Cochise is a beautiful beige

It depends on which type of paint grade he uses in a particular brand. I like to use BM Aura. I now live in CA and DE is a local company, so many of the painters are more used to it and it used to be more easily available than BM. Even in the 5 years we have been here, BM has expanded quite a bit. Old habits are hard to break! The exterior of our stucco house is painted in DE, as that is a proven elastomeric paint designed for stucco and the climate here. No issues with that paint at all. Your painter probably has an account with DE and gets better pricing. I am remodeling some bathrooms and told my painter exactly what I wanted, written down in detail (BM Aura Bath & Spa in matte). He purchased it and will hand those receipts to my GC and I'll be charged extra for the premium paint, which I am happy to pay extra for a product I have used before and been happy with.

Lori, does this site match by formula or by “eyeball”? I know the brothers behind My Perfect Color. Jason and Dana Shaw. (altho we haven't spoken in years) They own a large Benjamin Moore/Hunter Douglas retail store in New Jersey and My Perfect Color is their online business. You would have to call My Perfect Color and ask if they rely on computer matching alone or if they have colorists to qualify color matches. It's a great question to ask! A little bit about formulas and computer matches... Paint stores can buy libraries of paint color data values - they can actually choose which brands. Some stores have every brand available while others select what they consider "top" brands. Of course, the more brands you include the more expensive the library is to purchase. These libraries of colors that the stores use are available from different vendors. Where the libraries come from is the vendors get fandecks and scan/measure the colors with spectrophotometers according to color measurement standards. The result is spectral data for each paint color. They take the spectral data and transform it mathematically into various color data value formats. Most notably, CIE L*a*b*. The CIE L*a*b* value is essentially the color's DNA, or fingerprint. That's the data value that's used to find color matches and compare how well they match. How well they match is qualified using a Delta E scale. As I pointed out above. Whenever there is a post on here about paint color formulas - how to use individual colorants to define a color, or tweak them by 25%, 50% etc., I'm sitting here at The Land of Color rolling my eyes and trying not to bang my head on my keyboard. Because conversations about formulas and individual colorants are stupid. And I can tell you why it's stupid...... and a waste of time. The formula is not the genesis of the paint color. The formula is just a recipe of ingredients that alter and change each other as they are blended; their individual characteristics literally get blended away into the base and each other. Rendering the formula, the list of individual colorants, useless. The CIE L*a*b* value is what is used to figure out everything about a paint color -- including the formula. There isn't a team of elves with a special 'gift for color' and extra-special artistic talents somewhere in an annex to Santa's workshop tinkering with colorants and creating thousands of paint colors manually using their little elfin' eyeballs. The question no one asks -- but needs to -- is where do the paint color formulas come from? And the answer is CIE L*a*b* values. If you have the CIE L*a*b* value for a paint color, you can manage color like a boss and figure out a bunch of stuff. Like a hue/value/chroma notation. Which is why I say if you understand hue/value/chroma and LRV you can rule the world. (the world of color). I call hue, value, chroma and LRV The Four Pillars of Color. But it's the formula, not the CIE L*a*b* value or hue/value/chroma notation, that's stuck on to the side of every paint can. So, that's why people glom on to the formula and why so many believe there is some secret code to decipher in the formula - some kind of code that's going to describe and define the paint color. And, again, the ultimate *code* that defines and describes a paint color is the CIE L*a*b* value. The "undertones" bullsh1t is just as stupid if not stupider than believing there's a *code* to crack with the colorants and formula. There is a more direct and much easier path. If you want to truly master color, then learn how we measure and quantify how we see and experience color. Stepping down off my soap box now.

Yes, we love the Lifeproof vinyl planks from Home Depot. They have held up and we have used them in other properties.