For a number of reasons, Color in Space specifies colors in three paint brands, Benjamin Moore®, C2 Paint, & Ellen Kennon's Full Spectrum Paint.
Sustainability: All 3 brands are available in "green" products. Ask about which paints are low-VOC or no-VOC.
Quality: As color consultants, we need to recommend paints that will hold up and make our clients happy without fail. While none of these paints are the least expensive, we find that their reliability proves you get what you pay for. They are also easily accessible in most major cities across the United States.
Color Choices: Full Spectrum paints are specially formulated blending the 7 colors in natural sunlight to create infinite color and variation. As a result, they emit an incredible energy that goes far beyond how the color looks. Naturally divine! Standard paint colors are usually a blend of two or three pigments that include black, which absorbs light. Full spectrum paints omit black and have a broader range of pigments that reflect a broader range of light and coordinate more easily with the colors and furnishings around them. They are chameleon-like in their ability to pick up colors from adjacent materials and to change character as the light changes. Also, because of the absence of black and the perfect balance of a full spectrum of pigments, they don't tend to turn muddy or lose their character in low light conditions. We prefer colors that are deep and beautiful and can work together to create the most nurturing atmospheres.
Benjamin Moore™ has the largest color selection available and supports their designers with fabulous tools. After working almost exclusively with this brand of paint for the last 10 years, Emily even has much of their palette imprinted in her brain. Her experience with how the colors play and relate in different light, interior and exterior, gives her the confidence to recommend colors to her clients without reservation. Benjamin Moore™ also has a fabulous variety of muted and saturated colors. This is what provides such incredible depth and a natural energy to many of Emily's color designs.
C2 Paint is quickly emerging as one of the most innovative, high quality paints in the marketplace today, and is in prime position to forever change the way designers and homeowners spec‚ sample‚ buy and experience color. Handcrafted by an alliance of passionate small business owners across the U.S. and Canada‚ C2 Paint is the first paint company to employ a 16–colorant European tinting system rather than the 12–colorant systems known in North America today. C2 Paint’s European colorants are made of finely ground artist–grade pigmentsthat create an unmatchable luminosity and depth. These tiny particles of pigment are suspended in superior paint‚ which results in higher solid content when applied on the wall‚ thereby creating richer‚ deeper colors. In addition, the four extra pigments are high–strength and not available in typical color systems. This gives C2 Paint more “tools in the toolbox” to achieve greater color vibrancy and to produce a paint with superior hiding power.
