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 ...

Buying new isn’t always the answer for interiors. There’s little to beat the satisfaction of an update to what’s already there — or to a piece you bought secondhand — that makes it a fabulous feature ...

Chalk it up to an easy furniture makeover. The chalk-based paint craze has officially painted the town red, and country gray, and English yellow, and Greek blue. The furniture paint, which goes by a ...

Even if you’ve never heard of milk paint or chalk paint before, you’ve definitely seen it. Except, the chalk paint we’re referring to here isn’t the dark-colored kind that you can use to turn any ...

A desk in Donna Haile's living room bears one of the gray shades in Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint palette. If it has been said once, it’s been said a thousand times: Paint is the easiest way to give ...

Chalk paint is perfect for DIY projects, whether you're reviving a secondhand headboard from the thrift store or upgrading worn-down walls. The big perk? Unlike regular paint, chalk paint doesn't ...

Fashionable with DIY decorators as well as with custom finish pros, milk paint and chalk paint appear on everything these days, from wood furniture to metal mirror frames to walls. But what makes ...

Chalk paint creates a soft, chalky patina that gives furniture an antique look and it makes refinishing furniture and cabinets easier because it requires little prep work. Although it is a useful and ...

Mom wants you to write on her walls. Really. Those indoor graffiti sessions that once landed you in the naughty chair are now roundly encouraged. That is, as long as you limit your etchings to a ...

While this activity can be done indoors using a large sheet of paper, it is best done outdoors on a hard surface so that your children can make huge movements as they explore the different color ...