Name: Split Pea 2146-50 + Pale Avocado 2146-40*
Brand: Benjamin Moore
Marriage is about compromise. So, what do you do when the husband wants one color for the bathroom and the wife wants another? For this couple I bought a quart of each and mixed them together...
These clients lived in Oaxaca for a while, and a Mexican influence pervades their apartment. We liked the guacamole color (see a future posting on this from my travelogue series) and thought it looked good against the poster. But the husband thought Split Pea was too dark and the wife thought Pale Avocado was too whimpy. After much deliberation I finally said, “Enough! Let’s make our own.”
As I've pointed out repeatedly, this column is meant to be inspirational rather than technical, and I'm writing this week to indicate to you, dear reader, how fun it is to bend the rules once in a while. No obstacle is too great to overcome.
And they lived happily ever after…
- Mark Chamberlain, interior and decorative painter
*Please note that colors at Colorcharts.org are helpful and representative, but not the same as the actual paint on your wall (that's why we include a real picture). This is due to the color differential between physical paint and video monitors.
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I have the same tile. Wanted to paint the walls mocha.
I like it, but now I want guacamole.
So let me get this straight. You take a color that you like and mix it with a color your wife likes. You most likely end up with a color you both hate. hmmm... Great idea.
A technical question... when mixing your own color like this, how to you make sure your mix is consistent, especially if you need to do more than one coat, or use more than a mixed-gallon of paint?
Yes! I second Patrick's (the other one's) question! I often find that streaky problem when I'm mixing my own acrylic paints for canvas but it's easy to solve when you're using a smaller quantity. But by the bucketful, that's a different story! Did you pour equal amounts into a third larger container? Cos I often have trouble getting the same shade mixing a second batch when I disproportionately vary the ratio of each colour. Do tell!
This isn't an exact science, and for a dark little bathroom like this i feel like it's all relative. if you need touch-ups later you might need to repaint the whole thing. i notice no streaks in my final coat of paint.