Need Teen room decoration ideas

[Good Ol Gal]

We are re-doing DD13's room and she loves to hand stuff on her walls.

She has glued, taped, stapled and push-pinned tons of stuff on the old wall.

I thought I had a brilliant idea that we could make one whole wall (5x5 size) into a giant corkboard.

Well in going to HD, Lowe's, etc they said they don't sell it. That you have to get it at Office max, Staples, etc. Those stores only have smaller sizes.

So I looked into purchasing what is a roll of corkboard, but it says you have to glue it to the wall, which then ruins the walls, and pretty pricey.

So.... I'm looking for an inexpensive idea on something we could do to the wall so that she can hang stuff up and not ruin the wall.

Thought about the magnetic paint, but it is pretty expensive.

Thanks for any input!

 

[Aristomommy]

We are doing something similar to DDs room. I got the idea from Pottery Barn Teen website, but I wasn't about to pay hundreds of dollars:

http://www.pbteen.com/products/3x3-...e-tile-set/?pkey=cwall-accessories-decoration

They also has examples of other cool wall decor such as corkboard, mirrors etc. I got great ideas looking there, and then went to our craft store to get fabric and corkboard. HTH!

Also, home improvement stores do sell magnetic paint and chalboard paint, if you want to patch the holes before painting.

 

[Illuminations_Rocks]

Duct tape together several smaller boards and then nail those in?

I think magnetic paint would be really cool, and with the supplies to make your corkboard wall it might just be cheaper.. just comparison shop online! FYI the reviews on rustoleum magnetic primer pretty much stink. I found quarts on amazon for $21 and change, one person said that they did a 5'x6' area with three coats and it was 2 of the quarts.

 

[Illuminations_Rocks]

Oh i had another idea, you could put the cork roll onto plywood and just nail/screw that up as a temporary fix for a few years. Minor damage to your drywall but you'd get the effect you want.

 

[drcmk]

IKEA sells inexpensive metal strips that come with magnets that can be used to hang things up. I use them over my sewing machine to hang up patterns and my kids use them to hang up school paperwork in their rooms.

 

[idtwinsmom]

We are doing something similar to DDs room. I got the idea from Pottery Barn Teen website, but I wasn't about to pay hundreds of dollars:

http://www.pbteen.com/products/3x3-...e-tile-set/?pkey=cwall-accessories-decoration

They also has examples of other cool wall decor such as corkboard, mirrors etc. I got great ideas looking there, and then went to our craft store to get fabric and corkboard. HTH!

Also, home improvement stores do sell magnetic paint and chalboard paint, if you want to patch the holes before painting.

We made our own versions of these a few months ago. I found directions on the web somewhere. I can't find the link right now, but I'll keep trying. It was a fun project, but it was a little more involved than I expected.

 

[princessmom29]

I would take a PP's suggestion and glue the rolled cork to plywood and put that up. I have done 4'x4' squares like this and then covered them with different fabrics that cordinate with the bedding, drapes ect. They are really cool to hang stuff on anf you don't see the cork!

 

[indimom]

We wanted to have large, but inexpensive, bulletin boards in our kids rooms. A friend suggested covering ceiling tile (like you see in suspended ceilings in schools/basements) with fabric, then mounting these to the wall. It worked like a charm and were super cheap. The kids have had them for over three years and they work great. They look nice and we coordinated the fabric to match their rooms.

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

Menards sells 4in by 4in squares. You could paint each sqaure a differnt color and create a neat pattern. I hung mine with nails when I made my board. Mine was 7 squares by 7 sqaures and stayed up for almost 4 years (till I got over my MASH obsession)

 

[Hannahsmom]

Last summer I had a similar idea in my daughters playroom. The room had a low slanted ceiling and I wanted to give her a project counter backed with a cork board (to protect the wall as well as give her a place to hang her art). I ended up buying the 2ft. rolls at Office Max and spray gluing them onto the pink foam insulation boards you get at Lowe's or Home Depot. DH cut them to size, we glued the cork and then he screwed them into the wall. Turned out really well...if I do say so myself. And ended up being a super cheap project. Good Luck to you!

P.S. I found the cork squares, but didn't want to stick anything to the walls.

 

[3boymthr]

Well, I did a google search because I was sure I'd seen one somewhere that was about the size that you mentioned. It was PB Teen as mentioned by a PP.

But in addition, in my search I found huge single panel corkboards. They're probably not what you want as they are expensive($200+) but they are the size you want. School suppliers make/sell them: https://www.schooloutfitters.com/ca...cid=TC|6210|cork board squares||S||2609645597

 

[luckey-lasvegas]

I have 2 suggestions. The first is use magnetic paint. The other is buy cork tiles and glue them to a large sheet of plywood, then frame the plywood with some type of molding and hang like a picture. That is what my father did when i was a teen.

 

[semo233]

We wanted to have large, but inexpensive, bulletin boards in our kids rooms. A friend suggested covering ceiling tile (like you see in suspended ceilings in schools/basements) with fabric, then mounting these to the wall. It worked like a charm and were super cheap. The kids have had them for over three years and they work great. They look nice and we coordinated the fabric to match their rooms.

How did you mount them to the walls?

 

[Good Ol Gal]

some great ideas here!

I didn't realize OM sold rolls of cork!

So, I could purchase the roll, glue it to a piece of plywood.... cover that with fabric and then nail it up on the wall!

Doesn't seem too difficult

I'm not the crafty type, but I might be able to do that

 

[Terrie..]

We purchased the 12" x 12" corkboard squares at BJ's and hung them like a wallpaper border in my daughter's. We hung them about 3/4 of the way up on the wall and she hangs a ton of stuff from them. This way all of the things hanging are distributed around the room instead of lumped on one wall on a single corkboard.

 

[pipersmom]

Don't ask me where I read it, but in my recent reading, a woman had done exactly what you're talking about using sheet foam insulation. You could cover it with fabric, or take the plastic top layer off and paint it. You could even paint sections of it in the magnetic paint if you wanted. It's very lightweight and is relatively inexpensive. Might be something to check out.

 

[PHXscuba]

I wouldn't do magnetic paint. I covered the upper half of one of DS's wall with THREE coats of it (black) and then put two coats of blue paint over it.

The magnetic doesn't really work. The smaller magnets that do stay on the wall don't hold up even a sheet of paper. The bigger heavy-duty magnets (I got them at Home Depot) just slide down the wall, even if nothing is attached to them. Over the last 4 years DS has found very few things -- some printed quarter-sheet magnet sheets with them holding nothing -- that will stay up. So much for hanging posters like I'd hoped!

Just my experience... and the magnetic paint wasn't cheap!

PHXscuba