

As I rushed to claim them, shopping basket and glass of wine in tow, cruel fate intervened and another hand reached for a tumbler at the same time. , I spied a set of silver julep glasses at the host’s own booth. Weaving around a cocktail table and stacks of books at last week’s Reddymade Design amassed multiple chairs to furnish their space. Behr paints (available at Home Depot), Valspar (at Lowe's), and Kilz (at Walmart) are among those that did well in our past tests of interior paints.Housing Works’ Design on a Dime Raises $1.1 Million Coverage, gloss type, and resistance to fading are factors to consider.


"But now we're exploring color names that are a representation of your lifestyle." What's next, Dirty Socks on Floor?Ĭonsumer Reports has noted this trend before in our ongoing tests of interior paints. "For a long time we had to connect the color name with the general color reference," Sue Kim, the color trend and forecast specialist for the Valspar paint company, told the New York Times. These days it seems paint makers are trying to sell you a story rather than a can of paint. But when you pick up a can of Quiet Veranda, Opera Glasses, Lounge Singer or Toll Booth, you may not expect to see variations of the same hue-something we used to call tan. When you buy a can of paint called Trenchcoat Khaki you can pretty much expect it'll be close in color to the coat Columbo made famous.
