Paint gallon not match sample paint or paint chip - what to do??
Scarlett001
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why shade different in gallon size & 5 gallon paint..??
Comments (5)If it's a big difference, likely either the gallon or the 5 gallon bucket was tinted wrong by the employee mixing the paint. Slight variations can theoretically be caused by different batches of the base from manufacturing, too, which is why it's always recommended to buy enough the first time and batch all the paint together before painting. Hopefully, you didn't get very far in your painting once you noticed it was going on darker, and hopefully, the error was in the gallon of paint rather than the 5 gallon bucket you started with. I'd bring the can and bucket back to the store and see what they can do to make it right....See Morepaint on wall different than paint chip
Comments (2)Sampling colors on a yellow wall is tough. For a couple reasons, yellow is among the most reflective basic hues in the spectrum and as a result yellow has an intensity that overpowers. Odds are that your two coats of green are covering the yellow just fine, although yellow is hard to cover. I would, however, place my bets on the issue being your eyeballs and they way they are able to *see* the green. Priming never hurts and a quick coat and a gallon of white or gray primer would be so worth it if it can help in an accurate evaluation of possible wall colors....See Morewhat do you do with left over sample paints?
Comments (18)The only time you need to take paint or stain to the hazmat drop is if it's oil-based. Water-based products can go in the trash if it's just not salvageable (for instance, if it froze and curdled, or it's just too old - I've had the pigments in old paint and stain settle into a solid brick at the bottom of the can). Here's how my previous town asked that people dispose of latex paint: Get yourself some sand or plain old cheap kitty litter and mix it with the paint to a thick oatmeal consistency. Leave the can lid off until the paint has dried into a rock, and chuck it right into the trash. If you wish to recycle the metal cans, scrape all the "oatmealed" paint into a heavy trash bag (put the trash bag in a box or bucket first, just to keep it confined) before it dries, allow it to dry out, put the metal can in the recycling and the hardened paint into the trash. I think last time I had a bunch of those little BM sample pots (a lot of the time from the first smear I know it ain't gonna happen, so 90% of it's left over) I asked on here if anyone wanted them, and they ended up getting mailed halfway across country! Another lovely poster was kind enough to give me all HER sample quarts and "whoops, that didn't come out quite the way I thought it would" paint which ended up being enough to paint almost my entire house interior for sale in 2007 - she saved me a couple of hundred dollars....See MoreWhy do my paint chips look yellow on the wall?
Comments (9)Colors can look dramatically different in different rooms depending on a host of factors, as Lars noted. Are your lighting fixtures in place? Besides natural lighting (which is huge), the amount and type of artificial lighting can make a big difference. Lamps come in different "color temperatures," with lower numbers being warmer/more yellow and higher numbers being cooler/bluer. A beige paint could look very yellow under one and more gray under the other. If you have the light fixtures and light bulbs in place that you intend to use, I would trust what you are seeing in your space with a few caveats: you want to look at a large sample (say, paint a poster board that you can move around the room) rather than a chip, and make sure the coverage on your sample has full coverage (2 coats of paint so the background color isn't bleeding through). If you've done that and the colors still look too yellow, look for something on the cooler side on neutral, more in the warm grays. Because really, it doesn't matter what the color looks like on the chip or in someone else's house, only what it looks like in your house....See Moredaisychain01
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