If there’s one technique that Annie Sloan returns to time and again, it’s the two-colour distress method she developed right when she first created Chalk Paint™ In just a few simple steps, you can ...

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 ...

For Heather Buford and Vanessa Diel, old doesn’t mean obsolete, distressed isn’t defective and shabby can be chic. These two local DIYers like nothing better than scouring antique shops, flea markets ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michelle Wakefield of Wichita says she uses Pinterest “constantly every day.” She’s always looking for ideas on the social-media site that allows users to “pin” photos, recipes and how-tos on their ...