Colour Blind or just no sense of style?

Never ever would dream of letting OH to choose colours or fabrics. Choose them, let him think he has some say in it, then get on with it.

I scored 41 on the colour test, which confirms what I know - I have trouble distinguishing many shades, but particularly the greens and blues. My dad was colour-blind, so I'll blame him DH would score much better - he has to advise me.

My husband is quite good at choosing colours for decorating - he usually wins and then I concede he was right. But he has an odd colour sense when describing colours of clothes, He has a grey shirt which he says is green, and green trousers which he thinks are brown.

DH has no colour sense whatsoever so he leaves it all to me as he says he will no longer subject himself to rejection!
When all decorating is finished he always says that everything is very nice, 'we' have chosen really well. That's alright because I always ask him what he thinks and he always agrees that, whatever 'it' is, is just right. Sometimes I think I hear a mutter which just might be about which side his bread is buttered - but then I am sure that if he really wanted to say something he would say it nice and loud!

The deal in chez Lavande is that we both have to agree on the colour scheme. This is on the basis that we both have to be able to live with it.

He usually paints, I supervise encourage and admire.

Soft furnishings are down to me as he is not particularly interested in that bit. He knows it will have to wait until I am into one of my creative cycles and unearth the sewing machine.

Father was red/ green colour deficient.

Late DH was weak in blue/green

DH is actually red,green,brown colourblind and, for example, can only see red blooms on a green shrub if i point them out to him and he really concentrates. But it doesn't prevent him having very firm views on colour when we're choosing furnishings or decorating.

But I ignore him.

when i was married, i always chose the colour scheme [paint and fabrics] and my husband got on with it.

and, i suppose, it's the same when my guy gets involved with decorating [he did my whole house a few years ago] - i buy what i want and he paints the walls/ceilings/woodwork with my choice. i also get to choose carpets, furniture, furnishings, etc, etc.

i used to do the decorating myself before i met him and, i must say, he objected in very strong terms to the pink in the bathroom and loo!! i think that was the first thing which was replaced - and he refuses to use pink paint again!!!

almost got my house as i want it - and i see no point in decorating every room in the same colour with the same carpet on the floors - i like a different "theme" for every room.

I scored 8 but my screen is calibrated for my photography so the colours are true. It was surprising to see where i scored less well , the fade in from blue to green and pink to lilac.

We too, for the first time ever are getting a man in . Finding a good one is a bit fraught though , and then it finding the right paper where necessary.

I had to go and have a lie down in a dark room after our trip to B & Q yesterday

I put this down to evolution, traditionally women gathered & men hunted ( not sexism just distance from children) it's easy to kill someone or make them very ill by poisoning so women needed to be able to tell subtle differences in colour but this skill wasn't needed in hunting so men never developed it

I got about 80 but a lot of sucess at this could depend on how good the colour definition software on your computer is.

Those with developing cateracts could find it harder. My mum had trouble with the blue/green part of the colours.

My wallpaper in my dining room has a Laura Ashley wallpaper with small cabbage roses all over it?
It goes with the large mahogany furniture and I hate it all with a passion but CBA to do anything about it.

Talking about roses reminds me went to see a friends recently moved into house,as we were shown round one of the bedrooms that had small red rose wallpaper, I remarked that it would be a lovely room once they had got rid of that paper.She answered that, that was the only room they had redecorated!
My face was as red as the roses ?

I scored 12; I scored badly on the yellow/green/blue section. Could have spent more time doing it though. The S.O. would paint everything in Magnolia if he was allowed.

No way,my husband hasn't a clue,or any interest,he'll say,what do you want a new one for,what's wrong with that one.If we go anywhere special,I'll tell him what to wear.
My sons much better,he must be more like me.

DH has always been pretty good with decorating colours (has been known to make much better choices than me) but when it comes to clothes he puts some very odd combinations together.

Your mention of cabbage roses made me smile Auntiflo. We went on a coach tour to Austria some years ago and were supposed to be having an overnight stop in a town on the Rhine. We got there to find that the hotel had gone bust and no-one had told the tour company! But they had been kind enough to find us a last minute alternative which turned out to be a hotel which had not been open for years. The owner was a faded German musical theatre star! (She was actually quite charming and very solicitous). Their idea of decor was to have wallpaper with huge cabbage roses everywhere, even on the ceilings!! Must have got a job lot! DH said it felt like sleeping in a box with wrapping paper on the inside instead of the outside!

Saxifrage I found that very hard on the eyes and scored 18!!! Zero is the perfect score. I suppose I could, partially, blame the artificial light !

HildajenniJ, we had to wait 6 months for our decorator, and he finished last week. It is so nice to know that we haven't got to clamber up and down ladders, too ancient these days. The whole house is lovely and fresh. We didn't really change the colours much, as I liked them as they were, but I did go with Polished Pebble and Sail White in our bedroom. DH is not too much trouble when it comes to choosing colours, bit he will say something is dark black. I thought black was black . He also used to have a penchant,many years ago, for cabbage roses . I think he has got better with the years.

We get a man in to decorate. DH is useless at painting, and I'm not much better. Neither of us would tackle a ceiling! Just yesterday a very nice man called to look at our living room and give us a quote. All was fine except that he can't come until June! He comes highly recommended so we won't be looking for anyone else. We will choose our own paint, DH is very good at matching colour. I am so lucky!

This is a really interesting colour awareness test. Nobody is perfect but men are generally lower scores than women.

www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge

I was interested to discover that I am a bit weak on the blue/ green area as this is often a family disagreement.

Ps It doesn't work on tablets you need a mouse to move the colours around.

So it's not just my husband then? Thank goodness

After 39 years we have reached a place where we discuss it and he does as I tell him and then he takes the credit :-) bit like your DH Tanith

I'm only slightly concerned because when I was working , if he was decorating I'd go away for the week but now I'm going to have to live with it.

Would I let DH choose paint and soft furnishing?
Not in a million years !!
If I say we need to decorate he's always up for it, but the mantra in this house is nina designs Mr nina does.

I remember in 1970 when DH had just been posted to Belgium. I was still at home with the children and he rang to tell me that he had just been to look at the bungalow that was to be our home for the next three years. I asked him to describe the decor. "The wallpaper is flowery and pink . And the bathroom is grey." When I finally arrive at said bungalow, the walls were papered with a sort of grey mottled wallpaper (not a flower in sight, but rather nice), and the bathroom didn't have a scrap of grey anywhere - white suite, pale pink walls. I never ask his advice about paint colours; just give him the tin and let him get on with it. Actually, he likes it like that - if it turns out to be horrible he can blame it on me!