Post by thiswillbe on Mar 20, 2013 14:14:20 GMT -5
Does anyone have a nice beige-y neutral they love? We're going to repaint the interior of much of the old house soon, and I need a good basic color (we're renting it out). Also, any recs for not-crazy-expensive paint? I love Sherwin Williams Harmony paint, but I'm not spending that kind of money on walls that will probably need to be redone in a year or two!
We like Behr because the VOCs are a low as some the "green" brands and it goes on well. We had Home Depot mix us Behr paint to match the Natura paint color Wheat....oh sh!t, I just had the name in my mind, and i lost it! It's "something" Wheat. Like True Wheat, or Cracked Wheat, or Light Wheat....gah, it has totally vacated my mind, haha
Anyway, it's a color from HD's zero VOC paint, which gets terrible Consumer Reports reviews, hence our getting it fixed in Behr. IMHO, it is the perfect neutral, light tan. And we tried a LOT of tans! We have it in our foyer, dining, stairwell and halls, and i love it.
Post by ballandchain on Mar 20, 2013 19:48:11 GMT -5
I'm generally not a big fan of beige/tan, but I think the color in my living room -- Cappuccino Froth by C2 -- is really nice. It was there when we moved in, but we didn't change it because we liked it. I'd do 50% or 75% strength if I were using it over a large area because it's maybe a little darker then beige, but the shade is nice.
We typically use Benjamin Moore; I think the "brand name" paints have better colors/pigments. But Behr consistently gets good reviews from Consumer Reports and is definitely cheaper. We painted a bookcase with a paint from the Martha Stewart line at Home Depot, and I was pretty happy with it.
Post by bluedaisyus on Mar 21, 2013 8:41:23 GMT -5
We're getting ready to paint our living room with "toast" from Olympic (we're actually doing the one long wall in that color and the other two short walls in "string of pearls", the 4th is stone). We wanted something relatively neutral but on the warm side and that was the one we liked the best. We got it at Lowe's, it's a zero VOC paint and wasn't too bad price-wise. It looks like it was about $10 cheaper per gallon than the harmony paint.
Huh, I just went to the Home Depot site, and apparantly they don't have the in-house no voc brand they used to. Maybe because of the terrible reviews, ha!