I finally had my home owner's association approve my house paint colors and my garden design plan. We bought the first of the paint yesterday and I managed to paint a little bit. Today, I prepped one and a half side for painting tomorrow. The colors are pale turquoise, darker turquoise, and yellow -- macadamia on the Martha Stewart color palette. I only have a little bit of priming to do. The black paint will cover better with a primer I think, although so far, the Behr paint has been covering with a single coat. We chose the Behr paint because we were told it was thicker in consistency and might work better with a roller. We tried a different paint on the interior and it was thin, almost as if it were readied to use in a paint sprayer. I prefer not to use a paint sprayer because less goes into the air, less paint gets on surfaces where you don't want it, and it tends to cover better by getting into every crack. Also, there's less prep work involving masking tape.