Sherwin-Williams Paint Store

If you are looking to refresh the color in your room via painting — you could go to the Home Depot or Lowes or Canadian Tire — but I definitely say you should start your painting journey at Sherwin-​Williams.
For first-​time DIYers in painting — they have pretty excellent knowledge base that they are super-​willing to share.
For me and the BF — they may have overestimated our painting capabilities — but what I did enjoy is their color wall — even though we eventually decided to go for a neutral white — we still had 181 choices to choose from.
The paint finishes on their swatches are pretty accurate — in various lighting settings too — plus application and clean up was pretty easy once we were done — since the paint we got was water based.
Couple of cool good-​to-​know items:
1. Sign up for their preferred customer list — they can notify you when they have a 40% off sale on paint — which gives you a really good discount on really good paint.
2. There is an app for that — called colour match — it has their entire color catalogue — plus they’ll color match if you are looking to replicate a color in real life. Bonus — it is free.
3. They also could create your customer profile; which tracks your paint color purchases up to 7 years — so that’s handy so you don’t need to worry about storing those paint chips somewhere.
Price-​wise — Sherwin probably costs a bit more than the big box home hardware stores — but they more than make up for it in customer service — hence the four stars