You spent hours choosing the perfect paint color and covered every wall with care. But years later, a touch-up is needed—and you can’t remember if the shade of green was Phantom Mist or Dinner Mint.

Lauren is a writer and architectural designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a writer at Forbes, she works as a freelance architectural designer specializing in residential ...

How many times has this happened to you? After spending hours agonizing over the perfect shade of paint, you gleefully coat every wall in your home in that shade. Then, years later, when there’s a ...