![]() ![]() The shinier you go (most often for babies rooms you'll want a satin or semigloss), the more durable your walls are and easier they are to clean, but harder it is to match. Flat paint is by far the easiest to match. The type of lighting used during the color match compared to the lighting in your home, and the amount of "shine" you want your walls to have (flat, satin/eggshell, semi-gloss, gloss). The thing about paint is you HAVE to keep in mind these things: a color can match in the store, but could be off when you sample it in your own home. I would mix it, dry a sample, compare, and tweak it from there. I did, however, compare the fabric color to either our paint colors or competitors paint colors (we had their color chip books) and find the closest match that way. At the time that I was working at SW, we did not have a good or reliable way to match those kinds of samples. Now, you mentioned matching from a blanket or fabric. ![]() You can bring an old paint can in, they can shake the can, and make a fresh sample from that, or they can take an old sample too, but keep in mind.there will be a difference between the fresh paint match and the old one. The bigger the better, and preferably of the original paint color. ![]() The best way to color match is to have a decent sized sample to work with. Most paint stores/departments can do color matching, which is actually something I did most often. I used to work at Sherwin-Williams Paints for several years. ![]()
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