Oh the joys of matching paint were endless, for us it seems. We brought the expert painter over to get a bid on painting 2 bedrooms, the garage, re-staining or painting the front door, and painting our sofits (sp?) and fascia trim work around the outside of our home. The painter told us that he would have the same problem matching the paint as we did as the paint would have faded over the course of 5 years. We were a little down over this as he then told us the whole inside of the home would need repainting. The house would need repainting due to nail holes in the walls and the new paint would leave nasty old tracks everywhere the brush stroked. So, the bill to paint the inside of our home and paint the trim work outside and the front door came to a whopping $8,000.00 bucks! Bobby and I quickly said no thanks.
The painter told us to use Kelly More paints as they do awesome work getting paints to match. So Bobby took a hunk of plaster from behind our refrigerator, the size of an electrical plate cover in with us to Kelly More. We left it with them for several hours for them to do their magic. The sample tricked the eye and when we got it home, the color was just not right. Another wound added to the wounded. At this point we had tried 3 different places to match our paint and getting horrible results with all of the above.
We were back to square one so we both agreed to go back to the store where the builder purchased the paint and plunge in head first with a 5 gallon bucket of the stuff. Even though the builders paint was just a shade too dark, Bobby and I were going to “TRY” to mix it with white to get the perfect match.
As we march into the store the guy there to help us asked “How can I help you”? Bobby replied “We need the Bone White Flat Paint, the same as Centex (the builder) uses.” Then the guy hollered back to the guy I spoke with the other day saying “I need the Bone White Paint for a Centex home, which one, the 1290 or the 1260?” Bob and I both knew at that very instant that our problem could be solved!!! Bobby said, “Wait a min. The sample he gave me the other day was too dark. What do you mean the 1290 or the 1260?” The guy then asked Bobby “How old is your home” Bobby said “5 years”. Oh, then you need the 1260 color the young man replied as Centex changed their color in 2004 to the 1290.
These paints are both Bone White but the 1260’s base color is yellow (the one we need) and the 1290’s base color is red (the one that was too dark). That was my problem, when I was trying to get it to match. The base red was the devil in disguise, not allowing me to get a perfect match. We quickly purchased a 5 gallon bucket of the yellow base kind and hit the road. We were two of the happiest people at that point. As we pulled away from the paint store Bobby rolled down his window and hollered out to the world “WE MATCHED THE PAINT, WE MATCHED THE PAINT!!!” We were both laughing and carrying on about this 5 gallon bucket of paint that we finally had in our possession. As a matter of fact, it felt like our most prized possession as it put our painting anxieties to rest. We brought it home, splashed paint on the walls immediately and what do ya know, IT’S THE PERFECT MATCH!!! This just solved a world of problems as I can now carry on with my plan to paint, save the money and I don’t have to paint the whole house!!! You have no idea just how relieved we are around here as Bobby and I keep saying “Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord!” Bobby even woke this morning saying, Honey, honey, honey, honey, honey, WE MATCHED THE PAINT!!!
We’re sailing around here as we’re going to sand down the front door and paint it a red color that I picked out. Fingers crossed we like it.
I’m continuing to clear my studio out completely as I want to get that painted today. Did I mention We Matched The PAINT! It makes it so much easier for me to touch up instead of masking off the entire room and trimming around the corners ceiling and baseboards and so on.
Bobby used a vacation day on Thursday so that he could stay home and work, Friday was his off Friday and we are busy conquering this house!
We met with the realtor yesterday and it went really well. And our home officially goes on the market Monday, July 16th at 9:00 AM.