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Originally Posted by mcp6453[_2_]
How do you match a paint color on drywall in a bedroom? Cut out of piece of the wall and take it to the paint store? Is
there such thing as a portable color analyzer?
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MCP:
Take it from a landlord who does more painting than any homeowner:
It is not necessary to match paint colours exactly to have the room look like it was all painted with the same paint. As long as you get a reasonably CLOSE match to the colour, just paint to the closest corners, and stop there.
You see, your eye sees different colours on each side of a corner because of the different lighting and different viewing angles, and so your brain will automatically attribute any small difference in colour across a corner to the different lighting and viewing angles and won't notice any actual difference in the paint colour.
I do this all the time when a tenant causes damage to a wall. Over years, the old paint tends to get dirty just from airborne dirt sticking to the walls. I can't be starting to repaint an entire apartment just because one wall was damaged. So, I simply repaint the one wall up to the closest corners, and you can't tell it was only the one wall that was painted.
Now, obviously you can't have a difference in colour across a corner, like red and green. But, small differences in the tint or tone of a colour will never be noticed because the brain attributes those differences to the different lighting and viewing angles across a corner.
So, just get a swatch that's a reasonably close match, and you should be OK.