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Chalkboards may be old-school, but they’re new accents in home decor.
“Look what I made,” Kelly Sims of Liberty, Mo., said at a chalkboard acrylic chic in Independence, Mo., captivation up pictures of a barbecue bassinet with a chalkboard top for playfully advertisement contents, an old mirror adapted into a bulletin board, and the fronts of a few kitchen cabinets fabricated into chalkboards for meal planning and autograph quotes.
Sims finds items in austerity stores, barn sales and alike the trash, again transforms them with chalkboard acrylic into ability and home-entertaining accessories.
Chalkboard acrylic is a blazon of acrylic that contains acutely adamantine pigments and that dries to a accomplishment almost akin that of a chalkboard. Once chalkboard acrylic has been activated to a surface, the apparent can be acclimated aloof like a chalkboard – erasable, washable and abiding – although it may crave alternate touch-ups, according to the website wisegeek.
You can catechumen any affectionate of object, including metal, plastic, wood, glass, paperboard, tabletops and hardboard, into a chalkboard, according to greatchalkboardpaint.com. Scratch marks aren’t larboard on the bank or apparent that has been painted, it says. Among the uses the armpit lists: You can acrylic a child’s allowance and acquiesce him to address all over the bank and not anguish about abrogation abiding marks.
You can buy chalkboard acrylic in cans and in aerosol cans at abounding accouterments and acrylic accumulation stores, and you can additionally accomplish your own. It’s generally added big-ticket to buy than approved paint.
Sims is a kindergarten teacher, but she was a adherent that night in the chalkboard acrylic chic at the abundance Be Here Now. The adviser was Meredith Martin, an autogenous artist who lectured on how to mix custom colors and what you can accomplish with them.
Results included a table ambience with a chalkboard-painted cardboard agent and annual pots with chalkboard labels, a chalkboard-painted desk, accumulator boxes and a child’s comedy table. Martin led the chic in a ability activity – a ample metal charger with the adorning bound taped off. With paint, the centermost of the charger became a chalkboard.
Here are the ABCs of chalkboard acrylic from A to Z:
Administer acrylic thickly with a cream ability besom for baby pieces or a approved paintbrush for appliance and walls. For canteen bottles, administer thinly.
Black — as in blackboard — is the best archetypal blush of chalkboard paint, but it can be any color.
Chalkboard markers, accessible at ability food and at Book Ink (chalkinkworldstore.com), are an addition to dusty, beating chalk.
Decals with chalkboard surfaces are addition way to go if you don’t appetite to accomplish to paint. Large-format shapes accommodate rectangles, squares, airplanes and coffee cups, to name a few at All Modern (allmodern.com). Little labels are accessible at Martha Stewart Home Office with Avery at Staples (staples.com).
Erasers like you had in elementary academy are adorable. But if you appetite the apparent to be cool clean, see Letter T (clean it with a clammy cloth).
Furniture, such as the top of a lath or a dining table, works able-bodied for chalkboard paint. The acrylic can be acclimated on the absolute piece. Artist Tiffini Killgore corrective a chiffonier with chalkboard acrylic and wrote the names of neighborhoods on the drawers in chalk.
Good ability can be fabricated with chalkboard paint. Acrylic an abandoned wine bottle, et voila! A vase. Abundant allowance tags, too, can be crafted. And they’re reusable.
How to mix your own chalkboard paint: Buy your admired blush of acrylic paint, Martin says (she acclimated a no-VOC variety). Buy unsanded adhesive ($3 from a accouterments store). For a gallon of paint, mix in a quart of grout. (The arrangement should be two-thirds acrylic to one-third grout.) Stir. Add drops of baptize to accomplish it thinner. Afterwards painting, acquiesce to dry an hour. Generally alone one covering is needed.
Idea for parties: Use a chalkboard oilcloth (one source: www.bellocchio.com) as a agent on the table. Give guests book or book pens and acquaint them to go to town.
Jot bottomward annihilation on a chalkboard surface. It can be erased.
Kraft cardboard can be covered with chalkboard acrylic to actualize a tablecloth. It’s abundant for autograph bond suggestions for tasting parties.
Let your kids draw on the walls. No botheration with a chalkboard or chalkboard paint.
Accomplish a Monday-through-Friday bulletin lath out of an old five-panel aperture application chalkboard acrylic in the panels.
New idea: painting the apparent of a accouter with chalkboard paint.
Obvious choice: cheese trays. Not so obvious: your car. (We’ve spotted a VW Bug.)
Pictures on Pinterest.com are alarming us. We abnormally adulation walls with book drawings, such as a ancestors timberline in a nursery. A adumbration for absolute outlines: hire a projector and actualize a accuracy at a book shop.
Quotes on chalkboards can accommodate inspiration.
Resources for chalkboard acrylic accommodate ability stores, home warehouses, acrylic shops and Be Here Now, Independence, Mo., 816-461-7819, b-here-now.com. Be Here Now additionally sells chalkboard acrylic in a array of colors by the pint, $15.
Aerosol surfaces with polyurethane to accomplish chalk-art creations permanent.
Tired of the blend or the design? The best way to apple-pie it is with a clammy cloth.
Understand that back you administer chalkboard paint, it goes on gritty. Back it dries, beach surfaces with 150-grit sandpaper afore you aboriginal address on them.
Variety. Think above white book on a blackboard. Book comes in a crayon-assortment of colors these days; Crayola has a 52-count pack.
Wet book is a abstruse for creating large-format designs, says Annie Huff of Kansas City. She does chalkboard creations on doors and walls at the store. She dunks sidewalk book in a brazier of water. “It doesn’t attending like annihilation back it’s wet on the surface, but again it dries vibrantly.”
Xpiration date of chalkboard paint: Six months from date of acquirement or afterwards it’s mixed. (Yes, artistic spelling is acceptable on artistic chalkboards.)
Yummy apparent for appetizer trays? To be on the safe side, use a controllable food-safe bright covering (available at ability stores) on top of chalkboard corrective plates and platters.
Zero writing. Chalkboard surfaces attending abundant alike with annihilation on them. They’re abounding of possibilities.
