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| I chose Benjamin Moore Kangaroo for my walls. I bought the "big" paint chip prior to selecting the color. The contractor put some of the color that he bought on the wall and I couldn't believe the difference. I stopped him immediately. It just was not the same color at all that was on the thirty inch painted board or chip that I brought home.
I don't want to pay for a new color selection. I think that it was mixed incorrectly. The color is Ben Mo AF-145. What should the base be - 1 or 2? Any help is appreciated. |
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- Posted by christophern (My Page) on Fri, Oct 28, 11 at 4:21
| The base will be on the can. If you think it is wrong just take it back, they will fix it. |
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- Posted by brushworks (My Page) on Fri, Oct 28, 11 at 12:16
| The contractor put some of the color that he bought on the wall and I couldn't believe the difference. and at least let it dry before judging the color. |
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| to be honest, I've had more mistakes with mixing colors from Benjamin Moore than anywhere else. If you are getting it at a smaller hardware store with a small paint section - I really think they are prone to making mistakes with the mix and it is wrong! I drive far specifically for a larger paint store for BM paints because they deal with higher volume, staff is always the same and they know how to work the machine to mix colors. I do love BM paints, but I find the digital paint mixers at the big box stores are never wrong and the colors are always a dead on match every time! |
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| I hate to tell you this but there is NO relationship between any printed paint chip and the actual color. And, to make matters worse, if you paint a sample and then decided to buy the paint in a different BM line, the color will change again, because the bases are different colors. I did a million tests and thought I would go insane because of the differences between the chips and the actual color and then going for. BN line to line - Aura, for example, is totally different than standard BM paint. The Janovic has a pastel base and the BM a medium base. As a result, the color is much yellower - really ugly under halogen light- and I will need to reprint my entire 900 square foot loft again. I really wish they would publicize both the hip issue and the base I pact. The only chips that might be reliable are pained ones, made by very expensive full spectrum paint companies. |
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