Within a few years, many more paint companies' colorants will be "Proprietary". (In way, they are all proprietary now, because every co. has slightly different versions/colors of their colorants) I've been at an ACE for almost a decade now. We don't have BM by choice. We've got C2 for our high-end line and haven't looked back! Like BMs' upper lines, C2 has more than 12 colorants available to match colors from other lines (16 available). So yes....it's much easier to match INTO a paintline that uses more colorants. Going the OTHER direction RARELY works, and is usually optically impossible. A color made with 6 or 7 colorants (some that are high-strength too...) is technically impossible to match into a company that only has 10 or 11 colorants. Example: By store policy, we don't match C2 colors into ACE. There's a reason for that! Faron

"Covers in one coat..." What a meaningless phrase! * For God's sake...ANY paint will "cover" the wall in one coat. * BUT...How WELL will it cover though?? * Even the word "cover" means different things. * How well will person X apply that "one coat"? * Will they also use the cheapest possible tools as well, and then "blame the paint" if it doesn't hold up?! Paint & Primer in one: * From a "technical" standpoint, there is NO SUCH thing. It DOES make good ad-copy/slogans though! * Primer resins and paint resins are 2 VERY different animals. * They can be advertised like that because paint resin-blends are always being tinkered with. So, if a paint-film is developed that has a little better adhesion to it, thereby ACTING kinda like primer.... * ...it'll be marketed as "OUR NEW P-N-P IN ONE!!!" * Please. I've been paint retail for a decade now. We tell customers what paint REALLY is. Not the best analogy here, but consider this- (read with a cheesy radio-announcers voice!) >>> TRY OUR NEW CAKE AND FROSTING IN ONE....!! Faron

Another pretty green! Just take your color chip into S-W and they will match it perfectly for you. I did that all the time last year when choosing my colors because I wanted to use S-W's paint (Harmony, no-VOC line). Hard to tell on the monitor, but would Olive Branch go with very light gray? Last year I fell in love with SW Svelte Sage and have it adjacent to SW Blonde. I used the very top strip on the Blonde (forget the color now--Navajo white?) for the ceilings throughout the adjoining areas (our newly finished basement). Tracey

Very Interesting News for EVERYONE. I just got a call from the Benjamin Moore store that sells the paint to the painter. Apparently BM just came out with a new version of Moorgard and Moorlife that has a LIFETIME warranty like Duration. The best part is the price does NOT change. Just like Duration the product is thicker and uses some new technology. I hate to be the guinea pig but a life time warranty for exterior paint sounds appealing. The only catch is the warranty is available only on the Exterior paint line. Apparently they didn't upgrade the interior paints. That will probably come later. The new model number is N105 and N103. The additional (N) in the part number is the important part. That specifies that the base is the new concentrated mix that comes with the lifetime warranty. If anyone else familiar with this? Thx Big Tex More Info: http://benjaminmoore.com/wrapper_pg3.asp?L=prod&K=xprods&N=prodext&groupid=8&productid=255#article Here is a link that might be useful: New Lifetime Warranty for Benjamin Moore!!!!