Herb tte wrote:



DH paint comes in smaller containers.
For crafts, you can have many dozens of different colors and still have
room to put them!

Buying a pint for $2.00 and using only a couple of ounces before it
dries out seems wasteful.
Buying an ounce for $2.00 and using it all up doesn't seem to waste
anything (they DO close and reseal better than paint cans)

Rust-Oleum has 1/2 pint cans of varied colors in their American Accents series.
I got a lot of uses from each can I bought--for two different houses and a
couple of roomboxes. They kept fairly well.

More seriously - it depends on which "stuff sold at your average
hardware store" you're talking about. Real high quality house paints
tend to be thicker than you'd want to use on small parts, but it can
work on walls or exteriors if they don't have a lot of fine detail.

I believe the American accents series (if they're still being sold) are more
designed for furniture and trim than painting the outside of an actual house.
They have a nice satin finish and are regular latex.

Shelly