Even though we go to a lot of effort to hand paint all of our colour charts and the colour on the charts is real paint the same as if you placed an order for any of our paints. A small one inch patch of colour is unlikely to show how it would look on a large piece of furniture and especially in room, which is why we always recommend you purchase a test pot or a swatch. Even though we do not currently do small tester pots in our Flat Matt Emulsion you can purchase the smaller Furniture Paint 150ml pots as these paints are also water based and can be diluted as necessary and used on walls, or you can just purchase our swatches.