A Fresh Coat of Paint

I’ve wanted to repaint the trim boards & staircase in our house ever since we repainted the walls 2 years ago. Babies and lack of time always seems to intervene. Lately my neighbors have been working on revamping their homes and I am reinspired. So….. I went to grab our handy gallon of trim paint left over from our builder. I found a beat up/dried up ¼ gallon of paint. The builder used Duron paint on both the inside and outside of our house. We had a local Duron paint store close to the house, but it closed about a month ago. I’m guessing due to the housing market and economy crash. So I called our local Sherman-Williams to see if they could match our paint. They said to bring in the gallon and they’d match it. All of our builder paint is “custom” with some sort of chicken scratch code on the top of each can that only paint people can decipher. Sure enough I went to Sherman-Williams and they said it was a white semi-gloss with a shot of black. They could match it. Since Jon and I have been going as green as within our budget I asked about their new eco-friendly paint “True Green.” I figured if it was anywhere near the $45 I spent on the last gallon of custom builder paint then it was a go. After the paint guy quickly set us up a store account for 15% off he told me the total. He said it was $43 while he made a “this is too expensive grimace.” Whooohooo! I thought to myself. I wanted to try it out when I got home. Lucky for me both boys passed out in the car on the way home from the store so I quickly painted a section of trim while they napped. I must say it looks just as good as our previous paint and I can’t even tell where it ends and the builder paint begins. The best part is it doesn’t smell. You would never know I just painted in the house. I think this paint is great. It also goes for LEED certification points as well. Only time will tell how well it holds up to wear and tear and cleaning though. The next time you are looking to paint your place, go and check out the True Green paint at Sherman-Williams. It’s pretty awesome!