A tip I had a few years ago from a professional painter was if like a expensive sample from someone like F&B but don't want to pay their extortionate prices just take the colour chart to the DIY store and get them to mix and match it on their colourizer, you'll get the identical colour at half the price!
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right, the only difference is they're wrong
You can use both instant and regular coffee to paint with. Instant coffee is a great time-saver—all you have to do is dissolve some instant coffee in hot water. Change the coffee/water ratio to achieve a lighter or richer color. Darker hues will require less water than the lighter shades.
Yay!
Edit: I wonder if I should add a bit of flour to thicken it ...
The first bowl, 4 very heaped spoons of coffee & boiled water, was too runny so I drank some of it. To the second bowl I added less water and it took some times to mash out the granules. Deciding I wanted to make the emulsion a bit darker I concocted a second bowl making 8 heaped teaspoons of coffee altogether. Then the magic -
Dobbelt, dobbelt slid og besvær lldbrænding og kedel boble
It's probably at this point I should add that I was not painting a whole wall but rather the wall space behind shelving The paint is on the wall and in artificial light looks good. Daylight will tell.
If you bought some powdered coffee Nia, you could have made up a tester pot of your paint, sprinkling a little in as you went along. Resist sipping though.
If you bought some powdered coffee Nia, you could have made up a tester pot of your paint, sprinkling a little in as you went along. Resist sipping though.
I know Frazz, but I wanted to do it at that moment & a few teaspoons of coffee worked surprisingly well. I keep a few sample size tins of paints in very dark colours like black, grey & brown to mix with lighter paints if I want to knock the shade back a bit. I had a very dark brown called Pinecone but alas, it had dried up.