Impact of sheen on paint colour

2 months ago

I’m trying to match an existing wall colour in my bathroom. I think I’ve found 3 near matches in Dulux colours - Chiffon Silk, Lilac Sapphire and Lavender chalk (in that order in pic 1, reverse in pic 2):

To me these all look fairly similar from the tester cards, with Lilac Sapphire looking closest to me. However, having gone and bought testers, I’m finding that Lilac Sapphire seems to be drying lighter, and Lavender Chalk darker.

The key difference is that the existing wall colour seems to be a bathroom / soft sheen finish, whereas the testers are all Matt (they don’t seem to do bathroom / soft sheen testers).

Is this likely to impact the finished colour, and if so, what would the anticipated impact be? My gut feeling is Lavender Chalk looks like the closest option if this were lighter due to more light being reflected?

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Isla Cherry
2 months ago
I have had the same problem with F&B. I once used All White estate emulsion to paint a ceiling, ran out of paint and bought modern emulsion in All White and you could see the difference. You have a couple of choices here. Repaint everything with the correct finish paint or buy the smallest amount possible of what you consider to be an exact match and try that. Are you trying to touch up what you have? A finish with a sheen will definitely look different to a plain emulsion. Someone needs to invent (probably already available somewhere) testers in all the finishes as it impacts the final colour accuracy. There are no F&B eggshell testers for example.
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Sonia
2 months ago
What is it that you want to do with the new paints? Touching up scrapes and scratches is very difficult to match. I did this with the same tin of paint that I originally used in my bathroom, but a year later, and the paint in the tin had lightened considerable in that time and didn’t match at all. All testers I’ve used, whatever the brand, seem to only come in Matt emulsion. Looking at your wall it looks like Dulux Bathroom Paint which does have a sheen. In the end the touching up on my walls looked awful and I had to repaint the whole bathroom in the end.
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2 months ago
Bascially I’m happy with the existing colour / finish, but there are a number of places where it needs touching up, but I am planning on doing it properly and completely repainting the room. My issue is that the decoration was done by the previous owner so I’m trying to reverse engineer the paint that was used.

My testers are Dulux colours, but I’m struggling to find the right colour, which is why I was wondering about the sheen. I did discover a trick online to put tape over the paint to simulate a gloss finish, and sure enough it does make a difference (seems to make colours darker):

This is more extreme than a soft sheen finish, but it’s actually making me think the lighter colour is the way to go!
Isla Cherry
2 months ago
Lighter is always safer. Its easier to go darker if you don't like it rather than the other way around.
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