Cork Wall Panels Create a Gallery for Children’s Art

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Hi Kathleen,

Here is a link that describes how to paint corkboard: http://www.ehow.com/way_537845...

Emily Lyman
Ron Hazelton Team

Emily Lyman

Oct 4, at 5:40pm

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Hello,

Here is a link that describes how to paint corkboard: http://www.ehow.com/way_537845...

Emily Lyman
Ron Hazelton Team

Emily Lyman

Oct 4, at 5:39pm

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This is soooo crafty! I love this idea...just came from my grand-daughters and their bedroom area needs an uplift...this would be soooo perfect to dress up the room yet not ruin the wall space areas. Cool idea and thankyou for sharing it out here for all of us.

Grammy Gee

Sep 4, at 5:24pm

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Looks like the homeowner lady was positioning the cork board for herself rather than the much smaller kids.
I don't like Masonite backing because the pins cannot
penetrate fully.
I would either use a skeleton frame behind the cork or
as another viewer suggested, use, thicker, Homasote.
If on an outside wall in cold climates, the Homasote has
superior insulating qualities.
Back on the farm, near Canada, we used to insulate tool
sheds and other outbuildings with Homasote.
Took very little heat to warm the building.

Dr. Tom Friedman

Sep 2, at 5:02pm

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Assuming the availability of a Mitt Romney sized kids room, the ideal would be, instead of painted walls, one or a portion of one would be devoted to amply sized cubbies, for which each project could have all the material group in individual cubbies by project. This would be ideal for office at home for freelance software engineers and programmers. Other wall spaces would be covered with replaceable whiteboard panels and, of course cork and pegboards. There would be no worry about need to clean or repaint walls!

lcarliner

Sep 2, at 3:12pm

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You could probably do something similar with White Boards, either affixing a roll of the material to Masonite (rather than gluing to the wall) or painting it with White Board paint.

John

Sep 2, at 3:02pm

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yap, you are the best instructor Sir thanks Ron!

Hang

Sep 2, at 9:57am

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I prefer Homosote board insulation board, rather than cork. (Sometimes cork has an odd odor) A 4x8 sheet of Homosote is inexpensive, can be screwed to the wall, framed if you like, easily painted, and can double as a back drop for a dart board when the kids stop hanging their art.

CJ Leavitt

Sep 2, at 9:11am

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What a great idea! Wish I had something like this when my kids where younger. Can you paint over the cork? I would turn one of the panels into a chalk board for the kids to draw on.

Kathleen Tarquinio

Sep 2, at 5:50am

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Looks easy & it looked beautiful.

Ernie White

Sep 2, at 12:41am

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Can you paint the cork? If so, what type of paint do you recommend?

mrtystn

Aug 7, at 12:01am

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can you put roll cork on a wall of paneling that is painted without preping. it is ok if i glue it to the paneling

Linda Mcmurtrie

Mar 28, at 3:31pm

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