Well, my sweet hubby made that for me after I quickly sketched it out on a piece of scrap paper with some rough estimations on the size I wanted (I think my exact words to him were, "Yeah, about 4 x 3'? Well, unless I want it to sit on the table, maybe it should be smaller? But it can't be too small, cause then there won't be enough room to write. I don't know, what do you think?" Helpful. right?). We happened to have a scrap piece of plywood exactly 4 x 3' in the garage, but after examining it I decided it needed to lose 6 inches on the side and top. Cause I have to make everything as hard as possible.
Then I measured off 6 inches all the way around and painted inside of that, first with two coats of leftover "oops" paint, then two coats of chalkboard paint. I didn't even bother sanding it first since I knew the paint would help fill in some of the imperfections on the wood.
Once the paint was completely dry, Mike just arranged leftover pallet boards (
all but two of the boards on this were leftover scraps from my son's wall!) and worked at it until everything lined up correctly. I gotta say, I really appreciate his hard work making sure that all the boards looked good and were spaced nicely on there!
I had originally planned for it to be able to stand on its own, like a sandwich board; but Mike just screwed a small piece of 2 x 2" on the back and it locks into place on one of our saw horses, genius! Plus, it will be easy for me to hang this gorgeous pallet framed chalkboard on a wall if I ever decide to!
Labels: paint, reuse, wood
