Painting - of these paints...which to use for a red room

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trips2001
04-19-05, 06:28 PM
I have these stores near me...what will be the best option for painting a red room:

Sherwin Williams

Duron

Pittsburgh paints

Benjamin Moore

Pratt & Lambert through Ace Hardware

I have bought Duron before and it came out well...it was a light color. A friend had a nightmare time painting red and I saw the post on reds and dark colors, so I really don't want to end up with the same nightmare. I have the good brushes and such, but need a REALLY good paint.

thanks


slickshift
04-20-05, 02:33 PM
I'd go with the Benny Moore

BobF
04-20-05, 04:49 PM
Benny Moore is good. Sherwin-Williams is good. Haven't used Duration. P&L is generally a good paint, too, but I stick with BM or SW.


spdavid
04-21-05, 12:06 AM
Pratt & Lambert is a high end division of Sherwin-Williams so one over the other is probably a mute point.More importantly is that in EVERY brand of paint there are multiple levels of quality usually easily identifyable by price.Stick to the upper level higher priced lines within a brand.Lower level lines in any brand are usually not very good paints regardless of brand.Just because a name is on a can of paint doesn't mean it's really good paint.Stay away from the big box stores to buy your paint.The "help" there knows very little about what they are selling and will steer you to whatever they feel benefits them the most to sell.You mentioned an Ace store....go there.....or possibly a paint store.