Dear James: I made some patches on my bedroom wall. I don’t have more of the original paint, and I don’t want to repaint the entire room. How can I match the paint? — Seth L. Dear Seth: You can match old paint but expect it to take some time. Different parts of wall may…

Some people would never paint stained wood; they’d rather remove the dark stain and refinish the wood naturally. But some dark wood molding was stained to cover up imperfect or mismatched grain, so it’s not worth refinishing. This dark stain is found in some older homes, which dates the rooms and their furnishings. One way…