Eco Friendly or Green Paint
What does Green" mean?
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Green refers to a product that contains less than 100 VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds). VOCs may be natural or synthetic. Like organic chemicals, there are millions of different compounds which may be classified as VOCs. The nose detects strong smells generally as a something containing high VOCs. Modern industrial chemicals such as fuels, solvents, coatings, feedstocks, and refrigerants are usually VOCs.
Why do VOCs matter?
As organic chemicals, VOCs may have health consequences, but this is depending on the specific chemicals that are being used. Because of their health effects, VOCs are regulated in some places. Many consumer products found around homes, such as cleaning solvents, paints, and wood preservatives on certain furniture all emit VOC compounds. In recent years many common materials and products used indoors have been developed and are labeled by manufacturers as low VOC or zero VOC.
Where to buy Eco Friendly or green paint with low or zero VOCs.
Most paint companies now offer the Eco friendly paint. Since the colors are used mainly for mixing with a glaze, a quart is enough. For the base coat, you can purchase a gallon of paint at your local paint store. Just ask for Eco friendly paint and they will show you the brands they have. A lot of the colors we used in our workshop are included in the Faux Painting Color Suggestions and Idea E-Book that we include FREE with the purchase of any of our faux painting kits. We will also email you a file that has the formulas for all of OUR colors you can purchase from your local Lowes store. Just take the page with you and ask the rep to mix up a sample size with the particular color formula you want. You can also purchase some of our larger kits and get an actual color swatches sheet that has OUR colors so you can take it to any paint store to match the color you want.
You can also buy low VOC paint from Valspar's Signature brand at Lowes or Duration brand at Sherwin Williams.
What paint sheen should be used for faux painting?
For your base coat, use a satin sheen. Eggshell is fine but you will have less open time. We recommend using regular wall paint to mix with your glazes, too. Use 1 part paint to 6 parts glaze. You can choose to use universal tints or acrylic paint in a bottle to make your own colors if you are an experienced faux painter or artist.
Getting started with learning faux finishing.
Our Basic faux painting kit, INCLUDES one Multi Color Faux Palette, a set of Poofy Pads, a set of Tuck and Gather tools PLUS you can choose to recieve an actual Faux Painting Workshop DVD or watch ONLINE with our E-DVD.
Receive FREE, a Faux Painting Color Suggestions and Idea E-book-book, too.
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