Trash to Treasure: Graphic Bulletin Board

Wrapping up this trash to treasure series is Chelsea from Two Twenty One. Aside from just being a fun, well designed blog to follow, she shares some great easy projects anyone can put to use without the use of power tools or much expertise. And she has a card catalog! Today she is sharing a goodie featuring coral print fabric (yea, a woman after my own heart!)

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Hey, Brooklyn Limestone readers! I'm Chelsea from Two Twenty One, where I share my latest home improvement projects, furniture makeovers, crafts, recipes, home decor and season decor ideas. I'm stopping by to share my fabric covered faux nail head trimmed cork board with you. Get. Excited.

I made this from a cork board I already had, some fabric from JoAnn Fabric, and thumbtacks from Walmart. The total cost was around $12.

This is what I started with-- a perfectly good, 12+ year old cork board.

I started by ironing the fabric because no one likes creases on their fabric-covered cork board. Then I sprayed the cork board with adhesive before laying the fabric on top. I smoothed out the fabric with my hands so there weren't any bubbles.


Then I started to push in the thumbtacks. (Push it real good.)

After all 200+ thumbtacks were in place and my fingers felt like they were going to fall off even though I did this over the span of a couple days, I hot glued the excess fabric onto the back of the cork board.


The original cork board hung horizontally but after deciding to put it on a small wall, I moved the little hangers so it could hang vertically.


Note: If you plan on taking on the self-torturous task of pushing 200+ thumbtacks into a cork board I suggest spreading it out over a few days. Your fingers will thank you.