Fun Chalkboard Decor Ideas for your Home
Chalkboards can be a fun decor accent in your home decorating. With a little dIY, you can enjoy them throughout your home.
Chalkboards used to be associated mainly with our school days, but they’ve graduated! Chalkboards provide a fun decor accent throughout your home. With a little DIY, you can turn them into easily changeable art for any room of your house. Enjoy these Fun Chalkboard Decor Ideas for your Home and a this-is-your-life look at how I’ve used them!
Today’s post is part of our Lifestyle of Love series, hosted by Cindy from County Road 407. We share how we use vintage, antiques, farmhouse and repurposed in our homes. If you’re visiting from The Crowned Goat, I’m sure you enjoyed all CoCo’s ideas! You’re going to get so much chalkboard inspiration today!
Fun Chalkboard Decor Ideas for your Home
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Paint an Entire Wall as a Chalkboard Decor Idea
By painting an entire wall with chalkboard paint, you can have a canvas for beauty or function. When we made over Happy Girl’s room into a more mature version, we painted one entire wall with graphite-colored chalkboard paint. She enjoys writing inspirational quotes, sketching flowers and adding a calendar. {“Vintage Modern Bedroom Makeover Reveal“}
Get similar graphite black chalkboard paint HERE.
Frame a Chalkboard Wall with Old Yardsticks
To get a vintage green-ish looking chalkboard in our pantry, I used a mixture of Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint that comes in a self-mix powder. Their Ink Blue and Boxwood in a 2 to 3 part combination makes the perfect vintage-looking chalkboard.
Find Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint products HERE. Use code 10OFFLB for a discount.
To add to the vintage vibe, we nailed old yardsticks from local businesses around the perimeter of the wall, creating a frame. I brushed on a coat of water-based poly to seal and bring out their patina. It’s a fun accent wall we can use for grocery lists or favorite sayings.
{“Chalkboard Wall in the Pantry”}
Turn an Old Window into a Chalkboard
When you find a huge window frame in a curbside pile, you need to do something special with it. Mr. Fix-it cut a piece of plywood the size of the window and I painted it with graphite chalkboard paint. We nailed it to the back of the window frame to create a fun wall accent piece.
The repurposed window chalkboard is a great, changeable decor piece I’ve used in more than one place in my home. You can add whatever chalk art you desire, plus you can hang other accessories on the frame. The decorating possibilities are endless!
“Old Window Chalkboard Spring Display”
“Our Vintage Farmhouse Christmas Porch”
Repurpose Old Mirror Frames as a Chalkboard Decor Idea
My favorite way to decorate with chalkboards in our home is by repurposing pretty old mirror frames. I love all the details on these vintage dresser mirrors, and by turning them into chalkboards, they are a flexible canvas I can use anywhere.
Simply replace the mirrors with particle board painted with chalkboard paint. Either leave the frames wood or paint them. I added graphic stencil accents to some of them. They travel around to different areas of our home, inside and out and get changed to coordinate with the seasons.
“Fall Decorated Porch and Patio”
“Simple Winter Mantel Decor Ideas”
Make Sure to Season your DIY Chalkboard
Before you have fun decorating with your DIY Chalkboard, be sure you season the whole surface. Simply use the side of the chalk stick and rub the entire surface with chalk. Then wipe it off with an eraser or paper towel. You’ll want to do this again if you clean the surface with water.
Improve Your Chalkboard Skills
To improve your chalkboard lettering, get a chalk art how-to book. It will up your skills and enable you to have even more fun with your chalkboard home decor!
Get the book we have HERE. THIS ONE looks fun, too!
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Lora, you have so many fantastic chalkboard ideas here for every season! Thanks so much for sharing this at Farmhouse Friday – we’re featuring you at Friday’s party!
Inspiration galore, you are always so creative and give out all kinds of ideas, thank you and have a blessed day.
so many wonderful ideas, Lora. I’m totally in love with that amazing old window frame, it’s so versatile and looks fabulous on the porch!!
Holy guacamole! That chalkboard wall looked fantastic! I’ve always wanted to do that but never did. It’s back on my list of wants. I have the perfect place in the mudroom at the farmhouse. And your collection is amazing too. I still have half a quart of the paint and you’ve given me some new pieces to shop for. Thank you for joining in today. pinned
This one on chalkboards! Oh, I loved the ideas that rolled over the page! Thank you. K.B.
Very, very inspirational! Thank you! I have just purchased both books! Looking forward to chalk and glass art creativity! Sandra
These are all such fantastic chalkboard ideas, Lora! My niece would LOVE to have an entire wall made from chalkboard paint. She sounds a lot like your daughter – she’s constantly creating! Your chalkboard art is always so pretty. I can’t wait to check out your book recommendation. It looks like a good one! Sending you lots of hugs today and thinking of you and your family, CoCo
I can’t pick a favorite idea because they all are fabulous. I love your vintage style so much and you are the master at styling.