Paint matching (am I expecting too much...?)

Posted by N8N on November 4, 2009, 10:19 am

> > Red Green wrote:

> >> Like to add, when touching up even from an original can, blend/fog by
> >> running the brush/roller virtually dry way past the area being done.
> >> Differences are harder to notice.

> > IME and IMO this is the best solution for the OP assuming that the new
> > paint color is pretty close. =A0One can also feather out by diluting th=

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> I just scanned over the OP's post, but if it's an option, paint the whole
> wall. =A0The color difference will be less noticeable where painted wall =

meets

> unpainted wall due to light hitting each differently and you'll still avo=

> repainting the whole room. =A0I'll also second the opinion of dry roller
> feathering.

It's not an option *yet* as most walls to which I'm doing this still
have areas that need to be addressed. I'd like to be able to take a
couple days and attack the whole mess but I'm picking away at this for
a couple hours each evening etc. and am just trying to find a stopgap
so whatever I'm working on doesn't look too objectionable.

nate

Posted by N8N on November 4, 2009, 10:18 am

> Red Green wrote:

> > Like to add, when touching up even from an original can, blend/fog by
> > running the brush/roller virtually dry way past the area being done.
> > Differences are harder to notice.

> IME and IMO this is the best solution for the OP assuming that the new pa=

int

> color is pretty close. =A0One can also feather out by diluting the paint.

It's not at all, that's the problem. I've had three different batches
of paint mixed and only one was close enough to even try putting it on
the wall, and it is clearly different - patches look like shadows.

nate

Posted by RicodJour on November 4, 2009, 10:32 am

> It's not at all, that's the problem. =A0I've had three different batches
> of paint mixed and only one was close enough to even try putting it on
> the wall, and it is clearly different - patches look like shadows.

What sheen paint? Sheen differences can look like shadows or
different colors when it is the reflectance that is the difference.
Flat paint is the easiest to match on walls.

R

Posted by N8N on November 4, 2009, 11:34 am

> > It's not at all, that's the problem. =A0I've had three different batche=

> > of paint mixed and only one was close enough to even try putting it on
> > the wall, and it is clearly different - patches look like shadows.

> What sheen paint? =A0Sheen differences can look like shadows or
> different colors when it is the reflectance that is the difference.
> Flat paint is the easiest to match on walls.
> R

It's flat. (ugh. Who uses flat paint in a kitchen?)

nate

Posted by Jim Elbrecht on November 4, 2009, 10:45 am

wrote:

>> Red Green wrote:

>> > Like to add, when touching up even from an original can, blend/fog by
>> > running the brush/roller virtually dry way past the area being done.
>> > Differences are harder to notice.

>> IME and IMO this is the best solution for the OP assuming that the new paint
>> color is pretty close. One can also feather out by diluting the paint.

>It's not at all, that's the problem. I've had three different batches
>of paint mixed and only one was close enough to even try putting it on
>the wall, and it is clearly different - patches look like shadows.

I guess I just don't repaint often enough-- or maybe too often-- but
in 50 years of home-owning and doing my own painting, I don't recall a
single time that I tried to paint part of a wall-- and only a handful
of times that I painted less than the entire room.

Jim

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