I asked for a tester-sized white paint, as I couldn’t see it on the shelving.
The aisle attendant looked me dead-in-the-eyes, and offered ‘White Mist’.
WHAT IS THAT.
I ended up purchasing ‘Rock Salt’ coloured paint.
Am I no longer compos mentis? Do I need glasses?
(North Pole was a close-contender)
by Slightly_Interested_
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I lived for 4 months with five different colour white paint patches on the lounge wall while my girlfriend decided which white we wanted.
Of course the fun part is that none of those are actually white, they’re just a range of off-white colours.
Don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a tester of the “pure brilliant white” type.
Did you go for the cream, bone, white, off-white, ivory or beige
Clearly someone doesn’t know the name of a city in Alberta…
Snowman’s bone
I feel your pain. It isn’t as bad as being dragged around IKEA though is it?
On one particularly memorable Bank Holiday I was taken to IKEA and just as a treat we went to B & Q afterwards.
Strong men weep in Purley Way, Croydon
bnq washable white used to have B AND Q COLOURS written across the tub….
The last time I went in I was looking for plain white kitchen paint, I was absolutely raging by the time i left.
Mate, hopefully that wasn’t the B&Q I was in over the weekend. We realised that the colour on the label didn’t match PRECISELY the actual paint that you could see through the underneath of the pot. I think my partner picked up and looked at every tester pot, then handed them back to me to put back in the correct place holder… I lost the will to carry on and in the end, just started putting them back anywhere. So to anyone who picked up a tester for Ottawa, got all the way home to find out they’d actually got a pot of crimson clunge, I’m not even sorry I was broken.
It can be mind boggling but then again you might one day, like me get to experience a worker turn the paint mixer on without closing the lid properly and ending up looking like a contestant on Noel’s house party
What no Snowman’s Bones?
Val-DEEZ NUTS!!!! Gottem
If you think that’s hard to differentiate you should see Ocean Grey and Military Grey.
Women have different colour vision. Best to bring her with you next time!
In all honesty, ask a woman if you want to choose between them. We have a genetic ability to see different shades of colours that men can’t.
White is absolutely fucker of a paint to use. Don’t be duped by cheap paints, you’ll be applying 5 coats of the stuff because it’ll look see through and streaky as hell.
Save your self the heartache and time. Get the expensive premium white paint.
My gf is an artist so we compromise when it comes to paint colour. I suggest the colours I like and she tells me how they wouldn’t work…we then go with her idea 🤣
That’s too interesting a colour for Ottawa
You should have asked for Pantone 448 C…
As a Canadian I’m well chuffed to know our cities and provinces are also colours.
I’m colour blind and can see no difference.
From that picture, I had no idea that Canada was so racist! 😂
Slaps his industrial size drum of silk magnolia he keeps on hand at all times 😆 no rock salt BS in this house
Luckily my wife cares not for what colour I paint any walls in our house
Ah yes, sample hell.
When I first moved in here I had four different shades of blue which were variants of sea blue which were agonised over by the wife for weeks while we decided what colour the kitchen needed to be.
Being, fairly insensitive to colour shall we say (strong protanopic) I couldn’t tell the bloody difference between any of them except that they were blue, slightly different blue, and buggered-if-i-know-what-the-difference-is blue.
I no longer have a say over wall colours.
One of the few times being colourblind pays off. The wife chooses colours and I don’t give a shit!
I went, decided i liked ottawa, and it’s now in every room of my house befire my girlfriend has moved in so she doesn’t have a choice in the matter
I can only ever associate the word “Valdez” with the colour of crude oil.
Valdez looks nice. I don’t like the others, too cold looking
For reference, most, if not all, B&Q stock their white and coloured paint in different aisles. The store I used to work in had an entire aisle dedicated to just white, one for Good home, one for Dulux and the paint desk for Valspar.
Go to B & Q for paint, get a bonus geography lesson.
Top researchers are diligently working on discovering new shades of white even as the rest of us sleep.
I tried to find a small pot of plain white paint this week and nearly lost my mind trying to find one.
I have both Valdez and North Pole in different rooms of my house, they’re actually quite noticeably different
Rock Salt is a lush colour – we used it in our hallway and my missus’ changing room. It’s a bluey off-white, whereas these in your pic are yellowy off-whites, which I don’t think look very nice personally.
We painted with Rock Salt. It’s very slightly grey
They don’t do a brilliant white tester pot straight off the shelf you can get a tester pot in white from the paint mixing desk if you ask a member of staff.
Pick one colour and stick to it for life. Ottawa looks good. I’ve got a painter friend and she’s terrible starts talking about black whites and 1/4 or 1/2 tea. Just slap it on the wall.
Blue steel!? La Tigra!? Magnum!? They’re all the same! I feel like I’ve been taking crazy pills!
Snowmans bones