How-to Recover a Bulletin Board

Recovering a bulletin board is easy-peasy.

 My son's bulletin board has been recovered for the 3rd time. The first time, well, not so pretty. The 2nd time, with the ill-fated burlap. Now with chic black and white stripes, my favourite colour combo {I guess they aren't considered colours, but for simplicity I will call them colours}

What you  need for this project is:

• A bulletin board, preferably one with a frame
• Fabric
• Staple gun
• Upholstery tacks
• Hanging brackets

1. Measure your bulletin board {this one has been re-covered a few times, doesn't look pretty}

2. Cut out desired fabric 3" larger than the board, on all sides.

3. Lay the front side of the board on fabric. Make sure it is centred.

4. Staple one side.

5. Staple opposite sides, then top and bottom. Making sure fabric is lined up and taut, leaving corners free.

6.  Fold in corner {see photo} and staple.

7. Fold over each side, like you are wrapping a present. Staple.

8. Using the frame of the board as a guide, push upholstery tacks along the edge, making sure they are evenly space.

8. Hang up using desired hanging brackets.

Easy-peasy.

XO Barbara

Re-covered Bulletin Board

Things don't stay the same in our house for long. 

After re-painting my son's room, I realized I didn't like his burlap bulletin board anymore. 

The burlap trend is alive and kicking but I can't say I have taken to it. Burlap is a crotchety sort, tickling my nose, making me sneeze.

 So bye-bye burlap. 

Hello black and white stripes.

 If you have been following along you will notice my obsession with black and white stripes. I have recovered this, that, and made this with the same fabric. 

Yes, I love stripes.

Come back to see how I made this, just in case you are dying to know how.

XO Barbara

~Burlap Bulletin Board~

I have officially jumped on the burlap bandwagon. 

I have seen many posts where burlap is used as the cheap, chic and rustic fabric of choice. So I had a desire to recover something with burlap and having a project in mind I set off for the fabric store. While searching for the chiang mai fabric I so want, I asked the clerk if they sell burlap. 

 The clerk informed me that yes they did but the fabric needed to stay in its plastic wrap and had to be cut at a specific table.

Hmmm... 

I guess people are allergic to the stuff. Once cut it was to stay enclosed in the bag, I felt like I was carrying hazardous waste. Not ever possessing burlap I wasn't sure what she was talking about. No one ever mentions that on their blogs. 

 I soon found out as I brought home the burlap that I began to sneeze and itch. It smelled like a garden shed and I felt like I was duped. After prowling several blogs where the authors use it for various projects I finally had the guts to ask "How to you get rid of that dusty garden shed smell?" Jen from Tatertots and Jello was so kind to answer me. She washes it on the gentle cycle and then air dries it. 

Tried it and the dustiness and smell are not that noticeable anymore.

Yay - my project was not doomed.

So without further adieu here it is....

I recovered my son's bulletin board but never really liked it so I wanted to give it a more rustic manly appeal. Using burlap, black upholstery tacks and my trusty staple gun the bulletin board went from this:

to this:

This is how I did it:

1. Cut a piece of burlap larger than the bulletin board.

2. Staple the burlap to the back of the frame.

3. Turn the board over and press upholstery tacks just where the frame meets the board. I eyeballed the placement of the tacks.

4. Hang up and enjoy.

I am wanting to re-paint my son's room. When I mentioned that to him, he said "finally!" 

Apparently he has never like the colour I chose. I don't either. When I suggested a light khaki colour he was adamant that he did not want a colour on the wall that would remind him of diarrhea.

OK....

I guess not. He is a tween and has his own ideas about what is acceptable on the walls but that will be another post on another day AFTER I finish my other to-do projects.

Linking to:

Frugal Friday at The Shabby Nest

Frugalicious Friday at Finding Fabulous

SNS @ Funky Junk Interiors

Make it Monday @ Cottage Instincts

DIY Day @ A Soft Place to Land

Transformation Thursday@ The Shabby Chic Cottage
Show and Tell @ The Romantic Home
Show and Share @ Just a Girl
I Made It Without My Hubby @ Shanty2Chic
Metamorphosis Monday @ BNOTP

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