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This versatile color visualization program lets you experiment with color before you even pick up a paintbrush. Preview color selections, even specialty finishes, on an interior or exterior home image chosen from a pictorial library, or import images of your own home.

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Benjamin Moore and Pottery Barn have joined forces to bring you inspirational color ideas for your home, including palette options for every season.

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HOW MUCH PAINT SHOULD YOU BUY?

It is difficult to know how much paint to buy until you know how many coats of paint it will take to completely hide the existing color.  Most paint manufacturers recommend you apply a gallon of their paint to 400 square feet (that would be 20' by 20') of smooth, sealed surface. If you were to apply one gallon to 200 sq. ft. of smooth surface in one application, then you would have applied the paint twice as thick as the manufacturer recommends. I recommend you buy less paint than you think and make another trip to the paint store for more paint, rather than over-buy and be stuck with more paint than needed. If you do see that you will need more paint, try to stop painting at a natural break- point, incase the new can of paint is not exactly identical in color to the paint you all ready applied.

 

Benjamin Moore has created this handy calculator that will help you know how much paint to buy: PAINT CALCULATOR