How many times has this happened to you? After spending hours agonizing over the perfect shade of paint, you gleefully coat every wall in your home in that shade. Then, years later, when there’s a ...

When you painted your home’s walls years ago, they looked amazing. The color was absolutely perfect, but now it’s faded. The problem: You have no idea what color you purchased for the walls all those ...

The Nix Mini 2 color-matching tool gives artists, designers, contractors and remodelers a quick and easy way to match any hue exactly. The tiny color sensor connects to an iPhone and reveals the ...

My husband and I recently bought a house built just after World War II with rooms stuck in nearly every decade since. I couldn't wait to get my hands on it and make it our own. However, picking the ...

Choosing paint colors can be an enterprise fraught with significant (other) danger and considerable expense. (Need proof? Consider the pyramid of too-bold, not-bold-enough, not-quite-right, paint cans ...

Dear James: I made some patches on my bedroom wall. I don’t have more of the original paint, and I don’t want to repaint the entire room. How can I match the paint? Dear Seth: You can match old paint ...

If a painting project is on the horizon, take the time to discover the different types of paint available and the projects to which they are best suited. Types of pain There are three types of paint: ...

The worst part about having part of your car repainted is that if it’s more than a few years old, you can generally tell where the car was touched up because the paint match wasn’t perfect. Sometimes ...

For as long as body shops and restorers have been painting automobiles, the challenge has been getting a good color match, both as a whole vehicle repaint and in repair work. You've seen them—the '65 ...

You spent hours choosing the perfect paint color and covered every wall with care. But years later, a touch-up is needed—and you can’t remember if the shade of green was Phantom Mist or Dinner Mint.