The Pain in Paint

So we needed some paint to touch up the exterior walls of our house. We had a 5-gallon bucket, a bucket labled Benjamin Moore, of paint left over from when we had our house painted about 10 years ago. I made the 25-minute drive (with an additional detour to a store that used to stock Benjamin Moore) to take it to the nearest Benjamin Moore stockist. There were several numbers on the bucket, but those indicating the color had worn off. The paint store could match the paint visually, but they didn't have a computer that would do so. I decided we wanted to be as precise as possible, so back home to visit our HOA office as they have to approve and then record our exterior paint colors. Hooray! They had the exact names of our "Benjamin Moore" paints. I returned to the store, armed with the names of the paints. A staff member pulled up the colors, but they were completely different from our house colors. I left her with the old bucket and asked her to match the color as best she could. It would apparently take 24 hours to get the paint ready. In the meantime, I went home, searched through my filing cabinet, and found an old color card of the paint that we'd used for our shutters and door frames. Hallelujah! The paint was Kelly-Moore Green Thumb 149. Kelly-Moore, not Benjamin Moore. Mystery solved. Kelly-Moore is apparently a completely different company from Benjamin Moore, and, according to "the paint lady" at The Paint Gallery, it is mostly sold in California and Arizona. There are only two Kelly-Moore suppliers in Colorado, and the nearest one is in Longmont, 70 miles away. So we'll just have the paint matched at the nearest paint store or buy the Benjamin Moore equivalent if we need to repaint the exterior in the future. I picked up the matched paint yesterday.

In the meantime, for prosperity and future reference, this is what we have:

Trim: Kelly-Moore, Swiss Cream
Shutters and Doors: Kelly-Moore, Green Thumb, darkened by 25%
Walls: Either Kelly-Moore, Juniper, lightened by 25% or Benjamin Moore Moon Shadow

Addendum, 7/1/18: The plot thickens. The paint is not Kelly-Moore. Kelly-Moore Green Thumb is definitely not what we have on our shutters and doors. We changed the original scheme because it was almost identical to our neighbor's colors, and we didn't update our HOA.  Farblunget!!! What we have, in fact, is a standard suggested exterior color scheme by Benjamin Moore, but we took it from an old brochure that is no longer available. Anyhow, thank goodness for spectrophotometers!