Woodworking Family Life Style: wall

Ive wanted to do a chalkboard wall in our home forever but as you will see from the photos, our walls are very heavily textured and I didnt think I would be able to write on them.
But I just couldnt stand it anymore. I really wanted one. So, I tested it out first with a piece of chalk and tried writing on it, and surprisingly, it was no big deal at all. Sure it isnt perfectly smooth, but I could write on it and it still looked fine. That was all I needed to get busy and paint a side and I couldnt be more happy with the results.

Of course, this did inspire a couple of other projects. Isnt it funny how that always happens. When my dad died, I inherited some of his wine collection. He was quite a wine connoisseur and even though some of it is no longer drinkable, I will never get rid of it and I wanted to display some of it proudly. I also wanted to display it on the wall against the chalkboard wall color. I looked for a DIY wine rack tutorial and found this one. I did it a little bit differently in that I didnt use the same size bolts and I also spray painted them oil rubbed bronze because I didnt care for the color of them.
Because we already had the barn wood, this project cost me less than $5 because all I had to buy was the bolts for .38 each. How great is that? I absolutely love how it turned out.

Ive had a lot of emails asking where we bought our light fixture in the dining room. I actually dont remember because it was bought 8 years ago when we bought the house. However, I wasnt happy with it at all because it had frosted glass shades on it that forced the light up onto the ceiling instead of down onto the table for a cozier setting. For years I just lived with it but I couldnt stand how cold the dining room felt with the light like that so I decided to see if I could just remove the glass shades and sure enough, you could. I removed them all and added clip on shades from Lowes, which I loved and they made the lighting perfectly cozy. For this project though, I went a little further and added burlap to each shade to give more texture to the room.

I cut out the fabric, sprayed the shade with spray adhesive, wrapped it and hot glued the rest. Because I didnt cut it out perfectly, I added a piece of rope to the inside to clean it up a bit. I just hot glued it on. It just makes it a little bit neater since you can easily see up under the shade while walking in the dining room.

For the sentiment on the wall here, I printed everything from wordpad on my computer and traced it onto the wall using different fonts. Yes, it took all day but boy do I love it. I wish I could remember the name of each font I used but I dont. Sorry.

I still have a couple more things to add to the wall but I wanted to go ahead a share it now.
I love it! So if youve been wanting to do a chalkboard wall but thought you couldnt because of the wall texture in your home, Id say go for it! :)
Have a great day!
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