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4.5
First off, I’ve never used milk paint before and this review addresses both the quality of this particular milk paint and just a few heads up notes for other people who have never used it before. First, about this particular paint. It’s water soluble, easy to clean, goes on well and coverage seems to be about what is advertised. I used slightly more water 1.15:1 to paint measured by grams on a kitchen scale to get a replicable consistency each time. The color was true to the advertised, and matched the swatch. Zero VOC, which I loved for baby items. Overall worked very well, with good value as compared to other milk paint brands. I was very happy with the results.Now some things I learned for my first time using milk paint. First off, it’s not like other water-based pre-mixed paints. The paint is essentially a particle suspension in water so it’s not as “viscous” as say store bought interior paint and variations to your mixture ratio will largely affect how much surface area you can cover and how quickly it dries. It is not sprayable via an airless sprayer (like the graco cup gun) because of its clumpiness and will jam the sprayer (trust me I tried). Furthermore, milk paint is transparent after the first coat (think a tint of color only) which is nice if you are trying to still see wood grain below but really difficult if you are trying to cover a dark color with a light color. However, with each subsequent coat of paint it gets more opaque. Semi-opaque after 2-3 coats and then fully opaque after about 3-4 coats. (I had a walnut stain under a white, which took 4 coats to be totally opaque white). Lastly, it does need to still be coated with a finishing layer of a wax or oil (I used “real milk paint” brand wax). It will bubble and peel if water drops on it without a top coat, because it is water soluble. Lastly, it does have a nice velvet feel to it if you sand it before top coating it.(highly recommended)
