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Understand Paint Sheen Terminology

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What Is The Best Paint Sheen To Use: Flat, Satin, or Semigloss?

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The speaker begins by acknowledging the confusion surrounding paint sheens due to the proliferation of various terms like 'matte' and 'low sheen' in addition to the traditional 'flat', 'satin', 'semi-gloss', and 'gloss'. For simplicity, the video will focus on the four main categories: flat, satin, semi-gloss, and gloss. The goal is to provide clarity on what each sheen offers and where it is best applied.

Goal: This step introduces various paint sheens, clarifying common terminology like flat, satin, semi-gloss, and gloss, and briefly mentions other less common terms such as matte and low sheen.

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It's a little bit difficult to talk about paint sheen when there's all these other sheen in between out there or there's sheen called matte that are basically a flat just slightly above and even within Sherwood Williams you got more than just your flat satin semi- glosses and glosses you have low sheen you got matte sheen and then just a bunch of other crap just out there just to confuse us but just to keep it simple we'll talk about flat satin semig glosses and high glosses and when I'm

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