Is there a site to find equivilent colors across paint brand

[Susie]

www.colorcharts.org/cc/

[candreco]

Most paint stores can match any brand's colors. SW has done HD/Martha Stewart colors and whatever brand the builders used for exterior paint for me, no problem.

[niknik]

Just have them match it. They want you to buy their brand, they'll match others. SW paint matching is very good. Home Depot and Lowes not so much.

[kellikans]

Apr 18, 2013 18:01:07 GMT -5 @crackhabit said:

Yes, that's the one I used to use! It used to be a free online tool and it looks like they're now selling it as a software. You can download a free trial, but I don't want to.

weird.  I use it all the time and it doesn't do that for me.

[prazenjc]

Apr 18, 2013 22:17:26 GMT -5 niknik said:

Just have them match it. They want you to buy their brand, they'll match others. SW paint matching is very good. Home Depot and Lowes not so much.

disagree with the last part of this one. i have been able to do revere pewter (to your specific question) from in both HD & lowes in the same room (even on the same wall) w/o being to tell the difference at all.

but, to the original question, stores do a good job in color matching for the most part. so if you are a SW fan, definitely have the match it.

[niknik]

Apr 19, 2013 7:19:50 GMT -5 prazenjc said:

Apr 18, 2013 22:17:26 GMT -5 niknik said:

Just have them match it. They want you to buy their brand, they'll match others. SW paint matching is very good. Home Depot and Lowes not so much.

disagree with the last part of this one. i have been able to do revere pewter (to your specific question) from in both HD & lowes in the same room (even on the same wall) w/o being to tell the difference at all.

but, to the original question, stores do a good job in color matching for the most part. so if you are a SW fan, definitely have the match it.

I will still disagree. The employees in the paint departments of both stores are the first to tell you that their equipment isn't advanced enough to do color matching really really well. It was Lowes that actually told me to try an independent paint store after they couldn't match a color after trying 3 times. Couldn't even get that close and it wasn't a very odd color.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Apr 18, 2013 23:35:41 GMT -5 @crackhabit said:

Maybe I'm blind

Are you getting like an error box or something?  I just type in my color name at the top of the colorcharts.org website and it brings up the colors, like it always has.  So weird.

[prazenjc]

Apr 19, 2013 17:03:38 GMT -5 niknik said:

Apr 19, 2013 7:19:50 GMT -5 prazenjc said:

disagree with the last part of this one. i have been able to do revere pewter (to your specific question) from in both HD & lowes in the same room (even on the same wall) w/o being to tell the difference at all.

but, to the original question, stores do a good job in color matching for the most part. so if you are a SW fan, definitely have the match it.

I will still disagree. The employees in the paint departments of both stores are the first to tell you that their equipment isn't advanced enough to do color matching really really well. It was Lowes that actually told me to try an independent paint store after they couldn't match a color after trying 3 times. Couldn't even get that close and it wasn't a very odd color.

so very sorry you have such poor paint departments at your lowes and HD. any of the ones i've worked with in the towns i have lived or even helped family members in with their projects haven't made that kind of declaration (wonder if their corporate office realizes they are representing that way). and it in no way has been my experience. i have had original brand gallon and just went to HD or lowes and gotten color match to the original brand and had no problems. this experience isn't just w/the revere pewter (just mentioned it b/c it was in the original question and we have used it alot in our current house), but other colors, too.

anyway, i think the point has been made that it might depend on the operators of the equipment at the store. it is definitely up to the buyer to determine whether or not to "risk" it or not--you wouldn't and i would. i've just always had good luck in the 20+ years i've been painting (better in the last 5-7 since technologies have improved all over).

good luck to the OP!

[marjorine]

I don't have any advice on a website, but if you are looking for a color like Revere Pewter in the Sherwin Williams line, check out Colonnade. I was dead set on painting our living room Revere Pewter, but our local store that carries Benjamin Moore paint was way off in the sample can I bought (it had a powder blue tint). This was the second time our local store had been off on a color for me. I could have gone to another store out of town, but I decided to check out SW first, which is where I got a sample of Colonnade. I painted a swatch on the wall right next to RP, and it was very similar (but more of a true gray vs. the blue-ish RP). Here is a pic I snapped while we were painting.



Now, if you were simply using Revere Pewter as an example, ignore all of the above.

[lys]

Today I bought my SW color card to the BM store and told them I want this color in BM Advance paint.  No problem he said, I have all the SW formulas.
I have also done the reverse - taking a color card to SW and having them mix the color on the card.

[FoxInFiji]

Apr 20, 2013 11:01:17 GMT -5 marjorine said:

I don't have any advice on a website, but if you are looking for a color like Revere Pewter in the Sherwin Williams line, check out Colonnade. I was dead set on painting our living room Revere Pewter, but our local store that carries Benjamin Moore paint was way off in the sample can I bought (it had a powder blue tint). This was the second time our local store had been off on a color for me. I could have gone to another store out of town, but I decided to check out SW first, which is where I got a sample of Colonnade. I painted a swatch on the wall right next to RP, and it was very similar (but more of a true gray vs. the blue-ish RP). Here is a pic I snapped while we were painting.



Now, if you were simply using Revere Pewter as an example, ignore all of the above.

Oh thanks for the picture!  I was considering that color or SW Modern Gray for our basement (it's a walk out so it still has a good amount of natural light). 

[marjorine]

Apr 22, 2013 17:02:17 GMT -5 FoxInFiji said:

Apr 20, 2013 11:01:17 GMT -5 marjorine said:

Oh thanks for the picture!  I was considering that color or SW Modern Gray for our basement (it's a walk out so it still has a good amount of natural light). 

That's funny, because there was one other SW color I sampled and it was Modern Gray. It was a pretty color, but too light...I might use it in our hallway, though!