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Mixing paint yourself?
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My daughter's bedroom is Lilac Love! Unfortunately she is now almost 14 and it is "too girly" for her!
Do you own a drill? Get/make a whisk-type attachment for it and mix the paint with that - that's what I did a couple of years back and it worked out fine
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you could always do 3 walls in that colour and then do a feature wall in a darker shade0
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Cool_Username wrote: »My daughter's bedroom is Lilac Love! Unfortunately she is now almost 14 and it is "too girly" for her!
Do you own a drill? Get/make a whisk-type attachment for it and mix the paint with that - that's what I did a couple of years back and it worked out fine
Does it look any more lilac-y on the walls? As it looks near white in the tin!!!0 -
It does look very lilac on the wall yeah - hang on I'll try and find you a picture.snowedunderitall wrote: »Does it look any more lilac-y on the walls? As it looks near white in the tin!!!0 -
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it will work a treat be sure you have more than enough as you will never get the same colour again0
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Mix it in a bucket from the £ shop, then if you have a little left over you want to keep for the future, something like a Vitalite tub is handy.Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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What other options are there?If you're doing two different cans of paint, either make sure you don't mix them up on the walls, or make one a few tones darker and use fortwo of the walls, either adjacent or the two facing walls. This will give a bit of depth to the colour.
Unless there are more than 4 walls. 0 -
You could try going to your local paint or DIY store and asking if they will put your paint in their paint shaker machine for you for a small fee or if you buy something.
Those machines should be quicker and more effective than manual mixing.0 -
My mum always just buys a white paint and then mixes it with whatever colour she is going for, she isn't usually to fussy on the shade so works fine. I tend to dither over the exact shade for hours so have never tried it myself, but it is definately doable0
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