I found it via Pinterest and then this blog, and actually did it; can you believe it? I did something I pinned. Cool. Of course I roped Chuck into helping me, but he did so willingly.
There were a couple of tricks to it. One, don't use nails. Use the little 3M wall-hangy-thingies. (Good description, eh?) This helps with not having tons of nail holes in your wall and also keeps them straight. Second, use a template to attach them to the wall. I had some large butcher paper that I used to wrap Christmas gifts, and I traced the squares and drew it out just as I wanted. Using an X-acto knife, I cut out the places where the tiles would be. Then we taped the template to the wall, and stuck the tiles to the wall (using aforementioned wall-hangy-thingies). Then we ripped away the paper and...voila! A beautiful, straight Scrabble wall.
so i've already told you how much i love this. as in LOVE. :) seriously, it's one of my favorite things you've done! which is saying a lot since you do tons of fabulous things!
ReplyDeleteErin! I can't tell you how much I LOVE this! Do you take orders? :) I am in LOVE!!!
ReplyDeletethese look so great. i may have to try to copy some day. you know in another life when i have oodles and oodles of time.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tips about the 3M thingies (IKWYM) and the paper template. :)
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