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Offline bkg

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They lie!
« on: July 05, 2010, 09:09:15 PM »

Paint swatches... friggen liars. All of them.  :hammer: :hammer:
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Re: They lie!
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2010, 04:15:45 AM »
Quote from: bkg on July 05, 2010, 09:09:15 PM
Paint swatches... friggen liars. All of them.  :hammer: :hammer:

You only just noticed this ?
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Re: They lie!
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2010, 08:26:10 AM »
Quote from: LC EFA on July 06, 2010, 04:15:45 AM
You only just noticed this ?


Just a friendly reminder....  :-)
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Re: They lie!
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2010, 10:23:11 AM »
If you really want the paint to be perfect, take in a piece of fabric the color that you want it to be....have the paint mixed and tested at the store before you pay for it. You will get a much truer color match than any of those little swatches in the store.

A piece of colored paper works too. When I was having the interior here painted before we moved in....I gave the painter a formal invitation that I had gotten in the mail and told him "I want this color...exactly". When it went on the wall and dried...it was absolutely perfect.

At my old house....I told the painter I wanted "chocolate brown" for the shutters. Apparently that was too ambiguous. He kept bringing me little test cans of paint and trying it, and they weren't right. I finally told him to go buy a Hershey candy bar and match the color. He did...and it worked!!

Color is one of those things that I obsess over....if it's supposed to match...then it better be exact....or it DOESN'T MATCH!! Drives M nuts...because I can tell if it doesn't.
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Re: They lie!
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2010, 02:43:09 PM »
I totally understand.  We bought a gallon of Restoration Hardware paint because we loved the way it looked in their store (it is their "new" color that they have painted all of their stores).  It looked grey in their store, a warm grey.  Got a sample along with some others and we really liked it on the sample.  Just painted it on the bathroom walls and it looks really dark green.  The color is called slate.  I think it will work but I am a little disappointed. 
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Re: They lie!
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2010, 07:11:53 PM »

I had picked out a different color, but the uber-hot young lady who was flirting with me talked me into a lighter one... I blame her... I'd demand she have dinner with me to make up for it, but she has a boyfriend in Iraq and I'm pretty sure he could kill me with a napkin....

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Re: They lie!
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2010, 07:41:22 PM »
Quote from: bkg on July 06, 2010, 07:11:53 PM
I had picked out a different color, but the uber-hot young lady who was flirting with me talked me into a lighter one... I blame her... I'd demand she have dinner with me to make up for it, but she has a boyfriend in Iraq and I'm pretty sure he could kill me with a napkin....



LOL.
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Re: They lie!
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2010, 02:11:16 PM »
Quote from: BEG on July 06, 2010, 02:43:09 PM
I totally understand.  We bought a gallon of Restoration Hardware paint because we loved the way it looked in their store (it is their "new" color that they have painted all of their stores).  It looked grey in their store, a warm grey.  Got a sample along with some others and we really liked it on the sample.  Just painted it on the bathroom walls and it looks really dark green.  The color is called slate.  I think it will work but I am a little disappointed. 

The biggest problem with not getting a sample qt (to use on a section of what you want to paint) is the lighting at home is NOT the same as the store. They will be using HID's which will have a completely different Kelvin Temp (color) than the light you use at home.
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