Put a Cork in it

Okay, so I wanted a sweet little inspiration board in the HQ (as opposed to in my office, where I have a ginormous bulletin board). But the walls are low and angled, so I don't have much room for stuff on the walls. So I came up with this:


It's an honest-to-goodness bulletin board, with thick cork and everything. But it looks much less menacing than those in office supply stores. Here's how I did it:

I took a large wooden embroidery hoop (I have a bunch of these laying around) and laid in on top of an old cork board that was gathering dust in the basement (no new materials were harmed in the creation of this project). I traced the wooden frame onto the back side of the corkboard in pencil.

I got out my handy drywall saw and got to sawin'. I love tools.

When I had the circle all cut out, I laid a piece of upholstery-weight fabric on top of it, and wedged it into the interior hoop. Then I set the exterior hoop on top of that, and tightened it.


I flipped it over, and stapled the fabric down onto the cork.

Then I got a little picture hanging tooth and hammered it into the wood hoop, so I could easily hang it on the wall.

Since I hadn't used my glue gun in a long time, I got that out, too, and filled in all the crevices between the fabric and the hoop.



Ta-Daaaaaaa!