House update: chalkboard wall

This past week we tackled a small project in our house-- we added a chalkboard wall! I've seen them all over pinterest. . . they've made me a little nervous, with all the dust and whatnot, but we bit the bullet and added one in our house.

This is what our kitchen cabinets looked when we first started doing renovations-- Vance had just taken out the top cabinets (leaving that ugly wire sticking out of the right wall). Notice the missing mirror on the bottom right -- it stayed like that for a few months!

I forgot to take a picture of us actually removing the mirrors from the cabinet, but it involved a LOT of scraping of this stupid tape that was totally and completely glued to the wood :(

The next step involved a lot of sanding on Vance's part-- this was the hardest part to make smooth!

Finally able to paint on the chalkboard paint!

White trim added, little lady already playing

Taken off of instagram (lorieiko)