There is a man painting my kitchen right now and I hate it :(

[RightyWho]

I have the decorators in.

I picked out a nice pale green to go well with my oak units. But the green's not pale, it's fucking vivid. And now it's all over my walls and I want to cry.

It's ruined my lovely new very expensive kitchen. It looks cheap and nasty.

I can't return the paint because it's one of those companies that makes it up for you so it's not off the shelf.

I want to cry. I hate my life.

I've wasted loads of money because it need re-doing again, immediately

For future they will make you up testers too rather than vats of it. They'll do 100ml pots or 250ml pots as testers.

Glad the crisis has been averted!

My decorator always paints one wall then calls me downstairs and asks if I am happy with the colour on the wall.

Also paint always dried a different colour.

I disagree with it's not the colour you picked. You have to be prepared that paint often looks different on the walls to the shade card depending upon the light, the room size, shading etc

It happens, not the decorators fault. So you will have a few more hours labour and a new tin of paint.

You won't be the first person or the last to have this happen.

I love Tunsgate Green. I haven't got it in my house as the only room it would look right in has a weird natural light that turns everything blue, but I love the freshness of it. I'd think it would look lovely against wood.

Our room is west facing (I think). It gets sunny in the afternoons.

Here's what it looks like now. It doesn't really show quite how vivid it is though.

You can see, far too overpowering.

And now with actual pictures

And another one

When i was doing my kitchen i wanted a pale blue/green and i have to say i bought almost every tester there was in those shades. I found they were very different on the walls than they were on the shade cards. I went for F&B Pavilion Blue eventually which actually looks pale green on the walls. Hope you like the new colour you have chosen OP.

OH! It is vivid but I actually quite like it tbh but ultimately if you don't like it then change it - decorators are used to this kind of stuff happening so don't feel bad about it. My poor dad used to have to redecorate every room 3 times until mum decided she liked the colours - used to drive him insane - now he pays a decorator!

This one is the best show of quite how vivid and limey it is!

That original colour is a very yellow green. It does look quite vivid.

I do like the colour but not for our kitchen. It's overpowering and it's too 'funky'- I wanted a very subtle, grown-up pale green.

TUnsgate green is green with a lot of yellow. I think it's just a lighter version of what you have on your walls right now.

Is that what you want ?

And I'd like to know why a decorator is painting your ceiling and woodwork but you have no dustsheets on the units ?

Oh. It's awful, sorry.

That looks a bit like the sitting room in our new house, which I think is Little Greene's Pale Lime. It's like sitting at the bottom of a murky pond, I detest it.

It's ind of those colours that some people like but personally I don't.

*one

Kristina, there were dust sheets on the units when he did the ceiling, he took the down when he was doing the walls!

I think so, I just want a very pale, subtle green. It can't be worse that what's up at the minute.

If you want a grown up Green, why not go for a grey green or a blue green rather than a yellow green? I think that would work better with white units and wooden trims ( I'm guessing that's a wood effect splashback in the photos ).

A west facing room will have warm light, which will bring out the yellow in the afternoon and evening.

Not sure if it might be a bit late now to suggest this......

He needs to cover the units when he's doing the walls too. Rollers can spray.

Woah, thought you were overreacting but that looks like the Chinese restaurant in Only Fools and Horses after Del and Rodney had painted it! Tunsgate is much nicer. Post another pic when it's done.

Yes, Kristina, too late! He's back with other paint now.

God, you've made me panic now that it'll be shit again

Isitme That was exactly my reaction

You are right to change it. It reminds me of somewhere institutional like a hospital or public toilet.
We got a nice mid grey colour for our doors and started painting and someone came to the house and said, "I like the purple doors".
Once I left the room and entered again, all I could see was a crappy purple. So we now have a door covered in paint samples and still can't decide what to do with it as everything looks totally different than in the shop and I'm sick of buying paint samples.

I picked out a nice pale green to go well with my oak units. But the green's not pale, it's fucking vivid

I really don't understand why you are saying that you can't return it because they make up the paint colour for you specially.

You chose a pale green colour; what you got was not what you ordered.

This is straight forward failure to supply goods ordered.

Tell the painters to stop (you should really have done this straight away or at least done a test patch at the start) and complain to the paint company.

I think you need to try samples on at least two different facing walls to see how it looks in different light. Then, with a colour always go lighter than you think you need to go.