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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Workshop in painting techniques for furniture and home décor. Create classic, vintage furniture from old, worn-out items, using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, the magical paint from England, now here in the ...

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, ...

It’s not just for shabby chic—these ideas prove there’s nothing chalk paint can’t do. If you know what chalk paint is, you probably have an opinion on the many chalk paint ideas and uses. You might ...

It's the paint that helped fuel the shabby chic trend, which started in the ’90s and is now making a comeback. Creator Annie Sloan is coming to New Orleans on Saturday and Sunday with two days of ...