How can we get touched up paint to match the wall

[lmdbww]

We are almost done patching the nail holes in the walls at the new house (from sellers). I started touching up the paint w/the cans that they left.

The basement is a rust color, and I touched up just where we patched. Paint dried and matched perfect.

The main floor of the house (with living room, dining room, kitchen, powder room), the hallway and stairs leading up to the main floor, and the hallway and stairs leading up to the bedroom level, are all the same color: Valspar Cincinnatian Hotel Hannaford .

We took down a medicine cabinet in the powder room, revealing a huge square of nice dark hunter green paint. lol I touched up and the paint matched perfectly. When I started touching up the paint in the living room and in one of the hallways, the new paint was off. It was lighter by at least one whole shade than the paint that was already on the wall.

I can't figure out how this is and why it is happening, but how can we continue touching up without having to repaint everything in that color? Any ideas? We do have a painter coming today to give us an estimate to do all of the walls (in that color) but I have a feeling it will be more than we want to spend.

[FoxInFiji]

Did you mix up the can very well before you started touching up?

My guess is though that the color in the living room has darkened over time with the UV light exposure whereas the powder room walls see little to no sunlight and are the more true color. That or the original paint was slighting off between cans.

[emoflamingo]

Our living room had this issue. I think ours was a mixture of sunlight and not getting the can mixed well enough.

Try taking it to Lowes (right?) and having them shake it up again.

[midwest07]

We have had this issue in our house. The prior owners used the same shade of tan in different sheens. So for us, the issue was that I would think it was eggshell and choose that can, but really it was the satin one. So maybe you have the right color, but the wrong sheen. The color you posted is pretty light, so it's possibly it would look like another shade just due to that. Now if they actually left the cans of paint and you know it's exactly what was used in these areas, then sounds like something else is going on like the others suggested.