If it's hard and glossy it's called "enamel" because the original
enamel was glass fused to metal. They sell latex "enamel" and it
*is* glossy. But hard? I don't think so...it isn't sandable, stuff
sticks to it, it doesn't flow.

There is no reason that there couldn't be a decent water based
"enamel" (may already exist) but it would use polyurethane. Latex is
fine for drywall and concrete, lousy for wood. Lousy, that is, if
one cares about how it looks.

Let me amend that...

I should have said that latex (or acrylic latex) is lousy for wood
*furniture*...tables, desks, cabinets...like that. There is no way
under the sun to get a good paint job on same with those paints. For
things like exterior trim, it is fine.

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