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I have done business with Home Depot for a number of years and have usually been satisfied with the products. I was having my livingroom and kitchen painted and got the paint from my neighborhood Home Depot in Pearland. The painter had finished my ceiling and the livingroom and sent me to get another gallon of paint for the kitchen as one was not going to be enough. I took the lid from the gallon I had with me so we could match the color that I thought I had purchased. When I returned home he had about two thirds of the kitchen painted but it was not the color I had wanted. When we opened the new can it was the correct color as it was mixed from the lid on the previous can. It seems that the young man who had mixed my paint had put my lid on someone elses can and vice versa. The painter told me for him to wait for the paint he had allready done to dry and to repaint the kitchen the color I wanted it would be another day and another two hundred dollars. I went back to Home Depot and informed them of the mistake. The new problem then became if I kept the color that was already on the walls it would be difficult for them to match. I could not afford the two hundred dolllars and another day off of work for the painter to redo the kitchen. They gave me a free gallon of paint that they tried to match to the lid from the other can. Now I have a kitchen painted in a color I did not choose and the new can does not match the other paint exactly. I also had to buy new drapes for the kitchen as the old ones matched the color I was supposed to get. I am 63 and am not able to paint myself anymore and especially not my cathedral ceilings. I was not satisfied with the way this was handled. The lady in the paint dept was very appolgetic about the situation but this was an extremely expensive mistake for me and I am still stuck with paint I didn't want.