What do you think of Coronado vs. Ben Moore Classic
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Comments (6)There are dealers for California Paints as well as Pratt and Lambert in the D.C. and Maryland market. I have experience with Pratt and Lambert paints and it has a solid reputation. California Paints is supposed to be a great product and I have talked to people who absolutely love it. They use Accolade in leiu of California. The 2010 is California's latest product and is better than Fresh Coat but is downrated because of the price. I don't have any experience with Kelly Moore paint. It is a small regional paint company. I have heard several paint contractors rave about MAB paints(M.A. Bruder paints) which is also available in your market. Their premium product is Seashore, which was developed for the Jersey Lighthouses. The mildew has little to do with the preparation or paint. Exterior paint has some mildewcide in it and will resist damage from the mildew. I must caution you about using a mildewcide additive in any paint. It automatically voids the warranty on the paint. If the paint store offers you an additive on your paint, tell them no. The problem is that the paint manufacturer has no control over the additives and will claim a paint failure on the additive. Mildew can be cleaned off with some bleach and water and can be sprayed or sponged on the surface and rinsed off. I highly recommend staying away from a flat finish, use at least an eggshell or satin finish. The sheen helps to keep mildew from affecting the paint....See MoreSherwin Williams vs. Ben. Moore vs. Behr
Comments (118)Out of the choices Above I'd say BM is your best bet. Behr products are too watered down and their white is more of a gray so that effects the way the colors comes out when tinted. Stay away from SW they are a bit better than behr but they over price for the amount of TITO in their paint as well. BM offers a beautiful color selection and has an exellent product. HOWEVER I would love to put Dunn Edwards in the running here. We have an amazing selection of nearly 2,000 colors (not mention custom color mathces we can do), a superior paint product and a FREE Professional Color Advisor service (that's me) . Plus we have a ton of "kill test" listed on our website and in our store comparing each of our products to the competition. (: but like I said BM is a nice choice!...See MoreBen Moore Pale Gray Update--Help!
Comments (24)I don’t quite know why Houzz sent me a link to this older thread but my update is this: Joan from For The Love of a House Blog knows what she’s doing. Her Ashwood was lovely in my master bedroom. Then, when we bought a new build house in 2013 I decided to try Titanium, also Ben Moore, also from her house. It read soft but tiny hint of green in my well-lit western exposure master bedroom. We paid an up charge to the builder to have a nice light taupe painted throughout the new house so my husband thought I was certifiable to be on a ladder repainting the Titanium over the new walls on the first day we had keys. Of course he was busy taking up all the carpet so he could lay wood floor the same day. The Titanium was wonderful. This past year we moved to the Deep South and I used her Gray Owl throughput the entire house we are in now. It’s my favorite and does read just a bit blue in some lights. (There May Be BM Stonington Gray in the kitchen and both baths. Just sayin’) And totally agree with 6009kitty on sample pots. Never paint without a sample on your wall. And I don’t mean a 12” square either. Light makes a lot of difference. Greenery out the window can change things too. Test it. Red...See MoreSherwin Williams vs Ben Moore
Comments (24)Thanks for relating all of your experiences. Rhome--I'm not sure about how quickly for the yellowing. My painter has warned me about it several times. Since my Carrara is so gray, I don't want to risk the oil yellowing and turning my white cabs into the wrong color in 5 years. I'm having a hard enough time picking the right white paint that doesn't have yellow undertones as it is! My painter does cab painting as one of her part-time jobs. She works at an espresso stand and does decorative painting also. She is an old friend of my cab maker who has only been making cabs for about two years now. He uses her, but I could find my own person if I'd like. I only saw one example of her painted cabs from my cab maker. The kitchen looked great, but the paint was very creamy and had about 5 layers of glaze so it doesn't compare to a clear, white, non-glazed finish that I'm after. When we met, we didn't like any SW color to compliment my Carrara so we choose a BM color. When the sample door arrived back to us, she has used SW paint instead and choose the closest SW color to the BM one I had picked. I was rightfully a bit annoyed. She said that there used to be a BM store near her, but it had since closed. The cloest BM paint is now at a hardware store, which she says she doesn't trust that she'd get product/painting advice if she needed it. So she switched to SW without telling me. Now, she says she'll do whatever we'd like her to do, but assures me that SW is as good a quality as BM. Like I said, I doubt that to be an absolute. I've asked her to do a sample of a different color (the first one was way too yellow for my gray Carrara) in BM water-based Satin Impervo. I also told her that if she was given advice that another BM water-based product would be better than the Satin Impervo I was OK with that also. Getting a better deal on a particular brand of paint isn't an issue for her. I don't think she buys enough paint to be a regular anywhere. Most of the time my cab maker is asked for stained cabs....See Morepaintguy22
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