January 10, 2012

Mixing My Paint Colors At The Home Depot!

After returning from my vacation last week, I decided to stop by The Home Depot on West 23rd Street in Manhattan, near our corporate headquarters and our TV Studio.  As you may know, our company has a wonderful partnership with The Home Depot, offering a range of Martha Stewart-branded products for the home and décor, including lighting, carpet, bath vanities, and our very popular paint palette.  Color is one of my favorite subjects and an important design element in the home.  It can attract the eye, create a mood, camouflage flaws, break up spaces, or unify diverse architectural elements.  It can truly transform a space.  At The Home Depot, our stunning color palette is formulated for use in all Glidden paints, including the new Duo Paint + Primer.  We also offer Martha Stewart Living-branded specialty and project paint products, which are an exciting and growing part of The Home Depot’s product assortment.

The staff at the 23rd Street Home Depot is knowledgeable, friendly, and fun.  The manager, Pelly Checci, greeted me and made sure I got my official orange Home Depot apron before I jumped behind the paint mixing counter.  Burnett, a sales associate in the paint department, really knows her stuff.  I gave her the colors I wanted mixed, colors that were used on our TV studio set.  Burnett walked me through the entire process of blending each color with a Glidden base using a very precise machine.  The colors: Fortune Cookie, Oolong Tea, and Carton matched perfectly. For more ideas and inspiration about sprucing up your home, check out these tips at marthastewart.com.

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  • Martha,
    Thanks for sharing this blog.

  • What a thrill to have your own paint colours, Martha - I can see how happy it makes you! The colours are divine.

  • Martha, I painted my whole house with your paint colours, I even tweeted you some pics. I especially love the colours heath and sisal together in the kitchen. I am so relieved I can still get more paint this summer with your colours. More bedford grey and mushroom will be needed for a fencing project. Guess where I got the idea to use bedford grey? I'm not very original I'm afraid. These are the same colours of my chicken coop, with the door painted Ohio Buckeye. A very fitting colour for a chicken coop door, considering the namesake is of a breed chickens. I love going to the home depot and seeing what's new, looking forward to the patio sets this spring.

    p.s. My Mom decorated her tree this year with the peacocks from the grandin road website. So beautiful.

  • I too love the subject of paint, especially colors for the home. I tend to favor colors that mimic nature, more specific trees, like browns and greens. I like the colors you picked Martha, especially the Oolong Tea. I'm always impressed with your product line at Home Depot and am glad to hear that they will still be available! By the way, I love the vest you are wearing. Very stylish!

  • Hi Martha, It was absolutely great to see your newest TV Show on Hallmark yesterday! I'm sure everyone who viewed it learned a lot from you again, especially the information you shared about the rather negative things in newspapers that scared us and were pretty false. I am so happy we will get to see your TV Show again in September and we can get your beautiful painting products from Home Depot! This was another terrific blog posting! You sure did have a great time being at that Home Depot store in NYC! The workers there sure were kind and very positive about your paints! Does Home Depot still have your Clean products? I read that it was gone, also and I use it for so many things. Hope you have another great day and can't wait to see today's TV Show! Off to see The Daily Wag again-love it, too! Jan

  • Hi Martha, why not do a couple blog posts featuring reader homes with your paints? Also, reader kitchens with your cabinets? I'd enjoy reading that.

  • Hi Martha,
    I remember the first time I bought paint other than white at Home Depot and they mixed the colors up with their computerized paint mixer. I was in awe and still am. That is a fabulous invention and whoever came up with the idea is a genius. We always kept our labels in the event we needed more paint or stain especially when we were putting up new fences. Your paint colors are great – I’ve painted two rooms and a closet so far and also played around with the samples. I love to paint but don’t have a lot of time so I want to make sure I get the colors I like the first time around. Your swatches certainly are a big help especially with the different symbols to help us to better coordinate color selections. I’m glad that your paints are available at Home Depot. Trish

  • Color does have the ability to transform. I jet picked up several new covers on Etsy for my down pillows on the sectional in my family room. The burst of cold livens the winter atmosphere....the same way that a fresh coat of paint can change a room.

  • Hello Martha,

    Have you thought about starting your own school? The Martha Stewart School of Living would have students become master decorators, cooks, and event planners. Students could travel to Europe and visit viewer's homes to consult and help plan the perfect ambiance for an event. I think the Y generation might benefit from the history of homemaking and entertaning and develop an appreciation for what you do.

    Best Regards,
    Thomas

  • I just painted my hallway last week with your "pink sea salt" which is a lovely neutral. I love the color.

    However - when I went to Home Depot I was surprised that your paint wasn't available anymore. The rest of my house is all Martha Stewart paint and my painter told me what a great paint it was.

    Luckily the colors are still available with the Glidden base! Your colors are EXCEPTIONAL. Completely different from everything else in the marketplace. I love them!

    What is the difference between the former "Martha Stewart" paint base and the Glidden one we need to use now?

  • Hi there Martha! Wow, painting has never looked like so much fun before. I'm pleased that you selected Home Depot to showcase your vibrant colors of paint. I really like the colors you selected for the writing on your displays. Guess what? I actually made history at Home Depot averaging over 40 leads per day. With 53 being my highest number! I was an Authorized Installer for At-Home-Services selling windows and vinyl siding. I would obtain my own leads by approaching customers. I went to their homes where I did presentations and took measurements until Home Depot stole me away from At-Home-Services so I could work directly for them where I became their Credit Card Specialist. One day as a reward for signing up 48 customers and approving credit cards as well I received a day off with pay. Your colors are vibrant and you've given the paint department at Home Depot a huge face lift so to speak as it pertains to new homes or simply sprucing up any home, business or play area. As soon as I have some walls of my own without a landlord......I'll use your "awesome" colors and have some fun painting along with the painters I hire. I may consider doing one coat of paint and then I'll call them in afterwards to make things fabulous for me. If you ever need any assistance please invite me to your show where you can tell me all about it there 🙂 "One Ticket Please"...Thanks for being Martha!

    Martha

  • I painted my new kitchen "Bakery Box Blue" and I love it! It looks wonderful in every light at every time of day!

  • I love Martha Stewart paints-use them all the time! Thank you!! 🙂

  • Martha, You are hereby invited to my home anytime - at your convenience to help me pick colors for my home - LOL! In return, I promise to make for you a southern style breakfast of homemade biscuits, bacon, eggs, and of course, grits! 🙂

  • Hi martha, I saw an advertisement that another store can save your paint choices. I think you register the colors you purchase for the future if needed. You should talk to Home Depot about that idea, by the time I need to repaint I've thrown out my old paint cans. Margaret

  • Hi Martha,
    If you ever want to know some history of your farm, we should get together some day.
    I grew up on Upper Hook Road at "Happy Valley" in the mid-40's.
    My family all knew the Sharps (George & Ruth, George, Jr. & Lucy and Wally & Anne Nichols).
    My father insured the barn that burned to the ground.
    I remember Anne's wedding at the summer house.
    Remember Judge Sherman's property next door where George & I would play.
    Ruth sold eggs for years.
    Many other pleasant memories which I'm sure will come back.
    Best,
    Gil Bell
    Charlestown, RI

  • Hi,

    i would like to paint my kitchen with home depot color mixture, i would like some idea from you.

  • I have done a lot of painting in the past so I have a feel for the worth of a product .
    I have always used Benjamin Moore & Sherwin Williams mostly because of the color palette . They used a 'Grey Scale' offering and I would decorate through tonality . More recently I have noticed that neither of them are even on the top ten list of best paints any longer . The last time I used Sherwin Williams I got blotchy un -even results . The mess was long cleaned up before the finish cured and I saw the mess . I just lived with it .
    This weekend I went right to the Home Depot to pick out colors and buy paints . I took it for granted that all the offerings would be Behr .
    I had used Behr years ago and remembered that I liked it .
    I chose my colors and discovered that they were ONLY available in Glidden . Although the name has been around for generations I was really apprehensive about trying something new . I even asked if they could color match my selection to Behr which they would not .
    The Home Depot offers such great guarantee that the worse that could happen is that I return it . In the back of my mind I also was thinking NO way would this woman (Martha Stewart) put her name on something unacceptable .
    I was right . Glidden paint was is so great it if it got any easier it would have thrown itself up on the wall . I used a Grayed Brown over blue and it actually covered in one coat . That was WITHOUT the primer built in . Painting is NOT something most LQQK forward to . I am a hard sell and I will tell you , Martha Stewart and Glidden Paints made it an absolute joy . I kid you not ....

  • Oh Martha, you know how magazines are showing rooms with white paint nowadays? I am really for this. It is hard to paint (for me anyway) and so much easier to change other things. (my husband likes paint to last for oh, 20 years or so and I am too old to go through it with him everytime I want or need to change.) But picking the right white. I have already chosen one wrong white. Guest bedroom #1 turned out a sad putty pale pink. Tell me a range of whites that is not too stark, not too yellow.

  • I love the martha stewart color palette! We have been giving your palette out to our customers for years. My customers love your colors and I enjoy applying them.

  • Your Home depot interior color pallet is hugely missed!
    Please market it elsewhere and you will have plenty of customers.
    I need Sea Glass # 129 formula and i will pay for it; please let me know.
    Sincerely,
    Judi