Can someone help me? Awhile back someone painted their bathroom cabinets a rich dark brown. I'm in need of a brown color now. I'm looking for a deep brown with not much red in it. I like the espresso colored furniture you see these days.

Thanks

take a picture from a magazine or from on line to lowes or home depot. I only have home depot by me and they have been very helpful in matching. Make sure you tell them what it is for so you get the right type of paint.

I took a piece of an espresso colored wall cabinet to SW to match up and it came out with way too much red. I thought someone here might know of a nice espresso. Not too red or too milk chocolate looking. Maybe a brownish/black.

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I painted my bathroom cabinets SW Black bean. It's a very rich dark chocolate - very nice.

What type of paint should you use for painting bathroom cabinets??? Enamel???

I have been looking for this type of colour too, to paint our b/r vanity.

The BM Tudor Brown is one I am looking at, also now looking @ the Black Bean...

I put them together for comparison; I think I still will go with the TB at this point...

I agree with Shahkee, SW Black bean is a very pretty dark rich color. Looks great on cabinets.

The SW Black Bean is much richer (darker) than what's shown on the monitor.

Christine - you can just use a good grade of satin, you don't need "enamel". I then covered with 2 coats of poly. But, I should've stuck with just one coat.

I don't have any color advice, sorry. However, I will be painting my cabinet this summer and was glad to see that you can use latex and a coat of poly to protect it. Thanks!

Looked on another site...Gardenweb maybe? don't remember. They suggested BM Bittersweet Chocolate. Anyone use that? Someone had used Black Bean but said it had a "plum" undertone to it. I want more of a black/brown!

Shakee, do you have a pic handy?

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WW - I'm looking at the color strip and I really don't see a plum tint. The color strip features gray tints.

Here's a pic. It's a teeny tiny room so it was difficult to get a good view.

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we used bin paint when we painted our upstairs vanity I love the stuff, it smells horrible but the finish looks like a factory finish, you can't see any strokes in the finish at all. As far as I know it only comes in white though. I wish they made it in different colors.

Black Bean does have a plum undertone. I would use Bittersweet if you don't want much "red" in it.