Sampling a Paint Color
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This week's lesson learned is that when you're painting a room and you're not sure of the color you picked, make sure the sample that your painter puts on the wall is in location with good natural light and isn't overly influenced by the prior paint color.
We are painting over a dark blue and wanted to go with a light pink (not my first choice, BTW). My wife and I weren't sure if we wanted half or quarter strength. Our painter put up a sample of quarter strength away from the windows, but it looked too weak against the dark blue so we asked him to paint the whole room in half strength. When we saw the whole room, we were a bit shocked! It was quite pink! Lucky for us our painter willingly repainted the whole room at quarter strength and now we have a result we're all happy with.
So make sure paint samples are a fair representation of the whole room. Put white primer around it to reduce the influence of the prior paint color and make sure the sample is near windows.
(I'd add a photo to this blog, but they didn't come out very well. I'll work on getting a better picture that shows the color best.)
Posted June 19th, 2008 by Will
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Associated Project: Whole House Refresh
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Don on June 26, 2008 - 3:12pm
My paint consultant taught me a neat trick too. She painted large 16 x 20 inch cardstock pieces with target colors. It is important to note that the paper she used was made for this purpose, so the paint dried on the paper exactly the way it would dry on the wall.
With half a dozen of these in-hand, I could hang them and re-hang them at various places around the room to see what the paint looked like in different light (using painter's tape ensured no marking occurred).
Best of all, when company came over, I could take them all down and no one knew my house was being redone!