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American Pride Interior Paint Reviews

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American Pride Interior Paint

American Pride Interior Paint

April 20, 2008 at 1:01 pm
oakling
Reviewed by oakling
Pros: doesn't pollute, zero VOCs (no toxic fumes!), infinite colors, good coverage
Cons: none

At about $44/gallon, American Pride is cheaper than any other eco-friendly paint that I priced, and my local eco-friendly home furnishing store (EcoHome Improvement in Berkeley) can create any color for me. Some brands (like Yolo) come in a set number of pre-mixed colors, limiting consumers to the company's palette; not American Pride! They have every finish: matte, semi-gloss, full gloss, exterior, you name it. Right now I am sitting in my sunny yellow living room (American Pride mixed to a matte sunflower yellow) which soon will have glossy cream-colored trim.

It's even saving me from the hideous sea-green kitchen that my rental house had when I moved in. Thank god for landlords that let me paint. (Nice for them, huh? They don't even have to pay for the paint.) I seem to remember that it is even cheaper to get quarts of American Pride's colors, maybe just because you can get less paint and not have quarter- or half-gallons sitting around - but maybe because it costs more to custom-mix. They have good coverage, too; the folks at the store warned me that especially with light colors, I would probably need several coats, but so far one coat has satisfied me in the living room and my bedroom.

My only caveat would be to suggest using semi-gloss or glossy for interior walls if you don't mind the way it looks. I like my matte finish just fine, but I went with it because I thought the walls wouldn't get dirty ("oh, I can just paint over any dirt, anyway!") and let me tell you, my walls get scuffed up. Somehow I seem to get everything from dirt to dinner on them, despite the fact that the sofa is the middle of the room. And matte paint is not easy to clean; you're more likely to clean the paint off than just the dirt. Word to the wise!

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January 30, 2011 at 12:11 pm
BryanHolder
Reviewed by BryanHolder
Pros: no smell
Cons: terrible coverage, too thick, patchy, uneven drying, hard to apply

We are extremely disappointed in this paint. We try to be environmentally friendly, and this stuff was the worst paint I ever bought. It has terrible coverage and we ended up using a lot more than we thought. It was way too thick and cause all our walls to be patchy and dry unevenly. It was also hard to apply and wouldn't really apply to the wall in some places, as if we had oil on our walls or something. Just an awful paint job. Our walls look embarrasing! We are going to repaint them and we are thinking of getting our money back. It just looks SO bad.

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