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Ooooooh - I'm hopping mad. I'm painting the boys' new bedroom (we're moving them to the 2nd biggest bedroom, and putting the baby in their current room b/c it's closest to ours). I'd picked up a couple of Benjamin Moore samples, and then decided just to use the same blue we have on 1 wall in the basement. It's the darkest blue that Restoration Hardware offers, and the boys want a space-themed room. When we painted the basement 1.5 years ago we were painting over dark brown walls, and I did not prime. I'm not a primer. I think it's a waste of a money and effort. If I need an extra coat of the color I'm using, that's great - but I'm not wasting my time to paint something white only to paint it the color I want. Anyway - the RH paint worked great, so well we ended up also using it in dh's office about a month later.
I went to RH yesterday and bought the paint ($34/gallon), and started painting today. It's like WATER. It's awful. I mixed and mixed and mixed, and it's awful. I can totally see the paint I'm covering after going over the area I'm cutting in several times. I called RH and asked if they'd changed distributors and - why yes - about a year ago they did. But their paint is QUALITY and I really should come in and buy their primer, too, b/c if I want to do it right I should prime. NO FREAKING WAY am I giving them more $$ to compensate for them changing to a lower quality paint. I'm probably going to have to take a store credit b/c I'm pretty sure I threw out the receipt last night, thinking that I'd used this stuff before, knew the color and quality, and why would I need it.
I went to the store that carries Benjamin Moore and bought their paint. ($46/gallon, incl. tax)
Good paint is TOTALLY worth paying for.
I went to RH yesterday and bought the paint ($34/gallon), and started painting today. It's like WATER. It's awful. I mixed and mixed and mixed, and it's awful. I can totally see the paint I'm covering after going over the area I'm cutting in several times. I called RH and asked if they'd changed distributors and - why yes - about a year ago they did. But their paint is QUALITY and I really should come in and buy their primer, too, b/c if I want to do it right I should prime. NO FREAKING WAY am I giving them more $$ to compensate for them changing to a lower quality paint. I'm probably going to have to take a store credit b/c I'm pretty sure I threw out the receipt last night, thinking that I'd used this stuff before, knew the color and quality, and why would I need it.
I went to the store that carries Benjamin Moore and bought their paint. ($46/gallon, incl. tax)
Good paint is TOTALLY worth paying for.
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