Pottery Barn Kids Pinboard Knock-off

Mine

Pottery Barn Kids

So earlier this year I was looking at the Pottery Barn Kids catalog and low and behold I found something I wanted but could not afford! Gasp! When I priced it out it just was outrageous. So I thought I would try to make something similar, but much cheaper than Pottery Barn. I had some canvases that I covered in my nursery that I thought I could recover, but then they would not be bulletin boards and I really wanted to be able to put pics and what not on them. So I priced out cork boards and even at one point looked at acoustic ceiling tiles to see if they would work and be cost effective. I did several searches on the web and found this lovely persons blog post. She used magnetic boards instead of plain cork and I thought she was brilliant. So off I went to find the boards she bought- but alas they were not at the Joann's I shop. So I wound up buying some from good old Walmart and they worked just fine. Now I loooove the girly fabrics in the Pottery Barn Kids pics, but I was doing it for my sons camping and fishing themed room. You can see more of his room here and here.

So I found some lovely boyish fabric that looks quite adorable in his room.

I used my trusty old hot glue gun on the back of the boards to attach the fabric.

Here they are hanging.

Here they are displaying pics of my cutie pie.