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Why does nobody talk about how hard it is to match beige undertones?

Spent 3 hours in Home Depot last Sunday holding up swatches to my living room wall. Took 7 different paint chips home. Every single one pulled pink or yellow or green in my afternoon light. Had a paint guy tell me to just "go with a warm greige" like that means something specific. My wall still looks like a band-aid. Has anyone dealt with beige being impossible to get right?
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kai_stone99
Paint that bandaid looking wall and call it "artistic beige" like the rest of us, nobody will know the difference.
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avery366
avery3661mo ago
Right? Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do to get through the day. It's a real struggle when the paint job is that bad but you're already committed.
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reeseanderson
Back when I was painting my old house I had this one spot where the original color just would not cover. I tried three coats and it still looked patchy in the afternoon light. Finally I just cut my losses and threw a big piece of furniture in front of it until I could afford to redo the whole thing. Sometimes you have to accept good enough and move on before you lose your mind.
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