Originally Posted by
Steve Schoene
Why do people persist in speaking of Latex paint, a name mostly of historic interest compared to the variety of today's waterborne paints. Paints marketed as Latex these days are almost always formulated to be used on walls and ceilings, and generally with rollers, brushes, or by pros using airless sprayers. Viscosity is set to be desirable with those methods of application. But, there are a host of paints some from the pro-companies such as Sherwin Williams and others, such as Target and General Finishes. In the cases viscosity has be tweaked to be ideal for spraying with hvlp guns with only minor tweaking. Some of these have been designed to mean kitchen cabinet certification requirements or be otherwise be made to be used on wood products including furniture. The manufacturers will almost never call these latex paints.