My new carpet is down and I don't like the colour!

[SmellTheGlove]

I am a bit sad. I was so excited about my new carpet and it just looks a bit weird. It's off white/cream but against the white walls it looks a bit pinky. Boo. After six months of dust and mess and endless bloody woodchip removing we are almost done and getting the carpet in felt like we were nearly at the end. It looks particularly dodgy against my grey walls in the bedroom. I can't even blame anyone as it's definitely the shade I chose, it just looks different on the floor than in the sample book. Sorry, moan over, I realise it's only a carpet....

How annoying. It may not be as bad as you think. Give yourself a few days to get used to it.

So repaint the walls.

No I understand. Seeing a sample and then seeing a whole floor of the carpet is actually quite different.

You need to see it in different lights first.

Get some tester pots of diffferent whites/creams and paint some big sheets of card or board with different shades to see how they look against the carpet in different lights.

If the carpet is looking pinky then steer away from anything slightly greeny toned (I imagine that might be why the grey looks particularly bad) as the opposite colour on the spectrum will bring out the pinkiness.

Thanks for all the replies. It's better in daylight than artificial light so maybe changing the light bulbs could work. I was thinking the grey walls might need repainting, which is so annoying as it took me ages to find a grey I liked and I've bought a blind which matches them exactly! Also having prepped and painted every bloody wall of the house myself I was rather looking forward to not picking up a paintbrush for a while... At least it's only carpeted upstairs (trying to see positives!)

I feel for you. I've been in the same situation when I had the WHOLE house carpeted! I think in these situations you have to ask yourself 'if someone came into this room, would they immediately think 'that carpet is a little pinky?' If it's not something that someone else would notice (unprompted) then live with it, you'll be fine, and you will cease to notice it too after about 3 months.

As well as the carpet (that I think is too mealy-brown coloured) I have 'issues' with certain curtains, the thickness of some book-shelves that I had built in, and even the size of a new window we put in. All of which are things that no one else coming to the house would ever notice, or if they did, would assume was intentional, and how we liked it. I don't notice them myself now, unless I actually 'look' for the problem.

Hold off repainting until you have all your furniture in. It may look okay!