I'm still painting trim. It will never, ever end.

Two of the rooms have ivory "Lemon Chiffon" trim; one room has white "Cotton Balls" trim. The color difference is almost imperceptible unless the pieces are side-by-side. However, the color differences are important to each rooms main color.

Due to cold/freezing and damp weather, my health, and various other challenges; it's taken a long time to paint the trim. We have sawhorses set up in the basement, garage, office, and sewing room. Four different people have been painting this trim. I've tried to keep the colors separate, but I can't be in all places at all times. Due to the long lengths of boards, and all the various types of trim, I couldn't simply put each rooms trim in that room.

The contractors begin putting up the color-separated trim. It's so beautiful! Except...two lengths of Cotton Balls crown was installed in the Lemon Chiffon office. Once piece of white crown was installed in the ivory bedroom. We were all being very careful with the colors; none of us noticed this until the next day.

No problem. I tape off the offending crown pieces and start painting them the correct color from the second can of paint...which is in no way the same color of Lemon Chiffon as the first can.

The paint cans were not switched. I've been very careful to keep them separate. I have one can of Cotton Balls; I had two cans of Lemon Chiffon, both double checked and marked with a big black marker. The colorants in the second can are wrong, but I didn't save the first can to compare them and take to the paint store so I could get a refund.

Now I have a decision to make. Mask off and repaint all the trim in the two ivory-trimmed rooms with yet another color of ivory...or...try to get a third can of Lemon Chiffon mixed correctly and gamble on making the three mis-colored pieces fit in.

I've never, ever had a problem using two cans of the same color paint in a room. There has never been any difference. I had decided to try a new brand, an "up scale" paint, thinking it would be oh-so-wonderful. It wasn't. I don't care for it nearly as much as the usual big box paints I normally use. And now this.

Lesson learned; stick to the tried-and-true, easily applied, tough wearing, beautiful, scrubbable, and cheaper paint I'm accustomed to.

Any suggestions? Wanna come paint!!!