This is my absolute favorite project I have ever done!
Do you remember when Molly and I went thrifting a few weeks ago and came back with this "lovely" horse picture? Let me refresh your memory.
Sorry this picture is a bit fuzzy but you get the idea of the loveliness of this original artwork.
My son's room has one really large wall with no furniture against it. I had a picture hanging there but it was not to scale with the wall and it always bugged me.
I remembered the horse picture in the basement.
I decided to paint the frame to match the curtains in my son's room.
I taped off where I wanted my stripes to be and spray painted it red. Once dry I peeled the painters tape off and carefully filled in the stripes with craft paint.
I had this up against the bathroom door all day to continually work on it. Every time one of my kids would go to the bathroom they would say "Look at me, I am in a picture!"
I sprayed it with protective clear coat after it dried. I painted the horse picture with magnet paint followed by chalkboard paint on top (this was going on in the basement). Let me warn you, magnet paint really smells bad.
Once the frame and the chalkboard were dry I screwed them together from the back. I added a little wooden basket I had in the basement, added ceramic white knobs and strung wire from two of the ceramic white knobs.
Best of all, this project cost me about $20 (for the frame and the ceramic knobs). Everything else (basket, chalkboard/magnet paint, wire, and of course the craft paint) I had at home from other projects.
*Alison*
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very cute....it matches the room perfectly...I love it!!!
ReplyDeleteway cool! good job!
ReplyDeleteGreat job! Looks like you got the magnet stuff to work. We did this to a door in our kitchen and the magnet part is really weak, even though we did many coats! But LOVE the chalkboard for my girls!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic addition to the room, especially for a big wall like that!!
ReplyDeleteoh i love this! i made a huge chalkboard at our last house and had to leave it...i've been brainstorming a new and improved one for our new house. i love the wooden basket and knobs. great idea. it sure is a shame you had to paint over that fantabulous horse painting. ;)
ReplyDeleteLOVE this and your blog, too. I found you from Miss Mustard Seed and am your newest follower. I love that your daughter sleeps in her brother's room at night. My boy/girl twins (4 years old) miss each other a lot now that they have their own rooms. That's really sweet and definitely do-able with thrift store finds. Plus the head and foot boards remind me of their Jenny Lind cribs I have in the basement. Hmmmm... looks like an idea is brewing. ;)
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