainted the whole lot but by that time the kitchen units had gone in and it was really hard to paint round them, it was all a complete disaster.
I always use match pots now no matter how busy everyone is, Farrow and Ball send them the next day.
And just as well, my living room is the perfect green but it took me 6 match pots to find the right colour.

This is no big deal, just get the decorator to repaint or do it yourself. It really easy an easy issue to fix.

DH usually picks paint colours. I insisted I got to choose for a change. Picked a colour for the hall. Didn't like it...

Yes.
I paid for a decorator (first time not doing it myself) to paint the living room in my new house after I had had the fireplace replaced and shelving fitted.
Daringly, I moved away from magnolia to a buttermilk to give a bit of warmth.
My parents came to stay the night the decorator left. We oohed and aahed over how beautiful the room looked.
Next day I just became uneasy and hated it more and more. It just looked like a smoker's room to me.
I am eternally grateful that when I said what I felt, rather than trying to convince me to live with it for a bit or reminding me how much I had spent, they put on their old clothes, I nipped to B&Q, and we repainted the whole thing magnolia.
That made the room liveable, although I did still have a lingering doubt. Five years later I did more building work and paid the decorator again, this time to paint the walls a much deeper yellow (called couscous). Turned out that was what I had been trying for in the first place!
20 years on and several freshen-uppaints later, the walls are still couscous coloured and I love them.

Yes, I repainted with an off white colour but when it was done I realised it had a green tinge. I hated it but put up with it, years later I don't notice it anymore.

This happened to me as well. It's my own fault really as I didn't do enough research or get tester pots. DP rushed me to just pick any shade of white in B&Q and I ended up with Dulux Nutmeg White. It was initially completely lilac but now that we have painted the wood work white, it has settled into a very pale pink. I've made my peace with it as there is no way I'm painting an open plan downstairs living area, stairs, landing and stairwell again!
It can be so hard to get it right as previous posters have said, all paint shades look different according to light, aspect and room size.
Just a thought though, have you thought about your bulbs? Are they producing a yellow light that could be making the whole place look more yellowish? Perhaps you could change to more neutral/white light bulbs.

Just repaint it - it’s not worth the feeling of walking past it numerous times a day and being annoyed because you hate it. Especially when we’re stuck at home so much at the minute!

I made this mistake once and never again - now I just use the same two white(ish) colours throughout the house with different accents.

If it’s too warm for you, try Wevet. I painted my hallway in this yesterday and it’s got cooler undertones but looks nice when the warm white lights are on too.

I've used colours and hated them.

What colour is the floor @Shadow1986? A cool floor will make a warm white look yellower.