I've studied Japanese a long time ago and decided to pick it up again. I'm
reading from this novel but I want to make sure if I'm reading this sentence
right. I having issues when sentences are long.

> ただ、だから地味になっているかというと、そんなことは全くなかった。  
>  However, so having said that it comes out modest, that sort of thing is not
> entirely so.
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Structure of だから地味になっているかというと、そんなことはなかった
Since you are someone who is already reading novels in Japanese, I will be on
the strict side.

You should have provided more context either in actual words used or in the
form of a side note. Why do I say this? Because we have asbolutely no idea
what the thing/object/phenomenon is that is being talked about.

So, what is it that the speaker is judging whether or not it is
[地味]{じみ}になっている? Because 「地味」 has a few very different meanings, it is
imperative that one know what the thing is that we are talking about in order
to do a good translation.

> "As for whether or not it had become more 地味, however, that was not the case
> at all."
>
> = It had not become more 地味.

Depending on what the thing is, 「地味」 could be translated to:

"simple", "quiet", "subdued", "reserved", "restrained", "sober", "plain", etc.

I hope you can see my point now.
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