Hey Guys!! Fun project for you!!
I decided to use the space below my serving bar in my kitchen to make my magnet board. I also decided to make it a piece that I can take off the wall in case I decide to move it around. Here’s what I did:)
I was lucky enough to find a 2′ x 4′ piece of raw pressed tin in Canton a couple of weeks ago. I bought it for $20. You can buy this stuff online though.
I started by painting the tin with Rust-Oleum Painter’s Touch Heirloom White spray paint. I used about two coats to get a good even finish…
I purchased two 8′ pieces of 3″ pine from Lowe’s.
I cut my boards using my hand saw. I cut my top and bottom pieces 4″ longer than the tin and my 3 middle pieces 2″ shorter than the tin… two boards were 52″ and three were 22″. You do not need a power saw to cut this stuff. It took me less than 5 minutes, the saw only costs $12 and it was a bit of an arm workout:)
Now to attach everything… I used my trusty Gorilla wood glue to attach the edges together.
And then used L-brackets to secure all my corners…
After you finished this part it will look like this…
I just used glue without the L brackets for my middle piece and let everything dry good. I wasn’t too concerned about how pretty everything looked because I knew I would be distressing and adding glaze.
My next step was to paint the wood with the same paint and let it dry.
I then used my 3M block sander with 80 grit paper to distress my edges.
When I was finished it looked like this…
Then I took some Minwax Dark Walnut stain to all the raw edges just to make them stand out…
My next step was to attach the tin to the wood. I used small finishing nails and my pink hammer to put a nail every 6″ where the pattern repeated…
When I was finished it looked like this…
Can you guess my next step;)
Ralph Lauren Smoke Glaze…. Just paint it on and wipe it off…
It looked like this when I got it all rubbed in…
Here’s a picture of the whole thing…
I knew I wanted to add a little something so I found this iron scrolly at Hobby Lobby for $3.
I attached it to the top using wood screws.
To cover up my ugly silver screws I cut the nails of two furniture nail heads and super glued them on top of the screws…
I was all finished at this point… I just added a D-ring to each side of the back. I measured for the wholes in my wall and hung it up. I LOVE it:)!!
I will be making some fun magnets for it and will share that in one of my next posts. What do you think??
As you can see… I finished my magnets!! To see a tutorial on these cuties just click HERE!
That's so cool and oh my word, it's huge! I thought it was something smaller until the final photo! (All about perspective I suppose!)
Ummm, just checked back in on you guys and you have a new look! Love it! Posted a DIY I stole from you for transformation thursday at Shabby chic….Thanks for your great ideas!
Tamera@doubledelight
Wow! What a cool piece! I love it!
You did it again! Fab.U.Lous!!
Can't wait for another party…be sure and stop by my blog for details on my linky party next week:
http://embellishedbayou.blogspot.com/2009/10/tigers-lose-but-its-time-for-party.html
beautiful!!!
That is REALLY awesome, and I think I will give this a try as well…I may need to email you for some hand-holding though :O) Looks beautiful Whitney, I'm impressed as usual!
peace.
cindy
Great job! It looks so good! Don't you love having a blog to make you get all these super cute projects done? I've gotten more done since March (when I started my blog) than I had the past three years!
Love everything you do and can't wait to find out about the next party…
Traci
Love it. Can you tell me what the paint color is on the wall you hung the magnet board? LOVE IT!!
oh how darling!! LOVE it!! can't wait to see the magnets 🙂 Huge hugs!! Britt 🙂
oh how darling!! LOVE it!! can't wait to see the magnets 🙂 Huge hugs!! Britt 🙂
It looks like it's been there all along. Great job!
This turned out lovely! I adore the one that Kim from Twice Remembered has in her kitchen. A magnetic board has been on my to-do list for quite a while now. Hopefully I will get to it someday. 🙂
Smiles,
Rachel
this adds such great texture to an otherwise blank piece of wood! Love the idea and all of the distressing!
Tamera@doubledelight
I just wanted say hello…I am an anonymous follower but love all of your projects! I had to ask are you talking about Canton as in TX?
What a great idea! I want one for my island now!