Decorator Paint
The Novogratz
Eagle Paint in Englewood, NJ can help you choose interior and exterior paint colors with an in-home consultation, where they choose the colors, work with your painter, and make the whole experience fun and painless. This can give a result that is not cookie cutter, but fresh and different. If you have a terrible time deciding on colors, call the Color Factory at Eagle Paint. They are also the only paint store in the area that carries high-end “Decorator Paint” such as: Donald Kaufman, Farrow & Ball, Stark Paint, Novogratz for Stark Paint, Michelle Winick Collection, and the Fine Paints of Europe. Not to mention California Paints, Pratt & Lambert, Benjamin Moore, Ralph Lauren, and Muralo. They also carry venetian plaster and wallpapers. The website’s store has most of the colors to preview.
Farrow and Ball
“Decorator Paints” have an “edited” palette of colors, compared with the thousands at other paint companies. This is something I have unlimited respect for because: #1) They’ve done all the work for us. #2) People go crazy when given too many choices.
Farrow and Ball is traditional and contemporary. The palette is so well thought out. Every room looks great and because the colors work well together, you get a wonderful flow going from room to room. Also, if you have plaster walls, the clay in the paint hides bumps and imperfections better than any other paint. It will actually save you money as often times skimming is the only other way fix imperfections in plaster.
Custom DKC on walls via Elle Decor
Donald Kaufman Colors (DKC) are full-spectrum paints, containing from 6-16 different pigments, as opposed to the usual 3 or 4 in regular paint. As a result, they respond to changing levels and and quality of light by changing colour. In order to make a room feel lighter and more spacious, I would go with on of the DK nice creamy whites or ivory shade. Donald Kaufman is the master of white. He has developed white paints for top architects, in many museums and galleries (Richard Meier’s Getty Museum for one, John Pawson’s Calvin Klein store on Madison in New York for another). I’ve used many of Kaufman’s whites in my own home, and they are by far the most beautiful whites I have ever seen or lived with. They glow and change with the different lighting conditions throughout the day and throughout the year.
The Novogratz
What sets Stark Paint, colours by David Oliver apart from other supposedly “eco-friendly” paints is that both the base and the colorants are 100% VOC free. This is not typical in the industry where the norm is only a zero VOC base and any color will include VOC ingredients. In addition, with over 240 standard designer colors to choose from, you can go green without having to settle for a life of primary colors. The Novogratz for Stark Paint collection is a limited palette of 39 shades that speak to the design duos color-loving sensibilities. “These colors are meant to work in really any room in your home,” they said. “We tried to pick out just the right colors for our paints, colors that we like for our own projects, to cut down the anxiety many people have finding the right hue.”
Fine Paints of Europe
Fine Paints of Europe carries a wide range of both oil-based and acrylic coatings, paints, primers, and varnishes. Their coatings provide dramatically better coverage than other paints, by including higher concentrations of finely ground pigments that yield up to 40% more coverage per ounce than domestic paints. This is an excellent choice for front doors, windows, garden furniture and cabinets.
Bergen County based, Michelle Winick, is an interior designer and color consultant in the NJ/NYC area that has partnered up with the Muralo Paint Company to create the Michelle Winick Color Collection. Top quality paint, top quality color, the colors are well balanced, and they just melt into your environment. The color chips in the color collection are a generous size (9×12), and what makes them unique is that they are made with real paint. There are also coordinating trim and ceiling colors that work with every color.
