Does chalkboard paint only come in black?

Nope. it comes in green as well. Most stores will stock both colors too.

Err, not to be a debbie downer, but wont this be hard to cover without repainting the entire wall once the holidays are over?

The kitchn had an article about customizing chalkboard paint w/any color (it's Martha, of course...). Seems easy enough to do.

I'm with tyzephyr on this one : what to do after the holidays when you don't want the tree anymore ?

>>After this, the tree got filled in with chalk Christmas decorations for the holiday party that night.

I would have liked to see a shot of this as well.

One of the notes says they'll be closed for renovations, so they may not be worried if they're repainting or doing something with those walls anyway.

Either way, painting over an area that size is easy enough. It takes less time than putting up and taking down an actual Christmas tree.

It's official: the chalkboard paint thing has gone too far.

They really should have used some tape to mark out the tree's shape on the wall before painting. It looks like it was done by kids. Perhaps that was intentional.

Not a fan.

This brings the meaning of artificial tree to a whole new (and one-dimensional) level. In one word.....tacky.

You could use chalkboard contact paper. Just cut it out/piece together the right shape and peel it off after Christmas. You could do a small test patch first to make sure it wouldn't pull the paint off. Or you could not remove the backing and just tack it up.

This is terrible! Why?!

I rather like this for an area with kids. Little kids are often not encouraged to decorate Christmas trees; this they could decorate over and over :) I agree that it might be a little odd to have on the wall in August, but whatev. I bet it could still be fun.

Why not paint a big rectangle of chalkboard paint and then use paper to create a tree silhouette? Holidays over, remove the paper and you're back to a normal chalkboard.

Why not measure it to fit the wall rather than have one tiny piece wrap aroung the corner...?

I moved into a 12' ceilinged, 1840s house just before Christmas one year. Fortunately, I had 2 little nieces, three and four years old. With much careful ladder help, they painted a beautiful fir tree from ceiling to baseboard with brown/grey (trunk, branches) and green (needles) latex paint. It was huge, and beautiful as only children's art can be. We glue-gunned ornaments by their hangers all over it. From the opposite ceiling corners I illuminated the tree with one green and one red spotlight. This tree was so beautiful it remained for several years (minus ornaments). How thrilled do you think the nieces were?

Yes where are the after pics? A list isn't very festive.. bah humbug on this half-assed tree ;)

Chalkboard paint = yawn.

Ease up with the chalkboard paint on everything everywhere already. This is a trend that should stop, or at the least cease to be shoved down our throats at every turn.