Customers Comments about Devine Color!
03/29/2008 10:40 AM by Gretchen Schauffler
Devine Color customers are the only ones you should listen to. No matter what we say, it is their experience with the products that speak louder than words!
message: Thanks so much for your time and for creating such a great product. I have done so much painting and had so many colors and paints that just didn’t work over the years.What a nice thing to have a paint line that always looks good! I have been helping my neighbor gradually spruce up her place—she is very conservative and afraid of color, but she now has cappuccino, ginseng, maple, shade and medallion in her previously white walled house! Thanks again for your color help.
message: I am in business with my family’s general contracting firm and believe me it’s rare to find a company that does this kind of hands-on, tender loving care of their product (i don’t mean your helping me, but I mean your product, your samples, your quality, your website being updated all the time). I wish you much added success. No doubt you will be very successful and I suppose already are. People are really looking for this.
message: Gretchen: I just wanted to let you know that you gave me some color advice last year which of course turned out beautifully. I painted my dining room/great room, entry and hallways Date with accent walls of Georgette. I love it as does everyone else. I also helped a friend pick Devine colors for her new home in Anacortes. Our husbands (who were “white wall” guys) have changed their tune and now realize that color is the way to go!
message: Gretchen, I had to tell you this. As you may remember, I’m the biggest fan of Devine Color there is. And for all the usual reasons you have heard over and over.
Here’s another one. As you may remember we painted the house in Green Bay when we moved here in January 2005 from Palm Desert. We did a variety of colors throughout which I think you had helped me select and it worked beautifully. Two weeks ago I had to make some changes in the master bath and after the work was completed I called Tim, the painter who had done the work here originally. He had to repaint two new walls and touch up three walls where we had removed fixtures. “I don’t know if this is going to work. We should repaint the entire bathroom so everything matches and we don’t see the three year old paint next to the new stuff” said Tim. He was not trying to make some extra on the job but is very conscientious and a real craftsman.
I said, “Let’s try it and if it works that will be great, if not we’ll come back and redo all the walls.”
Later that day he called me on my cell and said, “This stuff is truly amazing. You cannot see the difference from the old to the new. At all. The paint that I put on in 2005 looks the same as the paint I just used”_It was Devine Tide._
He went on and on but bottom line, Devine Color is truly great stuff. Congratulations.
message: i want to sincerely thank you for making things simple for me. i struggled for several hours and 3 trips and several hundred dollars in the paint section of homedepot- only after finding a store with your stuff did the confusion begin to subside, you helped us make not just good but excellent choices with your products, we are truly grateful.this may sound corny but i feel like you guys are making a real contribution to peoples lives by what you do. may God bless you & your family.
I painted my sister’s whole downstairs in Issaquah, WA. We were so relieved to not have to put two coats on every wall. She kept saying, “ No, you don’t have to end at a corner or seam if we stop and get a latte”; you can just start up where you finished. I couldn’t believe you could do it or that you could touch up. We could.
Thanks, but I can’t find the samples on your website. Can you send me a link to those colors? Also – you might like to know your paints are AMAZING to clean up. I foster dogs for the pound and I had one visiting me for a weekend. She was home alone and decided she wasn’t feeling too well, and decided to use my bed as a place to rest and well, continue to be ill. Unfortunately, she tried to hide her “accident” by burying it and sending it all over the newly painted wall – that is painted the lovely “feather”. I came home from a movie to find an abstract painting of doggie “mess” on my gorgeous walls. Poor pooch was hiding under the bed. I scrubbed the walls worried it would never be the same and it looks FABULOUS.
My cousin introduced me to Devine Colors when we bought our first home in March 2005. We’ve been slowing upgrading each room since then (including the walls!). The first Devine color I tried was Honey. Having moved from Southern California, the bright sunny color has made a world of difference to the mood of our home and all the people inside. Your story is very inspiring. Thank you for following your passion!
I have had all the color pallettes in a binder for several years. It has become worn since I loan it out on a regular basis and have sold gallons of your paint, via my binder and referral to my favorite paint store, BJ’s in Tumwater, Washington. I live in a 3 year old development that still has 500 homes to build, already having 560 built. I have even shown the contract painters here how wonderful the paint is when they come to repair their punch list items and defects and see how easily the paint is able to be touched up without redoing the entire wall. They wish the builder would change the spec paint to Devine. We are huge fans of Devine and I appreciate your help and reply.
My husband has finished cancer treatments and I want to make this a room that he can relax in and heal. We sold our large home and downsized to something that would afford us to be debt free. In turn we had to do some remodeling and updating. We used Devine paint in every room and I even have fellow colleagues at school trying your paint! What I love so much about it is that it seems to even update the wall surfaces. And the colors are so rich and warm. Thank you for your creative venture in bringing this paint to us all. It is wonderful that you take time to give advice for colors…a blessing for those of us who have to wing it!
I carry your like and sell alot of your paints as they work so beautifully and everyone that uses the paints love it. I am not just putting this down to sell myself, but I love your paints personally, have most of my house in your paints and your line is usually the first one I bring out to show my clients. I’d say around 50% of my clients know your paints or have heard of them, and the other 50% are completely unfamiliar with your brand and paints. For me, it’s a very easy sell.
My love for Devine colors started with ‘Glass’. We had just moved into our mid century ranch home and I wanted to paint everywhere.* I stumbled on your colors and chose ‘Glass’ for the hallway. The long narrow hallway connects all the rooms, and is blessed with a skylight. Glass lifted the whole ‘highway’, making it a pleasant walk room to room. A year later, it’s still wonderful and has held up beautifully. When I next painted the kitchen Paprika I realized I was creating an order of color: affecting the relationships of each room as they transition to the other. I want to create harmony, while each room also has a room of its own feel. Since Glass is the connecting color, it plays off all the colors of the rooms. Also, the front of the house has lots of natural light, while the back of the house has very little. There’s a balance between how much heavy color the front can handle (now Paprika & Cocoa) vs how much bright the back rooms need, with Glass in-between. Cocoa in the living/dining room is a great fit! Then, on a complete whim, because I love the color, I picked up Foam and painted our main bathroom. This room is visible from the living/dining room and still has the 1950’s pink bathroom fixtures (double pink sinks!). I thought Foam would be modern/retro fun. It’s a beautiful color, but it’s bright. From different angles I can see all the colors and Foam is very present. Everybody loves the color, but i’m still deciding if it’s a perfect fit. Then, I have to consider the other rooms: bedroom (thinking Rain), office (really like Clay) and Den (always loved Fog). I love your palates, and I’ve collected dozens of paper samples. It’s a bit like a game, I don’t want my home to feel like Candy Land with so many different colors, but it sure makes the deciding fun! I just want to tell you how much I appreciate your product and your customer service. I’ve been to many of the Miller Paint stores, and always hear wonderful things from the staff about you. It makes the experience special for me: working with local business’, investing in quality product that is environmentally conscientious.
I’m going for it – Honey/Vanilla. Can’t stand to use anything but your paint and colors. Looking forward to seeing your exterior line.
I love your line, the whole concept of it (limited palette, yay!) and the paint is amazing. Truly no spatter and no smell and terrific coverage. I also love the delicate wall finish and the way the color practically shimmers. I’ve been doing everything I can to spread the word to my friends about what a great
product it is.
Thank you for your help. I love your colors and I love the fact that the color on the wall is EXACTLY the color that was on your color sample. Thank you for GREATLY simplifying the whole painting process for me.
For the past two summers, I have been running a small painting business. All of my work was contracted through Sherwin Williams, but I quickly learned to appreciate the qualities of other paints. I spend a lot of time consulting with clients about what type of paint they had used before, what they had liked about it, what they hadn’t like… and well, ultimately selling them on Sherwin Williams products. It is a general consensus that Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore are the preferred choices. People really like Olympic stains, too. I never heard anyone talk about Devine color. It wasn’t until last week that I came across your product. My grandma painted the whole interior of her house and couldn’t wait to show it off at Thanksgiving. She showed me all of the palettes and talked about how they had started with one paint brand, but switched over to Devine paints because my grandma likes the name. However, she fell in love with the quality of the paint and they rich colors. I feel in love with your products, too. They are amazing! As a paint contractor though, I am wondering why I have never seen your line before?!
First of all, I absolutely love Devine color, Devine paint and the whole concept of your company. Congrats on all of your success! Color is my absolute passion! Since discovering Devine Color I use it exclusively and follow up on what you do. I love the new website, but as I was exploring it I think I found a goof. In the How To section under the Color Coordination Circles, the color that says Sumatra, I think is suppose to be Steamer?
One of these days I will get a around to sending you pictures of the color palette I have designed for my house and for some of my friends too. I love to look at what others share and it would be selfish not to share mine as well!
As a Devine colorist, I’m a little biased when it comes to how great our colors and product are. But I recently showed the palettes and full size, real paint swatches to my old roommate, a paint contractor, who immediately exclaimed, “These are the best colors I’ve ever seen!”, followed by, “To have the actual paint in your hand versus some computer-generated reproduction is incredible- how can you do it any other way?!” He’s helping me paint our bathroom next week…can’t wait to hear what he thinks then!
Thanks for showing concern. The whigs of the world usually don’t show too much interest in me. I live in a small apartment here in Dayton, but I look forward to getting home partially because of the expression I have been able to give myself through Devine paints. The colors are deep, and multi-faceted; like precious stones. They shift in hue as sunlight and shadow play across my walls. I am satisfied.
I used a color scheme in my whole house that you recommended for me on purecontemporary.com. I wrote asking you about how to paint my house because we brought it and the whole house was painted various shades of blue. All I had for inspiration was a wooden vaulted ceiling and terracotta ceramic tile. Your colors made the house come ALIVE. You gave me two color palettes to work with, I ended up choosing the Olive, Blush, Straw, Custard and Maple combination. The house had a LOT of built in cabinetary in the family room and living room areas that was walnut colored. The colors you gave me brought the wood alive. The wood looked so fantastic against your colors, giving a rich warm glow, the we ripped up the carpet and some of the tiles and replaced with hand distressed hardwood flooring. The result was just amazing. You gave me color confidence, and as the rooms evolve continually as I add different lampshades, light fixtures, framed prints, scatter cushions, I realize how much I love color now that I am not scared to use it. I find myself drawn to the most electic items now that I have a diverse color scheme in my house, and it really works!!! One thing I notice when I go to other peoples houses, is that people are still scared to use color. Most peoples homes are painted a conservative shade of cream or ivory or white, I hope Devine color touches the heart of more people, and makes the world a brighter place. I enjoy coming home to my brighter walls, my favorite rooms are painted blush (family room) and olive (living room) and my entrance way exudes warmth (straw) The way these colors have worked their magic in these areas which get lots of traffic, really makes a difference. Thanks again, and I continue to redecorate our house, I’m doing the bathroom next and will be working with the new GREEN Paint you recommended!
Thank you for all your help…I was looking at the both Macadamia & Latte as uniform colors throughout the home and love all the brown tones you chose. One thing I forgot to mention was you will see the carpet going up the stairs & in the Den which will be charcoal (slight blue undertones, not too dark)…does this change anything? I don’t care for the greens, I love the rest except Denim…will Foam or Steamer work or are they too green? We will be painting in June…will any of your new blues/greens work better and I should wait? Thank again…I love your products and drive an hour each way to use them…TOTALLY worth it!!!!
I’ve used Devine before for my son’s room, but as a solid wall of color. It has held up very well, through washing and removal of crayon, ink and other “kid stuff”. I’m in the process of re-doing our entry area. The kids had started to remove the existing wall paper so I had little choice in removing all of it and have been in the process of how to re-finish. Hubby wanted to use the Ralph Lauren river rock, but after reading about the difficulty in achieving proper results I talked him into the Devine after explaining how easy it was to apply and the great coverage.
I LOVE YOUR PAINTS. I’VE JUST FINISHED ALMOST 8,000 SQ. FT. IN YOUR BEAUTIFUL COLORS. I HAVE RECENTLY LEARNED THAT THERE WILL NO LONGER BE A DIVINE DISTRIBUTOR IN CONNECTICUT. THIS IS SAD NEWS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS WORKED ON MY HOUSE. THE PAINTER WAS GOING TO USE YOUR PRODUCTS EXCLUSIVELY AFTER SEEING HOW GREAT MINE TURNED OUT BUT NOW HAS NO WAY TO PURCHASE. HE WILL NOT DO IT FROM THE FACTORY DUE TO SHIPPING COSTS. PLEASE TRY TO FIND SOMEONE AGAIN!!
If I am reading your site correctly, you have no locations in Tucson, and only one in Phoenix to purchase your paint….is this correct? If so, why? Please consider expanding out. I will drive to Phoenix, but would it would be so much easier to have a store locally. Also, may I order your paint pouches on line? For that matter, can I order cans of paint on line? My fear is the cost to ship …. I assume it’s very expensive to ship, correct? By the way, I never heard of your product until I saw a program on television tonight on starting a business. Your colors, from what I can see, are marvelous !!!!!!!Now, if I can only get them to my walls….
We have used your paint in the past and Just love it!! Since we have moved to the Northern Az. area and to our dismay we have found no one that carries your devine paint! Do you need a good sales rep in our area? We will ship it if we need to as it is the most wonderful paint we have ever used.
Love the paints. spent two years looking for colors. then found Divine Color. Now we are having our entire (new) house done in Divine Paints.
My sister in Oregon swears by your paint and I live 50 miles from the closest dealer and was wondering if there would be any way for you to send me a swatch of the color Ginseng?
I’m a huge Devine paint fan, as I had tried dozens of paint colors in my house before hiring a Devine paint consultant and getting help finding paint colors that are absolutely perfect.
Good morning, I had the privalage to use the Devine line in North Carolina, and since moved my paint company to Virginia, is there a store based out of Va, that I could continue useing you awesome product, and are there any contractor discounts associated for my business.
Hi! I’m a paint contractor out of Seattle and I want to know why I haven’t heard/seen more about your products! They are wonderful to work with and come in beautiful colors. I would like to know more about the company!
We have just painted the ceilings today, how long do we need to wait to tape them to paint the walls? Is that the best way to get a crisp perfect line between the wall and the celling. Thanks! P.S. we love your product!!!!
Hello, I love your paint, however our local Do It Center does not carry them anymore :-( I painted my bedroom with your Divine, paint, color is called Fescue. I want to paint my adjoining bathroom the same color.. just a shade darker. Can you please recommend a color? or send me a green color sheet, that shows what you offer? I live to far away to run back and forth to another store that carries your paint. (over 60 miles away) But if I could know that I had a color that would work… (I loved your little pouches) I would gladly drive the 60 miles each way to buy your paint.
While visiting my sister in Portland last week, I discovered your company’s product in a Miller’s Paint Store. I was so impressed!!! I would love to have a Color Consultant visit my home. Could you please help me locate one of your stores etc.??I was not able to locate a store online. Thanks so very much for your time.
I have to say that your paint is a stroke of genius. I’ve shipped my samples and humble decorating opinions as far as Dallas, Texas, where another friend also ordered her Devine colors long-distance. Now that I’m in Virginia, I do expect several more friends and neighbors here will be ordering Devine when they see what a difference it makes in our home. I cannot even imagine painting only one or two rooms – I’m quite set on getting at LEAST the entire downstairs finished before our furniture arrives. I will definitely post pictures. I will also try and send in some of the house we sold recently. Apparently the new owner was “sold” on the house largely as a result of the decor. Devine colors would be the key to that success as well. We often heard neighbors there remark on how the “whole house seems to just flow together”. I’ve always tried to accomplish this in previous interior designs, but it wasn’t until finding your paint that my visions were so easily translated into reality. Quickly, I’ll just tell you one more short story: When we were transferred to Oregon, the move came very unexpectedly at the end of my third pregnancy and in the midst of building our dream house in the wine country of Northern California. My husband actually had to call from the office to tell me we were leaving for Portland the next morning. I hung up the phone and called some college friends who had lived in Beaverton for 20-some years to share my worries about the dull skies compared to what we were used to in sunny California. She, a color scientist, was quick to share with me – her artist friend – what an incredible product you had created and how much I would LOVE it there once my house was painted in Devine colors. Sure enough, she was right. Now, I’m a customer for life – even from thousands of miles away!
I have used your your devine paint to renovate my whole house, it is fabulous!!! Everyone loves , it is in the powder finishes of Cypress, Reef, Reflections, Pecan and the cranberry color ( the name escapes me at the moment). The master is now the lemons and beans (is that correct)? Anyway, love it beyond words, Thanks for the Wonderful product…
Also, I would like to take an opportunity to thank you for your paints. They are the best I’ve ever worked with and am looking forward to painting my new house in a couple of weeks!!
I love the new colors of the French Casino line. I think these have some timeless colors and already see a couple that I want to consider using. THANK YOU!!
I get compliment after compliment on the colors in my house. Most of it is Devine Paint, and I spent hours choosing my company for colors. I was a tech engineer in coatings for a siding compnay for years, so I knew the questions to ask when it came to paint.
First, want to say that I really like your new web pages.
Second, want to share that having painted some of the colors that were recommended in my consult – just want to say I love it!
We recently painted out kitchen and family room using your paint. LOVED your paint and the way it went on!
WOW!! Just came across your site and LOVE it. I am getting ready to repaint my interior and will definitely be working from your “Woven Tattles” palette. I will be forwarding your website to all of my girlfriends also.
Thanks for the note (and response!). I particularly want to thank you for the two coat tip. I’ve always only used one (‘cuz’ it works so well!) – never thought about the depth and richness of the color! Have a gallon sitting here waiting to be used – can’t wait to paint the bedroom – & use two coats!
I just used your paint for the first time this weekend. it came highly recommended by my feng shui expert here in seattle. THANK YOU for making such a wonderful product! From the fabulous color palatte to the big color samples to the one coat richness of the paint. Figures it takes a woman to change the industry.
I am an interior designer for a certain construction company and have recently found your line of colors and absoultely love them. I have a book put together of interior and exterior colors for our clients to look though to pick their colors for their homes and would like to use only Devine colors from here on out.
I recently had some paint mixed for the bathroom – they used “delicate” instead of “lucious” – do you think they mixed the wrong base, or am I overly sensitive to it? By the way, I SWEAR by your paints and tell the world how wonderful they are!!
The color palette’s are such an added perk I can’t say enough good!
I am working with a client who has turned me on to you. The color palette she was showing me really caught my eye. When I asked her where the paints were from she told me Devine and I said as a designer I was not familiar with the paint line. And so here I am …Love what I have seen so far in the inspirational color palette and the finishes. Please tell me more and for designers..is there a program???
While visiting a friend in Portland, she showed me her many paper palettes from Devine and I fell in love with it. Finally a woman did it right! You can really see the paint color and its texure! Is there a way I can purchase your twelve unique paint palettes and have the shipped to me?
We used Devine Honey for our kitchen walls and cabinets, Devine Ray for the ceiling and Devine Sangria for an accent wall. We loved your paint and the colors so much that is all we are using for the rest of our remodel. We did a bathroom in Ginsing and an otherwise dark hallway in Whip. You can’t imagine the compliments we have gotten on all of our projects! Our latest is Latte for the living room/dining room with a Cocoa accent wall and Vanilla trim. We buy your paints at McLendon’s in Woodinville and I am always talking to unsure customers and raving about your product! Thank you so much for being so creative!
Thank you for helping me reset my priorities! Natalie is the youngest of our three daughters and tends to be a little less girlie than the other two. If we were to go with the stripes on one wall, how do we keep from making it come out looking like a prison? J
Our friends first told us about Devine Paint a few years ago and we have been using it and telling as many people who will listen about it as well. My husband says he won’t even waste his time on any other paint. Again, thank you for your response!
Hello Gretchen: Your colors are devine…no doubt about it.
I will probably use them however I must tell you my biggest problem with the line. The nearest store is a good 45 minute hike from my house. No a problem in itself BUT I have to drive there , pay to bring the samples home, and then get them back up there again. At the other end, my wood floor person is 45 in the other direction. It is just so difficult to coordinate getting the colors to all the other wood, counter top, flooring guy etc etc etc.
If only you had an easier way to let folks get the colors home. Even you compromised somehow by making up a chart and then if someone actually decides that a particular Devine grouping is perfect, then it is worthwhile to go up and get and leave a deposit on that one sample. Still a nuisance but better then paying a deposit on all the colors. Anyway, that being said. I do love your product and will try to work around the inconvenience of trying to get the mountain to mohammad. (oops, that is probably not PC these days :) If you have a suggestion I would appreciate it.
Our “new” neighbors in Palm Desert, CA introduced me to your paints – I love the color Lynnne used!! You come highly rated! Can I get a catalogue of your colors and or locations to buy it in Orange County, Calif. Many thanks!
I love your paint! It isn’t scary to put color on the walls now. All the colors I’ve used are beautiful. I painted my living room Maple. I chose Muslin for the family room that is visible through an arch way. The floors are a golden wood. I’m not sure I made the right choice with the Muslin. It doesn’t look bad, just not as warm as the Maple. I didn’t want to match, I like contrast, do you think the colors will be fine together, or do you have a suggestion for a different shade? I live on the Oregon coast with lots of grey days.
The north side of Chicago is a great market and needs you!
You are very welcome. My cousin introduced me to Devine Colors when we bought our first home in March 2005. We’ve been slowing upgrading each room since then (including the walls!). The first Devine color I tried was Honey. Having moved from Southern California, the bright sunny color has made a world of difference to the mood of our home and all the people inside. Your story is very inspiring. Thank you for following your passion!
A little update. house all done and devine is beautiful! we are all moved in.
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I have repainted the inside of my 1920’s home with Devine colors. I absolutely LOVE them. They were so easy to paint with and the colors are gorgeous. I used the sample packets and painted them on the walls to pick each room color. I love how they change with the light. I get all sorts of compliments and I recommend Devine paints to anyone who is considering what type of paints to buy.
— Mary Peterson 08/30/2008 09:25 AM #
Need help with choosing color for a very small master bath. One window (east light with textured glass so natural light is limited) Adjoining bedroom is DEVINE MOSS. Floor is neutral and bath fixtues are white with chrome faucets. I am leaning towards LATTE or MOCHA. Cabinet is painted the same as trim color (neutral). I was thinking of painting the cabinet a darker brown rich wood color. Do you think those colors would be too dark and make the room appear smaller? Should I go lighter? Any suggestions? I’m concerned about putting a color in there that would reflect a color that would make putting on makeup a nightmare! I just scrapped old wallpaper off for three days and want to get some fresh paint up ASAP! Thanks for your help!
— Sue 09/23/2008 12:49 AM #
I just finished writing a blog that talks about do’s and don’ts when you test colors on your walls.
http://blog.devinecolor.com/article/96/dos-and-donts-on-testing-paint-colors
You are right to be worried about the color if this is a bathroom you are putting your make-up in. Can I ask you what colors look good on your skin? The reason I ask is that I think we can have a color that pulls our the best colors in your skin tone and goes with everything in your bathroom since it is neutral. I can make it go with Devine Moss.
Now we are coming our with an amazing product called Smooth Gloss™ that glides on and looks like glass for trim and cabinets (out in November). The darker rich contrast of the cabinet would be fantastic. First the wall color since it is both for beauty inside and outside :) Ill wait to hear from you.
— gretchen Schauffler 09/23/2008 03:36 PM #
Help!!! Gretchen, each of my last 5 homes have all Devine rooms and ceilings. I am currently adding a workout (good size) room and accidently told the painter to do the ceiling in straw vs whip and the walls filbert. Now that the ceiling is painted straw, I don’t think filbert walls would be the best color. Trying not to have the painter redo the ceiling, what do you think about the walls in teak?
— Lynne LaCross 11/08/2008 12:42 PM #
Hi Lynne:
Teak and Straw are perfect with & for each other. You can also have the walls lighter than the ceiling and do Devine Maple. Have fun working out in a rich warm color!
— gretchen Schauffler 11/08/2008 02:19 PM #