Painting a Bedroom Blue Using Regal Select

Josh cutting in around the door.

Today we're painting a bedroom blue. As always, we're using Benjamin Moore Paint, although instead of our usual Aura, we're using Regal Select. It's another premium paint, and even though it costs a little less than Aura, it is still self-priming on most surfaces, and gave us good coverage.


We would have used Aura in this case, especially to ensure great hide with such a deep, bold color, but when we had the custom color matched, they only had Regal Select in quarts and not Aura. And since we started with Regal, we just decided to use it since the paint tech would have had to custom match the initial custom match in order to switch products!


We were both glad to try it out, though, since we rarely would ever choose to use a lesser quality paint than Aura (Aura always works really well for us, generally performing better than one could expect, in pretty much every situation). For us, using Aura is a sort of an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" kind of thing.

This is a color sample we brushed out on the wall. Notice how we
feathered the edges, leaving no thickness at all. Once the wall is
painted, you won't know we ever sampled anything.

We patched the holes in this wall using Vinyl Spackle--it dries fast and
sands smooth (these walls are smooth finish with no texture).

After laying out our drop cloths, patching holes, and caulking cracks, we
cut in the edges of the room with 3-inch brushes.

A bit blurry, but this is Josh cutting in the edge of the door. Notice that
he is not using tape to try and mask an edge.

All cut in and now we're ready to roll.

We did mask the baseboard since it is staying the same color. The
tape won't give us a perfect edge, but it helps keep most of the blue
off the light trim.

Josh rolling the walls.

The first coat is complete--note how well it covered the old color.
We applied a second coat, which deepened the color.

Regal Select.

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