Kelly-Moore Paint Store

Kelly-​Moore Cupertino provides great service! They helped me to create the color i like for my kitchen cabinets. MIke is very knowledgeable about mixing the colors. Thank you Cupertino KM!

Rebecca the lead sales team member is helpful, patient and will work with you until you get what you need or want. She’s great! Definitely recommend this place. Just give them a call and ask for her.

Good paint store, just way overpriced. and less you have contractor pricing Home Depot or Lowe’s as just as good a quality paint for much less cost.

I recommend both Kelly-​Moore and this location as well. KM paint is simply the best. I’ve used it for over 20 years. The paint stays well when stored, and it maintains a consistent color. It’s not a mystery why you see so many professionals parked in the lot.
James at this location is an expert for matching color. When I bought a quart of touch-​up paint needed when I replaced a garage lantern, he suggested the color may not match due to fading. When I tested it, he was right. By bringing a photo of the wall, he was able to adjust it by eye — and the second mixture was perfect. I was really impressed.

I placed an order for a specialty deck waterproofing system that is an outside vendor from Kelly Moore. I needed this product on Thursday but the shipping was delayed a day. Then there was a problem with the color because the company did not give Kelly Moore the formula so they had to eye match it. These two issues made me disappointed. This is where their true professionalism paid off. None of these issues were K.M.‘s fault but the people there bent over backwards to make certain that I did not walk out of the door an unhappy customer. I came away from there with a completely renewed attitude and will always return to Kelly Moore at De Anza. Special thanks to Everett for making my day better and working miracles with difficult customers!
And yes they do have the overall best paint in the area. So what if home bleepo sells cheap paint, it is thick and muddy but does not have much body to it and takes two coats to cover (duh twice as much work). Kelly Moore also sells the absolute best enamel called Dura-​Poxy which is a water based product that is equivalent to oil based enamel. Who wants to use oil base anymore with all of the fumes and solvents. No other store in the area can match Dura-​poxy for the excellent finish and durability.
That’s my two cents

So, I have been painting my house room by room for the past year. I always went to Kelly Moore on De Anza Blvd. because it is convenient. Not anymore. The employees that used work at that store are no longer around. Instead, they have hired the slowest, most useless people I have ever seen. I went in on Wednesday at 2:50 to buy 4 paint brushes with cash. I waited, and waited, and waited while these jokers stood doing nothing but listening to the paint cans spin in the spinners. They would not wait on any other customer while the paints were doing their thing. Finally, a guy finished and rang up my brushes. I handed him the cash… oh no, another issue. He had to find someone to open the cash drawer to deal with my transaction. When it became apparent this was also going to cause more waiting and waiting I said «shall I charge it then?» Suddenly the cash guru came alive, and I was given my change. The whole process took 25 minutes. Home Depot has at least 4 people or more working the paint counter, while paint is spinning they help the next person. Never again will I darken Kelly Moore’s door.

After a year of time and 10 or more sample pints of BM, I gave up and turned to KM. I highly recommend the factory-​mixed exterior gallon paints for their consistent color. The service at the de Anza store was top-notch.After so many failures with other brands, chips not matching quarts, not matching gallons, KM was willing to brush out a 8×11 board straight from the factory-​mixed gallon. From that, I was able to truly gauge the actual color and have some idea of what my house would look like when fully painted — not an easy task.
In the end, we chose Wise Owl. You might say it is a light beige. I say it is a fantastic slightly warm neutral, which magically adapts based on what color it is paired with. We have a 1960s California ranch coraly-​orange «Green Hills» brick making our design job difficult (had neither the money nor the heart to remove all of it.) Wise Owl pairs delicately and beautifully with the brick and shows its slight warm brown/​red/​yellow undertone. It is a simple harmonious union — won’t win awards, but, stops my neighbors from coming up to me and saying, «I don’t like that color». In fact, now neighbors stop by to say they like the color on our house. Wise Owl, on my house, is like a khaki pants color with a little grey/​brown in the morning sun. In the evening as the sun sets, then red side comes out. Wise Owl does do «the pink thing» in the evenings, so guys beware. I love Wise Owl.
My other findings in relation to Wise Owl: BM Grant Beige is similar, a truly beautiful neutral, but, yet very different — has distinct cool green undertone and does not pair well with «Green Hills» brick. KM Greystone is similar to BM Grant Beige, but has more yellow. KM Malibu Beige is beautiful — similar to Wise Owl, but, has a cooler neutral gray tone. KM Spanish Sand is a much stronger red/​yellow color and would probably go with the GreenHills brick, but, I didn’t want my house to be so strongly colored. KM Sand Pebble, is a stronger beautiful cool grey-​green — I’ve seen houses in this color and with the right greyish brick, it is a soothing and elegant combination.

This is my first time I ever stepped inside of any Kelly Moore stores and I have to say the service was great. Tom was helping me on one particular color and I find him knowledgeable, polite, and very courteous. It’s employees like Tom who can take you away from the huge cookie-​cutter home improvement stores and spend your money here where staff acknowledge you as a real breathing person.

$ 28 for a custom color at the big orange depot of home. Don’t forget that the Behr crap they label as premium is half water. It just peels off over time, and doesn’t coat evenly. You’re likely to use more paint than you need. I would only use it to paint an ex’s house. Or to use as a practical joke, painting someone’s cabinets and windows shut… who am I kidding, that stuff wouldn’t hold a window shut.
The paint quality at Kelly Moore was top notch, consistent, evenly coating, looks good wet and dry, which helps limit the need for touch-​ups. Swatch colors were right on. At $ 32 – 37 for a gallon of custom color, the prices weren’t that much more than the big box crap. And I’ve never had to use more than 2 coats for anything. Brushes and stuff are more costly here, but the quality seems to be much better for the prices.
Staff is extremely knowledgeable about paint and painting techniques, and provided some sound advice.