It simply looks like we’ve moved in and haven’t painted the walls yet. The same blue in the room on the right (below) it could be interpreted as a ‘cheap hotel room’ blue by some.ĭoes this have anything to do with the light? EVEN though the blue paint colour appears only in the drapery. Yet the author went on to talk about all the different coloured light bulbs out there, in addition to all the many ways sunlight affects paint colour.Īnd by the way, there’s nothing wrong with a bright ‘Robins egg blue’ if it relates to what’s happening in the room.įor example, the blue in the first photo below looks lovely because the room is decorated. Well I don’t need to read any further to inform you that the blue they chose was obviously too clean (for their taste). ‘My Robin’s egg blue looks like a cheap hotel room’ screamed one article. There are also countless articles on the web that support this theory. If I had a dollar for every time a designer has confided: “Maria, the light turned the colour pink, or green, or purple (for example), and then after they show me the colour well, in actual fact, it is pink, or green or purple. I guess if you don’t understand undertones, you have to blame it on SOMETHING. That’s when they start to assume that light may in fact be the culprit.ĭesigners are notorious for blaming the light. In my experience, the number one reason why a client becomes critical of a paint colour is when it doesn’t relate to anything. I’ve been specifying paint colours for 20 years. Good News! The top 5 reasons your paint colour looks wrong is easier to fix than the lighting. They believe that since the colour looked fine on the paint chip, the lighting must be what’s wrong. Too often I hear clients complain about their paint colour and blame the lighting as a result.
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