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Popular selected Pottery Barn Paints…by Benjamin Moore

Today, I’m inspired. Pottery Barn paints by Benjamin Moore are on my mind. ‘Cause spring is in the air! It’s hard to believe that a week ago I was walking my dog in the snow with my pink snow boots on. AND today is a beautiful 80 degrees in the Triangle! Over the weekend, I went outdoor biking for the first time in a year. That first winter change from cold to warm, sunny weather just puts me in a GREAT mood! Kinda the same way that ABBA songs can. It’s just a great time to start thinking about gardening for the season, spring cleaning, and looking around your house for any projects you want to attack. …like a room painting project. One thing I evaluate every so often is the paint choices in my home. While I do have some rooms that are neutral beige color, most my walls are not! Beige is a safe color and one that you want to consider when you’re planning to sell your home. But when you’re living IN it, it’s very BO-RRRINGG!

So why not LIVE IT UP with some CUL-AH!!!!

Painting is one of the few fun things you can do around the house yourself, inexpensively and really make a very dramatic impact. For me, colors either inspire me or they depress me.

I’m just not afraid of the COLORS. Some people really ARE! I’ve been in homes where they’re deciding between a white and an off white. Are you kidding me??? Like anyone is going to really notice the difference!

So you’re probably wondering, what kind of CRAZY colors I have on my walls, right?

Well I’ve got a clay orange wall in the dining room. The kitchen is a dusty rose color but that’ll change to something warmer. The living room is a yellow beige called Blonde. The study that I’ll show you soon has a red accent wall with the rest of the walls as a blue-gray. I’ve got a green room. We’ve got a denim blue den. And wait ‘til you see my bathroom. It’s a melon pink with a band at the bottom with a split pea green soup (well…you’ll see it in my future videos). Let’s just say I had fun with the big Crayola crayons set to play with when I was younger. Oh, and I also have a navy blue hallway…it looks pretty regal if you ask me. So I’m pretty all over the place when it comes to colors and the mood I wanna bring in. And lighting, size of room, and furniture all come into play in paint color choices.

So where do I get all these CRAZY color paints? My favorite paint store…Benjamin Moore. I used to buy my paints at Duron (Sherwin Williams brand) and places like Lowe’s and Home Depot. But then I discovered that these are the brands that builder’s choose ‘cause they’re the cheapest. They’re the contractor grade paints. I asked the Benjamin Moore helper one time what made their paints so superior? And when I asked her specifically what made theirs different from Duron paints…she just laughed. OOHHH-KAY… Then she went onto tell me about how if you rub your fingers across the flat Duron paints on the wall…you’ll see it’s like chalk that you can’t wash over if there’s a smudge mark. Well, I discovered it’s hard to clean over any flat paint. I think she meant to say that the Benjamin Moore paints last longer and are easy to clean – that’s what I’m talkin’ about! And they have an eco-friendly line called Eco Spec. There’s also a premium quality line called Affinity where the colors are more subtle so you can mix and match say for example, if you want several striped colors in a room. If you’re at a loss what that can look like, they do that a lot on HGTV’s Color Splash show.

Benjamin Moore Affinity Premium House Paints

Now I wanna let you know that all those paint benefits are great… but for me, it’s secondary to having a large color palette to choose from. Benjamin Moore has one of, if not the largest color selection. And they sell tiny samples for $3.99 like the ones pictured below here so you can try it on a wall before you invest in a quart or gallon can. Once in awhile they have a coupon out for a free sample that you can take advantage of. benjamin_moore_color_samples The samples are really the way to go if you can’t decide ‘cause a can of paint is gonna cost you.

A gallon of Benjamin Moore paints starts at $38 per gallon. While that’s not the least expensive, it’s also a much better quality paint so it will last you a longer time. Something to think about next time you have a paint job. OH – and they have a very helpful selection of paints that are pre-selected in case you want to narrow the paint choices down to just a few most popular paints. They’re labeled the Pottery Barn paints. These must’ve come out sometime late last year I wanna say. Pottery Barn to me is very mainstream. You just can’t really go wrong. And if you want to see these choices, then order their free catalog or get one from one of their stores. You’ll see a lot of the paint options in their catalog where they illustrate rooms with painted walls and their home furnishings. They even point out the paint color on the wall. Colors like Truffle (pinkish beige) and Olive Branch (greenish beige)… notice I didn’t just describe them as boring beige ’cause they actually have an undertone to them. Oh, and if you’re daring they’ve got a spicy red called ‘Caliente’! Would be good for a dining room — not too orang-y and not too bright red where you need your Jackie O’ dark sunglasses to look at in the morning.