Couple of interesting points here... 1) From ACE's technical-dept., and other others... * Many INTERIOR paints are actually A LITTLE TOUGHER than Exteriors!!! * Latex binder formulations are purposely designed to be a little more flexible for EXTERIOR use. In essence, the exterior binders need to have some "give" in order to survive the temp-extremes. * Interior-only paints are more "rigid". Obviously...usually less temp. variations inside! * The same colorants are used obviously. * Some Exterior lines do have added mildewcides; but once the film has "cured/hardened", no off-gassing occurs. 2) "My paint was applied by someone who's been painting for 25 yrs...." * Dear Lord...we hear this all the time... * After some inquiry to a "paint-problem", we usually find it's just plain ignorance of a Home-owner or Painter. Lack of prep, the wrong prep.....the list is endless. * We just had an incident where a "professional painter" did a large interior area. The customer came back to us and said the paint looked different at the edges.... * Turns out...the painter had done a 2nd cut-in...AND LEFT IT THAT WAY!!!! * "Well he's been painting for 20 yrs." was the initial response... (I think I need to start drinking....!!) 3) MANY companies' (including ACE) dark-tint bases are "Combo-bases". * Meaning...the SAME Cherry-Chocolate color you may use on your Accent-wall, goes into the EXACT SAME can that you'd buy to trim your Exterior. * These are labled as "Interior/Exterior" on ACE's cans. Faron

Some painters do that...I really have no idea why. It's probably not cutting a corner though. The high quality exterior paints cost about the same as the high quality interior ones. Some paints like Grahams Satin Ceramic are labelled as interior/exterior. Exterior paints just have some properties to deal with vast temperature changes, humidity, mildew, etc...stuff that you don't really have to deal with inside. Latex paints take up to a month to fully cure and harden. Anytime you have a painted surface contacting another painted surface before it's cured, you may have problems with sticking and paint coming off. I try to leave them unlatched at least for a few days or close them lightly so that one painted area is not mashed against another. The more days you can give them the better. Exterior paint is not thicker as far as I can tell.

I wondered a few times in my dozens of green and beige sample paints how much difference the slight variations would really make in the overall effect. I think I was probably pickier than I needed to be. When considering the way the color changes in light, you may want to focus on what time of day you'll see it the most. I eliminated some colors that I like 90% of the time because at a certain time of day they turned a freaky shade; my winning colors may have been similar, but had preferable variations throughout the day. A good thing to focus on is undertone. Will the undertone clash with anything in the room? Will it have a jarring effect? What mood are you aiming for? Perhaps one color's undertone speaks more to that mood than the others. If not, it could end up being a personal preference where you can't go wrong and you just need to choose one! If you like them all equally, flipping a coin may not be a bad idea. ;)

There is no way of knowing how a color will look on your house by seeing someone elses you have tested both now you need to decide . Post your picture in a comment wait until it is no longer grayed then submit but really there is no way to know and the picture above shows nothing to guage the color by. LFG to me has no blue undertones if that helps.