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Default Match the old paint

On Sep 10, 9:33?pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
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My brother and I jointly own a rental that has to be repainted.


1 15X15X9 room and 6X15X9 hall is light ivory. Another15X15X9 room is
appears to be a very light green. We have no need to change these
colors.


My brother proposes to get a can of light colored paint, an off white
or beige I think. I proposed electronically matching all the paints
where we have do not desire to change the color.


Which of us is right?


My experience and theory says that you save time with the closest
possible match since you can go faster without worrying as much about
coverage.


His experience says that you will get sufficient coverage with any
light paint.


Sounds like you're making this much more complicated than it needs to be.

Neither of those colors sound like they'll be hard to cover, assuming you
spend the correct amount of money and buy top of the line paint from a
specialty store. Two amazing brands to look for are Martin-Senour and Devoe.

As far as electronically matching the color, how did you propose to do that?
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white is a neutral color and will match any tenants furnishing. so
white is a better choice