I love Mo Willems' books and did you see he has his dining room painted with chalkboard paint? How cool is that?! They'll have "family draws." It's neat getting a glimps inside his house too.
Admittedly, chalkboards freak me out a bit. It's something to do with the shrill sounds, dust under my fingernails and on my hands that sends me running, but it's a neat idea. Maybe we'll eventually do a magnetic paint wall with lots of paper to throw up there to draw on and keep artwork displayed....and Michael and I always have loved the idea of an entire wall that is a map of the world - maybe cool in a kiddo's room.
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Aside from the fingernail meets chalkboard fear...I love chalkboards.
What a unique idea!
As a teacher, I get quite enough chalkdust during the day, thank you very much! But I love the idea of a magnetic paint wall. Much less clean up too!
I think the entire-wall-is-a-map is a common geographer thing; I've lusted after this wallpaper for years. I think a decade of whining has finally convinced my wife to let me do it--in our next house.
Hey Joseph, this wallpaper is great and totally not crazy expensive. I just love the idea of having it in a kiddo's room - I'd even let them draw on it to chart their future adventures :)
Just thinking of the sound of a chalkboard makes me feel gross.
My parents wallpapered a huge map on my brother's bedroom wall. It was an historic map of the US, when it was still territories. Then they nailed molding around it like a frame. When he became a hippy teen, he hung a black fake fur bedspread over it (during his black light, pot-smoking, 70's phase).
Also, I had a professor in college who wallpapered his kids' playroom with those maps that come in National Geo magazine. It was very cool because there were maps from all over the world, walls and ceiling.
I do love the idea of having a room with doodle space on every wall. I'd be more inclined to use the stuff that makes your walls into white boards, though - less messy and, with colored markers, more creative . . . but perhaps not as "artsy-retro".
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