My new render is horrible!

[LastOneDancing]

Total third world issue. I know this.

Today the renderers came to monocouche our extension - I've come home taken one look & I hate it.

The sample looked a really light off white, but in reality it's like a light sand. They've done a wonderful job but I've chosen the wrong colour, or the sample was not representative. It's not awful, but it's not what we wanted & doesn't look that great.

Tomorrow they return to do the back (front & side done).
Do I:

1. Ask them to get different colour monocouche & do the back in that?
2. Ask them to take it off & redo it (not sure if that's even a thing and it will be £££)
3. Put up and shut up with my mistake?

I don't want to paint as that will mean maintenance. I'd rather do option 3.

Im leaning towards 1.
Will anyone (but me) notice that the back& front are different & think it's odd?
What would you do?

Love the colour

The colour you want is silver pearl. I'd get it changed myself. Ivory is more of a cream not white colour.

It does look fine though. But I understand the disappointment when it's not as you'd imagine.

PumpingRSI - Silver pearl is lovely but quite grey, which we felt wouldn't go with our brown brickwork.
The one used is Johnson's stormshield 'natural white' - sample was much less yellow than the ivory.

I'm having faith in the drying process & going with it. Tbh if slightly wrong colour render is the worst thing that happens during this project I'll have got off lightly!

I think it looks great. You are focusing on it now. In a couple of months you'll not even think about it.

Samples colour squares are hopeless for light colours. I once chose what I thought was a lovely, very light beige for the WC - it ended up looking white. But compared to the previous colour it was more sandy so a small patch on the wall didn't give a good representation. Oh well!

I think white houses can be quite glarey in summer, and sandy is much better anyway.

Last thank you. And it really does look lovely!

See silver pearl looks grey but is off white without yellow. You live and learn with everything, I deffo have! Painted my whole upstairs the wrong dulux grey last month!

@LastOneDancing 3 years late to the party but hoping for a reply; we’re in EXACTLY the same situation as you were; same product and colour!!

Please let me have some reassuring words; does it dry lighter!? X

I like it too OP and I agree it will lighten as it dries

Ooops zombie

It goes much lighter as it dries. If you really don’t like it you can paint it with a special render coating in you chosen colour.

Goes well with the brick imv.

@RichieSwain
Breathe! Trust the process! It dried much lighter! It's now a really nice creamy white - neither too yellow, nor too white in my opinion.

I have attached a pic but it's late evening so not the best light to show it off, but it's definitely not sandy anymore!

It looks lovely Op

I think it looks beautiful OP, and I'm with you on preferring lighter shades for render! It will definitely lighten over time, don't worry. Relax a bit and please don't be so hard on yourself ❤️