HD is still carrying the faux finishes but I don’t know for how long on either.Īnd alas I would lie to address the parent company manufacturing thing along with all the other labels. The paint is only available in RL Home stores like in NYC and there are a few Ace and True Value harware stores that are still carrying the paint. I was sorry to see it go as well, but unfortunately thats how business goes sometimes. Don’t worry about who’s name is on the label, try it for yourself and decide (plus its alot less money for paint of the same caliber).Īs far as the RL loyalists. As far as the typical MS comments I can think of bigger crooks that still walk among us. I have had the opprotunity to try almost all comparable paints in the marketplace, and for the price point and performance I was impressed. Fact of matter is that Martha Stewart being sold at the Home Depot is a brand new product with brand new ingredients and quite frankly I really like this product. They do indeed try to reach different buying groups and alot of times, that’s where the designer names come to play. No paint producing manufacturer tries to upstage or outdo any other paints being produced in their same stable. Anyway, after all that being said you will still have your own opinion, and thats fine. Thats all they do is test coatings withno bias like some consumer type publications. Test results and ratings for coatings are posted everywhere but true evaluations are performed by Marschall Labs (). What one person may like someone else may dislike. People have opinions about everything, and this holds true with paint. Let me see if I can address a few things I have read here and maybe (just maybe) shed some light. But, it could just be our bias we’ve never done a side-by-side comparison. And the collective judgment of everyone with us–all of whom were previously sold on RL as the best paint for the price–didn’t think Glidden was as impressive as RL. More pictures from the whole job are coming in a future article.Īll in all, though, we still miss Ralph Lauren. We still cut in twice in most places, but rolled the walls only once. Our little non-scientific experiment led us to choose Glidden for the job. We purchased five gallons of Glidden Interior and were successful in painting the room. When we examined the wall closely, we could see tiny white spots on the Martha Stewart side while the Glidden maintained a very uniform look. But, in this case too, Martha’s paint didn’t do as well covering as the Glidden. The difference is less obvious with rollers, and we had trouble getting a picture that could really show you the fine detail of the paint. Martha’s brand shows white streaks through the tan, while Glidden puts on a relatively even coat. If you look closely at the brush pic, you’ll notice that the coverage of the Martha Stewart Living isn’t nearly as good as the Glidden. We used the same paint brushes and rollers on both paints to get the best comparison of quality. Performance Comparisonīefore committing to either, we bought a quart of each and tested both on sample areas of the walls. Ralph Lauren used to retail for around $28.00, so both brands are less expensive than our old favorite. So, based on price alone, we’re expecting the performance of Martha Stewart Living to be about 20% better than Glidden. We decided to give both brands a try before picking the best one to paint a loft at my friend’s townhome over this past weekend. At our local Home Depot, Glidden costs $19.95 / gallon, while Martha Stewart commands $4.00 more for $23.95 / gallon. According to the paint desk worker at our local Home Depot, both Glidden and Martha Stewart Living paints are manufactured by the same company however, they clearly use differing formulas, based on our findings below. Home Depot now also carries Glidden interior paints as an “upscale” alternative to Behr. She concluded that Ralph Lauren was the best value when one considers that less Ralph Lauren paint is required to cover the same surface area.ĭespite our good findings, Home Depot saw fit to stop selling our favorite brand of paint and replace it with Martha Stewart’s new line of paint. Last year, Jocie (another author here at One Project Closer) ran a comparison between Ralph Lauren,Valspar, Duron, and Behr, and found that Ralph Lauren outperformed the others in everything except price. It did that job in just one coat, with one gallon of paint, and I was very impressed! We’ve since repainted that room (as part of a complete first floor remodel), and again used Ralph Lauren (in a lighter shade) with great success. I’ve been raving about Ralph Lauren Paint for give years - since I first used it to paint a beige dining room in “Dark Mocha” in our current home.
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