My DIY bulletin board is made with grain sack fabric!

You may have noticed this wee little DIY bulletin board in my renovated kitchen. I’ve posted many times about my kitchen makeover like here, here and here.

  It’s my “faux grain sack” fabric bulletin board that I made years ago.

It’s really easy to make this unique bulletin board so I’ll show you how!

Here is a photo of the adorable little bulletin board in our kitchen office.

I didn’t have a before photo of the bulletin board I used but I found one similar like it at Michael’s. The one I covered had buttons just like this one too.

{don’t pay for $44.99 for a bulletin board!}

SUPPLIES:

• bulletin board of your own, either fabric or cork
• drop cloth, washed and dried
• painter’s tape
• acrylic craft paint or fabric paint
• small sponge brush

TUTORIAL:

1. Remove the buttons from your bulletin board if you have any.

2. Cover bulletin board with drop cloth and staple to the back.

3. I didn’t take photos of how I painted this bulletin board but it’s the exact same way I painted this tablecloth but I just used 3 pieces of painter’s tape to create to blue stripes.

Click here for tutorial

4. Allow the paint to dry. Attach twine in an X pattern over the bulletin board. I only used two lengths of twine. Start in one corner by stapling the twine to the back of the bulletin board, and follow the arrows on the image below to create the X effect. The small X that I typed in the image below shows where I stapled it in the back.

5. I finished mine off by hot glueing bias tape over the edges to ensure that the staples wouldn’t mark up my wall.

6. Add a photo hook and it’s ready to hang!

I love it when a DIY works out so well! You can either tuck photos under the twine or pin things to the board itself.

Have I inspired you to make your own faux grain sack bulletin board?  Do you have your own bulletin board idea?

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