"frank megaweege" wrote in message
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On Sep 5, 2:25 pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
The other day SWMBO says to me "I'd like those Bordeaux colored
shutters that I saw at Lowes."

So I take the new shutters over to the paint counter and asked for a
quart of matching paint for the trim. The guy in the red vest tries to
find the color Bordeaux in his computer. No go. He tries a couple of
paint chips but nothing matches. He tries to hold the 48" shutters up
to the little tiny color matching computer lens - the resulting
formula is not even close. "Sorry, I don't think I can match it."

I drive down the road to a local paint store and bring the shutters
in. The guy behind the counter grabs a keychain full of little
miniature shutters and finds one that's fairly close. "Let's start
with this and we'll tweak it from there." He mixes the formula found
on the back of the mini-shutter, brings it over and declares it "too
purple". A couple of drops of this and that and he hits it perfect on
the next try.

When I told him what happened at Lowes he said the computers don't
work very well with dark colors and the guys behind the counter are
too lazy to try and match the paint manually. Guess where I'm going
the next time I need paint?

As a general rule, always go to a specialty store if you're going to
need help or advice on anything.
Lowe's and Home Depot are useful for supplies when you know exactly
what you need, can go in, load up your cart and get out with as little
interaction with employees as possible. They're usually hiding from
customers anyway.


I had absolutely no problem at HD, getting a can of Kilz white exterior
latex glossy to match the previous can of the exact same thing. :-) The
paint expert was very helpful when he said "yeah it's down that aisle
somewhere". :-)