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SARAH COLBURN, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Published 8:03 a.m. CT Sept. 18, 2015
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DIY // Old Window frame Chalkboard | diy chalkboard window frameAn old window is adapted into a alluring chalkboard.(Photo: Submitted photo)
Ruth McGrath specializes in upscaling, alive with aggregate from old knobs and shelves to buffet doors.
For the back-to-school season, she has a activity that creates a amplitude for all those announcements and important papers.
She uses milk acrylic to about-face best finds into alluring chalkboards.
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20 ways to make your own wall art | Chalkboard window, Chalkboards ... | diy chalkboard window frame“It’s a simple project. It’s fun for bodies to be able to complete a activity in an hour or two and be done with it, and it’s absolutely useful,” McGrath said.
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McGrath not alone gives tips for alive with milk paint, she additionally teaches classes on the accountable at Salvage Sisters. She runs her three-hour chic already a month. The fee is $60 and participants apprentice bristles painting techniques, booty home acrylic samples and complete a activity in chic from alpha to end. All food are included, and the classes are accessible to the public.
To actualize the chalkboard/magnet lath application milk paint, she suggests the afterward steps:
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Best 25 Chalkboard window ideas on Pinterest | Old window art ... | diy chalkboard window frame1. Accept your activity piece. Milk acrylic can be activated to the central of a different account frame, an old bottle window, a chiffonier door, a allotment of copse or alike a argent confined tray. She said the acrylic can be activated to any blazon of bottle or copse or about any agleam surface, so be artistic back allotment your activity piece.
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2. Begin by applying alluring acrylic to the breadth area you’d like to actualize the chalkboard surface. Alluring acrylic can be purchased from any accouterments store. Though the instructions say to administer it with a roller for best results, McGrath has begin it can be difficult to get to the edges with a roller so she applies it with a acrylic brush. She applies the aboriginal covering angular and the additional angular to actualize a slight texture.
3. Already the alluring acrylic is dry, she applies a covering of Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint. You can accept any blush milk acrylic to personalize your project. She acclimated Typewriter (black). If you accept a lighter blush acrylic you can use dark-colored chalk, and with a dark-colored paint, light-colored book looks best. Note: If applying milk acrylic anon to a glace or agleam surface, be abiding to add a bonding abettor to the paint. The bonding abettor is accidental if you do a abject band of alluring paint.
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Make Your Own DIY Chalkboard from an old Window | diy chalkboard window frame4. Already the milk acrylic is dry, be abiding to division the chalkboard by acclaim abrading a allotment of book alongside over the absolute apparent of the chalkboard. If you abort to division the chalkboard and address on it, the angel or adage will be austere into the apparent of the board.
Chalk can be calmly buffed off with a dry rag. If needed, clean the apparent with a hardly clammy rag demography affliction not to use too abundant water.
Sarah Colburn is a freelance biographer and calm mom who enjoys crafting and decorating. Email her at fineartsstcloud@gmail.com.
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