Inspired by Myra & Jim’s family chalkboard (a giant one, right between the kitchen & the living room) I finally got around to making my own. Hey, I only spent a month with a can of chalkboard paint and a frame sitting leaning up against the bookcase, so that’s good, right? After we finished, I felt silly because it seriously took an hour & looks great. Once we got the huge bookcases, we realized we needed something really huge for the blank wall, and why not something utilitarian?
1. Find a frame. This had a hideous warped printed painting in it, and when we went to pay for it at the thrift store, they told us to just take it.
2. Make a nice person hold the frame straight while you trace the inside edge.
3. Three or four coats of chalkboard paint should do it.
4. Screw that baby into the wall. I painted the frame a little with the chalkboard paint, but I wanted to keep the chipped feel. I think having a matte black frame would look excellent too.
5. Make lists. House list and Hitch list. Yes, I still need to make my dress. But Angeliska is here this week! We’ve already eaten so much cake! Oh dear. & I’m hiding the House list until after the wedding.
Ashe Mischief
1 year ago
Goodness, that’s so simple, so striking and so bloody effective. I’m swooning over that little corner of your house.
Ms. Bunny
1 year ago
I have been dying to find a use for chalkboard paint ever since I heard of the stuff. I love your idea of framing a portion of a wall, instead of doing the whole thing. Once my furniture arrives here, I think I’m going to try to tackle my own framed chalkboard wall. Thank you for being inspiring yet again!
oola
1 year ago
i painted an entire wall in my kitchen with blackboard paint in my last apartment in brooklyn – it was THE ONLY time in my life i stayed completely and totally organized. having everything there in my face every morning in huge letters was like the key to a level of togetherness that i had never been able to achieve before. i really need to do it again but i can’t decide on the right space in this house.
yours is so lovely with that frame!
i hope you and angel are having fun times…xo
verhext
1 year ago
I really do need things in my face. If I write lists online or in books I just NEVER remember to look at them.
oola
1 year ago
p.s. on the hitch list – SOCKS!
verhext
1 year ago
socks are nice to have!! not for me, for him!
monika@lifemadesimple
1 year ago
Wow, it looks really nice! I love the idea!
mlle ghoul
1 year ago
I am so nosy! I cannot help it. I love it when people post photos of the interesting corners of their houses, I just love little peeps at things like that. Have to blow them up to see all the details.
Of course, no matter how large I make the image, my eyesight is still terrible! I read that on the hitched side as “finish Inuits”. Hee!
…and is the last item on your house list…something about a “beard”??
See what I mean? Nosy, nosy!
Seriously though, what a supergreat, gorgeous AND practical idea.
verhext
1 year ago
Yes, we’ve decided to have Inuit cake toppers. Nooooo. We have 3 invites left to seal with sealing wax and I have NO IDEA where I left the wax stick and the seal! Maddening.
House list:
Upholster chair
I have no idea (ummm, seriously? this is why I HAVE to write shit down)
Headboard
oola
1 year ago
yeah, i am the same way. no matter how religious i try to be with my moleskins, they always end up with chunks of blank months at the end of the year (if i don’t actually misplace them first, ha) and i have so many online lists – teuxdeux, igoogle widget things, post-it’s… i am even still in the habit of making and saving notes in text edit all over my desktop. i am like some kind of list hoarder. the chalkboard ended up working like a big mind map that was burned into my consciousness.
jennifer
1 year ago
i really like that. it looks awesome next to the bookcases. score on the wonky frame!
lyn
1 year ago
Yay chalkboard paint! We just spent the weekend painting pieces of masonite with chalkboard paint and securing them in second-hand frames to use for the wedding (listing the dinner and bar menus, for example). I like them so much that we may repurpose them as wall-reminders like you did here! Yours looks awesome, by the way. I like how you put some of the paint right on the frame to give it that built-in feel.
Danielle
1 year ago
That looks fabulous! Love the frame. I had a similar project, but with corkboard… it looks great, and it was practically free.
Becky
1 year ago
Oh, awesome! Chalkboard paint is an amazing invention. I still can’t believe it actually exists. Yours is just lovely! I love the shape and frame.
nath
1 year ago
yes! clever, bold and so useful. i too like having something i am confronted with on a daily basis besides mess of course. the giant chalkboard (mine is one from a pub my grandfather owned) is why i know that kaloba is excellent for a cold. (had it written on there for months!)
lizzie [ten thou bride]
1 year ago
I LOVE this! It’s beautiful…and so handy!