What happens when a yucky old cork board meets some crown moulding, rosettes, a coat of paint and a paper window shade? This, baby...
Meet our subject...the 1980's, everyone-and-their-brother-had-one-of-these-in-his/her-room-and-had-all-of-his/her-Field Day ribbons-and-Senior Class pictures-pinned-to-them-with-plastic-pushpins cork board...just fine on it's own...but, just fine doesn't work here...
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...hey handsome...you're about to get some jazzin' up... |
Now meet our team of professionals...
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...4 rosettes from Home Depot, .99 cents each... The 8' strip of crown moulding failed to show up for photos, but he was cheap too, only $4.99... |
Now, because I'm not a master carpenter (...yet...), there were some (small) gaps between the trim and the rosettes and I didn't really like the way it looked. So, at this point, I took out the spackling and filled all the little spaces.
When the spackling dried I took the board outside and painted the entire thing with 2 coats of white spray paint.
After the paint was dry, I cut the IKEA paper stuff to the right size, sprayed the back with adhesive and patted it into place over the old cork.
The paper-meets-trim edge didn't look sharp enough for me so I painted some old beaded trim I had (.99 cents/yard at JoAnn) with the white spray paint and I hot glued that around the inside edges of the cork...
Oh, yeah.
Much better...
You're welcome, cork board...you owe me one.
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