Decorating & Design
4 New Paint Formulations For Any Type Of Project
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Decorating & Design
4 New Paint Formulations For Any Type Of Project
Summer is painting season—indoors and out! The newest formulation will help keep your home looking shipshape right thought to next summer and beyond.
Set Sail
BeautiTone PAINT, from $23 per 4.7 litres, Home Hardware, homehardware.ca
For a lively but livable variation on the neutrals we’ve been loving these last few years, BeautiTone has chosen Pacific – a soft, complex blue – as its Exterior Colour of the Year (ECOTY). “Pacific will be an impactful colour choice for many years,” says Kristen Gear, lead design and colour specialist for BeautiTone Paint and Home Products. “It is a calming yet bold influence that balances the hustle and bustle of our busy lives.”
Front & centre
PAINT, from $27 to $95 per 4.7 litre, Behr, behr.ca
Ready to kick up the fun quotient? Behr recently teamed up with the mak- ers of Hubba Bubba Gum to introduce a paint colour for those with colour confidence: Hubba Bubba Pink. Sure, it’s eye catching, vibrant and play- ful, but it’s more than that. As part of the Dopamine Decor trend, it’s a colour that (if you love pink) will lift your mood and add joy wherever you apply it, from a kid’s room to – why not? – the front door!
Wood you look at that?
Premium Woodluxe Exterior STAIN, $73 per 4.7 litres (latex); $83 per 4.7 litres (oil based); Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.ca
Benjamin Moore’s new Premium Woodluxe Exterior Stain seals and pro- tects all the exterior wood surfaces around your house, from decks and fences to porches and outdoor wood furniture. Easy to apply in just about all weather conditions, it comes in both latex and oil-based formulations and three different opacities, for a tough, beautiful finish that won’t peel, crack or fade.
Tough Stuff
PAINT, $90 per 4.7 litres, Sico, sico.ca
Sico Clean Surface Technology is the company’s newest interior paint formulation and boasts a long-lasting, stain-resistant finish that was created to stand up to the worst your family can throw at it – including wine, juice, coffee and, yes, crayon drawings. It even washes easily without scrubbing. This all-in-one paint-plus-primer slashes prep time, and the soft eggshell finish resists everyday scuffs and scrapes, so it’ll keep its elegant looks for years.
Choosing The Right Lighting
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