All you need is a piece of smooth plywood (I used a 4x8 piece), pieces of trim, chalkboard paint**, and paint for the trim. (and screws and nails to attach the trim to the board and the board to the fence.)
**Actual chalkboard paint is for indoor use only, but I needed something for outside. This idea was for an outdoor chalkboard and it was in a Lowe's magazine, so I ask the Lowe's paint guys what to use. They said that the paint that was in the magazine was black outdoor latex paint, so that's what we got.
After I put the first coat of paint on the board, I started painting the trim. This proved to be a problem, because Jeff got pvc trim so it would last longer outside. Well, the paint I bought did not want to stick to the trim, so Jeff suggested I sand the trim down first:
It worked! The rest of the trim was much easier to paint! I put 2 coats of paint on both the trim and the board. I had a quart of paint for each and I had a lot left over of the red, but I used almost all of the black.
Then I helped Jeff screw the board into the fence, making sure the screws went into the cross board on the back of the fence for support.
That is Awesome!! - How much did all that cost?
ReplyDeleteVery Cool!!
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I want to come play on it. :-)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this so much!!
ReplyDeleteSo a year later how did it weather?
ReplyDeleteReally well! We had to put a few new nails into the trim, but the chalkboard part has held up great!
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