spinoff: Paint colors gone bad! lol

[eliza61]

The bedroom color thread was so timely as I just got my bedroom painted, it too had been white for 2 years. While I'm really loving the color I picked out for teh Bedroom, the master bath color is hideous.

The name was "buttercream". It was supposed to be a soft, buttery yellow color. WRONG!! It looks like some thing Dr. Suess threw up for his "sneetches with stars" books.

*** grrrr***.

believe it or not, I did get a small can of the stuff and did a test swipe. what look good in a 4X4 inch patch, does not look so great on 4 walls.

guess what I'm doing this weekend?

has anyone else been down this road?

 

[Lilacs4Me]

Yep.

Supposed to be a soft, pretty sage green bathroom.

Painted all 4 walls and turn the lights on and suddenly we were inside a giant mint chocolate chip ice cream cone.

oops. Didn't account for the difference in lighting between the store and home.

 

[cabanafrau]

My kitchen still looks like a clown car rolled in and set up shop. I'm the victim of a lovely "candlelight" yellow that screams TA DA in the dark, without lights. Maybe 2016 will be the year we have the time to address this crime to humanity.

 

[lynxstch]

been there done that..light lilac turned out to be hideous purple, light yellow turned out to be almost glow in the dark, and light peach turned out to be pumpkin orange

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

I wanted a slate gray-blue in the kitchen and it looked like a smurf. We repainted a moss green immediately, and now it's tan.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

We have been there twice...once was when we were going for a lighter medium brown colour on our living room walls and had the paint chosen come out some kind of orange-y brown...not really anything at all like what we had sampled and it definitely did not work with the burgundy-coloured wall that abutted it. Another time was with our deck stain. Again...an orange-y brown nightmare that had to be redone. Thankfully, both of those projects turned out perfectly the second time, though it was a lot of extra work. If it wasn't for the fact that we have had multiple other painting projects turn out exactly as expected, I would have thought maybe we needed our eyes checked.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

For the bathroom in our old condo, I wanted a light sage green. I saw a gorgeous one in a magazine, which gave the paint brand and color. We got exactly what was in the description...it came out neon chartreuse! I hated it, but frankly we needed to move on and do some painting elsewhere in the condo (we were selling).

It happened in our bedroom as well - I wanted light grey walls with darker grey trim. I chose two colors off the same chip, looked at them in different lights, etc...while the darker grey trim was perfect, the walls ended up blue. They were beautiful colors, but they just didn't look right together. Thankfully, the guy who bought our condo didn't care.

 

[deedeetoo]

My dining room is pink. It wasn't supposed to be pink, it was supposed to be a dusty orangy brown. I was going for a southwest type of look but it looks pink. I'll get around to repainting it eventually.

 

[design_mom]

I think yellows are particularly hard. We painted our bedroom a nice cheery yellow, or so we thought. In some light, it looked orange. In other light, it looked green. It never looked like we thought it should.

Right now, I'm in a paint dilemma. We are working with a decorator for our living room (first time ever with a decorator). She has suggested a paint color for our half-bath (next to the living room). She says it's a "gold." I say it's olive drab... it's UGLY. She keeps saying "just trust me. It will all work together." But... blech. Part of me thinks maybe I should try it. Maybe I'll like it better on the walls than on the swatch... but I kind of doubt it.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

I did that with my kitchen before the remodel. I thought I picked put a nice, dark, rusty orange. I got my kitchen painted and the next morning the light hit it (tons of windows in my kitchen)... it was ORANGE. Orange with capitol letters.

 

[eliza61]

My kitchen still looks like a clown car rolled in and set up shop. I'm the victim of a lovely "candlelight" yellow that screams TA DA in the dark, without lights. Maybe 2016 will be the year we have the time to address this crime to humanity.

 

[POOHsie]

I had a paint sample strip that I handed to my powder room renovator guys. It showed shades of light Sage Green. I picked a pale selection from the strip. The guys came back with paint that was "DisBoards Neon Lime Green. No way my lighting changed that paint color. I always suspected the paint mixer guy did something wrong. Anyway, the workers painted the room and I didn't see it until it was done. YIKES!!!!! I lived with it for a few years, and recently repainted it a (guess?) light Sage Green. No problem getting paint mixed correctly when I went to the store myself. (Maybe my workers didn't like me???)

 

[ColoradoDisneyFreaks]

I think yellows are particularly hard. We painted our bedroom a nice cheery yellow, or so we thought. In some light, it looked orange. In other light, it looked green. It never looked like we thought it should.

Right now, I'm in a paint dilemma. We are working with a decorator for our living room (first time ever with a decorator). She has suggested a paint color for our half-bath (next to the living room). She says it's a "gold." I say it's olive drab... it's UGLY. She keeps saying "just trust me. It will all work together." But... blech. Part of me thinks maybe I should try it. Maybe I'll like it better on the walls than on the swatch... but I kind of doubt it.

It's like the outside of egg yolks on some hardboiled eggs isn't it? I don't know why some people seem to see that color as "gold"!

I painted my family room a nice "dusty rose" back in 2000 or so. Then I spent the next 5 years feeling like I was living in an 80s country cottage. It was bad, and I don't know why on earth I thought it would be great!?

 

[Colleen27]

My kitchen still looks like a clown car rolled in and set up shop. I'm the victim of a lovely "candlelight" yellow that screams TA DA in the dark, without lights. Maybe 2016 will be the year we have the time to address this crime to humanity.

From the sounds of it, we used the same color in our kitchen. I wanted "sunflower" yellow - vibrant and deep with warm undertones. DH wanted something more "butter" - pale and creamy. And I caved, because he's been so patient with 15+ years of crazy color schemes up to and including a forest-green living room and oriental-red bedroom (all of which he balked at in the planning but loved in the execution, I must add!). So I ended up with something between "bare lightbulb" and "yellow glow stick", which doesn't go with the rest of the colors on the main floor at all.

On the bright side, he says he's done picking paint colors.

 

[LisaR]

I like to paint. I doubt I've ever had a room go more than five years with the same paint color and most rooms are switched out every two to three years. So when my kids wanted their bedrooms painted in bizarre colors when they were younger, I was more than happy to comply. Paint is an inexpensive, quick way to express yourself.....until it's not!

DD wanted her room orange and green, or to be more specific, shocking neon orange and shocking neon green. I didn't hesitate and it looked great for a little kid. Not sure how she slept at night since the room practically glowed. She eventually tired of it and I expected that "inexpensive, quick" fix like I mentioned above. OMG! I couldn't get that paint to cover up for anything. I used so many gallons of primer and Kilz and more coats of paint than I care to remember. That was the most expensive room in the house after all that. Some paint experts told me that there was something in the paint that gave it the neon look that was impossible to cover up. Whatever they used, they no longer use it because it was so bad. If you looked up close at those walls years later, you could still catch a glimpse of the neon. I think her 10x12 bedroom was reduced to 8x10 after all the coats of paint I had to apply to those walls!

 

[Christine]

Let me tell you a "secret" about bathrooms--the walls almost NEVER come out like the small area you paint for the swatch. I had a terrible time this summer with mine and I finally had to get some help from an expert.

If you bathroom has no window (or even just a small window), just about any paint with any kind of pigment is going to be very harsh once it gets up there. You need to find the color you like but then go up about 2 shades on the bar and that *might* work for you. Bathrooms are the worst!

 

[cabanafrau]

From the sounds of it, we used the same color in our kitchen. I wanted "sunflower" yellow - vibrant and deep with warm undertones. DH wanted something more "butter" - pale and creamy. And I caved, because he's been so patient with 15+ years of crazy color schemes up to and including a forest-green living room and oriental-red bedroom (all of which he balked at in the planning but loved in the execution, I must add!). So I ended up with something between "bare lightbulb" and "yellow glow stick", which doesn't go with the rest of the colors on the main floor at all.

On the bright side, he says he's done picking paint colors.

Yep, lesson learned. We now have a strict, absolutely no clowns with paintbrushes rule enforced. So sorry you're sharing our misery.

This house seems to be resistant to any and all painting projects. No matter the job it seems to throw a monkey wrench -- never the same one so you cannot learn the lesson and move on. That explains why the front hall bath, the kitchen and our master bedroom all desperately need to see fresh coats of paint and we know we don't dare to attempt until we have a good amount of time to devote to each one.

 

[design_mom]

It's like the outside of egg yolks on some hardboiled eggs isn't it? I don't know why some people seem to see that color as "gold"!

Yes. That's a good way to describe it! It's that green (gold?) ring nobody likes to see on the yolk of an overcooked hardboiled egg.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Speaking of yellows, long story but DH did the silent auction on DCL one cruise and "won" a framed picture of the back of the two Disney ships (at the time) - the one with Goofy painting and Donald's nephew's hanging off, lol. Anyway, it was a good fit over our fireplace in the living room and eventually, because we were renovating, the yellow, aka "Disney yellow" (as I call it), inspired the color of our walls for practically our whole downstairs. (It's the same color Mickey Mouse wears.) It's cheery and we like it, it's paired with white wainscoting.

 

[smokeyblue]

Although I do like the color of my foyer, I can't help but thinking that it looks like the inside of Pooh's honeypot. Not really a Pooh Fan (sorry!).