Article: Preview kit can save you some pain(t)

A couple of weeks ago, I decided my living room needed a new paint job. The Mediterranean green -- while lovely -- was getting on my nerves, so I decided to go with a simple off-white. I brought home two gallons of "white chocolate" paint from the hardware store, brushed it on the wall and, to my horror, it turned out to be the whitest white you ever saw. Useless.

One way to circumvent that particular problem is Behr's Designer Combinations, a paint preview kit in six themes based on the latest interior designs. It comes with four sample flat enamel paints (in six themes), four small rollers, one roller handle, four paint trays and preview swatches. The point is to play around with the ...

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