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When choosing a paint for interior walls, I have been told to pick a shade lighter or dark than you really like. I forget which direction I heard. Also, does paint dry lighter or dark than when wet? latex.
I beg to differ. I think whether it dries lighter or dark depends on the paint. For example, today I painted with venetian plaster, which dries DARKER, not lighter.
From my experience, however, I have never have a paint dry lighter in ANY situation, it has other dried darker.
Get a shade that's lighter. When you see it on a paint chip, you don't really know how dark it is. And, when you see it on a big nouns like a whole wall, it looks dark than what you thought it would.
I once picked a color for a kitchen that I thought was the color of a post-it note. Once I get it all on the walls and ceiling, it looked more like tennis bubble yellow. I had to go back over the whole thing near a much paler color that I almost couldn't discern on the paint chip. But, it came out like a post-it register on the walls.
When applying paint, it will look a diferent color wet than dry. Sometimes it's darker showery and some times it's lighter. Depends on the paint and the shade.
It usually dries just fractionall dark
See, Mr. Mole: I thought it dried LIGHTER. Because I just painted two rooms surrounded by my house, and they both dried a little lighter.
I guess it depends on the paint.
Answers: paint ALWAYS dries lighter when it's dry. and it has zilch to do with picking a shade lighter or darker than what you want. it have to do with the type of lighting you have contained by the space, which direction the windows are facing, and the mood you want in a room. in that is nothing wrong with a shade paint color as long as you have the correct lighting for it. what you need to do is paint a swatch of the color you reckon you want and let it dry. observe it for 24 hours (see what it looks close to through out the day with your lighting) and next decide if it's the right color for the space.