It's not that I have anything against SW, it just worked out that way
I started on crews that used an excellent regional brand, "..or Ben Moore if the regional isn't available"
Pittsburgh if we had the need or want
But never SW
As the years went by I just never had the occasion to use it
The old school Main St. SW in town left-there was no SW for a while
The regional brand went OOB
A family friend took over the independent paint shop in town and I've been going there since the '80s anyway
I know and respect the opinions of my colleagues that use SW and have understood it to be quality paint
I have said I wouldn't have a problem using it, it just never happened
...until now
We just moved to a new place
The new (to me) house interior was recently painted in pastel hell colors by the prev. owner (probably because it was going on the market)
A sweet, sweet, woman...and not too bad of a job either
But we really couldn't live with those colors
So the teen decides her room should be red
And she gets some SW that her aunt bought but never used...real red
I was busy with the Master bedroom but I had to pop-in (the teen and her mom love to paint, though sometimes it pains me, I let them do it in our house) and explain to them that "...for professional reasons, I have to spread some SW"
Ha ha
Well, they let me do a little section
What great paint, I'm sure I could get as proficient as am with Ben Moore rather quickly (know it's abilities and limits)
Best of all it only took two coats to get this real red to look great
...well, three over the patch areas I had to do, but that's to be expected, they weren't big enough for me to open up the primer
So from my short little test of SW I give it:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Two Thumbs Up
On a side note:
Some more ammo against those that want to paint because the house is "going on the market"
I have always said, unless it's truly heinous, don't paint
The chances of the new owners wanting the same color are slim
Chances are the first thing they'll do is paint
But I don't know, these H/O want to do something, and figure a DIY paint job is a small amount of money well spent
It pained me to repaint the weeks old repaint
But it looks like I lived my advice from a home buyer's perspective
We walked in to each room and both said "Looks in good shape-that paint's gotta go"
Really, it was the second thing out of both our mouths
I wish they had DIYed a new carpet instead
:cheesygri
The color's fine but their three year old must have had run of the house, juice boxes and lollipops in hand
I've steam cleaned it twice already
Most of it's a goner, and I don't lay carpet:sad:
I started on crews that used an excellent regional brand, "..or Ben Moore if the regional isn't available"
Pittsburgh if we had the need or want
But never SW
As the years went by I just never had the occasion to use it
The old school Main St. SW in town left-there was no SW for a while
The regional brand went OOB
A family friend took over the independent paint shop in town and I've been going there since the '80s anyway
I know and respect the opinions of my colleagues that use SW and have understood it to be quality paint
I have said I wouldn't have a problem using it, it just never happened
...until now
We just moved to a new place
The new (to me) house interior was recently painted in pastel hell colors by the prev. owner (probably because it was going on the market)
A sweet, sweet, woman...and not too bad of a job either
But we really couldn't live with those colors
So the teen decides her room should be red
And she gets some SW that her aunt bought but never used...real red
I was busy with the Master bedroom but I had to pop-in (the teen and her mom love to paint, though sometimes it pains me, I let them do it in our house) and explain to them that "...for professional reasons, I have to spread some SW"
Ha ha
Well, they let me do a little section
What great paint, I'm sure I could get as proficient as am with Ben Moore rather quickly (know it's abilities and limits)
Best of all it only took two coats to get this real red to look great
...well, three over the patch areas I had to do, but that's to be expected, they weren't big enough for me to open up the primer
So from my short little test of SW I give it:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Two Thumbs Up
On a side note:
Some more ammo against those that want to paint because the house is "going on the market"
I have always said, unless it's truly heinous, don't paint
The chances of the new owners wanting the same color are slim
Chances are the first thing they'll do is paint
But I don't know, these H/O want to do something, and figure a DIY paint job is a small amount of money well spent
It pained me to repaint the weeks old repaint
But it looks like I lived my advice from a home buyer's perspective
We walked in to each room and both said "Looks in good shape-that paint's gotta go"
Really, it was the second thing out of both our mouths
I wish they had DIYed a new carpet instead
:cheesygri
The color's fine but their three year old must have had run of the house, juice boxes and lollipops in hand
I've steam cleaned it twice already
Most of it's a goner, and I don't lay carpet:sad:
