Project 01/52 – A blackboard
I’m a fairly visual thinker, and I also like to make lists. I have a blackboard in my kitchen for things I need to buy when I next go shopping etc, but wanted a bigger one for my office – mostly to track the remaining 51 projects!
So project 01/52 was to make a blackboard.
Materials:
- Scap battening
- Blackboard paint
- Hardboard culled from the Ikea desktop that served as my desk for almost 10 years
The construction is fairly simple, the hardboard was cut to size and the battening chopped up to fit around the edge, and the chalk holder screwed to the bottom piece of battening from behind. The frame is held together with nails on each corner.
Three coats of blackboard paint on the hardboard, sanded back to get rid of some visible brush strokes, then nail it all together. Job’s a goodun!
I know the description is brief, but if you need more detail than that you have no business building one ;-)