Sherwin-Williams Paint Store

I’m not a fan of the color beige, but I have a special kind of hatred reserved for liver brown. Guess what color our walls are in our new rental? Guess what color our (partial, thank GOD) carpet is? Liver brown walls. Beige carpeting. PUKE. Side note: I have fantasies of ripping up that hideous carpet in the bedrooms and finding decent real wood floors. But that’s besides the point.
When you’ve got a serious paint job pending, you can’t trust Home Depot. Let’s be real, the folks working in that department would just as soon sell you a half gallon of pure crap paint that isn’t even going to color your walls (case in point: last year, we bought an inexpensive half gallon of dark red… five coats and tons of streaks later, we had to do a dark wash over it).
When we walked into SW this weekend, after agonizing for a month over our color scheme (we are obsessive), we settled on a metallic gold for the dining room that comes right off of our living room, which we planned on making a metallic red. How does one do the metallic thing? You buy a special treatment. The guy working there knew his shit. He pointed us in the right direction of just what we needed and we walked out of there not too long after with just what we wanted. It was a breeze. Paint buying is never a breeze for me. I’ve gotta give credit where credit is due.
The only caveat: I’d avoid buying your supplies here if you can. Blow your load on getting that high quality paint (SW is expensive especially for dark and metallic paints), and save money by buying brushes, rollers, tape, etc. at the hardware store.