Like fingernails on a chalkboard to us locals!

Paint one wall with chalkboard paint, and let them go at it with colored chalks.

Whiney tenants--like fingernails on a chalkboard! 

In essence, the hardwood is the chalkboard, and the dogs claw is the chalk.

ISLAND on wheels with same Butcherblock countertop chalkboard wall of dining area. bathroom, black marble showerstep black-rock shower floor, white subway tile floor to ceiling paned glass shower.

Our go to’s right now are 2 dozen donut holes ($5.50) from a local bakery, we write a personalized welcome message on a chalkboard the guests see when they walk in, my wife also will do a couple towel animals on the beds.

Then you could get a piece of 1/4 " thick mdf and some cheap trim and some chalkboard paint, and create a framed chalkboard that completely covers the hole from the outside.EDIT: I am an engineering manager at a cabinet and Millwork shop by day.

Putting in vinyl flooring that looks like wood, adding chalk board feature walls where they make sense, paint walls a color.

Flat paint looks fine at first, but after it rains a few times, it will look like a dirty chalk board.

(Insert fingernails on a chalkboard sound here)