All paint looks bright!

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Redecorating our whole new house. We have a small reception room that will be my library and we want quite a dark colour. The weird thing is every one we try ends up looking weirdly luminous.

Latest one I've just put on is Crown's Glass Green. Gorgeous rich dark green in another room. Just one more neon looking failure in the room we want. What could make that happen?

We've got it on top of another sample as well so if it's the paint underneath that ought to have been negated.

Pic where you can see a bit of purple too is the room we want, looks bright. Pic where it is on its own is another room and looks like I want it to.

Lighting can do weird things to colours. Try looking for a less saturated paint that's darker than you want it to be, and try that. Also remember that it will look darker in the winter!

That first one looks like the revolting shade of green our hall is painted in! Not out choice. I find anything with muted greyish tones looks bloody lilac on our walls.

Kismett This is the darkest green I've found and still looks bright in that one room!

What do you mean by less saturated?

I quite like something like this in a library. I think if you want something less 'neon', maybe look at heritage paint colours instead of your standard crown/dulux? They have a better depth of colour, even in the light.

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Basically something that looks a bit greyer, like what's been linked right above me. Could you find something in the colour that you like and then have it colour matched?

Also agreed that heritage colours might be a better selection.

I'll have a look. Have tried one Farrow and Ball one with same issue. Looks a lovely deep blue in our room but try it in that room and it's bloody bright neony blue too. It's so weird.

A second coat of the tester of that green is looking better now. Still not quite as dark as it is in pic 2 but closer.

Weird room!