Paint Color Questions

Paint Color Questions

Here you will find questions and answers about choosing and using paint colors or sheens. From where to put a color, dividing two areas or just a little help finding that perfect color. Paint colors are divided into interior and exterior. Interior Paint Color Questions deals with color inside your home. This can be for walls or trim, etc. Exterior Paint Color Questions is strictly choosing colors for the exterior of your home or building.

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• Interior Paint Color Questions - Strictly interior paint color questions. These can be for walls or trim.
• Exterior Paint Color Questions - Exterior paint color questions that can be about choosing a color for the body, trim and accent areas of your home.

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• Door jambs - What is the proper colour to paint the door jamb? The colour of the inside door or the outside door colour?
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• Can I take an opened can of paint back and ask them to add a different tint to change it slightly? - What if you don't like the color you chose? Can you take it back to add a color to change it? For instance, I chose a semi-gloss yellow for my bathroom and realize after putting some on the wall that it is too lemony. Can I add a touch of green or...
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• What is the best and easiest way to paint over dark colors? - Trying to paint over dark colors can be difficult and frustrating.
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• Getting the Right Color Paint - I'd like to ask your advice on choosing the right color paint for my home. To give you an idea, my home is mostly an open plan. It has a lot of windows so it's quite bright and the ceiling is very high up. My furniture is medium to dark brown in c...
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• I accidently mixed a cup of paint with a 5 gallon pail will it affect it? -
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• Paint Color Viewers - Where can I find a service that will show me how my house will look with different color schemes. Before I paint I would like to know how it will look before rather than after.
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• Exterior Door - I have an exterior door to paint which is a different color on the interior side. What are the correct colors to use to paint the edges of the door?
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• How do I mix white paint in with a green that is too dark to end up with a lighter shade in the same green family? - The Benjamin Moore dealer matched a dark green C2 color we had used previously in our family room but said he could not make it lighter as we asked him to do for use in the adjoining kitchen. He said we could do it ourselves by just adding white p...
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• Why is the color on my bathroom walls different from the can of paint I used? - I bought a few cans of light taupe to paint over the peach color in our bathroom. After painting the walls the color on the walls ended up being a light gray. At first I thought it had something to do with the lighting in the room but it's not. ...
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• Color Match To Different Brand - How do I get Ace or Home Depot to mix a color, like Sawyer Fence 8132W by Duron, without a sample?
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• How do I paint over red paint on grey painted concrete wall? - Red paint is splattered on a concrete wall in the basement. How do I paint over it?
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