Note board (65 photos). DIY cork board How to replace a cork board
They say nothing motivates better than visibility. If you have a list of tasks and important reminders, inspiring ideas and strategic goals in front of you, you will work much more productively. But even if you don’t work at home, but sit down at the computer to relax, there are probably notes and plans that would be good to keep “in sight.”
Modern gadgets and electronic planners with their reminders are, of course, useful things. But not everyone is suitable. And traditional notebook it is generally “silent” and will not remind you of anything at the right moment (and the number of such “books” can go off scale)…
If you agree with these considerations, we suggest getting a practical assistant - a board for notes and important small papers. Yes, the range of these boards in Russian stores is very limited, and the prices are sometimes steep.
But this is not a reason to refuse such a convenient thing! We have collected a lot of ideas on the topic of such wall reminder boards. And you will find: most of the options are easy to do yourself. As a result, it will not only be much cheaper (than a factory board), but will also take into account absolutely all your wishes - regarding options, size and appearance. Those. In fact, it will be an exclusive product created especially for you.
Sounds tempting? If so, welcome to our new guide on practical wall organizer boards. If you want to see more ideas on this topic, take a look at the last issue of ““.
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Magnetic boards and note strips:
One of the most popular modern solutions. All you need to do is attach the board to the wall and have a supply of magnets. However, if the size of magnetic boards from stores does not suit you, you can make it yourself from thin metal (photo 2). Or - from things that can be found in the house, for example, from an old tin tray that is collecting dust in the pantry (photos 11 and 12). Or - from unusual materials, For example, decorative grilles(photos 4 and 5), which can be found in construction stores.
By the way, if you are not satisfied with the “cold” color of the magnetic board (usually white, gray, black), you can paint it in a different shade using metal spray paint. Or - tighten it beautiful fabric, securing the edges with reverse side(photos 7 and 8). This will not affect the “attractive” properties of the magnetic board in any way.
Don't want to clutter the wall massive board? Use narrow magnetic strips (photos 9 and 10). They will help keep small sheets of paper in order and become original decoration rooms. You can also make them yourself from scrap materials. Or buy kitchen magnetic knife strips.
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cork boards for papers and reminders:
Another well-known solution is cork board + buttons. You can choose one board or several, hang it on the wall or place it on the table. It will fit harmoniously into the interior of the room if you surround the board with shelves and paint the wooden frame in the color of these shelves.
Too banal, but your soul requires creativity? Decorate cork board colored paper or stickers - directly to the cork surface. Or fasten a piece of fabric after disassembling the frame. Use scrapbooking or decoupage techniques. Or make a cork board for notes with your own hands - from rolled cork, which is sold in finishing materials stores.
If several people work in the room, each organizer can be signed. By the way, such a board is suitable not only as a practical element, but also for decorating a room.
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wall calendar board:
Do you miss small pieces of paper with reminders, and starting a diary is too trivial? Buy a magnetic one or slate board, lined with cells (or draw them yourself). Write a number in each cell - and the original calendar organizer is ready! In the boxes you can enter things to do, important meetings, the beginning of the session and vacation, attach payments and tickets. Now you will no longer get lost in the mass of upcoming tasks.
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French organizing boards:
Is beauty as important to you as order? This means that you will definitely like French boards. They are usually made on a solid base of fabric and durable braid (or decorative elastic), to which the reminders cling.
But you can get by with just one braid, decorating a separate area with it - between the slats or shelves (photos 4 and 5) or the entire wall (photo 6). A laconic analogue of a French board can be made from metal decor, if you drill holes in it and fasten an elastic band (photo 7), such a board will simultaneously become magnetic.
More details about this in a separate guide.
A do-it-yourself cork board is made from a sheet of black, white or brown agglomerate of the appropriate size. This material It is actively used in everyday life when decorating the interior of premises, as stands for office information sheets, records, posting photographs, children's drawings at home, in preschool institutions.
Using a cork board
Board with cork covering — convenient place for reminders, schedules, calendars and even key storage A ready-made stand can be purchased from manufacturers and resellers. At home, it can be used in the kitchen to post records of various recipes and inform family members.
In the hallway, it is advisable to use a board for storing keys if it is equipped with appropriate hooks or a shelf. For a work office, it is well suited for stationery items; in a nursery, it is good to place drawings made by the child himself.
The table shows some data about cork boards/stands:
An anodized aluminum corner can be placed along the edge of the cork board Modern office premises It’s impossible to imagine without an information board.
They usually have a size of 70x100 cm.
The surface is made of fine-grained natural cork.
The perimeter of the cork board can be decorated with anodized aluminum.
Using ordinary pushpins, various important information for employees.
If necessary, you can make a stand from a cork board yourself. To do this, you will need a sheet of the required size and thickness.
How to make a cork board with your own hands
Use a cork sheet with a thickness of 10 - 12 mm
To make a balsa wood board with your own hands, you must first purchase the necessary blanks.
You can visit a construction supermarket or order a sheet of the required size through an online store.
It is desirable that its thickness be 10-12 mm. With such characteristics, it will be convenient to stick needles of various lengths into it. You can purchase several sheets of smaller thickness and connect them together.
For the back wall, hardboard, plastic, corrugated cardboard, and chipboards are suitable.
It is convenient to place such a board above the table Typically, a cork stand is placed in a frame, which is made of wood, an aluminum corner and a plastic profile. It’s even easier to buy a ready-made frame, and then cut the cork and the backing for it to size.
In this case, the shape of the board can be very diverse: from standard rectangular to round, oval and other non-standard shapes.
The surface can be covered with a fabric of the appropriate color, which has a rare weave of fibers. Thick fabric fibers will cling to the edge of buttons and needles. Detailed instructions on how to make this device in this video:
You can give the cork sheet the required size using a sharp construction or shoe knife.
It is better to adjust the substrate to size, especially if the shape has ovals, using an electric jigsaw.
WITH back side you need to install fastenings in order to hang it on the wall.
The most in a simple way The board will be secured to the wall with screws.
Who would have thought that an ordinary traffic jam would become such a fixture in a person’s life? And all thanks to the cork oak, because it is from its bark that a lot of household items are made today, from bottle caps to finishing materials for floors, ceilings and various interior accessories. One of these popular items is a cork board for notes and notes, or rather for their fastening and temporary storage. Such an accessory is relevant not only at home, but is also widely used in schools, offices and other institutions. But in this article we will look at what functions a cork board on the wall performs in the home. We’ll also find out what it comes in and how you can make it yourself.
Cork board on the wall photo
Cork board on the wall: what is it for and where to hang it?
Cork is unique material and people fell in love with it due to its elasticity, lightness, and environmental friendliness. Whatever product is made from it, it will bring warmth and comfort to the interior of any room, even if we are talking about a cork wall panel. It is very convenient to use as an information board. True, you won’t be able to write directly on the cork with a marker or chalk, but it is very easy to fix any note on it using needles or buttons. These may not only be paper notes, information sheets or posters. But since a cork board in the interior is very often used for additional wall decor, it can also become a place for storing family photographs, children's art and various crafts made with my own hands.
Cork board for notes
Cork board on the wall photo
Where to hang a cork board in an apartment?
Depending on the size, shape and purpose, a cork board on the wall can be hung in almost any room. For example, in the kitchen it will be a great place for temporarily storing recipes or for communicating information to household members. A cork board on the wall in the hallway can also be an information board, or it can serve as a key holder. It is not uncommon to find boards with a shelf and hooks on sale.
Cork board photo
Thanks to the beautiful frame on a cork board, you can stylishly store jewelry, handicraft items in a women's workshop, or ordinary stationery in a home office.
Cork board on the wall
A cork board on the wall of the corridor and nursery, as has already been found out, can become a place for storing memorable items made by the hands of a child.
Cork board in frame
Modern designers have come up with the idea of using cork in such a way that it can fully serve as an information board and can be used as a high-quality interior decor.
Cork board for notes
What types of cork boards are there?
The cork itself does not look the most beautiful, to put it mildly; color and porous structure may not suit any design. It’s another matter if it’s an office; for this purpose there are special cork boards on sale, the only design of which is a strong aluminum profile. They come on a roller stand, allowing the blade to be rotated and moved as needed.
Cork board for home always has more attractive appearance. If you are not entirely satisfied with the finished purchased version, you can easily remake it or paint it to suit your needs with your own hands. Or you can create a whole picture out of it if you get a little creative with paints, and to make everything turn out beautiful, you can paint using a stencil.
Cork wall board
Another option for decorating a cork board involves applying fabric to its surface. It can be glued to the cork or stretched, fixing it on the back side of the sheet. Selecting fabric to match the furniture or curtains will help harmoniously fit the board into the surrounding interior.
Cork board on the wall photo
A beautiful frame will also help to give decorative qualities to the board, beautiful wooden frame will turn an ordinary cork sheet into some kind of painting. Also, using a frame, you can stylize this accessory to match the desired interior design.
Cork board on the wall photo
A cork board on the wall can sometimes not look like a board at all; the fact is that modern designers, as mentioned above, use cork widely in interior design. An ordinary rectangle, even with a bright design, will still remain a rectangle. Therefore, today there are very original wall cork decorative items, which combined the functions of a board and became a quality item for wall decoration. For example, a cork canvas on the wall in the form of a world map will be an original addition stylish interior office or office. And in the living room it can even become a memorable map of family travels around the world.
Cork panel photo
The cork board can be shaped into any shape you like. You can even do this with your own hands; it is easily cut with ordinary scissors. Therefore, why not cut out a cork for a child’s room in the form of a car, a rocket, or simply in the form of some interesting abstraction. In the future, it can be completely transformed by painting it in a bright, beautiful, interesting color. Or you can write interesting words or simply cover it with fabric with children’s motifs. The cork fabric made from individual pieces in the form of polygons, triangles or rhombuses will look original. From them you can create a kind of puzzle on the wall.
Cork board on the wall
DIY cork board
Making a cork board with your own hands is not at all difficult, the main thing is to find a cork sheet of the required format for a reasonable price. Ideal option- this is a 10 mm thick cork, because even the longest needles can be inserted into it. But all the difficulties begin here, buy separate sheet It’s unlikely to work, the fact is that only technical cork is available for sale, sold in packs or rolls of 10 meters, and they cost the same as a ready-made cork board. Another option is a rolled 2 mm cork, it is often sold in moldings. It is enough to buy 3 meters, cut them into sheets and glue them together. The thickness of the resulting 6 mm sheet is also quite enough. Well, then it’s a matter of technology.
If you want a framed cork board, the easiest way is to simply insert the cork into the finished frame. To do this, pull out the old image, it will be the template. We place it on a sheet of cork, trace it around the perimeter and cut it out. And then we simply insert the cork into the frame, just don’t forget to remove the glass before doing this.
DIY cork board
If you want to cover the cork with fabric, then the cork web needs to be cut 2-3 mm smaller than the size of the frame. As for the fabric, it should be 3-4 cm larger so that it can be folded and fixed on the back cork panel. A best way attaching it to the cork requires glue on the front surface and pins on the back side. To prevent the fabric from clinging to needles and buttons, it is better to choose it with a sparser weave of fibers.
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Content
A cork board will be a real boon for those who are used to planning things ahead, want to visualize their desires, or simply have a stand to remind them of important events. Notes, pictures, advertisements, and small objects are attached to the accessory. This stand is common in offices, schools, kindergartens, and more and more people are hanging it at home.
What is wall cork board
The material of the accessory is cork oak bark. Cork board – wooden rectangular sheet different sizes(often found 45x60, 60x90, 100x150, 120x90, 90x120), made from crushed compressed cork and covered with veneer. Notes, posters, information sheets, etc. are attached to the product using buttons or needles. The accessory fits perfectly into almost any interior style.
A cork board on the wall performs different functions. It can be used as standard - for notes and reminders. Often household members paste children’s art and family photographs onto the accessory. It’s easy to make an organizer out of the stand by dividing the surface into squares – the days of the month. If you attach hooks to the bottom of the frame, you can give the item the function of a key holder. Creative owners of the accessory equip one side with small shelves, and leave the other for notes.
Product types:
- Office board. It has a simple appearance - the cork board itself and a strong aluminum profile. It is often produced on a roller stand, which allows the product to be rotated.
- Home option. Decorated with various figured frames, shelves, has different color surfaces. If desired, such a wall stand can be covered with fabric or another covering can be made.
Material advantages
The appearance of the cork board itself on the wall is somewhat gloomy, but with proper decor it will sparkle with new colors and will not seem boring. In addition, the tree has the following properties:
- natural material: light, elastic, elastic, environmentally friendly;
- does not allow moisture to pass through, is resistant to high temperatures;
- refractory;
- does not attract dust, does not become electrified;
- resistant to fungi, chemicals, insects;
- he is not afraid of shocks or vibrations;
- after punctures, the resulting holes close almost immediately;
- different long term operation - lasts for several decades.
Features of installation and assembly
Note board on the wall from modern manufacturers has special mounting holes at the corners. An installation kit is almost always sold along with the accessory. If you are making a stand at home, arrange loops on the wrong side. Mounting options:
1.On screws or nails. Drive or screw them into the wall at the required distance, and hang the stand. Do not leave too much of a gap between the wall and the cork sheet at the top so that it does not “move” back and forth when you attach the information material.
2. Liquid nails (glue). In this case, you don’t even have to make holes in the wall. The gluing is done as follows:
- Degrease the surface with any detergent.
- Apply liquid nails pointwise along the perimeter. The distance between the drops is about 5-10 millimeters.
- Press the product firmly against the wall. It will take about 10 minutes for the glue to begin to harden.
3.Good double-sided tape. Cover the perimeter of the wall and place the accessory evenly on the tape.
Where to buy and how much does a wall board for notes cost?
Cork boards for notes are sold in almost any store or hypermarket for home and office. Well-known manufacturers (Attache, TCO, IKEA, Komus) provide high quality products. You can also place an order from small manufacturers who offer the sheets themselves. Ready-made cork boards for the wall have different prices. Sample price 45x60 from Attache with wooden frame is 750 rubles, with an increase in area and improved characteristics, the cost increases to 2000-5000 rubles. A cork oak sheet is cheaper, but it is sold without a frame.
How to make a cork stand with your own hands
It is more profitable to make a cork board on the wall yourself. It will not cost too much and will fit organically into the room you need, since you will create author's design. How to make a cork board with your own hands:
- Buy a cork sheet of the size you need.
- You will need another piece of hardboard of the same area. It will serve as the back surface of the stand. Glue the hardboard.
- You can decorate the sheet or cover it with fabric.
- Decide on a frame. Common materials are aluminum, plastic, wood. It is convenient to take cable channels slightly wider than the thickness of the board.
- Cut the corners of the frame at 45º. Attach the frame to the base.
- If you mount the product with screws, provide loops for them. Using glue or double sided tape does not require additional manipulations.
