I was casually walking through my happy place...Home Depot when I spotted the new 100 ideas flea market style magazine. I immediately bought one and on page 30...fell in love with this awesome idea.
We have an old basic white fridge in the garage and I've always thought of painting it, but never with chalkboard paint. I really wish I could take credit for this idea all on my own...but oh well. You know it's inspirational if you run out and get the stuff for the project AND actually do it on that same day!
I washed the fridge, painted it with black chalkboard paint, wrapped the handles with jute twine and waited three days for it to cure. Then when my pictures came in the mail. I whipped them up there like no one's business and voila! Instant art gallery:)
So cool that we have this focal point in the garage now. I had some favorite pictures that I'd been wanting to blow up, but didn't have a clue where to put them. I've used about every inch of wall space in my house. Now I can enjoy them and simply replace them when I'm ready for something else. Love it!
Have a blessed day.
That IS really cool. I keep forgetting about chalkboard Paint...but, I think it's the jute string around the handles that makes it, tops!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely LOVE your family picture - the one there on the tracks.
Wow, what a bold choice that really paid off. It looks great and I'm sure it will be a changing little art project through the years. Fantastic idea.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great project Becky and perfect for that spare fridge!! Love the family shot.
ReplyDeleteLove this and your pictures so much!!! How fun that project must have been
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! Love the idea of garage art! I mean...you see it everyday, several times...right?
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this. Really, I do. A lot!
ReplyDeleteVery Cute. Love the pictures that you put on the fridge.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! I never would have thought of that great idea in a million years. Love the shots you chose! What fun. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat idea!! I love the winter shot of you guys
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Gemma x
Oh ma ga. That's all I can say. I stinkin' love it. I wish I had a fridge in the garage to do this. LOVE those photos that are on there! Sigh.
ReplyDeleteHow fun! Looks great - love your village wall, too!
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I Love it! What a great idea. It would even be cool to do inside the house and let my toddler draw on it! Although, the boundary between "you can draw on the fridge" and "you can't draw on the wall" might be a little fuzzy, huh? But something to keep in mind! Beautiful pictures too!
ReplyDeleteHow cool is this??????? I L-O-V-E it! The photos are pretty fabulous, too! You always have something up your sleeve, don't you?? ;o)
ReplyDelete~mary~
love the idea! and the family photo is so beautiful of you all.
ReplyDeletewhere did you have them printed so big?
that to me is one of the coolest projects you've done! (next to the rooster painting)
ReplyDeleteLove it!!! Now I'm on a mission to use chalkboard paint. Where oh where?
ReplyDeleteThis is too funny...I've been thinking of painting one of my kitchen walls with chalkboard paint!! Ive never worked with it before though..this fridge is absolutely stunning!! I love it and the jute on the door handles is a perfect compliment to it!
ReplyDeleteGreat job and your photos on it are so homey!
Great job!!
Deborah xo
Chalkboard paint is great!! Love how it turned out!
ReplyDeleteI love chalkboard paint, and seem to have painted everything with it last yr. ;)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the pic of ya'll on the railroad tracks!!!
Really loved the ideas with blackboard paint. I will have to put my blackboard paint to more use!
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xx
Dore
Cute!! What a great idea for a "garage fridge" to make it extra cute! :)
ReplyDeleteLOVE IT. You really can't go wrong with chalkboard ANYTHING. This would be darling in a kitchen too!!
ReplyDeleteChalkboard paint has to be one of the best ideas ever. Your fridge came out great. I love the pictures you chose and the twine around the handles was inspired!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness! This is the BOMB! Is that magazine still on the shelf? I must have a copy!!
ReplyDeleteI love that magazine! You did a awesome job! Those pictures are priceless! I love the one with your whole family on the railroad tracks! I just used twine/rope for one of my projects too! I love how it turned out on the frig handle, clever!!!
ReplyDeleteHey Becky!
ReplyDeleteJust getting back to blogging....love this idea! It looks great!
xo,
Adrienne
Cute idea, love the photos and the jute twine on the handles, sooo cute! xo
ReplyDeleteThat is a great idea. I love pictures in unexpected places. I have been wanting to put pictures of my boys all muddy in my laundry room! An attempt to keep those typically boring places in our houses that we MUST spend time in, looking happy!
ReplyDeleteI would have commented on your comment on my blog but I wanted to make sure you would see it. You are not one of the people I was talking about in my blog. My issue was with people who respond to someone who is saying, "I am really hurting," and they respond with all Jesus nothing personal. They can't find it within their own heart to say, "I care about you," before they start quoting Bible. In other words, they are all Bible. There is NO personal component whatsoever. That is hurtful when you wracked with pain and this is coming from someone who you know. Anyway, like I said in my blog... everyone on here who are all "strangers" are kinder than my Facebook "friends." It is disheartening. Or maybe it just makes you rethink things. I don't know. But, I just wanted to clarify. I appreciate a person who will offer up some scripture because they have thought about it long and hard and think it applies and will make me feel better. I also appreciate it if they do so with a loving heart. Everyone who has ever posted a Bible verse in my comments here has done it in exactly that spirit. So, bringeth it on...
ReplyDeletethat's such a neat (and daring in a good way) idea! Your photos look just amazing!
ReplyDeleteHope to catch ya here in Minneapolis soon!
Oh. my. goodness. love. this!
ReplyDeleteSuper cute!Love it!!!
ReplyDeleteSUPER. STINKIN'. SWEET. GREAT project!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh Wow! I love what you have done with your fridge. I also have a white fridge in our garage and I would love to do this project. As a matter of fact I am having my family BBQ in 3 more weeks and would love to have it all done before they all come. It would be awesome to have family photos up for them to see. :) Ddi you buy the chalkboard paint at Home Depot?
ReplyDeleteI also love the mural that you painted it came out beautiful Becky. You are a very talented woman.
Mary
It's galley gallery! Ha! How cute is that, Becky! For me, it would be a nifty place to write down what I actually put IN the fridge so I won't waste food. "Don't forget to eat your grapes, Julie!" you know...that sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteLove your "new" fridge!
: )
Julie M.
SEE, I KNEW there
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to be up at 6AM looking
at my bloggy friend's
newest posts ~ a BIG
dose of inspiration!
I just love how you
took this idea and
ran with it; and I
adore how it turned
out!!! As a matter of
fact, it got me
thinking about a
gi-normous blank
wall in our garage
that I've been wanting
to do something with...
HMMM.... Thanks for
the great idea!
xx Suzanne
PS: Looking forward
to tomorrow : )
i have been so inspired by the flea market magazine this summer as well. so many amazing ideas!
ReplyDeleteyou implemented this one perfectly!!!!
love your family photo.
hugs~
chasity
I LOVE this idea!!!
ReplyDeleteYour photos are beautiful and the jute handles really finish it off.
-FringeGirl
So fun and I love the twine around the door handles!
ReplyDeleteSoooooooo awesome!
ReplyDeleteWish the old fridge in our garage still worked because I'd paint that puppy right up! But a good reminder for me to call someone to haul it off, haha...:)
ReplyDeleteDang!! I wish I had an old fridge like that!! =) I love that!! Your family is so photogenic!! We have such a hard time getting a great family shot! I want to paint a giant chalk board somewhere... just haven't found the "right" place yet!! My sister just bought that magazine and we are going to browse it this weekend at our sister beach get away! funny!
ReplyDeletea great idea!!!
ReplyDeleteheehee. think I will have to paint our basement fridge/hubby's homebrew kegerator!!
oh becky! this is beautiful! i love the idea. i need a mag like that for some inspiration!
ReplyDeletep.s. - the fotos you chose are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThis is the coolest thing I've seen all week!
ReplyDeleteAnd not just cool because it's a fridge, either {groan}. :-)
I always know that I can come here and see something that will motivate me, inspire me or uplift me. That's what's so nifty about you.
Hugs,
Anne
That looks SO fantastic....the train tracks photo is wonderful :)
ReplyDeleteI just saw that magazine last night and saw about 72 things that I wanted to do.
ReplyDeleteIt looks great, Becky!
i know isn't it a great mag? lucky i fell in love with it before it saw that it is $10. now i'm ashamed i didn't run home and make the dog bed on pg 10 of the june issue! i have a freezer in the dungy basement that i now vow to paint!
ReplyDeleteOh Becky...it's fantastic! I have that magazine, but forgot about the idea. We have an old refrigerator in our garage, too; I may just have to add "chalk the 'frig" to my honey-do list:)
ReplyDeleteIt turned out beautifully! I love chalk board paint, we use it in the center sometimes to salvage something good but worn....know what I mean?
ReplyDeleteOh how Lovely! Awesome project!
ReplyDeleteI just found your blog and absolutely LOVE this idea. I would totally copy it too....I was so excited to see you grew up in rural Illinois...me too, only, I'm still here! Can't wait to see more painting from ya!
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