Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Adventures in Chalk

DIY Mission:  a creative kitchen organization station hidden from plain sight.

Chelle has been looking for a way to keep shopping lists, weekly supper menu's, to-do's ect organized, and when we moved into the house with the big orange door, she vowed never to use fridge magnets again.

Doesnt it always seem that these misc housekeeping to-do's and lists find their way into the kitchen? At least in our house they do. Thanks to pinterest, Chelle found a way to creatively store all of these little lists and say goodbye to refrigerator magnet clutter forever:

Before:
After:

Update:
In response to a reader: This paint goes on very nicely and drys quickly! We used Valspar brand; Rustoleum has one too, even in spray paint form, but we were a little too timid to attempt spray painting inside and didnt want to take the extra step to remove and cover the door frames.
We put 4 coats on (because our pantry doors are very smooth/glossy) and it turned out great!
We DID see white-board paint while at our local bix box hardward store! Currently trying to figure out a way to work that into an office-space. We think a fun idea would be to paint the magnetic paint over or under the chalkboard paint, if possible. Let us know how it goes if you try either!

1 comment:

  1. DId you use the chalk-paint?? Have you ever tried magnetic paint? I want to try them both...there is even white board paint!! It looks great, very nice :D

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