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?!

Yep, done this a few times, the one coloured wall in our living room and the one coloured wall in our dd's room. I've changed from white to dark grey back to white in dd's room (its an absolute ball ache to change from a dark colour to a light colour) and in the living room we had dark blue and for some crazy reason I decided I wanted it green, so I pleaded with DH and gave him the speech how it would look fab, did it and it looked shit, absolute shit. So I had to just admit that I hated it after a couple of days and wanted it back to dark blue! If it doesn't feel right, or look right, it needs changing.

it's a bloody minefield op. depends on so many factors. you only have to look on the f&b website at the pictures of it in people's homes and it looks different in every single one!

We did our hall, stairs and landing in May, went for a modern anaglypta paper that can be painted, I hate the paper and the colour we chose ☹️
The old paper was a vinyl in a lovely earthy yellow with a nice texture to it, it had been up for 10 years and could be wiped down.
We’ve painted in ‘warm stone’ but it’s actually new-plaster-pink, it’s ultra matt and seems to mark if you breathe near it! It also makes the stair carpet look really orange instead of the pale rusty colour it is.
I know matt finish is supposedly more ‘stylish’ but I like a bit of a sheen.
Otoh, I adore our box room , charcoal grey and copper walls, it will no doubt date horribly but it just looks so sumptuous.

I find Wimborne White really yellow, as I do Dulux Timeless.

Get yourself a roller, some pro-Dec masking tape, a smallish brush and go over it in All White!

Rather than using testers on the wall, paint them on a larger surface, like a piece of left over mdf etc. so you can move them around different spaces and see how the light falls. I also know that I always hate colours (and especially the colour of carpets) when they are first done... but then after a few weeks, they sort of settle. There are a couple of colours I always go back to in different houses (F&B Shaded White for instance). Different decorators merchants seem to have different colour matches, some are better than others....

After a lovely holiday in Spain , I did kitchen in a Mediterranean theme
Sunshine yellow walls, aquamarine, blue and yellow tiles.
The walls lasted three months and that was 11 weeks too long before being painted white
I actually found it rather depressing.

Love white. Eventually changed the tiles to white and the pale green counter top to black. Units are white.
Bliss!

Yes I’ve done it 3 times. Repainted every time.

I recently painted our lounge in what I though was a neutral off white (Craig and Rose Dutch White). It turned out a bluey grey and bothered my every time I sat down. I actually ended up buying a single tin of Lick paint (white 04), and painted one whole wall to see if I liked it. Luckily it was the exact colour I was looking for and I then purchased more tins of paint to finish the room.

I think you need to do really big sections of tester paints. Preferably on multiple walls to find a good colour. Obviously tester pots can rule out the very obvious duds. But if I am ever doing a large space again I will probably just buy one tin of the colour I have chosen before I buy enough paint for the whole room. And just paint one wall before I fully commit to a colour.

Please note I have also done this with pure brilliant white paint which was absolutely not pure brilliant white paint.

Well Ex chose the colour scheme, I decorated, and they then decided they hated it.

Note 'Ex'