How To Cover Up An Ugly Corkboard
Corkboards get so gosh darn ugly! Once you poked all the holes in them, and the cork starts coming apart etc… not cool. Anyway, they ARE really quite handy- so I covered one of mine up with some cheap material from IKEA! SO easy. You should have a go!
Step 1. Take your fugly corkboard, and buy some funky fabric!
Step 1
Step 2: Measure out your fabric so that it’s about 2-3 inches wider on each side. Position your corkboard on top, in the middle.
Step 2
Step 3: Get a hot glue gun ready (heated) with some extra glue sticks.
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Step 4: Run the glue gun along the short side of the corkboard, on the wood. If you feel like the glue is drying before you’re done (this happened with mine cause my glue gun is old and not heating as hot as it use too), then do about 5cm at a time.
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Step 5: Once you’ve done the short side STRETCH the fabric so that it’s pulled tight, and glue on the other short side. Turn in the corners, like you can see in the picture above (step 4), and add a bit more glue to those.
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Step 6: Make sure that everything is glued on well, turn it over, and hey presto! A cute looking cork board!
Step 6
You could make these to hang on the wall just as a decoration as well. OR you could just put one photo in the middle to ‘frame’ it, or make a bit of a collage that can be displayed. Lots of options- GREAT for making the craft/kids/study room/s a bit more bright and interesting!
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August 26th, 2009
Nice idea! Love the fabric
You could also put ribbon or elastic running diagonally both ways (if that makes any sense) and you could slide photos or things you don’t want to poke holes in through that.
Hmmmmm I wonder what material I have laying around that I could put to this use…
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August 26th, 2009
Yes! That makes perfect sense! And it’s a great idea! I might actually do that to my one, cause I will probably use it more for that then other things…
THanks!
August 26th, 2009
I am going to have to try this … I have a totally FUGLY cork board that needs a makeover. Come to think of it … I have two !!
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