This is the perfect light gray color!
One Step Paint | Opera Gray
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Opera Gray is a lighter cool grey with a subtle touch of blue influence, making it an elegant and versatile choice for your space.
About One Step Paint
One Step Paint is our premium, water-based chalk-style paint that transforms furniture, fabric, and everything in between. No stripping, no sanding, no priming. It dries to a soft, chalky matte finish that's perfect for vintage, distressed, layered, and Old World looks. While decorative pieces don't require sealing, we recommend adding a wax or sealer on high-use items like dining tables, chairs, and cabinets to protect against everyday wear.
No stripping, sanding or priming.
Works on fabric & upholstery
Endless finish combinations
Low VOC, water-based
Seriously. This simple.
A beautiful transformation in 4 steps.
No sanding. No stripping. No priming.
Step 01
Clean
Wipe your piece with Clean Slate to remove wax, grease, and oils. That's your only prep.
Step 02
Paint
Apply with a brush or roller. One to two coats is all you need for full, beautiful coverage.
Step 03
Customize
Layer with wax, glaze, or Cracked Patina. Use it as a base for Milk Paint. Go as simple or as artistic as you like.
Step 04
Enjoy
Stand back. Take a photo. Enjoy the bragging rights.
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30–45 min
Dry to touch
2
Coats for full coverage
100+
Curated colors
Any
Surface
One Step Paint FAQ
One Step Paint is a chalk-style, calcium-carbonate paint designed to create antique beauty without stripping, sanding, priming, or sealing. Simply clean your surface, apply the paint, and let it dry. It delivers rich color and a flat matte finish that can be left as-is or layered with waxes, glazes, milk paint, or specialty finishes.
Rescue. Restore. Redecorate.
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Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 7 reviews.
I love this paint so much that I’m going to re do everything in my house with this amazing life changing paint! Amazing beautiful colors, great finish work.
The paint was nice spread was good one coat almost did the job put on 2 perfect. I did notice a smell which took me back a bit not bad but it does have the vanilla type smell I ran a air cleaner as it was all done indoors. A few days later still has the odor. Not bad did not give me a headache or bother pets but it is not odor free as I wish it was. The clean slate does have a harsher odor. I have not tried the wax yet. Over all would purchase again but maybe in summer when the windows can be open
Nice color, good texture, dries very quickly.
In this photo I am auditioning colors to coordinate with A Good Man Is Hard To Find dark gray One Step Paint. You'll see Opera Gray at the top. I didnt choose it for the project, but it is a lovely color. Even on paper, it slid on to make 2 perfect coats. No matter the color, One Step Paint is the BEST!
We have used Amy Howard paint to transform the interior of our 2003 Airstream!
We are using Amy Howard One Step Paint for the interior of our Airstream and it turned out amazing!