Cork Board Redo

I got tired of looking at my ugly, 8 year old cork board hanging in my kitchen, and decided that it needed a makeover! Almost everything in this project, I already had lying around at my house. It was ridiculously easy, too. If you know how to use scissors, a staple gun, and a hot glue gun, you're good to go.

 I searched for some pretty fabric in my box of scraps and found this lovely brown and white pattern. I laid it on the table with the cork board upside down, on top of it, and stapled the fabric into the back of the wood frame. 

Then I searched for some kind of string, or ribbon to pin to the board, for the purpose of holding things on the board, rather than using push pins. I ended up using twine. I didn't measure where the strings should go, I just kind of eyeballed it (which is my measuring method of choice), making a diamond pattern. I pinned them down on the corners using brown tacks that I got from the hardware store down the street. I used the rest of the tacks to make a border around the cork board. 

The tacks I got were not long enough pierce all the way through two strings, the fabric, and into the cork board, so where they cross, I stapled them to the board and then hot glued the tack on to the top.

Look how cute it looks with stuff tucked into the strings! I was surprised at how well the strings held the cards up there! Goodbye ugly push pins!

One of my favorite things to do to my home is to make practical things look pretty. There is no reason why you can't make something as boring, and functional as a cork board look like a decoration in your home! 

Hope you enjoyed!