I’m just popping in from an exhausting weekend of caulking, painting, and fixing. Oy! My back was screaming at me to stop midday, but I just kept going.
I’ll show you the progress of my kitchen in a future post.
Today is “helpful tip” day. Label your paint! It only takes a second and will save you headaches and searching.
And small faux pas, like this one. Apparently, I have three different colors of gray paint in my storage room.
Just for the record, I don’t make these mistakes on purpose. You know, just to show you what NOT to do.
Apparently, I’m a dufus by nature.
It just comes naturally.
But you’re welcome, anyway!
Bye from the bungalow,
Hi, I'm Jean. I live in historic Butte, Montana in a Craftsman home built in 1920. This blog is all about my adventures (and sometimes misadventures) in updating and decorating my house with antiques and vintage goods I find at garage sales, thrift stores, estate sales or wherever cool things from the past are waiting to be discovered.
Been there, done that! I have so many cans of paint out in my garage and had to start labeling them out of necessity several years ago. Yep, a little black marker can work wonders.
My bathroom wall agrees with you. The second tip would be when you no longer have that left over paint, make note somewhere so you can quit searching for something that no longer exists.
Bliss
yes yes, definitely label your cans and keep as much info about it as possible visible, what base they used, the color components. i’ve had sherwin-williams make the same color, not custom but one of theirs, at two different stores, and have them come out different. so lots of info is best. also what really helps me is to keep a sample of each — stir stick, popsicle stick, tongue depressor, anything lol but best on some kind of wood, in a jar right next to the paint can area. and label away on that too!
I hear you! Do you know how many variations of beige there are?! I learned the hard way too, but I always label the cans anymore with color and what room it was used in.
Hi, Jean
You are too funny, but great tip on labeling the can of paints.
Have a good one.
Vanessa
And can I add: Keep a list somewhere of which color you used where. We’ve got at least 5 browns going on, and last summer I painted the wrong trim color on the trim around our front door because I got them mixed up. Made an already not-fun project way more so!
(Discovered you through It All Started with Paint. Really like your blog!)