Modern House Minimalist Design

  Chalkboard art is everywhere these days! I am completely fascinated by it and want to keep playing around with it and try to get more creative with my lettering. I know there are a lot of people though, that enjoy it but don't necessarily want to spend hours working on just one quote so being able to download a chalkboard someone else has designed, print it out and pop it in a frame is a great alternative - especially if you like to change your art our seasonally or for different holidays. We just started offering our downloads a couple of weeks ago so only have a few options right now in our shop , but we have several more that are almost ready to go and a whole bunch more ideas in the works. Hopefully within a few more months we will have a wide variety for you to choose from for a whole bunch of different themes and events.  Anyway, I've been promising to show you how I've been swapping out the chalkboard prints in this frame for the past week or two and finally was a...

Today I am going to show you how I made this rustic chalkboard for our dining room. I actually had it figured out in my head this summer and had planned on making this same frame for my parents when I was up in NH in early October. I even went and bought the wood. We ended up working on some other projects though and didn't end up doing this one, although we do have all the supplies so I will be able to at some point. Once the idea was in my head, I really wanted to make it so when we got back here I thought I would go ahead and make one for our house (because we really needed another chalkboard...)   Here is what you need for this project: 4 pieces of wood for the frame ( I used two 29" long and two 35" long - the total frame size when finished is 29" by 42") 1 large piece of wood (mine was 24 inches feet by 38 inches) chalkboard paint stain (or paint) for frame screwdriver mending braces (I used 2" by 1/2" ones) screws ( 8 by 3/4) * If you are making...