That time I trusted the warm white bulb and ruined a dining room

I was doing a paint consult for a buddy's new place in Austin about 6 months ago. The whole living room was painted a pale gray-blue that looked perfect under the daylight bulbs he had in the fixtures. He swapped in these cheap warm white LEDs from the hardware store because he wanted it cozier, and suddenly the walls looked like baby poop green. I had to tell him to switch back to 5000K bulbs, and then we spent a weekend repainting the whole room with a warmer greige that could handle both light temps. The lesson was real: you can't just pick paint under one light and assume it works everywhere. Has anyone else had a color shift totally murder a room on them?

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anthony16511d ago

Read that fluorescent light can make beige look straight up green.

john_hunt211d ago

@anthony165 That explains why my bathroom trim looked sickly last week.