Benjamin Moore Natura Meets Elle’s Dining Room Table

I’ve been exploring my zero VOC paint options lately. To date, I’ve only tried Mythic paint on my son’s bed and toybox, and the Benjamin Moore Natura range for my dining room table.

I have to say, of the 2, the Natura is my favorite. The consistency is thick, and I find that I don’t get the paint drips that I got with the Mythic paint, but it also spreads so nicely. There’s almost no odor at all. The brush strokes that I did see were minor.

I bought 3 pints. One pint of 3 colors; kendall charcoal, banana yellow, and chantilly lace. For the table I used the kendall charcoal.

My only complaint is that the sticker on the front of the can looks like something I could print out on a low quality desktop printer, and stick on with an Elmer's glue stick. But then, maybe that’s the company’s effort to be more “green.” But then again, it’s what’s on the inside that matters most, right? And inside, the stuff is good.

The picture above was taken after one coat of the Zinsser water based primer, and one coat of the paint. I followed up with a second second coat, and a two coats of Minwax polyacrylic. The color ended up being a rich, cool grey. I love it! And that is all, for now.

Talk to you in the next one!