How to Match  Paint Colors

Have you ever needed to match a paint color that is already on a wall or some other surface? It is absolutely possible even if you have no record of the name or the paint formula! 

Option 1: Remove a sample from your wall & have it color-matched. This is reasonably easy to do if your walls are drywall. You can use a craft knife to very gently cut through just the paper layer of the drywall. 

Option 2: Use an electronic color matcher. It used to be true that to have a paint color analyzed, you had to head into a paint store with a spectrophotometer. 

Option 3: Use a paint matching app Lots of paint companies, including Behr, Valspar and Sherwin-Williams, now have mobile apps to help you color match paint. The apps are all different, but the general concept is the same for each of them.

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