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 ...

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 ...

Giving an old piece of furniture a new life can be both satisfying and economical. Now that chalk-style paint is widely available in a range of colors and prices, the process also is easier than ever.

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 ...

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 ...

Chalkboard paint is not a new trend for the home, but it's steadily growing in popularity, enthuses designer Joshua Rowland, simply because it's fun. It's also "pretty useful," added Rowland, ...

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 ...