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How to Paint Touch-Up Your
House Without Matching Paint Color |
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In door and Outdoor Paint Touch Up Solution
It’s a house painting problem we all run into—how to touch
up chips or holes in the wall when you don’t have the right
paint color? Even if you know the paint color of your walls
you could run into this house painting problem, because
overtime paint fades and the new paint touch up will look
darker. The solution? Use the following color sensitive
house painting touch up technique.
Painting Touch Ups: Step #1
Bring a few gradient paint color swatches from your local
home improvement. Each gradient paint swatch will show three
or four versions of one paint color, going from light to
dark. Find the color swatch closest to the paint color you
want to mix for your house paint touch ups.
Painting Touch Ups: Step #2
At your local home improvement buy the sample size for the
best color paint match. Also buy a shade lighter and a shade
darker. Buy a paint brush if you don’t have one.
Painting Touch Ups: Step #3
Cover a plate or slab of wood in foil paper to serve as your
paint mixing palette. Pour a little of the paint color you
think will match your house paint. Smear a thin layer of the
paint on the wall with your brush. If the paint color is a
little too light it is likely to dry to an exact match.
Consider yourself lucky.
Painting Touch Ups: Step #4
If the paint color looks like a perfect match or appears too
dark or far too light, you’ll need to mix your own paint
color. Depending on whether the paint color is too light or
too dark, add a dab of the lighter or darker paint color to
your palette.
Mix lightly with your brush then paint a thin layer on the
wall, blending the previous smear. It’s okay for streaks of
light or dark color to come out of the brush; this will help
you to slowly blend paint color differences away.
Painting Touch Ups: Step #5
As you work on mixing your own paint color, blend the paints
in your palette, then work them in gentle smears on the
wall. Go beyond the touch up area to blend the mark into the
rest of the wall by slowly decreasing the thickness of the
paint applied. When you’re done, the wet paint spot should
gradually blend perfectly into the house paint, as the edges
of the paint touch up will be so thin as to have already
dried.
Painting Touch Ups Step #6
Once the touch up is perfectly dry, it may have a different
sheen than the rest of the house paint. Take P-320 grid
sandpaper and gently sand the touch up area, starting at the
edges. Work very gently in straight lines that match the
brush strokes you made when painting the touch up. Wipe the
touch up from time to time to remove dust, then check if
further sanding is necessary.
Painting Touch Ups: Step #7
The more textured the wall you are touching up, the easier
mixing the right paint color will be as flaws will be
concealed more easily. For smooth walls you may have to
repeat the paint touch up process twice for perfect results.
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