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Posted: Aug 24 2009 at 8:17am | IP Logged Quote Mary Chris

In an effort to prevent lots of little holes in the wall we decided to put tackboards or corkboards up in the kiddos rooms. Corkboards at the store, as you probably know, are uber expensive. I knew we could make some, but everytime I went to Home Depot or Lowes and asked an employee they looked at me like I had three heads.

Finally, I did a google search and came up with the right material to use to make them.

Dh and I bought .49 pieces of ceiling board and covered them with fabric. I even had fabric sitting around waiting to be used up. If you want to make them real nice you could buy some framing.

Also, a piece of tile or showerboard can work as a dry erase board. A huge piece of tile board will run you about $10.00.   

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Posted: Aug 24 2009 at 8:29am | IP Logged Quote Maryan

Sounds great Mary Chris!

Photo-op pretty please?

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Posted: Aug 24 2009 at 8:55am | IP Logged Quote mavmama

We have a huge whiteboard made from the shower board. My kids love it! The only downside is that it does take a bit more effort to clean it, but it's worth it for the savings.

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Posted: Aug 24 2009 at 9:20am | IP Logged Quote Mary Chris

mavmama wrote:
We have a huge whiteboard made from the shower board. My kids love it! The only downside is that it does take a bit more effort to clean it, but it's worth it for the savings.


They are a bit harder to clean. A friend recently told me that the dry erase boards they use in schools take a bit of extra effort too. I have found that baby wipes work pretty well.

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Posted: Aug 24 2009 at 10:29am | IP Logged Quote KackyK

I'll ask a dumb question...these sorts of things so don't come naturally to me...how did you attach the fabric-covered ceiling boards to the wall? And how did you attach the fabric to the board first off?

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Posted: Aug 27 2009 at 10:10am | IP Logged Quote Mary Chris

Kacky,

Somehow I missed your question, sorry!

We used some spray adhesive and a staple gun. I think dh stapled one side down then sprayed the adhesive on the front, smoothed the fabric across the front of the board and then stapled all around the edges.

Clear as mud?? Come over, we'll make them together.

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Posted: Aug 27 2009 at 12:01pm | IP Logged Quote amyable

Great ideas Mary Chris!

Growing up, my brother had one whole wall of his room covered with thick, peel-and-stick cork tiles. I've never seen them since, but they were cool.

I'm also thinking of painting a wall with magnetic paint to avoid the whole pin thing altogether.

Yours sound so much prettier though.

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Posted: Aug 27 2009 at 3:16pm | IP Logged Quote SharonO

Someone made my daughters boards out of the ceiling tiles, but painted them with their room colors & stenciled them with their names and some flowers. To hang them, they drilled a couple of holes somehow and strung heavy rope through them. I then hung them by a sturdy coat hook screwed into the wall.

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Posted: Aug 27 2009 at 3:18pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM

amyable wrote:
Great ideas Mary Chris!

Growing up, my brother had one whole wall of his room covered with thick, peel-and-stick cork tiles. I've never seen them since, but they were cool.

I'm also thinking of painting a wall with magnetic paint to avoid the whole pin thing altogether.

Yours sound so much prettier though.


When I rented a house in Steubenville going to Franciscan U, there was one bedroom that had a wall of corkboard tiles.

I do love your idea, Mary Chris. Trying to figure out where I would do it.

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