Chalkboards may be old-school, but they’re new accents in home decor. “Look what I made,” Kelly Sims of Liberty, Mo., said at a chalkboard paint class in Independence, Mo., holding up pictures of a ...

In the living room of Harveen Gluf’s home in Sioux Falls, projects sit waiting to be discovered. An old china cabinet stands against one wall. There’s a buffet doubling as a TV table. Nearby is a ...