Can't live with the purple paint in the hallway.....

[PrairieRose]

Ok I bought (actually had the paint mixed) a few months ago for the hallway. Dd and I got it out the day before yesterday after getting all ready to paint --- you know how long that takes.... . Anyway, we poured it out and painted the walls, thinking it was just the right color. I wanted something in a dark-ish taupe color, got creamy white for the trim. Wwweeeeuuuulllll, it looked like chocolate milk like you buy in the bottles when we started. But when we finished it looked purple (?!). ugh. So yesterday we went back and got a light khaki color and painted over it. It looks much better and now I don't have to worry about coordinating with purple. I just can't believe how purple it looked on the walls. It honestly didn't look to have a purple twinge to it at all on the paint chip. Oh well.....we've still got the trim and the cabinets for the linen closet to do and hopefully will have it done and cleaned up by Sunday morning. (fingers crossed but you know me Darlene    )

Have you ever picked a color that when you put it on the wall looked nothing like you thought it would? It's honestly the first for me.....maybe I've been lucky in the past.

[slowtypinwoman]

Our brdroom wallswere a taupe at the store I'm sure of it. At home on the walls they look a mud/dirt color. Keep in mind I live in Missouri and our dirt is red clay. LOL I have lived with it and will continue to do so only because I'm too lazy to paint it again. After the ordeal of last summer I'm shying away form any home projects for a while.

[seadream]

We bought a yellow for our bedroom a few years ago at our old house and it looked good in the can but when it was on the walls our bedroom reminded me of a school bus,,,that was some bright yellow... never repainted it though and the house sold with that color on the walls

[Darlene]

Originally posted by PrairieRose
Oh well.....we've still got the trim and the cabinets for the linen closet to do and hopefully will have it done and cleaned up by Sunday morning. (fingers crossed but you know me Darlene    ) 

Lol, I've got faith in you Lisa!  Good job on what you've been doing busy lady.

It is tough for me to pick colors and then watch dh  paint. The color never looks "right" to me. I cringe as I wait for it to dry and then I'm usually ok, lol.

Have had some colors way off, Jack had to paint our shed 3 times to get the right color green, lol.

[canadian gardener]

Oh yes. Some creams turn out to be daffodil yellow, and some nice tame yellows turn out screaming school bus shades. All of which has happened to me.

One turned a chartreuse on me, eeewww, because I HATE greenish yellows. I was SO SURE!!!

and then there was the time I thought the siding paint was a cream and it was a ghastly golden yellow, a schoolbus shade. It reflected on itself and turned up the volume something fierce.

[pip]

We had that happen to the dining room in our old house. It was supposed to be a rosy-hued color, but was VERY purple when it was done. My husband about died. He loves everything white, so you can imagine how traumatic that experience was for him....

[PrairieRose]

Well you girls all make me feel much better. I was just standing there looking at those paint chips again going "ok what color is this REALLY?". Ugh. Anyway the khaki is good so I'm happy with the re-do.

[grace1902]

You have my sympathy, Lisa. After going to all that work, (and time is money, along with the paint) to end up with unhappy results is really frustrating.

I only have two things I've learned about getting the proper paint color in my life to share. One, if you're painting over a dark color, paint the room with white primer first. Two, always pick your paint outside (sit with a cup of tea and gaze at paintchips in a lawnchair, if necessary). The paint color always looks different inside than out.

Good luck straightening your hallway out!