![]() ![]() My hubby thought I was mildly crazy, as I stacked up over an inch of paint swatches in my hand. This is what we get for taking over a year to finish a paint project and not getting enough paint for the job in the first place.īefore we left Home Depot that day, I went and grabbed every paint swatch from the Martha Stewart line with the star color key symbol and several with the asterisk color key symbol. Is there anyway the Glidden paint color and sheen can match the Martha Stewart paint we already started the project with? Or will we have to re-coat the entire room to even out the color? We are crossing our fingers for a match, but preparing for the let down if it does not match. We have not used the “Zinc” paint in the family room, yet. The finished walls matched the “Enamelware” paint chip as closely as expected (there is always a slight difference when comparing a paint chip to a painted wall). ![]() Had you put the Glidden paint in a Martha Stewart can, I am not sure if we would have been able to tell the difference. We redid our guest bathroom in Martha Stewart’s “Enamelware” mixed in Glidden paint with a satin finish. I am happy to report, we were impressed with the quality and coverage of the Glidden paint. Paint is not an area of life where we care to experiment. We are pretty adaptable to change, but when we find a paint brand we like, we try to stick with it. We were worried about the paint quality, coverage, and color matching. We have never used Glidden paint, and with no option for getting the matching Martha Stewart paint, we had no other choice. The Home Depot lady recommended mixing the Martha Stewart color into Glidden paint. This was the current state of our living room, without a drop of Martha Stewart paint to spare: Of course we were one gallon shy of finishing the two-story living room that has taken us over a year to complete. I immediately felt a sinking feeling in my stomach. When my hubby went to the counter to have the paints mixed up, they broke the news to us. ![]() We found the perfect “Enamelware” blue for the guest bathroom and we grabbed the swatch for “Zinc”, which we are using in the family room. ![]() This weekend we went to find paint for the guest bathroom and grab another gallon to finish off our two-story living room. Since the Martha Stewart paint chips are still in Home Depot, which we walk by every time we go in the store, we never gave it a second thought. Just a week prior, the New York Post reported Home Depot was dumping the Martha Stewart paint base. Here is a post on Martha’s blog in early January, where she kind of ignores the discontinuation of her paint, but promotes her color palette being mixed in the Glidden paints at Home Depot. So, it had been several months since we actually purchased paint. We will stock up on a couple paint colors for various projects all at once. You might think we have been living under a rock, but we actually just tend to buy lots of paint infrequently. You'd be surprised what happens after 5 or 6 years when you go back to a paint store to try to buy the same paint again to match.We were shocked to learn Home Depot no longer carries Martha Stewart Living paint. If your gonna hang on to an outside paint job for a long time, then ensure that you will be able to get matching paint if/when touch up becomes required. So buy from one of the top brand paints from one of the large dealers you like/get along with. IMO this is part of why it is so difficult to make any definitive determination as the reports from different users (brands of paints) vary and seemingly contradict.Īt some point one has to make a decision. So pricing & competency (with regard to selection, mixing, supplies, support, etc.) can vary widely. In addition, the personality of any distributor is unique to the location. Paint manufacturers necessarily have to modify their formulations every few years due to EPA as well as new state regulations as well as supposed chemistry improvements.This seems to happen every three or four years. ![]()
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