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 ...

Related: The 5 Best Paint Brands—and Interior Designers' Favorite Colors From Each Bring texture into your home with the faux chalk-paint look—all you have to do is mix baking ... glassware or an ...

What Is Chalk Paint? Chalk paint is a water-based polyacrylic varnish that can be used on various surfaces, including wood, ...

Unlock to see our ratings and compare products side by side The Behr Marquee Exterior (Home Depot) is part of the Paints test program at Consumer Reports. In our lab tests, Exterior paints models ...

Halloween is just around the corner, and it’s bringing a spooky new home trend along for the ride. Enter whimsigoth, a look ...

Daniela Behr is an Economist at the Women, Business and the Law Project. She currently leads the team’s research efforts on women’s legal capacity regarding freedom of movement, property rights, and ...

Paint prep is a necessary but sometimes tedious step. Properly prepping a surface for painting can ensure a smooth finished project. On a piece of furniture with only a few isolated peeling ...

Microsoft Paint gets a new and refurbished look with the latest Windows 11 operating system. Paint has been with Windows since its inception and while the operating system got upgraded many times ...

When prep school teacher Shin Hyeong-Seok came to Japan some 15 years ago and discovered the holy grail of chalk, he fell so deeply in love that he became an importer. Now, he manufactures the top ...

"I’ve heard it called moody maximalism, and I think that describes my house exactly," says Annie Sloan, the creator of chalk paint and an expert on all things color and style. "I love the ...

During this journey, Paint became an icon in its own right, which is maybe the reason why the Redmond, Washington, company chose to remake the software into a powerful (and free) AI-powered image ...

Some of our most beautiful rivers are ‘chalk streams’. Their pure, clear, constant water from underground chalk aquifers and springs, flowing across flinty gravel beds, make them perfect sources of ...