First World Problems...

Pro-tip for all of you homeowners: make sure the labels on those old paint cans are legible after many years. If necessary, record the data somewhere safe!

Otherwise your painter has to cut a piece of drywall out of your wall to duplicate the color!

Yes, the technology is great, but it still requires more effort than just...you know...being organized.

I do have sufficient accelerants if I choose to go in another direction, so there's that!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 Put a dab on the lid and paint the whole wall every time.
Or hire a painter.

Posted by: DaveA at June 08, 2025 02:03 PM (FhXTo)

2 and 1st

Posted by: DaveA at June 08, 2025 02:03 PM (FhXTo)

3 I did up the Meditonin this week, hope it works tonight

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:04 PM (+qU29)

4 You can hope that the new paint you buy will perfectly match the faded, dingy, old paint that is on the wall so you can do a tiny daub and be done.

Better to plan on painting the entire wall. You can take the opportunity to patch all the holes left behind from the thumbtacks that held up your Barry Manilow posters.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 08, 2025 02:06 PM (cnmiW)

5 Pick a different color and repaint everything. Just assume if you like it everyone will.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 08, 2025 02:07 PM (PVcx/)

6 Wow, that's a pretty big chunk out of your wall.

When the painters were painting my parent's home they scraped a tiny piece, took it to the paint store and got a perfect match.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 08, 2025 02:07 PM (NpAcC)

7 You don't have to go with just 'tan', you know. The 'ettes could help you differentiate whether that's actually taupe or fawn.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2025 02:08 PM (SiRut)

8 Look who's fancy and isn't painting himself!

That color is ugly and should not be used again.

I'd just repaint before I'd go tearing out drywall.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 08, 2025 02:09 PM (mFz+I)

9 Prices of houses have increased so much and the number for sale decreased around here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 08, 2025 02:09 PM (Xlykt)

10 I’m thinking that is a drywall patch that will never be hidden. Hope you did it in the middle of the wall where it will remain uncovered. And a testament to your ability for the whole world to enjoy.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 08, 2025 02:09 PM (PVcx/)

11 Harumph. Not enough greige.

Posted by: Modern Interior Designer at June 08, 2025 02:10 PM (l3YAf)

12 Maybe that's actually Ace getting ready to install an outlet, prior to putting in shelving for CBD?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 08, 2025 02:10 PM (SiRut)

13 There has to be a better way than tearing a hole in the wall.
But while we ate on that next
Get a piece of drywall about 3 inches bigger both ways than the hole. Cut on back side scoring each side about a 1/4" less than hole leaving paper on the face 3" bigger than hole. So drywall is smaller than hole, paper 1 1/2" bigger than hole. Make sure no drywall is left on paper, coat that paper well on the piece than pushing piece into whole working spackle out until it's flat. Let dry and coat 2 more times probably

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:11 PM (+qU29)

14 Just buy new furniture.

Posted by: Eromero at June 08, 2025 02:12 PM (jgmnb)

15 If cut to a electric outlet size then just screw a blank outlet cover over the hole.

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:12 PM (+qU29)

16 Wallpaper.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2025 02:14 PM (Q4IgG)

17 It looks like warm taupe.

Of course, they make little swatches so you don’t have to make a big cut in your wall.

Posted by: Modern Interior Designer at June 08, 2025 02:14 PM (l3YAf)

18 Bloodstains are a real problem.

Posted by: Eromero at June 08, 2025 02:14 PM (jgmnb)

19 I assume the colors have bar codes now, no?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 08, 2025 02:16 PM (mlg/3)

20 Hey man we are getting the old Vietnam Protesters back together again to relive the good ole Kent state3 Days.....

Tin soldiers and Trump's comin'
We're finally fighting the Trump Nazi’s
This summer I hear the drummin'

Illegal Criminals in Kalifornica from Uncle Joe
Gotta get them Otta here from Trump CA Nazi Guard Soldiers are gunning illegals down
Should have been gone back to El Salvador long ago
What if you knew a criminal and
Found them dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know Trump is Hitler?

Tin soldiers and Trump's comin'
Us leftover 1960 Hippies are finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Kalifornica & LA is a Charles Fox

Posted by: Chuck Schumer and Hakeen Jefferies at June 08, 2025 02:17 PM (1Ymb4)

21 ot:

Some sports have handicaps to handle that issue.

Anything timed can do dial-ins, indices and brackets like Drag racing. You break out you lose. Brackets keep the competitive cars together.

Posted by: DaveA at June 08, 2025 02:17 PM (FhXTo)

22 If you chose paint colors from the free store swatches, place these in a sandwich baggie and store in the same container as your rollers, brushes, and other painting supplies ... As backup, type the info to your list of contacts -- giving all the colors the LAST NAME as "Paint" an FIRST NAME as "Room Name" (such as kitchen, living room, Jane bedroom, etc) ... Then, instead of addresses or phone numbers, type in the paint brand and any other information for matching the formula in the future.

Posted by: Kathy at June 08, 2025 02:18 PM (qpw89)

23 Hacking out a chunk of your wall seems pretty low-tech, third world in this modern age. I

f you can be tracked with gps you should be able to scan the surface with an fancy instrument for a color match.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2025 02:19 PM (syvpP)

24 Otherwise your painter has to cut a piece of drywall out of your wall to duplicate the color!

Oooo!!!!
Well aren't we just fancy-schmancy what with having painters and such. In my day we had to do it ourselves, before school, with old brushes.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 02:19 PM (W/lyH)

25 I would just get a different better color and start over

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:19 PM (+qU29)

26 If it's been 20 years since it was painted, the color in the can may be darker than the somewhat faded interior?

Not really sure how much fading happens inside, maybe that is more of an outside thang.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 08, 2025 02:20 PM (vbXSk)

27 Bloodstains are a real problem.

Posted by: Eromero at June 08, 2025 02:14 PM (jgmnb)

I had cats who were, shall we say, enthusiastic about dispatching all the critters they dragged into the house. If the CSI team ever sprays Luminol on the walls, everything up to knee high will light up like the Las Vegas Strip.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 08, 2025 02:20 PM (cnmiW)

28
This was weird.

My insurance company texted me with a warning of severe weather in my area tonight. They've never done that before.

They think a ~~Dorito storm~~ derecho storm is coming.

I was hoping for Buffalo Ranch goodness but all I'm gettin' is a sideways tornado.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2025 02:20 PM (iJfKG)

29 I assume the colors have bar codes now, no?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 08, 2025 02:16 PM (mlg/3)

I always take photos of what I’ve painted and the label on the can. My smartphone is one of my most-used home improvement tools. I keep photos of repairs, parts, colors, product dimensions, receipts, etc., and them can search them easily to find out what I did later on.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 08, 2025 02:22 PM (l3YAf)

30 I was hoping for Buffalo Ranch goodness but all I'm gettin' is a sideways tornado.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2025 02:20 PM (iJfKG)

Get lots of ice in the storm celler and go with Buffalo Trace.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 02:22 PM (W/lyH)

31 What's going on in LA is George Floyd Part II !!!!!

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at June 08, 2025 02:23 PM (1Ymb4)

32 I was hoping for Buffalo Ranch goodness but all I'm gettin' is a sideways tornado.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2025 02:20 PM (iJfKG)

Get lots of ice in the storm celler and go with Buffalo Trace.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 02:22 PM (W/lyH)

No cellars here in Texas but fortunately, we do have Buffalo Trace.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2025 02:24 PM (iJfKG)

33 I heard you paint houses.

Posted by: Eromero at June 08, 2025 02:25 PM (jgmnb)

34 That color is ugly and should not be used again.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 08, 2025 02:09 PM (mFz+I)

I will certainly tell my wife of your opinion of her taste.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 08, 2025 02:25 PM (mWSu4)

35 My FWP, my morning Connections word game has started using some really bullsh*t word associations. I am annoyed.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 02:26 PM (W/lyH)

36 Sometimes going with the lowest bid is a first world problem of its own making. If you're cheap, be prepared and have a contingency plan.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2025 02:27 PM (syvpP)

37 Insurance company hoping you sell the property before a storm and they have to cover damages

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:27 PM (+qU29)

38 Burn the house down and start over. The patch will always be visible and the paint will never match.

Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2025 02:27 PM (xcIvR)

39 That color is ugly and should not be used again.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 08, 2025 02:09 PM (mFz+I)

I will certainly tell my wife of your opinion of her taste.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 08, 2025 02:25 PM (mWSu4)

I'm sure a real bear would recommend using a forest mural for the wall covering, for the homey feel.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2025 02:28 PM (VNX3d)

40 I was hoping for Buffalo Ranch goodness but all I'm gettin' is a sideways tornado.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2025 02:20 PM (iJfKG)

Get lots of ice in the storm celler and go with Buffalo Trace.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 02:22 PM (W/lyH)

No cellars here in Texas but fortunately, we do have Buffalo Trace.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2025 02:24 PM (iJfKG)
***

This is good news. I'll be down that way this Fall and would be sad if I couldn't find it..

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 02:28 PM (W/lyH)

41 Posted by: Chuck Schumer at June 08, 2025 02:23 PM (1Ymb4)

This is a lighthearted thread.

Try to keep it that way.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 08, 2025 02:28 PM (mWSu4)

42 No cellars here in Texas but fortunately, we do have Buffalo Trace.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2025 02:24 PM (iJfKG)

Really? High water table?

Basements are wonderful.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 08, 2025 02:28 PM (l3YAf)

43 That color is ugly and should not be used again.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 08, 2025 02:09 PM (mFz+I)

I will certainly tell my wife of your opinion of her taste.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 08, 2025 02:25 PM (mWSu4)

I think that color's called-

Duck Pate Pink

maybe pair it with Cornichon Green.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2025 02:28 PM (iJfKG)

44 Wouldn't a new match take care if faded paint color?
Your matching the faded color not what it was 20 years ago

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:29 PM (+qU29)

45 Burn the house down and start over. The patch will always be visible and the paint will never match.
Posted by: Reforger at June 08, 2025 02:27 PM (xcIvR)

Time to relook tapestries?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 02:30 PM (W/lyH)

46 Take a picture of the mixing label with your phone. And they need a piece about the size ofa quarter to match color.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 08, 2025 02:30 PM (AcTAo)

47 Your matching the faded color not what it was 20 years ago

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:29 PM (+qU29)

Yes. It's probably better to do it this way, but still, I should have been better organized.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 08, 2025 02:31 PM (mWSu4)

48 My 1WP seems to be able to try and sleep all morning

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:31 PM (+qU29)

49 Does the phone camera -> display -> paint store -> new paint on the wall process match colors well enough to do small areas?

Posted by: DaveA at June 08, 2025 02:31 PM (FhXTo)

50 It is beige.

Posted by: New Name at June 08, 2025 02:31 PM (/lPRQ)

51 maybe pair it with Cornichon Green.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2025 02:28 PM (iJfKG)

Oyster tan?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 08, 2025 02:32 PM (mWSu4)

52 Mike Holmes would have simply built a series of bulkheads and been done with it likely split.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 08, 2025 02:33 PM (XV/Pl)

53 Never try to match a wall's color when you're just going to paint a small area of it. The older color has already had time to oxidize - the new kid on the block, not so much. It's harder to detect a slight mismatch when the entire wall is repainted and the other walls next to it cast their reflected light onto the new kid - no one will ever be able to tell. Ask me how I know ...

Posted by: Dr_No at June 08, 2025 02:34 PM (ayRl+)

54 Get a piece of drywall about 3 inches bigger both ways than the hole. Cut on back side scoring each side about a 1/4" less than hole leaving paper on the face 3" bigger than hole. So drywall is smaller than hole, paper 1 1/2" bigger than hole. Make sure no drywall is left on paper, coat that paper well on the piece than pushing piece into whole working spackle out until it's flat. Let dry and coat 2 more times probably
Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:11 PM (+qU29)

It’s not actually a hole, he just took the paper. He can just fill it in, sand, and paint. It will probably nit be noticeable to anyone but CBD whose eyes will be drawn there every time he enters the room.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 08, 2025 02:34 PM (l3YAf)

55 It’s not actually a hole, he just took the paper. He can just fill it in, sand, and paint. It will probably nit be noticeable to anyone but CBD whose eyes will be drawn there every time he enters the room.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 08, 2025 02:34 PM (l3YAf)

Time to relook big screen TVs?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 02:36 PM (W/lyH)

56 It will probably nit be noticeable to anyone but CBD whose eyes will be drawn there every time he enters the room.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 08, 2025 02:34 PM (l3YAf)

Probably.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 08, 2025 02:37 PM (mWSu4)

57 One could of course drywall over the entire wall with 1/4" drywall

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:39 PM (+qU29)

58 Put an outlet cover there. Not the outlet itself, just the cover.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2025 02:42 PM (Q4IgG)

59 How are you going to seamlessly restore that textured surface when you fill in that patch?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 08, 2025 02:42 PM (36PRH)

60 Better to plan on painting the entire wall. You can take the opportunity to patch all the holes left behind from the thumbtacks that held up your Barry Manilow posters.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 08, 2025 02:06 PM (cnmiW)

Embrace the reality and paint it a complimentary color, and call it your "accent wall"

I like Pale Celedon or the horribly misnamed "eau de nile" which is a pale green, not a milk-chocolate brown.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2025 02:42 PM (D7oie)

61 CBD really before you try and spackle over that missing paper, if you have any spray paint that is quick drying coat the paper to seal it. Otherwise spackle will bubble out those uncoated paper spots. 20 minute quick set helps as well sealing missing paper.

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:42 PM (+qU29)

62 One could of course drywall over the entire wall with 1/4" drywall
Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:39 PM (+qU29)

Bead-board up to 3' and cap it with chair railing. Make it look classy

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2025 02:43 PM (D7oie)

63 Hanging a painting there is always an option.

But the hole would still be there. Laughing at you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 08, 2025 02:43 PM (zZu0s)

64 Wessel on fire off the shoulder of Orion:

Abandoned ship inferno ‘to burn for a week
A giant ship abandoned in the Pacific Ocean, will continue to burn out of control for at least a week, as authorities struggle to rescue the stricken vessel.

The Morning Midas was carrying around 3000 cars en route from China to Mexico when it caught fire about 450km southwest of Alaska’s Adak Island.
The ship was ferrying 3.048 cars, 70 of which are fully electric and 861 are hybrid vehicles.

https://tinyurl.com/5b9a953p

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2025 02:43 PM (J7/rR)

65 cap it with chair railing.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2025 02:43 PM (D7oie)

I like chair railing!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 08, 2025 02:44 PM (mWSu4)

66 @63 might have to burn the house down to get rid of it.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 08, 2025 02:44 PM (36PRH)

67 One could of course drywall over the entire wall with 1/4" drywall
Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:39 PM (+qU29)

Bead-board up to 3' and cap it with chair railing. Make it look classy
Posted by: Kindltot

Ship lap!
Posted by: Chuck & Joanna Gaines

Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2025 02:45 PM (J7/rR)

68 Often it seems on construction projects, it requires a entire wall to be coated with spackle entirely as spackle joints are smoother than paper on drywall.
Usually is getting some logo paint job or something like that

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:46 PM (+qU29)

69 62 One could of course drywall over the entire wall with 1/4" drywall
Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 02:39 PM (+qU29)

Bead-board up to 3' and cap it with chair railing. Make it look classy
Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2025 02:43 PM (D7oie)
This is the best idea yet.

Posted by: Eromero at June 08, 2025 02:46 PM (jgmnb)

70 On paint? sometimes keeping the old can or knowing the code does not matter anymore... companies change their catalogs periodically.

Luckily last time I needed this houses interior paint, a VERY nice employee was able to find a really old paint book to find the formulation of the paint I needed.

Problem now is that paint store closed...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2025 02:47 PM (mP0Kj)

71 Put a gun safe in front of it!

Posted by: Weasel at June 08, 2025 02:48 PM (/Uw4P)

72 This schpackle must be amaaazing stuff.

Posted by: Balki Bartokomous at June 08, 2025 02:49 PM (mlg/3)

73 @71 if that's inside a closet that would work for me.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 08, 2025 02:49 PM (36PRH)

74 Ship lap!
Posted by: Chuck & Joanna Gaines
Posted by: rickb223 at June 08, 2025 02:45 PM (J7/rR)

Time to relook a nice ficus plant.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 02:49 PM (W/lyH)

75 While I do enjoy Weasel's guns and cigar threads, I find that cigars are way too overpowering for me now that I'm 29.

So I occasionally enjoy smoking a pipe, except there are times when a pipe filter breaks off in a bent stem. I've never found a good way or tool to extract the filter fragment, so I have to pony up the $3 to get a new straight stem.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2025 02:52 PM (syvpP)

76 The old outlet wall safe thingy.

Posted by: scampydog at June 08, 2025 02:53 PM (fC6dY)

77 Or just paint it with something close enough?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 08, 2025 02:54 PM (XOc1v)

78 Put a gun safe in front of it!
Posted by: Weasel at June 08, 2025 02:48 PM (/Uw4P)

After putting a wall safe in the hole. Put the gun safe in wheels to allow access to the wall safe.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2025 02:54 PM (VNX3d)

79 is this in france?

Posted by: cherries in season at June 08, 2025 02:55 PM (Z4eZ1)

80 @ 64 Wessel on fire off the shoulder of Orion:
__________________________________________

Someone needs to inform Rutger Hauer about this ...

Posted by: Dr_No at June 08, 2025 02:56 PM (ayRl+)

81 One final thought before I go fix lunch...a nice standing humidor.

Dang. Some great ideas here. Maybe go knock a few more holes in the walls.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 02:56 PM (W/lyH)

82 I scan, in color, the paint cards and capture the relevant paint information and store them on my PC. The challenge point here, and where my 1st World Problem happens, is I never remember where I store them on the HD. Ack!

Speaking of 1st World Problems, I finally got a functioning PC out of Dell. Yeah! When I stuffed in my HD from the old machine, bit locker encrypted of course, everything became wildly complicated...something about a TPM issue and other incantations. Currently the drive is being unencrypted in the old machine. Hopefully, it will be finished in about another 23 hours.

Thankfully, I don't need to paint anything right now.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at June 08, 2025 02:57 PM (NXz8h)

83 is this in france?

Posted by: cherries in season at June 08, 2025 02:55 PM (Z4eZ1)

Nope. I'm home for a bit.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 08, 2025 02:57 PM (mWSu4)

84 My FWP is the classic Too Much Stuff. Yesterday I cleaned out the kitchen pantry. It's where my COVID-era panic buying and Mom's Depression-era inability to throw anything out met and had litters of kittens. I tossed out loads of expired stuff (ate one can of old Sphaghetti-Os -- dreadful! Would hurl as a weapon before eating again) and poured out remains of seriously old booze and mixers, with defunct grocery store tags, pre-UPC. I think JFK was in office at time of purchase.

And no, I did not pour them into a trash can along with soda and Everclear. I don't live in the barracks anymore.

Time for me to assault the YUGE pantry stores in the basement and use up the canned goods.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 08, 2025 02:59 PM (bgsfx)

85 FYI, I believe Sherwin-Williams sells that color as "Barbie's Milky Thigh."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 08, 2025 03:03 PM (vYDwg)

86 Often it seems on construction projects, it requires a entire wall to be coated with spackle entirely as spackle joints are smoother than paper on drywall.
Usually is getting some logo paint job or something like that
Posted by: Skip

Had a project with 300+ ft corridor down the full length on the building. The corridor had 9ft to 20ft ceilings with a clerestory windows at the center high / point. Other than doors the back wall was an unbroken straight line. Contractor did an outstanding job keeping the wall true and in perfect plane. Skim coated the entire length (aka Level 5 Finish). No matter the lighting conditions it appeared flawless.

Now hotels, with the longth corridors, they put in fake pilasters every twenty feet or so and other features to break up the wall because it is cheaper than making a good straight wall.

And that ugly carpet to cover up the vomit, blood stains, etc.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 08, 2025 03:03 PM (/lPRQ)

87 Paint chips, or custom color?

Our paint for trim and cupboards is Sherwin Williams Fundamental White, but I forget the name of the gray I chose for the walls. Easy enough to match with paint chips. I wanted the purest gray I could find. Not easy - they go towards red, green, blue etc.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 08, 2025 03:03 PM (w6EFb)

88 I will certainly tell my wife of your opinion of her taste.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 08, 2025 02:25 PM (mWSu4)

Do it with a snotty French accent. it will really cook Skip's bacon.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 08, 2025 03:08 PM (PVcx/)

89 @86 that would make a great photo!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 08, 2025 03:09 PM (36PRH)

90 I had this very same problem. I took a gazzilion different pictures and took them to home depot to match the color on the wall where I had removed a hanging shelf that had been painted around. No luck after half a dozen tries.

The lady there said cut out a piece of the wall about 4x4 and bring in it in and she could come close to the original color. I chose to paint the offending spots with the closest color we came up with.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 08, 2025 03:13 PM (e5NfL)

91 Do it with a snotty French accent. it will really cook Skip's bacon.
Posted by: Pete Bog at June 08, 2025 03:08 PM (PVcx/)

Liberally spice with 'Mon Dieu!', and throw in one of those mouth pops. Straighten your beret to show her you mean business.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 08, 2025 03:13 PM (zZu0s)

92 Alternatively, kick a big hole in the wall nearby and that small patch won't look so bad.

Posted by: Weasel at June 08, 2025 03:15 PM (KX0bc)

93 Imagine if it was exterior wall.

Posted by: epador at June 08, 2025 03:15 PM (7B1du)

94 You know if you headed back to France CBD you won't be able to see it from there.

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 03:16 PM (+qU29)

95 What's going on in LA is George Floyd Part II !!!!!
Posted by: Chuck Schumer at June 08, 2025 02:23 PM (1Ymb4)

Any antifa shot dead? Any prominent Donks arrested?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2025 03:17 PM (KC35q)

96 I am trying to nap through all this bartering

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 03:18 PM (+qU29)

97 From the petulant big dick humor news desk.

NY Post: Elon Musk body-checked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ‘like a rugby player’ during fiery clash at White House.

The good bits. Somehow Steve Bannon is mixed up in this.

“Scott said, ‘You’re a fraud. You’re a total fraud,'” Bannon said, referencing the-then Department of Government Efficiency honcho’s attempt to slash $1 trillion in federal spending.

The verbal spat turned allegedly physical when the world’s richest man rammed his shoulder into Bessent’s rib cage “like a rugby player,” prompting the treasury chief to fight back, the paper said Bannon claimed.

I imagine Scott going all in with the classic death by derivatives move. Karoline Leavitt was on Fox News this morning and she did everything possible to avoid admitting or denying this happened; I suspect she is still dizzy from all the spinning.

https://is.gd/CWkmTO

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at June 08, 2025 03:18 PM (NXz8h)

98 I didn't realize paint was so expensive. After building my new house the builder gave me a coupon for a gallon of the interior wall paint from Sherwin Williams. I went back to get a gallon of the exterior paint .

$75 a gallon and this was the builders grade paint.

Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2025 03:18 PM (VofaG)

99 I keep the paint chips stored away so I don't have to rely on the cans. The paint stores keep the formulas for years even if the paint code is no longer in the lineup.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 08, 2025 03:20 PM (4DY5T)

100 This is funny, Benny Johnson on YouTube posts
Explain this like I am 2 years old
Why are they waving Mexican flags all over the place while protesting against people being deported to Mexico
I don't get it

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 03:22 PM (+qU29)

101 I didn't realize paint was so expensive. After building my new house the builder gave me a coupon for a gallon of the interior wall paint from Sherwin Williams. I went back to get a gallon of the exterior paint .

$75 a gallon and this was the builders grade paint.
Posted by: polynikes

My advice is don't look at the price. Just pay it. Been using SW paint for years and every time I try a different brand I end up paying SW whatever they charge. The colors are endless, the service is solid, it covers well, washes well, and lasts forever.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at June 08, 2025 03:23 PM (NXz8h)

102 Tried to color match at the church rental hall by taking in the cut out drywall where an electric outlet was installed. Close color but not exact and I used small amounts of white paint added to the matched paint to get it closer to the original. Only matched that one wall due to fading and dirty walls elsewhere.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 08, 2025 03:23 PM (2NHgQ)

103 .I didn't realize paint was so expensive.
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same here
I had to paint some trim around my patio door
a quart of paint was almost $30

but at least I live in the First World

Posted by: Don Black at June 08, 2025 03:25 PM (AOsQT)

104 > I didn't realize paint was so expensive.
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We bought our daughter and husband several gallons of paint to redo the house they're in. Nothing weird.

$400.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 08, 2025 03:27 PM (Q4IgG)

105 $75 a gallon and this was the builders grade paint.
Posted by: polynikes

My advice is don't look at the price. Just pay it. Been using SW paint for years and every time I try a different brand I end up paying SW whatever they charge. The colors are endless, the service is solid, it covers well, washes well, and lasts forever.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at June 08, 2025 03:23 PM (NXz8h)

When I painted the front room at my AZ place earlier this year, I used $13/gallon Glidden paint from WalMart as a primer, and $23/gallon pre-mixed Glidden paint for the colors. Covered just fine, rolled out smooth, did not leave brush or lap marks. I was delighted with how well it worked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2025 03:28 PM (KC35q)

106 You need a new painter. Idiot cut my wall up like that for a color sample he won't be able to paint his finger nails for a year.

Posted by: Bob at June 08, 2025 03:29 PM (YiqZD)

107 82 I scan, in color, the paint cards and capture the relevant paint information and store them on my PC. The challenge point here, and where my 1st World Problem happens, is I never remember where I store them on the HD. Ack!

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at June 08, 2025 02:57 PM (NXz8h)

May not work anyway... based on the encoding of the scanner, and then of whatever printer you use to reproduce so you can show the Paint Folks?

May still be off. Heck, I can tell the difference in movies and such between the various TVs in the house.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 08, 2025 03:31 PM (mP0Kj)

108
Disney fake "News" pickle-smoocher terry moran is supposebly "suspended" after going on a likely-drunk and gay tirade on Twitter, last night -- using the word "hate" SIX times in seven sentences in a pathetic Democrat-party talking-points rant against the great Stephen Miller and Our Favorite President(tm).

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 08, 2025 03:31 PM (bYJNO)

109 I see an "accent wall" in CBD's future.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 08, 2025 03:32 PM (Y5AMH)

110 Even if you have the identical paint, the sheen may not match due to age. I moved our bar shelves and thought I could just touch things up, but ended up having to redo that whole wall. Fortunately it was only a 4x6 area above the chair rail.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 08, 2025 03:32 PM (4DY5T)

111 And my FWP for today is that replacing the pump in the washer did not get rid of the leak! Oh, it got rid of the leak at the pump seal, but water is leaking on the fill cycle from someplace else. This is a Whirlpool direct-drive top loader, and its design allows it to be run with the cabinet off, so next time I feel ambitious, I will open it up, and try a fill cycle, and see where the leak is. I know it has to be downstream of the solenoid valves. But I got two loads washed, nevertheless. Washer is in the basement, leaked water runs into sump, and gets pumped out, so mess factor is minor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2025 03:33 PM (KC35q)

112 May not work anyway... based on the encoding of the scanner, and then of whatever printer you use to reproduce so you can show the Paint Folks?

May still be off. Heck, I can tell the difference in movies and such between the various TVs in the house.
Posted by: Romeo13

Its the paint mixing codes I want. SW equipment can nail a mix, even years later. The color scan is so I know what color it is supposed to be.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at June 08, 2025 03:35 PM (NXz8h)

113 97 From the petulant big dick humor news desk.

NY Post: Elon Musk body-checked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ‘like a rugby player’ during fiery clash at White House.

The good bits. Somehow Steve Bannon is mixed up in this.

“Scott said, ‘You’re a fraud. You’re a total fraud,'” Bannon said, referencing the-then Department of Government Efficiency honcho’s attempt to slash $1 trillion in federal spending.

The verbal spat turned allegedly physical when the world’s richest man rammed his shoulder into Bessent’s rib cage “like a rugby player,” prompting the treasury chief to fight back, the paper said Bannon claimed.

I imagine Scott going all in with the classic death by derivatives move. Karoline Leavitt was on Fox News this morning and she did everything possible to avoid admitting or denying this happened; I suspect she is still dizzy from all the spinning.

https://is.gd/CWkmTO
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at June 08, 2025 03:18 PM (NXz8h)

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It's a Washington Post story you are repeating (NY Post is quoting from the WP).

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 08, 2025 03:36 PM (36PRH)

114 BLOOD DONATIONS ... I received an email this week from the American Red Cross ahead of my next blood donation ... The message stated the Red Cross is transitioning to using ring-shaped sensors to check hemoglobin levels before blood donations ... This new, non-invasive method will replace the traditional finger prick and reduce the cost of "consumables" ... The ring utilizes a method called occlusion spectroscopy, applying pressure to the finger to temporarily stop blood flow ... Then, by shining light through the finger and measuring the absorption, the sensor can quickly and painlessly determine the hemoglobin concentration.

Posted by: Kathy at June 08, 2025 03:36 PM (qpw89)

115 >>> 28
This was weird.

My insurance company texted me with a warning of severe weather in my area tonight. They've never done that before.

They think a ~~Dorito storm~~ derecho storm is coming.

I was hoping for Buffalo Ranch goodness but all I'm gettin' is a sideways tornado.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2025 02:20 PM (iJfKG)

Hmm, are they volunteering to replace your roof?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2025 03:37 PM (QRFVs)

116
How would Steve Bannon know? Was he there?

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 08, 2025 03:37 PM (bYJNO)

117 >>> 40
==
No cellars here in Texas but fortunately, we do have Buffalo Trace.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 08, 2025 02:24 PM (iJfKG)
***

This is good news. I'll be down that way this Fall and would be sad if I couldn't find it..
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 02:28 PM (W/lyH)

This Fall, like say October-ish?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2025 03:39 PM (QRFVs)

118
No basements down South, eh?

That's like not having Christmas, or snow in the Winter. You People have no idea what you're missing.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 08, 2025 03:40 PM (bYJNO)

119 I see an "accent wall" in CBD's future.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 08, 2025 03:32 PM (Y5AMH)

The nice thing about an accent wall is that you can utilize the "oops" paint from under the mixer counter.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2025 03:40 PM (D7oie)

120
Where do you put your Junk, if no cellar?

The cellar is also a playroom, and a place for the boiler or furnace. And cans of paint, and old coffee cans filled with old nuts & bolts.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 08, 2025 03:42 PM (bYJNO)

121 We have storm cellars in West Texas, if you could afford to build one, you had one. At my grandmother’s place you had to walk out in the backyard and open a heavy door with a rope and pulley system (presumably the wind couldn’t use a pulley). Then you got inside with some refreshments, electric lanterns (battery powered) and sat out the storm on the benches inside. Twister never took my grandmother’s place, but one famously came downtown and twisted up a skyscraper like a corkscrew, enough that the elevators couldn’t run straight up and down anymore. My other grandmother was trapped under a local bank building (in their shelter) when that happened and had a heart attack during the storm, which she survived (both storm and heart attack).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 08, 2025 03:42 PM (2gJlZ)

122 $75 a gallon and this was the builders grade paint.
Posted by: polynikes at June 08, 2025 03:18 PM (VofaG)

That’s really pricey for exterior paint. I’d pay about half that.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 08, 2025 03:42 PM (l3YAf)

123 >>> 84 My FWP is the classic Too Much Stuff. Yesterday I cleaned out the kitchen pantry. It's where my COVID-era panic buying and Mom's Depression-era inability to throw anything out met and had litters of kittens. I tossed out loads of expired stuff (ate one can of old Sphaghetti-Os -- dreadful! Would hurl as a weapon before eating again) and poured out remains of seriously old booze and mixers, with defunct grocery store tags, pre-UPC. I think JFK was in office at time of purchase.

And no, I did not pour them into a trash can along with soda and Everclear. I don't live in the barracks anymore.

Time for me to assault the YUGE pantry stores in the basement and use up the canned goods.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 08, 2025 02:59 PM (bgsfx)

You probably aren't somewhere that you could put a couple feeder piglets in the backyard, are you.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2025 03:42 PM (QRFVs)

124
This Fall, like say October-ish?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2025 03:39 PM (QRFVs)

Heh.
Believe me if I can schedule it that way, I will. But probably a week or two later.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 03:42 PM (W/lyH)

125 I see that no one suggested that old stand-by for wall coverings - shag carpet!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 08, 2025 03:46 PM (VNX3d)

126 Why is there a piece of gingerbread in that wall?

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 08, 2025 03:47 PM (7NkZG)

127 Eris, I have home canned applesauce from 2012.

Time to dump it and make more this year.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2025 03:47 PM (D7oie)

128 >>> 124
This Fall, like say October-ish?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2025 03:39 PM (QRFVs)

Heh.
Believe me if I can schedule it that way, I will. But probably a week or two later.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 03:42 PM (W/lyH)

So close!

If it's job-related can you convince them there is a religious requirement for you to be there on a particular weekend?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2025 03:48 PM (QRFVs)

129 I found this to be well researched and presented. It is quite a history.

The Engine That Refused To Die: An Offenhauser History
https://youtu.be/cHMzHDdGmik

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at June 08, 2025 03:48 PM (NXz8h)

130 If you have leftover cans of paint, put a splotch on the lid and label then take a Sharpie marker and label what room it's from.

Thought everybody did that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 08, 2025 03:49 PM (lIgBp)

131 Why is there a piece of gingerbread in that wall?
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 08, 2025 03:47 PM (7NkZG)

Hansel and Gretel redecorated after that thrill-kill spree. You should see the kitchen!

Posted by: Kindltot at June 08, 2025 03:49 PM (D7oie)

132 That wall color is not too far from the color of nice, Grade A fancy maple syrup.

Posted by: 496 at June 08, 2025 03:50 PM (SJrOE)

133 It's a gingerbread house, silly!

Posted by: Geez... at June 08, 2025 03:50 PM (lIgBp)

134 I'm just sitting here, lurking and taking Homeowner Helpful Hints notes.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 08, 2025 03:51 PM (rF2iL)

135 If it's job-related can you convince them there is a religious requirement for you to be there on a particular weekend?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 08, 2025 03:48 PM (QRFVs)

Because I was low on beer money, I agreed to teach one more class at the University where I don't teach anymore except for when I need beer money. So I gotta work around the class schedule in order to get to Austin so I can see Daughter of Diogenes #1.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 08, 2025 03:52 PM (W/lyH)

136 When I painted the front room at my AZ place earlier this year, I used $13/gallon Glidden paint from WalMart as a primer, and $23/gallon pre-mixed Glidden paint for the colors. Covered just fine, rolled out smooth, did not leave brush or lap marks. I was delighted with how well it worked.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2025 03:28 PM (KC35q)

Good prep work matters more than paint “quality”, in my experience. Cheap paint+primer tends to work just as well as the pricey stuff. Unless you’re covering up a dark color with a light, but then you are probably better off doing two coats regardless.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 08, 2025 03:54 PM (l3YAf)

137 >>>Why is there a piece of gingerbread in that wall?

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard

>When you're the food thread guru, you could easily staple your favorite, flavored poptart into that space and call it food art.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 08, 2025 03:57 PM (syvpP)

138 GEt cleaned up and upstairs
FOODIE NOODIE TIME

Posted by: Skip at June 08, 2025 04:01 PM (+qU29)

139 Carpet colors:

https://youtu.be/gZAUXVw_TW4

Posted by: It's a classic at June 08, 2025 04:01 PM (lIgBp)

140 In other FWP news, I hung an electric fuel pump on Dixon mower #2, which was stalling out due to lack of fuel. Got it plumbed in, and wired in, turned it on, and (Gomer Pyle voice) Surprise! Surprise! fuel started spraying out in a tiny stream from the underside of the hose that goes around the front of the engine from the tank to the carb. Hose was chafed almost through, and the rubber inner liner was split. Elasticity of the rubber kept the slit closed most of the time, so I did not see a leak when the carb was gravity-fed. Putting the pump on disclosed the leak, so it was a win. And I mowed for an hour and a half on the electric pump, and nary a stutter from the engine. Not going to remove it. Pump is on its own toggle switch, fed by switched power from the ignition switch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 08, 2025 04:04 PM (KC35q)

141 I take pictures of the labels. Home Depot can read their code and match paint exactly less any aging from sunlight. Also the can match from a sample the size of a fingernail.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at June 08, 2025 04:11 PM (ditrG)

142 Tony Seruga @TonySeruga

But wait. GPS -- this [dude is] not even from Mexico! He very likely originated from Venezuela (based on money transfers to potential family members)

His phone has been at antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests, and 3 Kamala Harris rallies. It also seems to reside nightly at a ~$2.1 million residence.

All funded by:

Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project, Troublemakers and the Democratic Socialists of America.

Each receives money from NGOs like Open Society Foundations, ActBlue and at least three, via USAID.

https://bit.ly/3ZWpGSR

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 08, 2025 04:45 PM (P5BPp)

143 Shiplap covers a multitude of sins.

Posted by: Joanna Gaines at June 08, 2025 05:17 PM (G5+As)

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