Our chalkboard frame DIY project is the perfect hostess gift ... Apply a light, even coat of chalkboard paint. Make your brushstrokes in the same direction (left to right or top to bottom).

With a few simple ingredients, including chalkboard paint and free-standing picture frames, you can easily make your own homemade chalkboard signs. Clearly marked prices are an easy way to ...

Chalkboard paint can be used in a variety of ways — framed chalkboards, painted on the walls or added to doors. "Chalkboard doors are now available from several vendors," Mahnken said.

but this recipe for DIY chalkboard paint lets you make it in any color you like, so you're not stuck with an all black wall just because you wanted a space for the shopping list or note to the family.

To create the chalkboard/magnet board using milk paint, she suggests the following steps: 1. Choose your project piece. Milk paint can be applied to the inside of a unique picture frame ...

If the glazing medium is hard to get at, or you just want fewer steps, Martha Stewart's site explains how to make DIY chalkboard paint with just the tile grout. What's more, her site offers some ...

Upgrade any space with a giant chalkboard ... Apply a couple coats of paint to the plywood slab with a paint roller. While ...

This first DIY chalkboard is by far the easiest. With the magic of chalkboard spray paint, you'll have a board ... an empty picture frame. This one is actually even faster than the first board ...

But Rust-Oleum's new brush-on chalkboard ... the paint creates a writable and erasable surface and can be applied to walls, doors or tables as well as picture frames, flowerpots and place mats.