Keefiedee wrote:
My 1650s Norfolk farmhouse is pink - as far as we can tell from an old
paint tin left behind by the previous owners, Sandtex Dusky Pink.
This is, of course, no longer listed. Enquiries in local DIY shops
and builder's merchants are rather confusing, but I gather
Weathershield can be mixed to order, but only certain colours. I see
from a Google search that Johnstone's do a dusky pink which might be a
fair match, but I can't even begin to understand their colour charts.
Can anyone give us any advice about how best to go about getting a
reasonable match - given that we haven't the time or the energy to
repaint the whole place at once!

Keith

I had dulux mixed up on a builders mercahnts. They have a selection of
dyes and a few base colors.

In essence any color you like can be mixed up, BUT you have to
understand how to translate 'I want X' into '3cc of Y, 32cc of Z and
10cc of P in a substrate Q' which is all they will be able to do.

Get a color chart and star with the closest match, and then ask whet the
minimum quantity they will mix is, and mix a test pot, slap it on and
let it dry, and then go back and say 'a little less x this time' etc.

Really if you are prepared to spend teh time and money, you will get as
close as you like..