Keeping with the Trends…

Our professionally trained and certified colourists constantly scour the globe sourcing the latest in styles and trends. As members of the world renowned Color Marketing Group, our colourists also combine first hand observation with top notch research giving you the inside track on colour trends before they hit the runway or decorating magazines.

This year’s Colour Canvas 2010 Collection includes the following emerging trends: Building Beauty, Beige Boutique, Respect, Radical, Reactive. Under their inspiration, walls become a canvas of lively tones or serene shades. Presented in this handy pocket-size portfolio, each colour can be conveniently compared to your existing or potential choices. Enjoy the convenience, match your personality, mood or taste, and see your décor turn into a colourful canvas.

Choosing Colors: Helping you create an attractive home is what Passonno Paints is all about. That's why we've put together this color planner. We've consulted with several leading decorators to help you to select an attractive color scheme. Their best ideas are the color combinations you will see in this section.

1. BODY COLOR: You can't go wrong selecting a light or medium color for the main body of the house. You can fine tune your selection with the help of our Trendition House in store color selector.
   
2. TRIM COLOR: A coordinating color will usually be darker than the body color, but don't be afraid to use your imagination. You can even reverse the trim and body colors if you prefer a darker looking home.
   
3. ACCENT COLOR: A popular look today includes a third color to highlight or accentuate different features of the home exterior, such as interesting architectural detail. Or, for plain exteriors, us it to paint something like the front door to create an interesting look.

Some Tips On Color: Consider neighboring homes. You want yours to be compatible as well as distinctive. Considered the parts of the home that will not or cannot be painted. The colors of the roof or brickwork will affect the overall look.

Get Insired: Drive around other neighborhoods, especially newer ones, to get ideas. Look through magazines to get exterior views. Bring your color ideas or samples to Passonno Paints and we will expertly match them.

NOTE: These comments and tips are aimed at outside house colors, but apply equally to interior walls. Use the color combinations in this section, as a guideline for coordinating interior colors with wallpaper, paint, carpets, and drapes.

Choosing The Right Type Of Paint: Passonno Paints professionals, can recommend the proper coating for your particular situation, plus offer helpful advise on preparation and application for a lasting, good looking job.

The colors of nature. Painting the landscape like a palette of fine oils. Complimenting the essence of the rustic home.

The Rustic Colors series hides the wood grain yet allows the beauty of it's texture to flatter the home retaining it's place in nature but marking the home for the distinct structure it is. Opt for a single color, or combine two or more shades, imitating the many patterns of the landscape.

Rich browns and reds of the trees and earth

Shades of green, expressions of life

Blues that paint a mountain sky

Autumn's harvest of gold and amber

LUSTROUS BEAUTY LAST LONGER!

The mirror-like gloss of this enamel makes shabby floors and baseboards a thing of the past. Its built-in longer life saves the cost of frequent repaintings and repairs. It is Beauty and Durability in one product.

WITHSTANDS TOUGHWEAR

It is tough to stand up under scuffing feet, scraping furniture. Floor & Deck Enamel gives your interior and exterior floors full, long lasting protection. Wherever foot traffic is heaviest or on any surface that is subject to rough wear apply quick drying, protective Floor & Deck Enamel with confidenece.

REPELS WATER! RESISTS WEATHER!

Made extra tough to resist severe weather - sudden temperature changes, sun, snow, rain. It does not water spot. It is longets-wearing for porch floors, steps, railings, outdoor furniture, boats and exterior concrete.

PROTECTS AGAINST OIL - GASOLINE

On garage floors, its harder and tougher firm is not softened by oil, grease or gasoline.

APPLIES WITH EASE

Floor & Deck Enamel brushes on freely and eaisily and dries to a hard durable gloss that stays bright and makes floor washing an easy task.

FLOOR STAINS

A "Passonno Paints" specialty used clear or in color where a high wearing penetrating system is needed for concrete and wood floors.

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Pen-rust Metal Primer Fights Rust. Protects to give a long lasting finish.

Pen-rust Metal Primers are Specially formulated after intensive research to protect: Heavy Machinery, Tanks, Pipe Identifications, Structural Steel, Lawnmowers, Tractors, Boats, Metal Doors, Fire Hydrants, Conveyors, Garden Furniture, Automobiles against rust, water and weather. Pen-rust Metal Primer - a paint that will save your dollar - a rust fighter.

It is arranged in a logical sequence following chromatic progression from left to right in what we call rainbow order. The colors are organized in saturation levels by row with the brightest chromas found in row one, slightly muted in row 2, more muted in row 3 followed by dusty and then neutral colors.  One column in the display is one color family. This type of alignment puts color families together for ease in selecting monochromatic colors but also assists in selecting adjacent or related colors to the left and right of each family.

The Colorizer system offers more color than most other contemporary paint color systems. The Colorizer color tools are particularly helpful to professional painters, architects, color designers and retail consumers.

The Colorizer 1320 color palette has 60 Lighter Off Whites and 60 Bolder Accents not usually available in most other color systems. The remaining 1200 colors are shown in an 8 step letdowns from an off white to an accent.

Colorizer color tools consist of Color Chips, Fan decks, Architect Kits, and Color Albums.

The Historic Colour Collection showcases colours carefully selected from historic buildings and objects which authentically reflect the colours of our past.  Coordinated combinations help you create body, trim, and accent paint schemes to dramatize your home, inside and outside.  Whether you are decorating an old house or a contemporary one, these combinations add the character and distinction of America’s colourful past.

Curators and preserationists from Historic New England work with other museums and private homeowners from across the country to understand, preserve and recreate the Historic Colour Collection.

The Historic Colour Collection consists of 149 colors that have been extensively researched by the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA).  Working with museums, antiques, and historic buildings, the SPNEA as able to create a collection that accurately reproduces the colors of our past.  But, do not let the name fool you.  These colors look just as beautiful on the contemporary homes of today as they do on the traditional homes of our past.