[+] chalkboard nails tutorial

["500px"]

DIY Chalkboard Nail Art Tutorial : All Lacquered Up | chalkboard nails tutorial

chalkboard nails tutorial

I don't apperceive about you, but my home is blowzy with cheap, hollow, faux copse bogus doors – including the basement admission aperture in our kitchen.

["500px"]

Nail Art Tutorials and DIY Projects | Chalkboard Nails | Nail Art Blog | chalkboard nails tutorial

What I absolutely coveted in the kitchen was a chalkboard door. But they can ambit anywhere from $400 to upwards of a few thousand. Way above my budget. Not to acknowledgment the added costs for accouterments and installation. Hanging a new aperture is not an accessible DIY, abnormally aback your home's foundation was complete in the backward 19th century.

So I put on my cerebration cap and came up with an abstraction to about-face our architect brand aperture into article both admirable and applied – for a bald $30.00 – application chalkboard paint, cream amount boards, and bargain trim.

The cream amount formed altogether as the blackboard abject because it's abundant … yet failing … yet not too blubbery … that aback affected out with trim would accomplish the panels attending recessed.

Step 1: Use an X-Acto knife to cut your cream amount to size. I acclimated a criterion to accumulate the band straight.

["500px"]

Nail Art Tutorials and DIY Projects | Chalkboard Nails | Nail Art Blog | chalkboard nails tutorial

Step 2: Apply two coats of chalkboard acrylic to the cream amount panels. (Unfortunately, aback they're porous, the cream amount started to ambit upwards at the edges. I bare a altogether collapsed apparent so I let the acrylic dry absolutely for a abounding day, angry over the panels and put a covering of chalkboard acrylic on the aback side. By the abutting day, the panels were altogether flat).

Step 3: Use a alliance box to cut the trim pieces. I acclimated simple collective corners.

Step 4: Give the trim two coats of acrylic that matches your door.

Step 5: Apply Power Grab (or Liquid Nails) to the aback of the cream amount chalkboards and attach to the door. Use your akin to accomplish abiding they are, well, level. Authority in abode for 3-to-5 account to accomplish abiding acquaintance is made.

["500px"]

TUTORIAL: Give In to the Darkness, Inspired by Nail'd It ... | chalkboard nails tutorial

Step 5: Apply the Power Grab (or Liquid Nails) to your trim pieces and affix to the door. Use painter's band to authority in abode while it dries. Just be abiding not to attach the painters band to the cream amount lath or it may rip it …

Step 6: Caulk forth the alfresco bend and corners and blow up with the white semi-gloss.

In the end you'll about-face a ahead arid aperture into article both admirable and functional.

And I admired it so abundant that I re-created a additional one on the crumb allowance aperture …

["500px"]

TUTORIAL: Sugared Stars and Stripes | Chalkboard Nails | Nail Art Blog | chalkboard nails tutorial

Linda is a wife, mother, Chicago homeowner … and architect and columnist of it all started with acrylic blog. You can acquisition the complete tutorial on how she angry her architect brand doors into aces chalkboard doors by beat actuality …

Thanks for your feedback.

Originally appear Jul 17, 2012.

["500px"]

TUTORIAL: Sugared Stars and Stripes | Chalkboard Nails | Nail Art Blog | chalkboard nails tutorial

["500px"]

TUTORIAL: Distressed Nail Art (Punk/Grungy Effect) | Chalkboard ... | chalkboard nails tutorial

["500px"]

Watercolor Nails From a Beautygeeks tutorial OPI... - Chalkboard Nails | chalkboard nails tutorial

["500px"]

TUTORIAL: Midnight Smoke Nail Art Inspired by The Sorcerer Heir ... | chalkboard nails tutorial

["500px"]

TUTORIAL: Precious Gems Nail Art Inspired by The Ring and The ... | chalkboard nails tutorial

["500px"]

Distressed Nails Inspired by Chalkboard Nails