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kitchen ceiling paint matching problem...does celings in kitchens usually get darker over time??

I'm trying to paint one side of the kitchen ceiling due to a grease fire mishap.. I have a can of the original paint that was used to paint the ceiling when it was new. Now when I use this same paint to cover up an area of the ceiling in the kitchen that got a bit toasted due to the grease fire smoke, the painted area now looks so much whiter than the rest of the kitchen ceiling.. could it be that the rest of the kitchen ceiling that I didn't paint over got naturally darker over time due to it being exposed to smoke and fumes of regular cooking throughout the three years i've lived there? How can I find a paint to match this weathered ceiling then? Hope this makes sense.

Public Comments

1. The paint is dirty from evaporated cooking oil in the air. You'll have to clean and repaint the whole ceiling to get it looking really good but just cleaning will make it better. Use sugar soap.
2. what you have is contaminants on the ceiling you will need to paint the whole ceiling
3. You could take a paint chip from the older section of the ceiling and bring it to the paint store and have them match it and mix the paint for you, but it will be next to impossible to get an exact match. You are much better off just giving the whole ceiling a new coat of paint.
4. Paint gets drab over time regardless of what room it is in. If you are painting any area, the entire area has to be painted. Prime the entire area, and paint it all. I have a brand new home and if I decided to repaint the same color on only one half of a wall or ceiling it would still not match the other. The home is only 8 months old. Paint it all but don't paint a partial. It just is common sense.
5. you need to use a stain sealing primer on the entire ceiling followed with a coat of the paint your using.the grease fire landed soot on the walls and without a stain sealing primer the discoloration will migrate to the surface of the paint.If your going to paint, do the entire ceiling, you'll be sorry otherwise.