One of the great features of my son’s angsty teen boy bedroom update was the floor to ceiling bulletin board. Remember?
Cool, huh?
Yeah.
So this happened…
Not cool.
All points of the bulletin board fell off the wall. Every. single. cork. tile.
The double-sided tape that came with the tiles came was seriously irrelevant.
Now to be honest with you – and you know I always am – I vaguely recall reading somewhere on the internets that some blogger had experienced a similar problem. But as is often the case, I don’t believe that such things can happen to me. Until they do.
But by that point, I had forgotten where I read about the irrelevant double-sided tape and cork tile dilemma, so I had to come up with a solution of my own.
So of course I let the problem cure for a bit to allow me to come up with the most creative option.
Problem solved! With these…
Some sort of washers and galvanized roofing nails…
As always, it was an entertaining Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus conversation with the guy helping me at Home Depot, when I tried to explain my creative inspiration and that I needed silver-colored nails with a big head and large washers with a small hole so that the nail head couldn’t fit through. Complete with hand gestures that could have been mistaken for a mild form of sexual harassment.
After looking at me like I just offered him a hit on my crack pipe, he led me to something I didn’t need in the nail department and something else I didn’t need in the washer section, at which point I pretended that was exactly what I needed so that he would move along, then I ferreted out what I really needed on my own.
But I digress…back to the project…
Starting at the ceiling, I placed the tile back on the irrelevant double-sided tape – I left it up as a guide, plus it acts as a spacer between the tile and the wall, so that hopefully the push pins don’t puncture the drywall.
Then I eyeballed the placement (because that’s what I do – why measure when you can eyeball?) and tapped the nail through the washer. Lather, rinse, repeat, and voila! Project salvaged and with an industrial chic flair!
Looks better than it did before! (And if you look carefully, you can see a reflection of my girlish figure in the poster to the right of the bulletin board.)
Success! And super stylish to boot!
Here’s a close-up…
A super-fun save for what could have been a massive project fail!
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