How many times has this happened to you? After spending hours agonizing over the perfect shade of paint, you gleefully coat every wall in your home in that shade. Then, years later, when there’s a ...

Paint pros share their best tips and advice for color-matching paint the proper way. Imagine you find a vintage decor item in the most ravishing shade of red you’ve ever laid eyes on. You want to ...

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The most straightforward way to match your wall’s paint color with what is available at your local paint shop is to simply scrape some of the top layer of paint from your wall and bring it to the ...

Choosing the right wallpaper for your space is one thing, but finding a matching paint color is a whole new challenge. Should you color-match an exact color from the wallpaper? Choose a lighter hue ...

Paint jail. It's a known menace to our craft, one that has seen the demise of many a project. It's the car crafting version of a roach motel-cars go in but they don't come out. It usually goes like ...

Dear James: I made some patches on my bedroom wall. I don’t have more of the original paint, and I don’t want to repaint the entire room. How can I match the paint? Dear Seth: You can match old paint ...

You spent hours choosing the perfect paint color and covered every wall with care. But years later, a touch-up is needed—and you can’t remember if the shade of green was Phantom Mist or Dinner Mint.

When you painted your home’s walls years ago, they looked amazing. The color was absolutely perfect, but now it’s faded. The problem: You have no idea what color you purchased for the walls all those ...