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 ...

Q: We recently bought a 1926 colonial in Melrose with mostly horsehair plaster walls. This is my first experience with plaster walls, and I'm afraid they are going to crumble when I hang artwork, etc.

You’re proudly hanging your first picture on your new home’s antique plaster walls. A few minutes later, it’s no longer ...

The Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn has molds of more than 6,000 artworks such as the “Venus de Milo” and Alexander the Great’s foot. An artisan at work in the Plaster Cast Workshop of the ...