Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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My advice is don't worry about it so much. Decide on a color family and grab the little cards at Home Depot. You will stress for hours over the slightest differences in colors, but in a year it will just be "Beige" or "Sage" to you...
If it's THAT important to you to get this "just exactly right" then $6 to me is such a ridiculously small sum of money to stress over for a $400k house.
The Sherwin Williams in Cary (it was over by Crossroads, but is now closed and over on Maynard/Kildaire) let me borrow theirs.
I think it is complete overload. Way too many colors. I then borrowed their smaller deck which featured their new/newer colors and used that to narrow shades down. From there I bought quart sized samples ($5) and put large squares of each on the walls to see what they looked like. On the wall, the colors look totally different than in the decks or swatches (lookes lighter on the wall), but if placed up against he paint, you can see that they are indeed the same color and shade. I guess my point is, you don't know what the color looks like until you get it on the wall.
And like others have said, whats a few bucks when paying $200+ for paint.
$6.95 is too much for them to ship it to the store and have me go pick it up. If it's going to the store anyway, why not just charge me the $5.98 and call it good? Especially when you consider it won't be the only thing they send in the shipment. I don't even have the option of having it shipped to my home, or I wouldn't balk at paying the shipping (though logically it doesn't make sense to pay more for shipping than the item costs).
Yeah I agree I thought it was to send it to your house, if you need to pick it up at the store it should be free shipping, they send box's of paint chips to the store all the time.
Yeah, I think I bought mine from the Sherwin Williams store.
I know I paid about $10 for one last year at the SW store on Kildaire. But after dealing with the overwhelming # of choices, I've decided to just browse the ready-picked-out combinations they have at the home improvement stores; I figure professionals with color theory & design education might yield better results than me just picking what appeals to me that day.
While they may not have fan decks, you should check out Common Grounds Green Building Center on Geer Street in Durham. They carry the best paint I've ever used - Yolo Colorhouse. It has zero VOC and goes on incredibly well.
I like Yolo for those reasons AND the fact that there is not a bizzillion colors so it's easier for me to decide and find things that go together. Devine Paint is very similar to Yolo in quality, price, & philosophy. And you can purchase Devine Paint in Durham.
I have purchased color fans in the past from paint stores in Oregon. Sherwin Williams and Miller (a PNW paint store). There decks were $9.95 and up.
One last thing, I found the color decks to be too hard to use.... too many choices for me. I bought them for the same reason, all those darn HGTV shows. But I do much better w/ the limited colors of Devine, Yolo, & Pottery Barn.
I was speaking to a coworker and she told me her daughter is an interior designer and could get me a fan deck. Her daughter went to Sherwin-Williams and was able to get me a fan deck. So now I'm a happy camper!
I wouldn't paint your walls for the first year you are in there, you're going to get all kinds of cracking and nail pops and stuff.
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