I hope to share it with you guys this week. I am in the middle of painting a home décor accessory with the mix from Home Depot. I painted this unique wood jewelry box in the junktion red. I also put a little dark wax on the pieces to add an antiqued look. This is the second piece I painted with the Junktion Red. I can’t promise your paint is going to look exactly like this. ProjectColor lets you explore paint colors by color family, save them to your favorites, and get inspiration for whatever you’re working on. Home Depot has kept up with the times by developing its own app, called ProjectColor. Looks pretty darn close huh! The only thing I have to say is that you know how computer screens vary in color presentation. Bringing in an old paint can isn’t your only option nowadays. The paint stick on the bottom is the paint they mixed for me. The paint stick on the top is the one I took to Home Depot to have matched. I had them mix the paint in Behr Premium Plus Ultra Satin finish. You can see the makeover by clicking the name above or the photo. This is the first project I painted with my special mix. All pigments have an L at the end which means Low voc.Īntiqued Red Cedar Chest Adorned With Iron Stars The pigments with a U in them is high hide. However, depending on the condition in which the shade was photographed, the color balance may be off and cause a different. The same computerized process can be used with a printed image to find the exact color you would like. ![]() Now I know.įrom Home Depot- CL= yellow oxide, LL= raw umber, VL= magenta, JL= Carbazole purple, EL= phthalo blue, IL= brown iron oxide, RL= permanent red, DL= phthalo green, TL= medium yellow, FL= red iron oxide, BL= black, KXL= white, AXL= permanent yellow. QuerySprout states that Home Depot's paint shade-matching services also work without a physical sample of the paint. I found a question and answer on the Home Depot site that explains the color codes. Seems I'm always in Home Depot so it was the obvious choice for the paint. So the only thing to do if I really love the color is to take a sample of the paint to Home Depot or any paint store and have them match it. ![]() ANyway, as a painter, we have to make the customer happy and cover our butt as well so the final product has to match the color they pointed at. Other companies have paint chips that actually match their paint. I have had to ask you guys to do that same thing many times. I don’t measure anything….that would make way too much sense. Haha Lowes printed paint chips famously suck at matching their formula. The only problem is that I can’t repeat the special mix. Sometimes I don’t have the perfect color so I mix my own from paint I have on hand. The first thing I do when I start a project is select the paint color. I wanted to share my custom red paint color mix again. If you have ever looked at those labels and wondered what all the codes were.I've got you covered. Here’s a shot of the table before the last finishing coat.Remember the special red paint mix that I named “Junktion Red”? I had the custom mix paint color made up at Home Depot and I'm calling it Junktion Red. I wish I had taken some “after” photo’s before delivering this custom piece. If you find an inspirational color on a piece of fabric, a greeting card, a painting, or a pair of heels or handbag, bring them in and you can create the EXACT color matched paint! If you have something you want to match that’s too big to take to the store, like a large piece of furniture, try unscrewing a piece of molding, a door, or bring in one of the drawers. What will the spectrophotmeter scan? Pretty much ANY smooth non-high gloss surface that is larger than a quarter. Home Depot has a little machine that scans the items and creates a paint color code to match. It then spits out a formula calculating the exact amount of pigments required to create a perfectly matched paint to your object. This machine measures color digitally and electronically by scanning an object of your choice. I decided to bring the table to Sherwin Williams so they could work their magic with a color matching machine. ![]() ![]() I could NOT find the EXACT match anywhere! She left the side table with me and the next day I drove around for half an afternoon picking up a ton of paint chips. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a match… YET… “I’d like this coffee table painted in the EXACT same blue as my side table… can you re-paint it with a perfect color match?” They had brought a side table she had recently purchased at HomeSense to color match it with the coffee table. This was my 1st piece re-styled with Milk-Paint… but it didn’t stay Milk-Painted for long!Ī gorgeous newlywed couple came to buy it… and they were my kind of shoppers too! □ If you’ve been following my blog, you may recognize this table. It’s a magnificent tool if you’re trying to match an existing paint color in your home for touch-ups, or in this case a piece of furniture. A color matching machine (aka spectrophotometer) is a free service available at all major paint stores.
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