Painted my game room blue with paint from home depot. I ran a little short so I went back for more and they reformulated it to include primer. Looks good under regular light but totally different under black light - much darker than I'd like. So I went to Sherwin Williams to see if I could get something from them that would be closer to the original paint. If anything it's even darker than the new HD stuff.
Then I got to thinking that when I used the original paint with a brush to touch up some spots (I rolled the room), those touch up spots looked darker, so maybe that's why the Sherwin Williams stuff looked dark (I tested it with a brush). I then tried the original paint with a mini roller - again, too dark! So I can't make any sense of this.
I really liked the lighter look of the original paint. Anyone have any clues as to why I can't seem to get that look again? I sure would appreciate any tips or explanations as to what's going on. I'd love to get that same look with the areas that still need to be painted but at this point I'd settle for doing a fresh coat in the whole room if I could at least figure out how to get it to look lighter even if it doesn't perfectly match the original.
If you look at the pic, the darker area to the left is the new HD stuff and the blob of dark above the outlet is the SW stuff. The difference is more dramatic in person, btw.
Then I got to thinking that when I used the original paint with a brush to touch up some spots (I rolled the room), those touch up spots looked darker, so maybe that's why the Sherwin Williams stuff looked dark (I tested it with a brush). I then tried the original paint with a mini roller - again, too dark! So I can't make any sense of this.
I really liked the lighter look of the original paint. Anyone have any clues as to why I can't seem to get that look again? I sure would appreciate any tips or explanations as to what's going on. I'd love to get that same look with the areas that still need to be painted but at this point I'd settle for doing a fresh coat in the whole room if I could at least figure out how to get it to look lighter even if it doesn't perfectly match the original.
If you look at the pic, the darker area to the left is the new HD stuff and the blob of dark above the outlet is the SW stuff. The difference is more dramatic in person, btw.

