Paint Colours - Don't match in reality - Driving me nuts

wandererz · 16-09-2014 10:46PM #1

I've almost reached my fill with getting the correct paint colours.

It seems that every paint colour tester i bring home & apply looks nothing like the colour cards or display in store.

Whats going wrong?

nearzero · 17-09-2014 09:04AM

Mainly because most colour cards displayed instore or the take home colour cards arent real paint! Its nearly impossible to make ink look the same colour as paint - so its only printers best guess really!

Colortrend and I think Little Greene, are the only ones that use real paint on their colour cards, so its a square card of real paint that has been stuck onto the card - that means you get the actual colour you choose!

Best thing you can do is when you buy your tester pot is paint it onto a piece of card - then you can see the real colour before you paint lots of bits of your walls with tester colours

my3cents · 17-09-2014 09:10AM

Any chance its the lighting that's making a difference to the colour? I'm using a paint outdoors which on the walls looks very bright but indoors where I tried some it looked pale in comparison.

Paint Colours - Don't match in reality - Driving me nuts

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