Landlord gave me 10 gallons of a light, neutral, boring latex paint & said I could paint inside of our house with whatever color I wanted, using that paint. So, I want a nice taupe color, which I can achieve with raw umber, but can't seem to find a local store that carries pigment for such an application. I did try the most concentrated acrylic artist paint from Michaels and it darkened 3 gallons, but only slightly, which would end up far too expensive to be worth it. So, I see there are products to color concrete and Lowe's supposedly carries them, but I do not ask Lowe's employees anything about anything, and I want to know if it sounds like a sensible idea to add concrete powder to latex paint to tint it. Thanks for reading and commenting with any advice you pros might have...
Using concrete color to tint interior latex paint?
Oct 25, 2018
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Take the paint back to wherever your cheapass landlord bought it and have it tinted.
Just try it on the remaining 7 gallons and see how it works .. we'll wait here for your report. John T.
That's a good idea if it's a real paint store. Not sure if it's HomeDepot, etc. The problem is that they know how to make base into a tinted color, the machine does it. Taking an existing color and fiddling with it, that's another story. I've had a good paint store guy hand match colors for me, but you have to have the years of experience and be willing to take the time. He certainly could go ask though.
Years ago, HD sold paint tint in tubes. As I recall, I think they stopped selling it, but not sure. A real paint store may have it though. Also, Ebay? The question is knowing exactly what colors need to be added to what is there to get a color that's OK.
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