My Desk: Updating with a Bulletin Board

My desk is slowly coming together.  It pretty much gets last priority as we remodel.  Martin doesn’t even have a desk yet, so I try not to make a big deal about how Horribly Dull my space is.  I hand painted a few flowers on a couple of IKEA magazine files back in November.  Otherwise, the desk has just been sitting.  Until now.

bulletin-board

I found a boring little bulletin board at OBI, our favorite hardware store, for less than five bucks and got to work.  Here’s how:

1. watered down white acrylic paint and covered cork to lessen its intense color

2. masked off the cork along the edges and painted with orange acrylic paint

3. added a coat of watered down white to the frame and painted orange x’s

4. painted blue flowers to match the magazine racks

5. cut out a few fliers from our mailbox to make the “notes” label, which I glued on

Still need to hang it. Somewhere. We’re getting there.

(Image for Making This Home)