Wal-Mart Color Place Paint Great Coverage
By sizwizz onI recently had some painting done in the living room area of my house.I bought an expensive paint at Home Depot and hired a painter to do the job.It cost me a fortune in paint!So when I decided to take a DYI approach and tackle other rooms in my home, I knew I had to find a paint that was less expensive and still do a good job at coverage.
Enter Color Place paint.This is Wal-Mart's brand, so obviously it's sold only at Wal-Mart.My first job with the Color Place paint was to paint my bathroom.I needed to cover boring white walls and had chosen a darker color, (sort of a dark grey with slight purple-y undertones), and I set out to put this paint to the test.I was apprehensive at first, not only because of the dramatic color change, but I was worried about having to run the paint roller over and over the walls for coverage.As it turns out I worried needlessly because the Color Place paint covered fabulously!Honestly, I painted my walls with one coat, and only had to go back and retouch only a few spots where I may not have had enough paint on the paint roller.Now THIS is my kind of paint!
Since I finished that first paint project, I have painted 3 other rooms in my house. All have had the same great outcome.And the best part is that a gallon of paint is less than 20 bucks!Also, since it has such good coverage you can buy less!I won't buy that over-priced paint ever again.Just because it's inexpensive doesn't mean it isn't fantastic!
I just painted a bathroom using this paint. I could tell from the moment I opened the can of paint that this was a lot thinner than any paint I have ever used. In short, I was disappointed in the coverage and I needed to apply a second coat because the first color showed through.
Just so everyone is warned, during the summer of 2008, I used the ColorPlace latex porch and floor paint on our screened in porch floor and the outside steps to the porch. A few days later, the first hint of trouble came after it rained and some of the paint was washed right off the porch steps. Then we noticed that when we moved some porch furniture such as a wooden rocker, the wood scraped the paint right off the floor! This spring I have spent many hours pressure washing the colorplace paint off the porch, sanding the remaining paint, cursing colorplace, and painting the porch again with a good quality oil based porch and floor paint from Devoe. The new paint was $35 per gallon but the results are well worth it.
I tried colorplace paint for the first time it will be my last it is the worst paint i have ever used. Three weeks later it is still not completely dry. do not use this paint there have been to many problems to list
Great bargain. We need to paint some rooms over so we'll buy this brand.
i tried colorplace paint as i had been told it was as good as the others. We remolded our entire downstairs, took out floors and sanded down and painted numerous bookshelves and built ins before reinstalling new hardwood floors. We used the enamel interior latex paint on our entire downstairs. It is now 2months later and the paint still grips anything sat on the shelves and I can not put my home back in order. I have called the company and upon their advice I keep lights(heat source) on the shelves etc. etc. to no avail. I spent 2 months sanding down shelves and repainting. I am totally frustrated. I'd rather move than had to start over. I f anyone has any suggestions I'd surely appreciate it. Color place has been no help.
Choice of paint can be difficult. Latex paints contain anything from 50-90% water, are not good in high traffic areas, shrinks more than oil based paints when drying, prone to water stains, are sensitive to temperature. Oil based paints take longer to dry, much better in a high traffic area than latex, shrinks less than latex. Produces more fumes, harder drip clean up. Personally for wood I would use a quaility oil based paint 99% of the time if I have to paint it, especially in a high humidity area like a bathroom.
i agree, bad covering, lot thinner
Glad you found a paint that works well for you. Thanks for the review on this product.
i never knew that getting your house painted could cost so much money. but atleast walmart has pretty low prices, and also some good quality paint is deffinatly worth having when you most need it for any job like that.
It sounds like some of the problems people are having can't really be attributed to the paint but more the situation in which it was used. My family and I got together in 2002 and painted my Dad's house throughout using the Wal-Mart Color Place paint. it went on easy and has looked great all these years. When he passed away in 2007 I inherited the house. It's due for a face lift and if I can find the colors I want I definitely have no problem using Color Place paint again.