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 ...

Reinventing a piece of furniture is always fun and also can be an adventure, especially if you are trying a new DIY technique. My daughter wanted to update a 1960s desk that had great lines and I ...

Learn how to paint old furniture like a pro with Chalk Paint in four easy steps. The hardest part is choosing which beautiful ...

SHAKER HEIGHTS -- You spent a week carefully sanding, priming and painting that cute chest of drawers you rescued from your aunt's attic. But your best friend is bragging on Facebook about how she ...

As I’ve mentioned before, I have a love of paint. I just think it’s so excellent that you can spend a little money on a can of paint and totally transform a space or an item. Painting furniture can be ...

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 ...

Christen Bensten discovered chalk paint only last year, after doing a lot of experimenting with milk paint. She switched to Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, a British line of water-based paints that require ...

DIY novices, fear not: refurbing your furniture is much simpler than you may think. Repainting a dresser, bookshelf, or mirror doesn't have to be an arduous task, and can be tackled in a weekend ...