Colorful Combinations from Two Great Companies
Sherwin-Williams and The Robert Allen Group make coordinating fabric and paint quicker and easier! Sherwin-Williams continues its collaboration with The Robert Allen Group, a leading designer and marketer of decorative fabrics and furnishings for the interior design trade, by offering a suggested palette of complementary paint colors to coordinate with Robert Allen’s latest Color Library …
Redesigning This Old House: Exterior Palette
Driving through neighborhoods, one can tell how important the exterior paint palette is to making a house a home. Choosing that perfect color can sometimes be a daunting task. However, paint companies now offer resources for customers to test colors virtually by uploading current pictures of their home. Load your photo, select your body, trim …
Getting Technical: Paint Sheen
At first blush, paint sheen seems a minor design consideration — especially compared with color. But picking the ideal sheen for a paint job involves important visual and functional considerations. As a practical matter, high-sheen or glossy surfaces are typically easier to keep clean. These paint formulations traditionally produce the toughest and most stain-resistant finishes …
Matte Black Is the New "Black"
A softer, less assuming black for a still-recovering economy is part of the 2010 palette. From Apple® iPhones to the Rolls Royce Phantom, matte black is everywhere. The finish gives black a warmer, more inviting look than its glossier, sharper counterpart. Luxury automakers such as Lamborghini and Rolls Royce have embraced the look, offering various …
Hudson Paint for Colorful Chalkboards
The idea of developing a color chalkboard paint has been three years in the making for Hudson Paint, starting with the design of a school in NYC. In the school every room and it’s chalkboard were going to be painted a different color, with a big orange chalkboard in the entrance. To the paint company’s …
Kelly-Moore Unveils Two ‘Green’ Zero-VOC Paint Lines
Kelly-Moore Paint Company, Inc., a leader and innovator of waterborne-coating technology and the first company to offer recycled paints, introduces two zero volatile organic compound (VOC), low-odor paint lines, Enviro Coat and Green Coat, and the largest selection of stock colors with 16 colors now available in eCoat, its recycled paint. Committed to meeting top …
The ben® Color Capture™ app for iPhone®
Benjamin Moore has made color matching easier than ever with its new ben Color Capture iPhone application. Take a picture of anything that has the “perfect-color-you’ve-been-looking-for” with your iPhone, and with your new ben® Color Capture™ app, tap the “match” key. In just seconds, a strip of colors pop up under your photo with the …
Attaining the Perfect Paint Color
Do you want to paint your room the color of your bath towels? How about the red of your Cartier gift box? Paint dealers now have the technology to match any color you bring to them. The old-fashioned way is to bring a swatch of the color to a paint retailer and find a similar …
Evolution of Color for 2009
What makes one color more popular over another when color forecasting? Color preferences for a season reflect the chemistry linked between culture, commerce an science while new ideas shade our internal spectrum and new technologies fill our vision. Try combining the colors of the below unique color combinations created by Sherwin Williams to discover a …
Hand Me Down and Spruce Me Up
No doubt you have your own heirlooms: a 1920’s end table from Grandma Mary, the sled that your grandfather toted as a boy, the quilt handmade from brightly colored old shirts cut into strips that adorned your great-grandparents’ bed. All too often, we find it a challenge to decorate with heirlooms because they don’t match …
