Last week we assembled a toddler room for a precious little girl. What better paint to use in her room than Martha Stewart's Precious Metal Collection, right? Well, you be the judge!
Because there was specialty painting involved, Samantha painted this room. Unfortunately, we didn't quite grasp how "special" the painting of the silver tinted paint needed to be. Mostly because it seemed no one else knew either. After seeing this product in action, I decided to write a review.
Our client inquired about using a gray with a little shine to it so, when Samantha and I went to gather the paint for the room, we were psyched to find this somewhat silver color by Martha Stewart at Home Depot. The color we chose was "tin."
We asked the very knowledgable paint representative at Home Depot about the paint. He informed us that they had tested the paint and that it didn't have the same effect unless you used the special $8 Martha Stewart roller head. So, we bought the roller head. That was the extent of the metal collection painting instruction. I didn't even think to look for directions online because, based on the paint swatch and the advice of our handy dandy Home Depot paint rep, it appeared to be a normal paint with just a tad of sheen that was best applied with an 8 dollar roller head.
Fast forward a week to a frantic call from Samantha telling me, "I need more of that *$%@ silver paint!!! And, quick!"
I make another run to Home Depot then hurry the paint over to find a very sloppily striped silver room. We both figured that it was just because it needed another coat. However, Samantha has decided that she is going to carefully paint the second coat so that if the nature of the paint is to stripe, it will at least be even across the room - not striped.
We assembled the room on Friday and while Samantha's careful brush strokes helped, you could still see a twinge of stiping if you looked hard in certain areas. It almost looked intentional bec
ause of her calculated brush strokes so it turned out ok. But, we definitely would have approached this project differently had we known. Hence the reason I'm sharing with you.
First, the roller that's recommended shed. This left us combing every inch of the walls and removing fragments that looked like they came from a wire brush. We would not recommend that roller for the metalic paint.
Second, we came to the conclusion that it's important not to double back over what you've already painted. When you do it makes the areas with more than one coat much darker giving that striping effect. So, if you're going to paint an entire wall as we did, do so very carefully.
The staircase picture posted here is a photo from Martha Stewart. You'll notice that they did stripes in the room, only using the metals collection in between. I think this is probably the best use of this paint.
You can definitely use this paint on full walls, but do take heed the advice to do so carefully. You might even try cutting it with a solid gray to see if that applies better.
In the end, I LOVED the look it gave. It is very different and modern. I just wished we had known the delicacy of the paint ahead of time in order to save the headache of Sam having to meticulously paint every inch.
Product Final Review: 3 out of 5 stars