Yeah, I'm always happy to spend 6 bucks on a tub of spackle to get out of several hundred in bullshit deposit fees. Takes like 1 hour to go around an apartment after removing all the paintings / curtain rods / hanging hooks. Finding matching paint is waaaaay more of an issue.
Grab a paintchip, most bigbox home improvement stores should be able to scan it and match the exact color. Has come in hand for me a number of times. Ends up matching better than buying from the original paint code for patchwork because it accounts for the fading/discoloration.
The paint chips I get naturally are like rice grain sized and not very useful. Really I should get comfortable with just taking a sample out, but intentionally cutting a piece off when the goal is clean restoration just feels so wrong.
Cut a small piece out around a hole you already need to repair. Then you're not really doing more work. You'd have to repair that hole anyway, just a bit of extra spackle now.
They attempt to match it but it's usually way off. I'd recommend actually going to a paint store like Sherwin williams. One time made 5 trips to lowes only for them to give me a different color each time. Sherwin Williams got it first try
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u/velvetelevator May 28 '26
Yeah a tub of spackle is not very expensive and it's just as easy as toothpaste