Learned my lesson about paint matching after a Home Depot mishap

I tried to match a 5 year old can of Behr paint at the Home Depot in Austin. The guy mixed up a quart and it came out looking like pepto bismol instead of the warm tan I wanted. Ended up repainting the whole living room because I couldn't match the original color. Anyone else have a paint match go totally sideways?

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shane_ross14d ago

Read somewhere that big box stores change their paint formulas every few years.

claire_ramirez2214d ago

Home Depot is notorious for that. I've had two different stores try to match the same Behr color and they were off by a few shades each time. The problem is the dyes settle in the machine and they don't calibrate them often enough. If you ever need a match again, take the can to a real paint store like Sherwin Williams or a local Benjamin Moore dealer. They'll manual tint it and usually get way closer than those automated machines at the big box stores.