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[solarbird]

tinlail and I got the first coat of wall paint up in Din, and... it really totally looked wrong. It looked yellow, which it most definitively did not look in the samples. Tonight, I conveniently found my original colour chips - and discovered that Home Depot mixed me the wrong trim colour. They mixed one with a lot more red in it. It's somehow interacting with the wall colour and making it look yellow. Meanwhile, the body paint is simultaniously making the trim look more red than it is looked at alone. I could just scream.

See, I'd rejected a couple of redder baseboard colours on the basis that I couldn't find a light wall colour (other than white) that I was sure it'd interact well with. And after we'd painted the trim and gotten it pretty well done, I'd been thinking, "You know, if I had it to do again, I'd pick a colour with even less red," because it was just coming out to be a little too much. But I thought that was my fault.

"Polo," what they mixed, I suspect to be one of the colours I rejected as too red. It's a lovely colour; I actually prefer it to the one I'd picked, if I'm not trying to make it work with other things. "Townhouse," the colour of my sample piece, isn't quite as attractive to me, but has significantly less red in it. I hold it up to the painted walls and I get the effect I expected; instead of "yellow," I get "warm creme." I hold it up to the painted trim and the difference is clear to the eye; the trim looks really, really red by comparison. (Five feet apart, the difference isn't so clear, but chip-to-chip it's obvious.)

My wall colour sample and the actual painted wall look pretty much alike, at least, which is good.

I. could. just. scream.

Tomorrow, I will try to get Home Depot to give me a replacement gallon of Townhouse. I'm hoping that the colours are close enough that a single coat of the correct goddamn colour on the baseboards will solve the problem. I sure hope so; the proper colour works better with the carpet selections I've got available in my budget, too.

The tipoff was that the walls look fine - meaning, not yellow - if you look at the sections away from the trim.

God. I'm so pissed off about this. Weeks of work and it looks like a goddamn hot dog stand. Okay, it's not that bad, but you get the idea. And it's because some Home Depot drone can't read. Please. Just kill me.

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[firni.livejournal.com]

Of course they can't read. That's what happens when one doesn't get an education.

-I've watched "Real Genius" a few too many times

Of course

[solarbird]

Lesson to take away: verify the colour name AND the CMYK numbers, or whatever the hell they use. Do NOT just look at the dab on the lid and think "Oooh, pretty. Yeah, that looks right."

[lyricae.livejournal.com]

I feel for you :-( Joe and I went through a similar SNAFU when we had our basement painted. I won't go into details here, suffice to say, I was ten kinds of pissed off.

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Been there, so it's not just Home Despot. I got paint from a small independent paint store in Somerville whilst working on Vicka's space. Like you, bought a nice light warm cream color for the wall. Put it on. Looked utterly green. I was baffled, thought that the blue wall across from it was reflecting until I too found the chip and compared. They had mixed the next color up, which was decidedly green in tint. Put a gallon's worth of pigment into the quart container. Feh!

So I'm totally commiserating with you! They should give you another gallon free - they certainly did for me when I came in and complained - of course I had the added protection of the fact that the can label clearly had the color I asked for printed out on it and not the color that they gave me. Probably a good idea to take the can in with you.