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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • I don’t think it matters which color samples you get. Everyone has to be able to reproduce everyone else’s colors. The only differences might be that if you use a different company’s color samples, then it takes them a little bit more work to do the color match, rather than simply giving them their company’s name for a color; and you may get a guarantee on the color if you use their own colors.


  • As a DIY homeowner that paints maybe a room a year on average, my current favorite paint is HGTV Home Showcase by Sherwin Williams, available from Lowes for about $50 a tin. It has a red label. It’s a small step up from the cheapest, but it’s still far from the most expensive; but it seems to me that the gain in quality that you get from paying a bit more than the cheapest is much more than you would expect, so it’s got a great quality-to-price ratio. With the cheapest paint, you have to work to get it on the walls smoothly, but this goes on nicely.