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 ...

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Q: I am redecorating my living room. The paint color still goes with the new furniture, but the wall needs some patching. I don't have the old paint can, so how can I match the paint perfectly on the ...

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 ...

My husband and I recently bought a house built just after World War II with rooms stuck in nearly every decade since. I couldn't wait to get my hands on it and make it our own. However, picking the ...

If cabinets are part of your touch-up project, unscrew a cabinet door. Take the entire door to the paint store to be color matched. Reattach the door to the cabinet when done. If drawers are part of ...

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 ...

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.

It’s an inevitability of home ownership that your walls and furniture will see normal wear and tear that require paint touch-ups at some point. But if you don’t have the original can of paint or color ...