Felt Tiles An Alternative to Cork Bulletin Boards

Okay, so I'm out of the garage and I'm sharing home office with my kid. Pretty cool. But before got settled in, added couple of things. So, first thing, got new desk/workbench from Home Depot. And second thing, wanted bulletin board to slap on the wall right behind the desk. And originally, thought I'd just get like regular cork bulletin board, but then saw these. This is 12-pack of felt wall tiles, and thought they look little nicer than the regular cork bulletin board was thinking of, so bought them. So, here's the box. In addition to the 12 felt tiles, you get these adhesive stickers. You can see the tiles are pretty thick. They're pretty sturdy right out of the box. really like the way they looked. Now, one thing changed is did not want to stick 12 separate tiles all on the wall. Getting them all squared up and level with each other while also dueling with gravity. Seemed like tall task, at least for my skill set. So, to mitigate potential mistakes, took slightly different track. So, went down to our neighborhood dollar store, bought few poster boards and some duct tape. then taped for the poster boards together, and used that as the foundation for my bulletin board. Starting at one corner, just started laying down the tiles with four adhesive stickers for each tile. one sticker for each corner. And not having to fight gravity made things lot easier. So, here's the process for adding tile. Just removing the backing on each adhesive, flipping it over, making sure, at least in my case, making sure that each tile alternated horizontal and vertical lines. And once got it squared up, just setting it in place and pressing down just to make sure everything was set. Once was finished laying down the tiles, all had to do was trim off the excess poster board and was pretty set. Another thing like about using the poster board is if ever need to move this thing, won't be peeling 12 individual tiles off painted wall. So, as far as hanging it up, had couple of options. One was just sticking two or three grommets at the top and just hanging it on the wall. But since had some scrap wood lying around, ended up using that. What's nice about the wood is you screw it into the studs on the walls. Then when you put the bulletin board up, you just screw it into the scrap wood wherever you want and you're good. think ended up using five pieces of wood al together. one piece for each side and then one piece directly in the center. And was pretty happy with how it turned out. think it's lot cleaner, lot nicer looking than regular bulletin board. The felt tiles themselves are very easy to tack paperwork onto. You could even tack on heavier stuff than paperwork if you want, including important stuff like this. What the? That's more like it. Well, that's it for these felt tiles. Thanks lot for watching and until next time, I'll see you.