blending old paint and new, I goofed!
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blending old paint and new, I goofed!
I decided to do some touching up today and got a little carried away. The exisiting paint on the wall is about 3 years old. I had the original can of paint and used it for my touch ups today. Well, I am now finding that I can obviously SEE where I tried to touch up. Any ideas on how to blend the two paints after the fact? I am wondering if maybe some magic eraser or some sort of "washing" at the seam of the two paints would dull the line a bit and feather them together better? HELP! Debbie
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No, there is no easy way to blend it. If the paint quality is low, or it wasn't mixed good enough before the t/u, or it froze at one time, or if the wall has burnished from wear, or its a sheen of some sort, r light has faded areas of it, etc. etc. are all possible reasons it won't match. Easiest way to fix this is cut your losses and paint the whole wall.