Help! F&B slipper satin sample vs valspar gone wrong!

[Puppypower83]

Soooo I was looking for an off white/neutral beige/white that would look nice with greens, have bought a green headboard.
picked up Shadow White and Slipper Satin. Liked both but thought slipper satin suited the headboard more.
Had the paint made up in valspar and it's nothing like the sample! However, the image of slipper satin on the F&B website does look like the valspar paint colour .....so now we are wondering if the F&B branded sample is wrong?
The photo colours are slightly changed by my iPhone but I think you can see the B&Q version is warmer/more brown/pink toned than the F&B tester.
Can anyone recommend the neutral I want on the right if it's not indeed slipper satin?! Or do I get someone to colour match the sample 🫠
£75 on a tin of magnolia/beige paint 😭

The F&B looks right to me. Personally I don't think the colour matches ever look good. You don't get the same depth of pigment or variation of colour in differing light as you do with F&B.

I recently had my bathrooms painted in slipper satin and to be honest I did think afterwards why have I picked magnolia! I like it now but it does feel more magnolia than off white and quite different to how I thought it would turn out from the sample.

I got a Valspar colour match of F&B Nancy’s Blushes and it was sooo much darker! It was almost terracotta I was fuming as they wouldn’t accept it was any different and I couldn’t afford another tin. Had to use it and I hate it.
Apparently valspar are known for being terrible at colour matching and their paints are alllllways darker than their own printed colour swatches.

Colour matches are never the same. Just get the Slipper Satin - it’s a great colour.

Thanks guys. @Aluna my concern is that the F&B website shows slipper satin as looking more like the valspar colour we've got.
I don't know if we've just got a dodgy sample and maybe it is a yellow/peach toned magnolia as @Passmeaplacard has said!

This. They are never as good as the original.

It's funny, we have Slipper Satin in our bedroom and it looks like a really pale/blush pink, it's lovely. It's a very bright south facing room though.

@Puppypower83 just to throw another colour in to the mix, have you looked at James White? It's pale but a white with (I think!) an undertone of sage green.

OP, website colours are never accurate, you need the fan decks or and tester pots. When testing the colour use a white base. You can paint on to card and move around to look at in different light situations.

an online match will never be close.

If you colour match you should always match a tested sample and not a code.

Honestly you won't be able to tell a paint colour from a computer or phone screen! They are all calibrated differently.

The actual tester pot will be correct so use that. They also look different in different lights. We moved into a house decorated in F&B and I had no idea that it was the same paint used in two different rooms as ther looked so different.

This is not my first rodeo. You can see I've painted the testers on thick cardboard stock and moved them around. We also painted it in various spots directly onto the wall around the room as we were going to be decorating anyway.
I also have had F&B and Paint and Paper Library successfully (or at least, satisfactorily!) colour matched before over the years.

Thank you! I will get a tester of that today as heading to the shop shortly.

I think what we actually now need is more of a white/off white. Maybe strong white?!
Totally agree about paints looking different in different lights.
The tester looked different from one wall to the next (this is a tiny bedroom!)

I've found Johnstone's colour matching much better than valspar , I used actual f&b in our bathroom and it's beautiful but it marks, I colour matched elephant's breath in the kitchen (we have reed green units and oak worktops), I got the valspar sample and it was completely different to the f&b sample, our builder suggested using Johnstone's and it was pretty spot on

You can’t gauge a paint colour from a website. Or even a colour card.

Slipper satin is a creamy grey.

Agree with @TheCurious0range about Johnstone's. They colour match for professional painters and decorators and are much better than DIY store matching. I've used Johnstone's to match F&B colours a few times.

I’ve done Johnstone’s it was still rubbish. In fact a decorator colour-matched Green Ground in Johnstone’s unbeknownst to me and I spotted it immediately - too yellow.

Egyptian cotton is a lovely neutral for pairing with green.

Colour matches are a fool's errand as the colours simply do not match.

Try Farrow and Ball sample colours on the walls and choose the one you want only if you are prepared to buy F&B paint.

Otherwise, if you plan on using Valspar paint, try a range of Valspar sample colours on the walls and choose the one that works best. This will work out much better than a paint colour mismatched to an F&B sample.

Exactly it’s better to choose a actual paint shade from a cheaper company that is a close match as you can then see the colour and know exactly what you’re getting.

I don’t think you can colour match the off whites as the variation is v subtle but over a whole wall gets exaggerated.

I think farrow and ball is great actually and I’ve just used their dead flat for a bedroom. Expensive but as I did the painting it wasn’t that bad.

I never colour match after a bad experience where we used a decorator and tried to colour match and it wasn’t right - couldn’t afford to re-do it.

From what I have read about F&B is that they have complex undertones and are different colours in different lighting and no colour match will match to all the undertones so this is very common.

I've had trouble with a colour match with Valspar paint. I took the paint back and had it remixed with a different code and it was an exact match. It was colour matching Dulux though not F&B.

Are you sure they mixed the Valspar right? Is the finish the same?

I agree with this. We have slipper satin in hallway, stairs and landing and i hate how magnolia-esque it is. It must be the way the light falls. If it hadn't cost a fortune to get someone in for the ceiling height, then I'd just redo, but as it is, I'm slowly covering the walls with framed photos and art 😬

I have everywhere in matt white and it looks different in different rooms.

Don't worry, my decor is otherwise far from dull.

Just use F&B. Slipper Satin is a beautiful colour but does look magnolia-ish in some lights. Strong White is a very different colour, a neutral very light grey that can look completely white in some lights.