Custom Bulletin Board You Can Make In No Time

Learn how to make this easy custom bulletin board with just a few materials in about 1 hour. The perfect solution for when you need an unusual size.

I'm still working on my home office which I'm sure will be an ongoing process. One of the things I really needed was a custom bulletin board to tack up my notes. Little reminders, special numbers like my hex numbers, checklists etc. Currently I have been hanging papers on the wall with washi tape in front of my computer. Though I'm glad I found a use for the washi tape, as it has become somewhat of an impulse buy, however, it looks pretty bad.

Custom Bulletin Board

So I set out to make a bulletin board. One that would fit in this space so it needed to be short in height and long in width. Something around 12 inches high and 3 to 4 feet wide. Ready made bulletin boards are typically not that size, so I set out to make one. Here's the tutorial for my DIY easy custom bulletin board.

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The Materials

Con-Tact Drawer Liner
Poster Frame
Stencil
Spray Paint

Right away I knew I wanted to use cork board. I found this great shelf liner from Con-Tact. It's really thin so I needed something behind it.

Originally I thought about foam board but then I was wondering how to hang it and came across a great poster frame which was just about the right size (11.75 by 36 inches). The frame just pulls off the backing. There's a plastic cover and a cardboard back. So I cut the liner to fit the cardboard and stored the cover for a future project.

Once you cut the cork liner you can easily peel off the paper and unroll it onto the cardboard.

I wanted to pretty it up, even if I filled it up with papers and ideas so I decided to stencil the cork. I'm not the best at stenciling so I taped off areas with newspaper and used spray paint.

As you can see, some spots look better than others. At first I sprayed back and forth but that tended to bleed under the stencil, so I tried short spurts of paint directly above the stencil and that worked great. I moved the stencil around with my hand, (yes, it was messy), and since I was working with the short sprays I didn't worry about re-taping or moving the newspaper. However, I did work in the garage with paper underneath, and the door open for ventilation.