Melissa is a writer who focuses on home design, trends and projects. She covers content for a variety of sites to help readers navigate everything from finding the right interior color palette to ...

It was great fun chalk painting and chalkboarding just about everything in sight (watch out, Rover -- only kidding!) … for a while. But now there's a new movement toward a sleeker, more ...

Chalkboards may be old-school, but they’re new accents in home decor. “Look what I made,” Kelly Sims of Liberty, Mo., said at a chalkboard paint class in Independence, Mo., holding up pictures of a ...

In case you’re wondering, chalkboard paint is exactly what the name suggests. It goes on as a paint and you can actually use the surface as a chalkboard. The ingenious product can transform most ...

Putting a new face on tired-looking home accents can be as simple as brushing on a few coats of paint. But if you want to achieve a unique antique-style finish, think outside the conventional can of ...

When Annie Sloan created Chalk Paint in 1990, she never imagined that it would become the go-to decorative paint for anyone embarking on a do-it-yourself home project—which is exactly what it is today ...

In the living room of Harveen Gluf’s home in Sioux Falls, projects sit waiting to be discovered. An old china cabinet stands against one wall. There’s a buffet doubling as a TV table. Nearby is a ...

If you’re looking for paint that will beautify your living or working space while treading lightly on the planet, you’re in luck. Milk and chalk paints are fast-drying, water-based paints that are ...