You’ve just repainted your home and love the colours you have chosen. The next step is to keep an accurate record of the colour and brand of paints used so that future retouching is a breeze.

An easy way to do this is by writing the brand and colour of paint used on paint stirrers. Do this with the paint stirrers you used during your project as they will already have right paint on them.

Otherwise, buy wooden paint stirrers from the hardware store, paint them with the required colours and then once dry, record the product details.

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