I have brand new unfinished cabinet doors to replace my old doors. The new ones are paint grade pine with MDF inserts (shaker style). I have a Graco x5 and have been practicing using it on test doors already and will spray the doors outside in a home-made paint tent. I plan to brush the cabinet frame faces as spraying indoors will be unwieldy and messy. Now I need to decide what paint to use. I have experimented with Sherman Williams ProClassic oil paint Semi-Gloss finish with a 313 FF tip, thinned with paint thinner (3 to 1) with Penetrol added, and it looks great. But the cleanup was a nightmare, and I am nervous to use that paint indoors when I brush/roller the cabinet faces (only faces and sides, not inside the boxes themselves). I have heard water-based Alkyd paints are as good, like Benjamin Moore Advanced or even the Sherman Williams Alkyd pro classic. Will that spray as well as the thinned out oil? Is there an oil based BM Advanced to consider? Also I heard I should use shellac primer like BIN. Should 1 coat be enough for the doors and the boxes inside? Should I sand after primer and in-between coats? And with me 3 to 1 thinning, should I do more than 2 coats of finish paint? Would there be a difference in color over time with oil paint? Will there be a difference if I did oil on the doors and brushed on alkyd inside on the faces? Lastly, if I use Alkyd paint, should I use Floetrol (the water based equivalent of Penetrol) and or thin it for spraying with a 313 FF tip?

I am running out of the beige touch up paint for my walls that the builder gave us when we moved in. I went to Sherman Williams with my can of paint and had them color match it. But it turns out the new paint dries a bit darker. You can only notice it in dim light. From what I've read it is very difficult to almost downright impossible to color match at the paint store. Any other suggestions? Someone suggested adding additional coat of paint but wouldn't that just amplify the color difference?