Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Wrong nuance

 When I manage to do the (what I called) "spring cleaning" of a room, I try to see if there are things to fix. It often happens that I need to also retouch the color on the walls, for a reason and another.

Few years back, I was trying to fix Oscar's wall and I noticed that we didn't have the right paint color. I went to the shop and based on the names that we had stored from when we painted the house (sadly with plastic based color - standard) in 2012, I bought the smallest available jar.

The jar
The documentation we kept - I am impressed with did

I did retouch the wall, but the result turned out to be awful. The patches just looked of a slightly different shade and even if the average visitor wouldn't see, I do.

This is not great...

It is super obvious when one look here, that they are two different colors

I did my "spring cleaning" last year again and decided to handle the problem. 

I had to take few rounds to the shop and, after managing to pull a little piece of the paint/wall and show it to the shop assistant, I got the right mix (almost). 

A bit of a pity, that the producer of this color has decided to change the nuance in the years, but good that one can fix the issue (although a bit time taking).

We have another room (the entrance) with the same issue, so that will be another round of attempts.










Same place, but right color

Now one can barely see that I had the patch the wall

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