Kitchen Chalkboard Project

Hi guys!

Happy Sunday evening! We hope you all had an amazing summer weekend. We spent our weekend visiting an arts festival, having a movie night in, doing some shopping for the house and working on a couple of home "projects."

I wanted to share our latest project with you all since it was super easy/cheap and made a big difference in our kitchen. Since we are renting, we are very limited on what we can actually do to the house. It's been fun trying to figure new and innovative ways to decorate and not violate our lease.


Here is a picture of what our stove looked like before. Notice the pink laminate behind the stove...UGLY!

I figured that I needed to either take down the laminate or cover it up. I wasn't sure if taking it down would go over so well with the landlord so...it must be covered! Chalkboards seem to be a new trend in home decorating, and we felt it would be the perfect material for our kitchen.

I went to Home Depot and bought a sheet of wood for about $5, and cut it to the right dimensions. I then sanded the wood piece and applied a primer. I bought chalkboard paint from Wal-Mart which was also about $5, and painted 2 coats and let it dry for 24 hours. I got some sidewalk chalk from Target which was about $4, and drew a free hand design. We used some industrial strength tape, and there you go! We now have a cute piece of artwork over our stove that we feel will be very useful. We thought it could be used for listing family meals, making a grocery list, etc.

What do you guys think?

xoxoxo-D