I'm going to have several rooms in my house painted; What is the best brand of paint, I should buy?

Question

Help, help, help!! If you are a paint aficionado, please respond to this question! I need your expertise!

In a few weeks, I am going to have several rooms in my house painted, from your experience, what is the very best brand of interior paint, I should by.

Thank You Kindly.

Answer 1

im not a big paint expert, but i think that Ralph Lauren Home is a great brand if you are doing the rooms with different themes.
your welcome.

Answer 2

The major name paint brands spend so much money on advertising and traveling sales representatives they cannot put quality in the can, however, companies spending less on these extravagances can; its economics 101. Here's an interesting comparison; Benjamin Moore's Impervo vs Top Secret's Hard-Shell Lifetime Interior. They did a scrub test against Impervo and the Hard-Shell Interior scrubbed more than five times longer than Impervo. If it scrubbed twice as long as Impevo you'd say "that's nice" but five times as long? I think this really demonstrates the fact that the big paint companies spending millions on advertizing; essentially brain wash you into making a purchase of an inferior product. They are selling image, which has nothing to do with quality.

People aren't typically aware of this fact; there are 5 diffeent kinds of latex resin with acrylic being the best. The Top Secret Hard-Shell Lifetime Interior Paint is 100% acrylic which is a good as you can get for a waterbased coating. With Top Secret the quality goes in the can where it belongs, vs up in lights and on TV such as with Benjamin-Moore and other major brand name paints. It bonds better, scrubbs longer, covers better and costs less than major, heavily advertized brands. See Top Secret Coating online store for more info. Good luck.

Answer 3

I always use Glidden Paints. I pay a little extra and have an extender put in the paint. It slows the drying time and gives you more time to work with the paint. When rolling it on the wall you don't get an edge line where one rolled edge dries before you can apply another. I think any high-quality paint is OK. I tried Behr once from Lowe's and I did not like the way it went on the wall. I used Pittsburgh Paints and they were OK as well. Make sure you prep your walls carefully - that makes all the difference in a professional looking job.

Answer 4

Hi, there are allot of good paints out there. I have used most of them it seems. The one I liked the best is no longer available,or under a new name and I just can't find it. But I did find a new one that I just tried,and it's better than most on the market. It is thick, goes on like spreading butter, covers very well,is creamy and the brush marks just melt into the paint ,until they are non-existent. The paint is,"Olympic Premium" and I got it at Lowe's. It's a water based acrylic paint,but it goes on like a oil based paint. Its washable, scrub-able,and doesn't cost an arm and a leg!

Answer 5

Sears "Easy Living" interior wall paint is manufactured by Sherwin-Williams and many times, is on sale at Sears. Recently used it to paint my entire house interior and was very satisfied with both the cost of the paint and how it looked when I was done.

Answer 6

supposedly one of the best (least problematic) interior paints money can buy is the Aura Affinity line by benjamin moore http://www.myaurapaint.com ... i heard you can buy Aura Affinity at Target

the downside is there aren't like 700 colors like the regular benjamin moore line

if you want to do sherwin williams or behr, follow some tips to get the perfect color and save yourself the hassle of errors. to avoid purchasing the wrong color, it's a good idea to invest in large paint chips (18"x18") .....they are about 4 dollars each but they give you a good sense of color on a larger expanse. (if you dont want to spend on chips use a solid towel or solid tablecloth or solid showercurtain or solid fabric or even a Tshirt because color truly needs to be seen on an expanse.) ... feel free to use those little free chips but be aware those little chips can fool the eye and at worse be costly and aggravating in time and money spent... remember nowadays stores like Lowe's and even some good hardware stores offer color matching with a scanner gun and a paint "computer". all you need to do is bring in your SOLID sample (no pattern!) for the clerk to scan, the larger the better. you can also invest in white boards and those little "sample jars" but i think that method's more expensive than the large chips method. happy painting and best wishes for a great look. ps you can also look at pages out of wallpaper books NOT to buy wallpaper *but because a page is large enough to "act" like large chip* if the page is not too patterned.

Answer 7

Behr Behr Behr Behr Behr anything in semi-gloss! I scrub the daylights out of these, no problems with fading, touch up is a breeze. I have used these paints for years, in two different houses. Don't pay for a designer name, pay for quality and durability.

http://www.behr.com/