How to use magnetic and chalkboard paints with some additional touches for a game room.
I'm really excited about today's project. It snowed about 4 inches last night and so I'm trapped in my condo AND I have a pretty light work load so it's time to focus on the basement. (The (UN)Finished Basement)
Today I'm going to work on The Great Wall of Fun. If you've read about my basement project you know that I have "walls" I've created out of curtains that cover shelves of junk. But there is one remaining basement wall I have to deal with. The wall is concrete and ugly grey. It's also not smooth at all and my solution is to just try to camoflague it as much as possible.
I'm going to prime the wall with magnetic primer. I haven't used this product before so I'm really anxious to see how it's going to turn out. I think I'll try to get two coats out of this quart I bought just to make sure it works.
On top of the magnetic primer I'm going to use chalkboard paint. Another product I'm been dying to use. This does work, I've seen it used and I'm really excited to have a wall that I can write all over and then erase and start over. I have a hard time when I'm writing keeping track of characters and their backstories so I thihnk this will a fabulous solution for me. AND it will be a big hit with my niece and nephew (I hope).
Then, I'm going a step further, I purchased a classroom chalkboard at a church-school-going-out-of-business sale last year. That is going to be the centerpiece of my wall and there is a ceiling beam right above the wall so I can attach it with hooks and chains and then slip it off when need be. Around the chalkboard I'm going to put boards from board games. Not in a solid line but spaced out and framing it. I still haven't decided how to attach these to the wall, I'm hoping the magnetic primer will be really strong and that will work somehow but I doubt it. (I'm open to suggestions - remember, concrete wall). So the plan is to have a chalkboard and game boards I can remove if I need the space or the kids want to draw all over the wall.
I also bought a magnet maker about a year ago so I can turn family photos into magnets and my niece can play dress up dolls or I can turn NASCAR photos into magnets and my nephew can stage the Basement 500.
I think this wall will be great and I'm really excited about getting started.
