Bookcases, hutches, china cabinets, and any furniture piece with shelves require extra time and energy to paint. But the ...

Former Chicagoans Dan and Marilynn Tynan quit their “real jobs” (he was an architect, she an interior designer) because they wanted to work together. The husband and wife team bought birdhouses from a ...

It wasn't so much the older design of the furniture but its dark-stained wood, against her dark bedroom floors, that bothered Olivia Fleming. The combination darkened the entire room, which didn't ...

Learn how to paint old furniture like a pro with Chalk Paint in four easy steps. The hardest part is choosing which beautiful color to use! I am a sloppy painter and an impatient one, too. What I love ...

Designers and brands are relying on decorative painted furniture to add a pop of personality to a space. Just as hand-painted family crests, monograms, and even tattoos are all tools for expression, ...

Type of merchandise: A design studio featuring award-winning interior design with new custom upholstery and case goods, home ...

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 ...

MARSHFIELD – Christine Clarke has spent decades honing design and maker skills across numerous disciplines, from painting and sculpting to upholstery and lost-wax casting. Each of her varied skills ...

Felipe Velez and his Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts classmates were used to attending art workshops at school. Painters, sculptors and photographers had hosted ...

Upcycling furniture is perhaps the most cost-effective and innovative way to upgrade home decor. In this, you transform old ...

The infinite possibilities of decorative painting brought life to villas in Pompeii, Florentine palaces and Charleston in East Sussex. Today, a revival of interest in the artform is once again ...

Since 1986, The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts has been dedicated to fostering new scholarship for the period 1875 to 1945 and parallels themes contained in the collection of The Wolfsonian ...