Ready to paint your wall? You went to the store and picked out a color. Maybe you bought a tiny jar of paint to test on the wall. Or maybe you bought enough paint for your whole project. Time to paint. You put that perfect paint up on your wall and it doesn’t look perfect anymore. What do you do now? My advice is to wait. Let me explain.
Every so often, I pick out a paint color for one of our flip houses that we haven’t used before. Inevitably, a few days later, I will get a call from my husband. He will be very agitated, saying that the paint color looks wrong. It is too dark, has the wrong undertone, or looks wrong in the space. And I always tell him to wait. Wait until both coats of paint are applied, at least in a small area of the room. Wait until the paint fully dries. On a rare occasion, the color is wrong. But almost every time, two days later, the color is miraculously perfect.
Paint will look different when wet. Colors will look a little off or darker than expected. Paint will also look different with just that first coat than it will after you apply the second. Before you decide on repainting; before you freak out about having wasted time and money, take a deep breath and just wait. Once the paint dries, you just might discover that you picked the perfect paint color after all.
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