It had been painted (not by me) using a textured …

It had been painted (not by me) using a textured paint, a lot of time and effort had gone into this, but it came out the same colour as the MDF, see the contrast against the untouched MDF inside? My client has a fine collection and refined taste, so it wasn’t what she really intended for it, so that’s when I got it, what do you think?