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 ...

For as long as body shops and restorers have been painting automobiles, the challenge has been getting a good color match, both as a whole vehicle repaint and in repair work. You've seen them—the '65 ...

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 ...

When you painted your home’s walls years ago, they looked amazing. The color was absolutely perfect, but now its faded. The problem: You have no idea what color you purchased for the walls all those ...

It happens all too often: You do some light renovation or some unexpected repair work that requires you to replace just a section of drywall, or your wall gets stained or scuffed in some way that ...

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 ...

Paint jail. It's a known menace to our craft, one that has seen the demise of many a project. It's the car crafting version of a roach motel-cars go in but they don't come out. It usually goes like ...

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You're ready to give your home a refresh. Maybe you've been staring at greige office walls for far too long, or you're moving kids into their own rooms or just want a new color for your living room.

The Nix Mini 2 color-matching tool gives artists, designers, contractors and remodelers a quick and easy way to match any hue exactly. The tiny color sensor connects to an iPhone and reveals the ...

We all know the struggle of finding the perfect paint color. Perhaps you've got something specific in mind, or you're still searching for the right shade — either way, we all know the impact color can ...

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.