Experience with paint chips

[Peter Mckernan]

Hello:

I need some input on some experiences everyone has had. I need to do some touchup paint on a bathroom, but do not have the paint that the bathroom was painted with. I am not sure the exact color either; however, I wanted to see if anyone has taken a paint chip from the wall of the exact color they wanted to a local hardware store to match the paint.

If any of you have, I am curious if it was close, or spot on to the color that you brought into the store.

Thanks,

Peter 

[Robert Leonard]

This makes a good case for why I standardize and use the same two or three colors that I always match perfectly.

You'll need to take note of the sheen (flat, eggshell, semigloss or glossy) of the paint too. It can be tough. You'll need a "chip" about the size of a quarter.

You might want to try the color match but expect to at least have to paint the one entire wall to make your "close match" less conspicuous?