eggshell finish
eggshell gloss

Cheer up dull-looking cabinets by painting them in a high gloss or eggshell finish.

It was the first in a new range of smooth, eggshell finish paints replacing the drag-inducing matt finishes in use up until 1942.

Then I applied a rust converter (it goes on white, then turns black) and finished by painting with latex paint in an eggshell finish.

All exposed wood has an eggshell finish finish that diffuses the light, as the masonry walls of the original building naturally do.

The walls of the lounge in this car were enamelled fawn, with eggshell finish, and with sunken margins gloss-enamelled in off-white.

"The eggshell finish in the Benjamin Moore went way green," said Jerome Neuner, the Modern's director of exhibition design and production.

As the Darwin settled into orbit around the alien moon, Picard saw on the forward viewscreen that its surface was a smooth eggshell finish.

For the first coat use a stain-killing sealer like BIN or Enamelac, then apply two coats of flat or eggshell finish enamel.

It's $32.99 a gallon in the eggshell finish, the Pratt & Lambert latex is available at Janovic Plaza; for store information: (800) 772-4381.

Paint, however, should always be washable - do not use emulsion because you will not bc able to wash grease and smoke off easily, but rather use gloss or eggshell finishes.

Containing slightly more gloss than an eggshell finish, which is almost flat, and slightly less than a semigloss, the Regal Aqua Pearl finish is stain-resistant and washable.

The 18-inch-diameter porcelain bowl (center), glazed in robin's-egg blue with eggshell finish, was made by Steven Stewart, a potter in Stone Ridge, N.Y.; $350 at Gordon Foster, 1322 Third Avenue (76th Street).