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 ...

Back during the Renaissance, great artists like Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael would create their own paints. Of course paint is very cheap and readily available, but that doesn’t mean you can’t ...

Q.Yesterday, I stopped by a friend's house and she was painting steps. These were wood steps leading to her basement. She was using a stencil, and it looked fantastic. What's the best paint for steps?

The first painters didn’t have vibrant and smooth oil paints. Instead, the earliest human works of art we know of were made using a mixture of powder from rocks, dirt, bone or other minerals and egg ...

Dee Harley of Harley Farms is behind Farm Paints, a line of paint made from goat’s milk: you can watch the video above to see how they make it. Farm Paints is a relatively new line, but the idea ...

Long before synthetic paints existed, artists risked fortunes to create the rarest blue pigment in history,Ultramarine, made from crushed lapis lazuli. In this video, I attempt to make that legendary ...

No matter whether you’re hiring a professional or DIYing your paint job, high-quality paint matters. If you use an unworthy paint or primer, Kulikowski warns you might soon begin to see the signs of ...

Interior designers have some pretty strong feelings when it comes to detrimental paint color mistakes. Here, they weigh in on everything from the importance of undertones to the right route to go when ...

A group of Home sapiens came across a picturesque cave on the coast of South Africa around 100,000 years ago. They unloaded their gear and set to work, grinding iron-rich dirt and mixing it gently ...