Kelley’s Ace Hardware

It’s like the employees are working off their community service sentences. Not very helpful. Not cheap prices. But close

I would not buy paint here.
I recently bought four gallons of Benjamin Moore paint here for a new home. I brought in the chip, showed it to the guy behind the counter, and off he went. The people with me commented that he looked a little… brain dead… but hopefully everything would turn out all right.
I should also mention that, in a total refusal to join the 1990s, Benjamin Moore paint vendors use a manual mixing system, where they hand set the amount of color «dope» and inject it, again by hand, in to each gallon of paint. This seems to me like it would leave room to lots of human error, as opposed to systems like I’ve seen at Lowe’s, where the paint person scans a bar code and a computer spits out the paint. Yes, the computer has to be calibrated right, but at least no matter the calibration, every gallon would be the same. Measuring out by hand, I could get four different shades in my four gallons.
In this case, I did get seemingly the same shade in each gallon. But not the shade I ordered. Curious. Benjamin Moore flat is $ 40 a gallon. Non-​refundable, because it’s all custom mixed. Thankfully, the color wasn’t bad (in fact, I rather like it). But it wasn’t what I wanted, and we didn’t really realize until we had coated a room and let it dry — using 1.5 gallons in the process. Never mind that I’ll never be able to get it again… what if I need to buy some for… repairs or something?
Go to the Ace at Ogden and Washington in Naperville if you need BM paint. They still manually measure it out, but the two gentlemen I’ve bought paint from there (and I’ve bought lots of paint… did a whole house…) are very good. Or go to one of the J.C.Licht stores around. But not here.