Recommend a good paint and primer in one

CBL

the painter recommended Behr, but I don't like anything in the colour palette and the person at Home Depot said they won't use the regular Behr colour formulas in the primer and paint.

Any other good brands that you ladies recommend? 

 

TarHeels&Rebels

They always color match at HD - any brand's paint chips into any of their formulas. Just find a different clerk - that one was obviously crabby or bossy. 

MMP

That's nuts. HD mixed the Behr for me.  I really like and recommend it.  It easily covered navy blue walls to a light blue shade.

pugznploons

that clerk was stupid, they can do ANY color from pretty much ANY brand in Behr.  I prefer Benjamin Moore colors, they are all in their system, same with SW colors.  I like the paint and primer in one, we used it on the exterior of the house and now on interior walls too, one coat and you are done. 

SSM&JLM

I haven't used it, but Olympic One is supposed to be good.  I've only used their regular paint, which I like.

 

CBL

TarHeels&Rebels:

They always color match at HD - any brand's paint chips into any of their formulas. Just find a different clerk - that one was obviously crabby or bossy. 

No -they won't. It's the same policy no matter what store I've been to in 3 different cities.  I'm in Canada - maybe it's a Home Depot Canada policy.  

SSM&JLM

CBL:

TarHeels&Rebels:

They always color match at HD - any brand's paint chips into any of their formulas. Just find a different clerk - that one was obviously crabby or bossy. 

No -they won't. It's the same policy no matter what store I've been to in 3 different cities.  I'm in Canada - maybe it's a Home Depot Canada policy.  

I wonder if it's b/c of the base used on the paints.  I know a blog way back was discussing getting rid of all of the oil based paints and a lot of stores are even phasing oil based tints.

 

nicolethegrrr8

I've used Olympic One from Lowe's which they easily matched to another brand's colors. I liked it OK overall - our bathroom required 2 coats (new color was a light grey & old color was a goldish yellow), but we still had to do three coats in our bedroom (new color was a light yellow & old color was a medium to dark blue). I feel like we could have possibly gotten the same results using 1 coat of primer and 2 coats of paint.

BrianaBones

I also used Olympic One, and I was very happy with it. I used a few dark colors on previously light walls, and it looked perfect after 2 coats.

I wanted to use a paint + primer because we had patched so many holes everywhere. I wanted to save a step, but I was so happy with the coverage that I keep using it. 

BrianaBones

oh, and I got away with only one coat on a lot of the lighter walls, and I am a very picky painter (or so I've been told).

TarHeels&Rebels

CBL:

TarHeels&Rebels:

They always color match at HD - any brand's paint chips into any of their formulas. Just find a different clerk - that one was obviously crabby or bossy. 

No -they won't. It's the same policy no matter what store I've been to in 3 different cities.  I'm in Canada - maybe it's a Home Depot Canada policy.  

Then yes, it's a Canadian policy.  

I've also had good luck with the Lowe's Valspar all in one.

TarHeels&Rebels

SSM&JLM:

CBL:

TarHeels&Rebels:

They always color match at HD - any brand's paint chips into any of their formulas. Just find a different clerk - that one was obviously crabby or bossy. 

No -they won't. It's the same policy no matter what store I've been to in 3 different cities.  I'm in Canada - maybe it's a Home Depot Canada policy.  

I wonder if it's b/c of the base used on the paints. 

I know a blog way back was discussing getting rid of all of the oil based paints and a lot of stores are even phasing oil based tints.

 

I think you're confusing 2 issues.

Oil-based paints are banned in some states (and maybe Canada, IDK) because of the environment.

For color matching, it's true, and always has been, that if you don't put the color into that company's base, it won't match the chip exactly.  To which my response is, the average person doesn't have the eye for color to tell micro differences in tints.  One company's base will have one drop more blue or yellow that will change the color just the tiniest bit.  For 99% of people, the result is still a color that they like.

sierramist_03

I always use behr and ever since the paint n primer came out they now ask if you want the paint n primer or regular. No matter what color you give them. 

sallypilot

DO NOT USE OLYMPIC ONE! It should be called Olympic FOUR because it took 4 coats to go from a medium green to a lighter blue in our new bedroom. What a waste of time. After that was so crappy, I bought Valspar with the Hi-Def coverage and it covered in one coat. It is a little more $, but the time savings is totally worth it.