Tanya Janca | SheHacksPurple  
All the rooms in my house are beige. I decided to patch holes in the walls. Turns out there are several different shades of beige throughout the house. I keep painting the wrong ones. 🤦‍♀️ Can anyone tell which one is correct? Because they all look wrong to me.
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May 25 at 2:41amWeb
Show threadI Thought I Saw A 2 May 25
@SheHacksPurple I vote for 1. It's absolutely not 3.
Show threadRon JeffriesMay 25
@SheHacksPurple
maybe fold the paper so we can see them right against the wall. But I think none of them is right. 😖
Show threadgaryMay 25
@SheHacksPurple well then you have flat/satin/eggshell and gloss sheens on tops of that as well - sherwin williams can match any color #colorimetry
Show threadAbhijit Menon-SenMay 25
@SheHacksPurple It might help to fold the paper in half lengthwise so that there's no white border between the test patches and the wall? But anyway, I think the lighting in this photo is changing too much across the scene, because #1 looks right at the right edge, and #2 looks better at the left edge.
Show threadXenoPhage May 25
@SheHacksPurple Fold the paper in half so the color swatches intersect with the wall. Much easier to see which color matches that way. All that white is screwing with the visibility. I tried to just copy the bottom wall section and overlay, but the lighting from the picture isn't uniform, so the lower wall is darker than the upper wall and then none of the swatches match. :)
Show threadtaskschd.mscMay 25
@SheHacksPurple sounds like a beige.party!
Show threadCarmenSD11235May 25
@SheHacksPurple Even if you had the same exact paint, light, oil from kitchen, cleaning, etc would have faded the paint. The white from the paper will also affect how the color looks as well. (I learned that from swatching my fountain pen inks on various journal paper I have.) That being said, definitely not 3. 1 has too much red. 2 is the closest. If you're ocd like me and it's high up enough, you can hang a picture or painting over it once you paint it.
Show threadCarmenSD11235May 25
@SheHacksPurple when I was building out my condo years ago, the builders interior designer asked what I wanted to paint the rooms and what color furniture I had. It was the first place I ever had and all my roommates had supplied the common room furniture. I wanted white but was told absolutely not. She told me to pick an off white color. Found out there were over 200 whites. They were in red, yellow, and brown families. I told her to surprise me since I was covering the walls with my travel photography anyways. I cared more about where my outlets were and what kind of load they carried. She told me engineers make her sad. 🤪 I ended up with alabaster which was in the yellow family.
Show threadCoreyMay 25

@SheHacksPurple I had the same situation at my last house, so I can completely sympathize.

Def not 3, but I'd go with 1

Show threaddystopiaMay 25
@SheHacksPurple you might be right that they all look wrong, because it’s a secret fourth shade of “almost, but not quite off white”