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Thursday, June 02, 2011

A Better Wall

I finally took down the crazy chalkboards and painted the entire wall in chalkboard paint.
Ahhhhh, that's better!
Now here are the crazies from before:

I thought this wall was great when I first repainted our kitchen.  The boards were picture frames from IKEA that I painted with this

  Now I'm having a "what was I thinking?!" moment.  I try to create a space in each room for the kids to be creative.  I envisioned them running up to the wall and drawing whenever they felt like it.  The bigger board was for our 2 year old (and for my to do lists) and the smaller one was for the baby.  It worked for a while.  Until the baby became a toddler, started taking her board off the wall and whacking her brother with it (she is small, but mighty).  Here is where our son drew his first "face"
So proud.  I don't know what the double chin is about, but whatever.
And then there were the chalk holders.  I bought little baskets from IKEA and drilled them into the wall.  I thought I was a genius.  Until my hilarious and very honest friend told me they kinda looked like urinals.  She was right.  NOT the image I want in my kitchen

So the whole thing had to go.  I had plenty of chalkboard paint leftover.  And I don't miss my old urinal wall one bit!

Thanks to my awesome husband, the switches and outlet match!  I thought I'd be OK with just changing out the switchplates, but that only lasted about a day.

I always ask for his help with anything electrical or plumbing related.  I just don't want to be responsible for flooding or burning down our house.

If you're curious about the raggy thing up top, The Nester calls it a ragamuffin garland.  I get so many of my home inspirations from her... she is amazing!  Here is a link for the tutorial if you'd like to make your own:  The Nester's Ragamuffin Garland.  I love having this thing for clipping up cards, kids' artwork, etc so my fridge isn't all cluttered.  Open spaces are a little hard to come by in our little townhouse and I try to keep the "stuff" around to a minimum.

This post is linked at the Craft-O-Maniac Link Party

See you again soon!
Blessings,
Jamie

4 comments:

  1. Yay! I love how bold you are in re-doing things in your house. Every time I'm there you've done something that would take me months to decide to do and more months to get the time/bravery/supplies to do it! You're inspiring me to go Nike on house decor (Just do it!)

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  2. Ahmagads, love it. (Although the urinal idea would have been kind of cute in a little boys room...) {: This will be so great. Love it too!

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  3. This wall looks great! I found you @ HoH today [your caulking advice, which was wonderful too] and now I'm looking around at all your projects :) I'm your newest follower... love your humor!

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  4. I just busted out laughing when I read chalk urinal! Your wall looks great...I wish I was bold enough to paint do something like that! I'm still rocking a neutral color all over the house. Love your projects, I'm following you now :)

    Jamie @ sewrockin.com

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