Mara
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Greg's sister had to postpone her trip so that means I have an extra 3-4 weeks to fix up the house (which means I should really get off my ass and start painting and organizing upstairs). So today I went to Orchard (a smaller version of Home Depot here, more friendly/personable) and they have Easy Living, Dutch Boy and Martha Stewart paints. I don't love EL as I have tried it before and it's cheapo, not familiar with DB but I did like some of the MS paint selection options, the guy said it was the most expensive too, big surprise. I must have a gravitational pull towards the most pricey thing in the store.
Anyway, has anyone painted using MS everyday paint? I'm thinking what is the quality here? I have used Ralph Lauren paints before which I really love, and we have Benjamin Moore in our house as well.
Problem is that I get really easily overwhelmed by paint colors with too many selections, but I was able to pull about 4 greens that looked promising from the MS paint options pretty quickly and 3 sand/dark yellowish/gold options as well. So I'm wondering if I just like the color selection should I just do it? I want a quality paint but I also need easy paint color selection, aka I can't have 50 'sage greens' to choose from and I like the ones I chose and seem like I could make an 'easy' selection this way.
Thoughts? And any experience with MS would be great too. I don't need the top of the line paint, just want it to look nice and go on smoothly.
Anyway, has anyone painted using MS everyday paint? I'm thinking what is the quality here? I have used Ralph Lauren paints before which I really love, and we have Benjamin Moore in our house as well.
Problem is that I get really easily overwhelmed by paint colors with too many selections, but I was able to pull about 4 greens that looked promising from the MS paint options pretty quickly and 3 sand/dark yellowish/gold options as well. So I'm wondering if I just like the color selection should I just do it? I want a quality paint but I also need easy paint color selection, aka I can't have 50 'sage greens' to choose from and I like the ones I chose and seem like I could make an 'easy' selection this way.
Thoughts? And any experience with MS would be great too. I don't need the top of the line paint, just want it to look nice and go on smoothly.