What will happen if I mix one paint color with another?

Question

Help! A friend and I are painting and the color turned out too light and bright, but my friend is too cheap to buy a whole other color and start over. However, we don't have enough paint to finish a second coat and have to buy a little more anyway. We have like a third of a gallon of the original paint color left and are going to buy more paint in the size smaller than a gallon, I think that's a quart. So I was wondering if maybe we could buy a darker and duller version of the same color (it's Behr so they have a lot of different shades of the same color) and mix it with the original color and paint it over the original color for a second coat (we'd only have enough for one coat of the new color). Would that work or not? The color is a brownish/reddish orange that's looking a little too coral/salmon on the wall so I'm hoping to tone it down with something with more brown in it.

Answer 1

the easiest and cheapest way to tone it down is to go but a tester pot of the colour you need and dab over the colour you just did, you can scrunch up a carrier bag to dab with, it's cheap and effective, old fashioned maybe, but it works!

Answer 2

get a "glaze", and then "sponge" it on. . . The glaze will go  a LOOOONG way, and you can MIX and USE what you HAVE already.

Answer 3

Brand A with brand A will be okay, Brand A mixed with Brand B will or could cause more grief, not recommended.

Answer 4

there's no guarantee of how it will turn out, but it should be some where in between. if cheapness is over fussiness, I'd say go for it.