Sherwin-Williams Paint Store

Those of you out there thinking about buying paint at a big-​box store, please go to SW first and check it out. After many years of using Behr, I switched and I’m very happy I did. It’s great to talk to someone who actually KNOWS something about paint, and to not have to deal with all the big box crappiness and quality control issues. I was totally sick of doing 3 coats of Behr and having adhesion problems, not to mention mistints from crappy Home Depot employees.
Even better, it barely cost me more to get the better paint. The guy at SW recommended a good contractor-​grade SW paint that ended up being $ 25/​gal for me — 50% less than I was ready to pay for normal SW paint. He made this suggestion without my prompting — which really impressed me. He could have done the easy thing and let me waste my money, but he went out of his way to tell me about an unadvertised paint and save me $ 200. I was hesitant about it being contractor grade, but he said in a flat it would work great — and he was right. That’s why it’s worth it to go to an actual paint store — people who know what the heck they’re talking about!