Not happy with the wall colour!

Merlin5

Merlin5

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I came home this afternoon to see my front room walls painted in a colour I'd chosen called Pebble Drift 4 by Dulux. I wanted a light grey colour but it's more like sky blue. :(

Admittedly I'm a tad colour blind, but I chose it from a paper sample that to my eyes looks grey. What do you guys think? Here's some pics I just took, some of which I'm holding the sample against the walls.

http://postimg.org/gallery/3azcv2f3q/

It's not a bad colour but a bit close to what I had before, and I really wanted grey this time. Not sure if I should buy some grey paint and get it redone which would be more expense. The decorator suggested he could mix the Pebble Drift 4 it with some white paint and put a coat of that on tomorrow, which might look nice.
 
Looks bang on to me compared with your sample you are holding, and i always score excellently on those colour blindness tests online :p
 
Google image search for that paint is even more blue in most images than your results :S and way off the colour card. Looks quite good to me but I'd probably go over it with something closer to the tone you want than mess around with mixing it down.
 
Yeah, its weird, because I can see how it matches, yet I still thought it would come out grey. Looking at the sample alone without the walls in the background, I just can't see any blueness.
 
Rroff said:
Google image search for that paint is even more blue in most images than your results :S and way off the colour card. Looks quite good to me but I'd probably go over it with something closer to the tone you want than mess around with mixing it down.
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Yeah, I noticed that too with google image search.

In this picture of mine, the wall and the sample look distinctly different to me.
https://postimg.org/image/pf0b37mcl/

Well if I go over with something closer to the tone I want, I guess that means starting over by buying grey paint which will be another £35 for a 5 litre can, and it'll need 2 coats.
 
Rroff said:
I'm no decorator but I can't see mixing white getting the result I think you want.
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Yeah, I agree. But originally, I was either going for all white or light grey, so I thought mixing it up with some white would be interesting and get away from the blueness.

I wanted a grey colour like this, it's called Dulux Chic Shadow

Dulux_Chic_Shadow.jpg


it's beautiful, although I think I need it a tad lighter as the room is only about 12 x 10. Or maybe I can get away with it as is. Can anyone find me a Dulux paint like this but a bit lighter?
 
We've recently done our kitchen with Dulux pebble shore which looked a light grey on the colour chart but now its on the walls it looks light blue to me.

It looks nothing like the colour chart shows.

more tester pots required!
 
famas said:
We've recently done our kitchen with Dulux pebble shore which looked a light grey on the colour chart but now its on the walls it looks light blue to me.

It looks nothing like the colour chart shows.

more tester pots required!
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Glad it's not just me seeing blue on the walls and grey on the chart! Yes, I just took a look at pebble shore and it's a very nice light grey. Hmm, yeah, I think tester pots are the answer!
 
I've just decorated my study with Goose Down and that definitely looks light grey.

Saying that though I just checked a Dulux colour chart and the other two shades mentioned both looked grey to me.
 
I seem to recall reading once that you need a 2ft x 2ft square of a colour to properly understand it.

Also worth bearing in mind those little tester strips aren't a 100% reproduction of the paint colour as they are printed and not painted.
 
I see a tint of blue.

Grey steel is probably more the colour you would be wanting. Got that on my walls. Just had some mixed actually as I going over it with endurance+. It most certainly looks grey.
 
I am slightly confused. The colour on the walls matches the colour sample strip. Neither is grey. I think you need to start again, maybe get someone to check the colour strips for you before applying to the walls?
 
Merlin5 said:
Yeah, I agree. But originally, I was either going for all white or light grey, so I thought mixing it up with some white would be interesting and get away from the blueness.

I wanted a grey colour like this, it's called Dulux Chic Shadow

Dulux_Chic_Shadow.jpg


it's beautiful, although I think I need it a tad lighter as the room is only about 12 x 10. Or maybe I can get away with it as is. Can anyone find me a Dulux paint like this but a bit lighter?
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That is a touch lighter than I thought you were intending so maybe it would work. Still not convinced mixing in white will quite do it though.
 
looks grey to me.. although i am half blind and slightly colour blind so it could be green for all i know!

one thing i do see though is how much paint he got on the skirtings!
 
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