A Chalkboard for the Nursery Fireplace

Fireplaces are charming. But when you have six of them, they become a challenge. They take up a lot of space and you can't do too much with them. I wanted to make the large fireplace in the nursery "use-able" (but not in the fire sense..). Now, the fireplace is a fun, creative place for Dmitri to draw with chalk!

 The Chalkboard

 In the fireplace

The full view

Did I mention what an easy and in-expensive project this was? We had everything on hand, except for an extra piece of trim. With the purchase of the trim, the total cost ended up being about $5.

Materials:

 -Chalkboard paint

-A piece of plywood cut to the size of opening

-Trim for the edges of the plywood

-Black paint

-Sander/sand paper

-Hammer/finishing nails

-Saw

How we did it:

1. Cut a piece of  plywood to the size of the opening (the nice people at Lowe's did this for us)

2. Cut the trim to fit the edges using a miter saw (or box)

3. Sand the plywood

4. Paint the plywood with chalkboard paint

5. Nail the trim into the plywood with finishing nails

5. Paint the trim (I used some black paint that I had leftover from another project. You could use chalkboard paint if you wanted).

6.Sit in fireplace. Our fireplace was already sealed up, and we secured the chalkboard using the nail-less picture hangers.

7.: HAVE FUN WITH CHALK! = )

The mantle still needs some love...but it's wonderful to be making progress on the "Nursery-Playroom."

I linked up at A Chalkboard Party @ Sixty-Fifth Ave!