DIY Pin Board

August 27, 2014 by theblueeyeddove 12 Comments

Good Morning!

Do you remember the days before Pinterest?

The good ole days where you had to rip pictures out of magazines and put them in a binder…or even on a bulletin board?

I know, I know…definitely not as glamorous or as easy as Pinterest.

Recently I needed to make some changes to my home office, and decided it was time to make a real life pin board to display some of my ideas, inspirations and random sheets of paper that I need to have accessible at all times.

Plus I found some really cute fabric at Joann’s that I needed to incorporate into my office space somehow 🙂

My mom {who always seems to have exactly what I need btw} had an extra bulletin board lying around that was the same size I wanted for my pin board.

Fate? I think so.

The only thing I needed to purchase for this project was my fabric, which I bought a yard of.

Here’s how I put my DIY Pin Board together:

1. Place the fabric face down to cover the entire bulletin board.

2. Trace the inner side of the bulletin board frame to determine your cut lines.

3. Cut about an inch outside of your cut lines. Make sure the fabric covers the cork board. Iron the fabric if needed.

4. Pick a horizontal edge on the bulletin board and apply a thin layer of hot glue to secure the fabric.

5. Next flip the fabric over and use a putty knife to push the fabric under the frame.

6. Repeat and hot glue each portion of the fabric onto the bulletin board until you make it around the entire frame.

You have transformed your boring old bulletin board from this…

To this…

Now you can pin away!

Put some of your pictures, inspirations and random sheets of paper all over your new DIY Pin Board.

And you have to admit…isn’t this a little more fun than Pinterest?

Ok…maybe not.

But it sure is pretty!

Speaking of Pinterest I’d love for you to follow me!

I try and pin lots of pretty things there too 🙂

Happy Wednesday!