Whether you’re a humble DIY-er or an aspiring painting pro, one of the most critical pieces of knowledge you need to master is where and how to get a color of a specific paint product. The trusted brand of Boysen offers various products, each with individual properties, that will benefit the different kinds of surfaces of your home.
Though if you want to paint a particular part of your home a particular color—painting your wooden door with a purple hue, for example—you might have a harder time looking for the right paint, compared to finding the same color for your bathroom walls. Avoid the wild goose chase of finding a specific paint color. Equip yourself with information on the different ways to get paint colors to efficiently plan out your renovation projects.
Level 1: Readily Available Colors
For a product like Boysen Roofgard, a paint dedicated for roofs, having color options is good when creating a house that fits your vision. Having these colors that can be easily purchased from your nearest hardware store is just as useful. Most Boysen products have their respective readily available colors, hues that are already in-stock in home depots and hardware stores.
You can use the Choose Your Paint tool found in the official Boysen website, as well as in the official Boysen app, as a way to identify the right paint product for a specific surface. Each product page lists the readily available colors of a paint. Some products like Boysen Healthy Home will have the readily available colors indicated as ‘Standard Colors.’
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Level 2: Achieving Midtones Using Tinting Colors
Products like Boysen Automotive Lacquer or Boysen Wallguard only have white as a readily available color. That doesn’t mean you’re limited to one color. Through Boysen Colorants, you can achieve a variety of light, pastel and midtone colors to paint various surfaces.
What is important to know is that certain paint products have their respective tinting colors. Be mindful of paint compatibility when mixing a paint to a colorant to avoid adverse reactions. Some colorants Toluidine Red, Bulletin Red and Hansa Yellow are also for interior use only.
There’s a variety of colors you can achieve, especially with the Mix your Colors feature of the Boysen app that can guide you. The rule of thumb when mixing is to not go over the 1:16 colorant-to-paint ratio.
Level 3: Visiting a Mix & Match Color Station
Most paint products already offer a good selection of readily available colors, but what if you want even more? What if you want a color you don’t want to mix personally? Then visit a Mix & Match Color Station, Boysen’s accredited mixing sites. Hues indicated as ‘Suggested Colors’ in a brochure or product page, as well as over a thousand more from Boysen’s color collections, can be mixed as selected water-based paints. Namely, these are Boysen Permacoat Latex Semi-Gloss, Boysen Healthy Home, Virtuoso Silk Touch, and Titan Superflex Elastomeric Paint. 
There’s this misconception where getting colors mixed takes too long which is not true at all. You only need to wait for around five minutes per container to get your paint product of choice in the colors you want. There’s a Mix & Match Color Station in most major hardware depots and retailers. You don’t necessarily have to travel far to get the colors you want. Click here for FAQs.
Level 4: Getting Plant-Mixed Colors
If none of the options above are your means to get a specific color for a specific type of paint, your last option is to have these plant-mixed. Getting Boysen Acqua Epoxy in one of the colors from our newest color collection, for example, requires you to place an order through your nearest Boysen dealer. They will then coordinate with Boysen production to produce the paints you want.
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It is a lengthy process, though. Production quotas, color finalization and your location affects how long you would have to wait before getting your paints. It is still a viable option for design professionals where major projects can benefit from the distinct colors achieved through plant-mixing.
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While professionals can offer their expertise, you can empower yourself to make confident design decisions for your personal space. Now that you know how to get paint colors for specific paint products, you can plan out more efficiently and eventually materialize your dream home.
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