Paint Conundrum. Will this ever end?! Can some kind souls please help me?

Shanelle

faerie_girl wrote: »

Try and get a sample pot of the colour she liked. The colours on a monitor are different to real life.

Think I kinda jumped to an extreme there. I'll definitely try a tester in the hope it'll be the colour she wants !
Hopefully it'll be good enough to make her forget about the piccy colour in the 1st post :rotfl:

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We painted our front room purple and the best thing we did was to try out some testers first.

Normally we just choose a colour and slap it on the wall without getting a tester. However, for some reason the purple paint was a really hard one to get right. We went with a B&Q mixed one.

If you can find the right colour on a pantone chart I believe (better check though) that B&Q can mix the colour using the pantone number. That might be the easiest way to get the correct colour.

claire16c

I agree just go and buy some tester posts. I recently decorated my front room and I bought 4 types of pale green paint, they all came out completely different on the wall to on the paper or screen. So dont worry about what it looks like on the computer as it could look very different on the wall once its dried!

Chakani

darlyd wrote: »

It's always going to look different on the computer though.

See if they can do you a sample pot.

I am lucky DD is easy when it comes to decor, I am choosing the color muself, The only problem I can forsee is finding an off white with hint of lilac in, that will go lovely with the purple. And I am heading straight for the crayola range. .

What I would do is buy white paint and chuck a bit of whatever purple you have chosen into it to give you the hint-of-lilac colour - it will be bound to go well with the darker purple then, as it will be a lighter shade of the same colour. Just be sure to mix up enough in one go for the whole of the room that you want to paint, as you'll never match the colour exactly if you run out!

MrsAtobe

Have a look at this colour card, I think you may find what you're after: http://glidden.trade-decorating.co.uk/colours/colour_ranges.jsp#ral

I picked up their colour card at my local trade paint place where I was having some Crown paint specially mixed. It's ICI Trade paint, so should be decent. Not a clue about price, sorry.

HTH

CH27

You need to remember that on photo shoots they have splotlights etc so the colour you see will be different from the true colour anyway.

lostinrates

Purples are really hard IMO.

I've done this search twice: once for a purple to replace neutral...a little like in the Madeline cartoons (which I found and was amazed at the colour card that turned out to be correct and the other colour used was a neautral coffee) and once for an aubergine to fit in an outdoor period seting. I gave up on that...for the time being. I might try that again in the future.

The thing is.....what looks right on the card might look wrong on the wall. The actual appearnace will change with time of day/time of year etc. While getting it right is important, things like the colour change on monitor have to be considered.

I'd try a tester/smallest pot of the nearest colour card match and two others, paint a rough square of each on each wall ...or the wall to be painted that colour at different ends. And next to the woodwork colour ...this can impact a fair bit on appearance. White woodwork with a mid purple could look pretty harsh...and a bit dingy as the white fades a bit.

sulkisu

Where is the picture from, i.e what was the photo shoot for? You could try contacting them directly to find out what colour they used and where it was from. I did this once for a wallpaper that I really liked in a magazine advert (the photoshoot was for christmas party outfits and the wallpaper was in the background). It took a bit of effort but I got there in the end.

make_me_wise

Have you tried Crowns 'Fashion for walls' range. They have some really beautiful and vivid colours in that range. I am not sure if a purple tone was amongst it but its worth a look.

make_me_wise

divorcingjack wrote: »

I did our whole house in colour-matched Farrow and Ball colours and they are identical to the colour card on the wall.

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Oh my god why did we not think of that! Have just spent a blinking fortune decorating our house with Farrow and Ball paint. Has nearly cost us as much to paint the place as the deposit we put down on it _pale_

I need a :coffee: and a lie down :doh: