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Help me find a Dulux silvery white paint

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ardgybardgy · 27/11/2018 11:37

I wanted to paint several rooms using Homebase Moonlight, which is white with a hint of silver, but my decorator has arrived today and turned his nose up at using "retail" standard paint. He wants me to choose something in "trade" standard - by which I think he means Dulux, Crown etc. He is particularly recommending Dulux, and there's one of their decorator centres nearby so I'm focusing on that. I'm going to ask them to colour match the Homebase Moonlight. However, presumably colour-matching will hike the price up (yes?) so I wonder if there's an off-the-shelf silvery white that's similar. I've been staring at colour cards but can barely tell the difference between many of the colours and know they often look a lot different once you get them up - the Moonlight certainly does. I need to make a decision in the next few hours though!

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Orchardgreen · 27/11/2018 13:45

Colour matching doesn’t hike up the price

ardgybardgy · 27/11/2018 14:22

Good to know. Thanks!

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ardgybardgy · 27/11/2018 15:16

Answering my own question here, in case anyone else needs to know which Dulux paint is the closest match to Homebase Moonlight. I took a 2-coat sample to Dulux Decorator centre and it's come up as an 'excellent match' with Chiffon white number 3.

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BreakfastAtLitanies · 27/11/2018 15:23

Used to work with paint - the silvery style will not come up in a colour match, it'll be very much so a flatter version of the original colour.

Tell the decorator you're paying him to paint your house so he should accept the paint you like?! Confused you're hardly going to blame him if it doesn't last quite as long.

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