Let’s look at another colour matching disaster… If you ask ME, it would be worth spending $60 to get the right colour, rather than having to spend ANOTHER $180 to paint my walls with the RIGHT colour in the RIGHT brand when the colour match doesn’t turn out QUITE as I expected.Īnd of course, EXPOSURE can play a VERY BIG PART as well, but that’s a whooooole ‘nother blog post. What you end up with is a $60 difference and the wrong paint colour. Let’s say you needed three gallons of paint. Let’s just do the math here (not my strong point, especially after two glasses of wine).
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The LRV of a paint colour would directly relate to the base needed to create it.
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Base 1 is used to make white/light colours right up to Base 4 which is used to make dark paint colours. So, you know how paint cans on the shelf have ‘ Base 1, Base 2, Base 3, Base 4′ or something to that effect written on them? Well, that’s the BASE that’s needed to create a certain depth of colour. Why? Well, the main reason is that most paint companies use different BASES. Whether a paint company has a computerized matching system or does it by eyeball, it’s rarely accurate. Paint companies are terrible at matching each other’s colours There, that was easy! I mean, you CAN, but that doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Can I get a paint colour from one brand made by another brand?