Matching Ceiling White (paint)

I do it for craft projects and anything else that needs "paint". Have mixed varnish with artist oil colors to make paint for small items. Not a factory formula, but the same basic idea. I've made stain in color to suit me rather than spend money for a quart of unpredictable color. All it had to do was soak into the wood and tint it the way I wanted :o)

Good enough. There weren't any shops with acrylics etc here in the 'hood, so ...

The guy at HD mixed 2 samples from chips I matched and donated a bit of black to mix with if necessary. One sample was -very- close: the other room had lousy lighting, chip was off. I tried mixing for it but couldn't improve on the $3 sample that HD mixed.

So it's done. Not perfect by any means, but, after a year or so of fading, collecting dirt, etc I doubt it will be readily noticable. The one room is almost unnoticable already.

Much thanks for various responses.

Will

In my experience you can also cut out a square of plaster (down to the lathe) using something like a rotozip. Then you can use Durabond setting joint compount or equivalent to set it back in place and fill gaps after matching. Works pretty well for me...

But in general, matching "whites" seems to be much harder for both eyes and machines than matching solids. The eye seems to be more sensitive to differences in whites and whites can be taken in all directions (e.g. softs vs colds).