Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Oct 23, 2011 6:41 pm Hi All, Found this info on a USA website (unfortunately have lost link ) but did save the instructions to a great online paint tool...: Easy RGB. It will let you find out the tints for colours fm paint companies such as Benjamin Moore, Ralph Lauren, Sherwin Williams etc. You can then get them tined to an Aust paint brand eg. Dulux, Wattyl, Taubman etc. Let's say you go over to a friend's house and her living room is painted the OLD Porter's Indian Ivory (USA colour). You come home and realize you only have a Sherwin Williams paint deck...Crap. How can you figure out a close match to Indian Ivory without having to go through Porter??? Go to Easy RGB (easyrgb.com) and follow these instructions: From the toolbar at the top click on "From Commercial Tints to RGB" Type in the original color name you want to match and select its brand from the drop down menu. (see below) Press Start. Then you should see the name of the paint with a bunch of weird #s below it (unless you typed it in wrong) Click "Get Commercial Tints" You should now see a page like this: Don't mess with the color numbers that have appeared and ignore the HTML color # part.. just leave that blank Last step- just select the paint brand you'd like to match your color to. Press Start. Voila! Sherwin's closest matches to Porter's Indian Ivory. Not close enough? Go back and select another brand to match it to and see how close you can get. Hope it helps! Also found this great paint tool - it's like your own paint chart for all major brands. http://www.osmosis.com.au/colourpot.asp ... &pageID=25 You can find the rgb tint info and using this info find similiar colours (closest match between 1-10) from different paint brands. Have a play it's simple to use. Hope you Enjoy !!! Go to an actual paint store, not bunnings. Dulux even have trade centers. Don't have to be a trade to but their paint. 1 13354 Thankyou so much 😀 I've decided on White on white for doors and trims, White on white 50% on ceiling and Mt buller for walls. Fingers crossed it will look OK 😀 2 3518 Thank you. That is really helpful. Once we get the place done and passed for OC we can upgrade in the future once we get back on our feet and not paying mortgage and rent. 4 3782 |