Colour of paint

Hi Guys,

We are moving into a house we just purchased and am looking at painting the featured walls (of very bright pink) to match the rest of the house. The lady said she remembers the pain colour to be silken lace but nothing else. I have done a search but cannot find it.

How do we get the exact same colour? House is 15 years old so it would have been 15 years ago since it was last painted

thanks!

I think paint places can do colour matching somehow......don't quote me though!

I have heard and i think seen it on tv but how do i get a sample there? A photo would have different colouring due to light i am presuming.

Thanks though!

My understanding of colour matching ... you take the item down to be scanned into the computer.

I found the people down at Bunnings to be very helpful. Perhaps you could get a colour sample and try to match it where it won't be noticed (behind the lounge) etc..

Alternatively, Lulu is very helpful in situations like this - she helped me out recently.

Congrats on your new house :dance:

Congrats on your new house!

Perhaps head down to bunnings or local home hardware (ie a retailer who stocks a number of paint brands) give them the name and see if they can look on the computer to track the brand and colour of the paint - an experienced paint person will be able to look at the paint mix and tell you roughly what colour it should be.

first thing monday morning is always a good time to go, nowhere near as busy as the weekends!

Good luck!

Congratulations on the purchase of your home.

If you can remove some, you can take it into a paint place to colour match it. Preferably an area that hasn't had a lot of sun, so it isn't faded. Before you do this, I would probably sugar-soap the wall down so that it is clean.

If that doesn't work, go into a large paint place, such as Bunnings and go through the walls of paint chips and pick similar colours, take them home and place them against your walls.

With a bright pink wall you will probably have to use an undercoat to cover it, so that it doesn't show through your colour.

Thank you ladies

Some good idea here! Well settlement is more than a month away so i have a bit of time to find out.

thank you once again!