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DIY Chalkboard Tutorial

June 4, 2013 By Vidya 8 Comments

In all the giveaway frenzy (today is the last day to enter, if you haven’t entered yet the link is here and here) I totally forgot to give you the dibs on my chalkboard project for the breakfast nook.

DIY Chalkboard Tutorial

It is one of those super easy, big bang for your buck projects. Started out as a mirror that I found on our local community’s Facebook buy & sell group for $10.

DIY Chalkboard Tutorial

I’m sure most of the communities have similar groups on Facebook. If you haven’t checked out your local one then please do ASAP. These yard sale groups are always a treasure trove of deals. The added bonus is that you are not buying from/ selling to strangers. You also get to know a lot of your neighbors this way, especially true for a large community like ours that is adding on new houses like we are in 2003! 🙂

Coming back to the mirror, almost all of the tutorials that I found online painted right over the mirror and it seems to be working for them. But this mirror was really heavy and was great quality. The seller said she had bought it an art house auction for a lot more. Plus I kinda liked the mirror look and would have hung it as is if I hadn’t been so bent on having a chalkboard. In short I did not want to mess up the mirror. What if I changed my mind later on and wanted to use it as a mirror? My solution? Paint the back of the mirror!

DIY Chalkboard Tutorial

We removed the mirror from the frame and first primed with a coat of Valspar paint + primer black (I wanted to make sure that we did not damage the mirror finish on the back, hence the primer). I used the paint + primer ‘coz that’s what I had. You can use any spray primer. Once the primer dried I sprayed on 3 layers of the Rustoleum Chalkboard spray paint (from Home Depot).

DIY Chalkboard Tutorial

2 coats would have been enough but I wanted to make sure that I had a great coated surface. When the chalkboard paint is dry carefully attach the frame back on. If you are painting on the back of the mirror like I did then make sure that the mirror side is facing you while putting the frame back on.

DIY Chalkboard Tutorial

Almost there. Before you use the chalkboard you need to prep it by rubbing the chalk sideways covering the entire surface.

DIY Chalkboard Tutorial

You can erase it off and start using your board now. If you skip the above step it will be very hard to erase whatever you write first on the chalkboard.

And that is how the $10 mirror morphed into a chalkboard!

DIY Chalkboard Tutorial

Ready to try your own version?

DIY Chalkboard Tutorial

One thing is for sure, it’ll get a ton of use. Just take a look at ours from this evening. 🙂

DIY Chalkboard Tutorial

 

Source List

Mirror – $10 (local Facebook yard sale group)
Rustoleum Chalkboard Paint – $6 (Home Depot)
Valspar Paint & Primer – Already had (Lowes)
Total : $16

 

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Comments

  1. Palak says

    June 4, 2013 at 1:00 am

    clever clever to paint the back of the mirror!

    Reply
  2. aj_pn says

    June 4, 2013 at 8:43 am

    Love the idea.. looks awesome 🙂

    Reply
  3. Lori says

    May 6, 2014 at 10:41 am

    Hi, what is the name of the facebook community? Is it your facebook page?

    Thanks for the help

    Reply
    • Vidya Sukumaran says

      May 6, 2014 at 10:50 am

      Lori,

      This is part of our neighborhood HOA community. We have similar groups for the adjacent communities/ areas/ and even county. Some have very strict rules and add folks only based on address while others are a bit more lenient. These are basically yard sale groups on FB. Search by the name in your area on FB, you might be able to find them.

      Reply
  4. Maggie Stieferman says

    August 1, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    Would you be able to use chalk board markers on this?

    Reply
    • Vidya says

      August 4, 2016 at 10:24 pm

      Maggie,

      I think you can.

      Vidya

      Reply

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