Colori Paint Boutique

Tim W.
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Green Works!

Full disclosure, I work with Conscious Choice magazine in Chicago and Colori is one of my accounts. Having said this, I have thoroughly impressed with Colori, its services and the quality of its C2 paint, take it from our publisher who recently wrote about Michele and Colori Paint Boutique.

excerpt from Publisher of Conscious Choice magazine,Nov 2008 issue, on the remodeling of our offices: "After the new walls went up and some old walls came down, we had to think about the finishing touch — paint. I was very skeptical about this stage of green remodeling. I have painted with both high toxicity and low toxicity paints. My experience with the latter, low VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) materials had not been the greatest. I like deep tones and bright motivating colors in the work space, and get annoyed when it takes multiple coats to get where I want to go. However, I felt I owed it to the environment, the staff and the office dogs to make an effort on the low VOC front. So, one of my high-efficiency staff, Tim, got a hold of Michelle Quaranta at Colori Paint Boutique, colorichicago.com.

Tim managed to chip off enough painted surface from the walls that had the colors we wanted to keep and bring it to Michelle. The old paint, I hate to admit, was what I purchased and used from a large home improvement chain about five or six years ago. It was terrible paint — stinky and it took a lot of coats to get the oranges, yellows and warm nutty colors. When the LoVo paint arrived from Colori, much to my surprise, we got the color we wanted — an exact match — in two coats. The two finishes we used, eggshell and semi-gloss, were exact replicas of the more “commercial” store finishes. The icing on the cake was there was very little odor other than a very feint ammonia-ish smell which went away as soon as the paint dried. It taught me a lesson: there is more paint in a gallon of LoVo paint than in a gallon of run-of the mill home improvement store paint."

Tim's keywords: eco paint chicago green paint c2 colori green home chicago