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Create 5 Different
Home Decorating Chalkboards
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You can create a decorative chalkboard for every room in
your home, by starting with a little chalkboard paint.
Create a country menu for your dining room, or a decorative
chalkboard message center for your kitchen.
Use chalkboard paint to transform old picture frames into an
idea center for your office, or a doodling corner next to
the toilet.
Even your home's entryway can be graced with a decorative
chalkboard for hanging keys and leaving messages. It’s easy
and fun.
Just follow the simple instructions for five ways to
decorate with chalkboard paint.
#1. Kitchen
Message Center:
Begin with an old shelf or door that you can cut down to the
size you wish your kitchen message center to be. Or buy a
plank of wood at your local home improvement store.
Apply
chalkboard paint to half the wood, and
magnetic paint primer to the other half, following the
manufacturers instructions. When the magnetic primer is dry,
paint over it with a beautiful bright color, like purple,
red or blue.
Finally, buy small magnets at your local craft
store and glue them to chalk sticks and a wiper, to hold
them in place on the magnetic side of your decorative
chalkboard message center.
#2. Home Office
Idea Board
Begin by collecting old picture frames in whatever sizes,
shapes and colors you find.
Next paint all the frames with
the same color, or a combination of matching colors like
purples and pinks.
Now cut plywood to fit into each frame
using the wood cutting services at your local home
improvement store, or look for small wood slabs at your
local crafts store.
Paint all the plywood pieces with
chalkboard paint, following the manufacturers instructions.
Once dry, insert your chalkboards into the frames and hang
them in a group without spaces between each decorative
chalkboard, so as to form the patter of a latticed window.
Hang a small box below to hold your chalks and wiper.
#3. Dining
Room Chalkboard Menu
Begin by choosing a picture frame from an old painting, or
buying a cheap picture frame at the store.
Next cut plywood
to a size that would fit your frame (your local home
improvement store offers wood cutting services).
Apply a
thin coat of chalkboard paint to the plywood and the frame,
following the manufacturer’s guidelines.
Once dry, decorate
the chalkboard frame with vines or flowers, then scribble a
menu on the board, or draw a wine bottle and glasses.
Use
several pastel colors for added beauty and look for
inspiration on goggle images, by searching for: Restaurant chalkboard menu.
#4. Toilet
Doodling Board
For an Elegant Toilet:
Buy six cheap hand-mirrors. Next
paint the mirrors with chalkboard paint. No need to protect
the handles, as you will paint them next.
Once the
chalkboard paint is dry, cover it with painter’s tape and
paint the handles with
crackle finish spray paint. Hang your decorative
chalkboards in the pattern of petals on a flower, with the
handles facing out.
For a Kids'
Toilet:
If you have an old, unused toilet seat, bring
it out for this project, or buy the cheapest toilet seat
sold at your local home improvement store.
Paint the toilet
seat and cover with chalkboard paint, following the
manufacturers instructions. Hang this whimsical decorative
chalkboard beside the toilet, with the lid open and ready
for doodling. And hang a small box of chalks inside the
chalkboard toilet hole.
#5. Entryway Chalkboard with a Key Holder
At the wood section of your local home improvement store,
choose a thick plank of lumber that’s around a foot wide.
Use the store cutting services to cut the plank to a two to
three foot length, depending on the height of your entryway.
Stop also at the hardware center and choose hooks for your
keys.
Next, using painter’s tape protect a two inch border
around the edges, before you paint the center with
chalkboard paint. Once the chalkboard is dry, protect its
edges with painter’s tape and paint the border in a dark,
contrasting color, like burgundy or hunter green.
Finally,
drill holes to screw in your hooks. Hang a chalk with a
rough string from the top of this decorative chalkboard.
Questions? Comments?
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