Home Decor Items That You Can DIY for Way Cheaper.
For Chris this meant a pretentious local craft beer too, of course.Also a nail gun, air compressor, jigsaw, router, three saw horses, glue, a mitre saw, and a table saw..
He started out by cutting a piece of 1/4″ MDF to the size that he wanted to chalkboard to be..He also cut a basic frame for the thin MDF out of some 1×4 MDF boards with a routed out inside edge for the thin MDF to sit in.. Because another decorative frame made from molding would be mitred right on top of this stronger structural frame, he made the joint a little fancy to make the whole thing have more structural integrity.. I’m pretty sure he must have invented this joint, but it does the trick!From the side, it looks like a regular mitre, but it’s got the extra little right angled bit that adds extra strength..
The decorative molding goes right over top!.It looks super simple but of course we know that there’s a little bit of DIY magic hiding hiding under that basic molding!.
At the bottom, a basic 2×2 piece of lumber allowed him to create a little “sill” for the chalk to sit on.
He finished it off with some more decorative molding.Someone hadn’t known about that one and actually had some Sharpie marking up a wine glass.
They went and tried it out and it worked!So, I thought there surely must be some others that don’t know about this little house-saving gem.. Oh, but wait.
There’s more to the story than that.Someone else on Hometalk mentioned that there are things you should never use rubbing alcohol on.. It’s experiment time!
(Editor: Wireless Goggles)