Renovations
Buying guide: Paint
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Renovations
Buying guide: Paint
The home improvement market offers lots of choice when it comes to paint. Find out what your options are and which supplier is best for you.
There's a paint for every painter. Whether you value colour range, ease of application or designer credibility, you're sure to find your ideal match here.
7 Paint Brands to know about
Beauti-Tone
Well-priced and carried nationally at Home Hardware, Beauti-Tone has a great website that covers project ideas, tips and trends.
Behr
Widely available through Home Depot, Behr is one of the best mid-priced brands. Features like large-size paint chips and in-store colour-matching computers make it popular among home painters.
Benjamin Moore
A favourite brand with designers and consumers, both of whom like the paint line's vast range of colours, it offers excellent coverage and wear. Widely available.
Devine Color (now owned by Sherwin Williams)
Boutique line Devine Color is the brainchild of Oregon artist Gretchen Schauffler. Sample cards feature real paint smears from the 115-shade palette. Sample pouches, which cover roughly four square feet, let you test the shades.
Farrow & Ball
One of the last traditional-style British paint manufacturers, Farrow & Ball boasts a small palette of can't-miss colours, many of them historically accurate and bearing quirky names like Pointing, String and Mouse's Back. Sample pots, which cover roughly 10 square feet, let you test colours.
Para Paints
Another venerable Canadian company, Para is known for such innovations as durable and scrubbable Elite eggshells and flats, and their Group of Seven line, which incorporates colours inspired by the canvases of Canada's legendary art movement.
Sico
One of the oldest Canadian companies, Sico is known for its super-washable flat paint, Cashmere, and for accuracy in nailing reds, often a difficult pigment for many companies to formulate.
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