Can Home Depot Paint Match Duron Colors
Oops. That's what Home Depot calls its paints that advertise for a atom of what they would commonly cost. That's because addition fabricated a mistake. Oops.
Say you appearance the sales agent one of the chips from the Ralph Lauren acrylic collection. The sales agent mixes it, but it doesn't attending appropriate to you. Oops.
Or you anticipate you charge 3 gallons of a adumbration of Home Depot's Behr custom-mixed colors, but it turns out you alone charge 2 gallons. You acknowledgment the bare can. Oops.
On any accustomed day, at the acrylic administration of your bounded Home Depot, you can acquisition as abounding as 40 to 50 cans of "Oops" paints. Five-gallon cans advertise for $20; 1-gallon cans advertise for $3 to $5, depending on the affection and brand; quarts advertise for $1. In best cases, that's added than one-third off the approved price.
What a bargain. And who knows, you ability absolutely like -- alike admire -- the color. Or, you ability say to yourself, "Oh, what the heck; it's cheap. If I don't like it, I can consistently acknowledgment it." Oops.
Most added acrylic food accredit to these mistakes-in-a-paint-can as "mistints" -- a gentler admonition that addition goofed.
"Our mistints are usually the aftereffect of barter alteration their minds about the color," says Mike Gordon, admiral of Acrylic World in Fort Lauderdale. "There's not abundant we can do about it, abnormally if they adjudge that the blush is too dark. Colors can't be fabricated lighter after abacus white paint; accordingly you accept to accomplish `more' paint."
At Acrylic World, approved paints advertise for $20 to $25 per gallon; mistints advertise for $2 to $5.
If you charge added than 1 gallon of the mistint, Gordon can usually bout it. Of course, you'll pay the activity retail amount for added gallons, but you'll still save money.
