1. Ever since we moved downstairs and put the kids in their own rooms upstairs, i've been wanting to decorate their rooms boy and girl. So I started with Kaylee's room. We got a queen bed to go in her room for when people come to stay with us and so I bought this cute bed set for her. It's full of color and so I really wanted her room to be fun and vibrant. Here's what i've come up with.
2. I also wanted to do a chalkboard/magnet board that i've seen online. Here is what I came up with. I started out with just a big piece of hard plastic. I painted it (5 coats) with magnetic paint and then painted over that with the chalk board paint (pink part).
Here is the recipe for the chalk board paint.
1 cup paint
2 tablespoons powdered tile grout (unsanded).
It made A LOT of paint, so I would suggest cutting it in half. BUt it did work really well. Here is a link you can look at that explains how to do it.
http://craftathome.com/Instructional/chalkboardpaint.html
I know it has a smaller recipe, but I didn't use that one. But it would probably work just fine without the glazing medium.
I just put paper around the boarder and modge podged it on. Works great!
2 comments:
I'm so excited the chalk board turned out, I will DEFINITELY be doing that for Hailey's room!! So many projects....so little money...
just add that to the list we'll be doing that weekend:) You can totally take home some of the tile powder if you want. it was really easy to do and you can pretty much paint it anywhere, even the wall.
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