Cork, Hooks and Beadboard

I hate clutter.  The desk between our kitchen and keeping room has become a catch-all for crap:  purses, jackets, backpacks, papers, diaper bag, etc.  It's been driving me crazy and I've finally had enough.  This past weekend we set out to gather supplies at Lowes.  We tore down our existing corkboard and started a new one with hooks.  As a side note let me just say that there are few things more satisfying than ripping stuff off the wall.

Step 1 was applying the bead-board.  We decided to put this up on the bottom so bags wouldn't be scraping the walls.  We bought a sheet at Lowe's and had them cut it to the size we needed.  Casey put it up with Liquid Nails.

Step 2 was framing out the beadboard.  Casey used leftover wood that we had from a previous project and cut it down to the size we needed.

Step 3:  I got in on the action by filling in the nail holes with wood filler and getting it ready to be painted.

Then we got started on the actual cork-board which we learned is a process when you do it the right way (i.e. not the way we did it the first time).

Step 4:  We had a piece of our beadboard cut to fit above the beadboard below.  This served at the foundation for the cork-board.  We just flipped it over to the opposite unfinished side.  It saved us from having to buy additional fiber board.  We used contact cement on our cork to stick it to the wood board.  To do this we had to do multiple coats on both the cork and the wood board.

Step 5:  After the contact cement dried for about 15 minutes we attached the cork to the wood board, pushing it down firmly to aviod any air pockets.  

Step 6:  We added an additional layer of cork on top so more contact cement went on the first layer of cork and the second layer of cork as well.  

We couldn't find a solid sheet of cork that was thick and big enough for us so we bought a few square 4 pack packages of cork and then an additional solid sheet of cork to go on top of the cork squares.  That way we could get the thickness we wanted but still have the look of a solid sheet of cork.

Step 6:  More contact cement on top of layer number 2 of the cork and the solid large thin sheet of cork.  After it dried we carefully laid the solid sheet on top of the second layer of cork.  Are you getting this?  We have fiber board, layer #1 of cork squares, layer #2 of cork squares, and solid sheet of thin cork.  Whew.

Step 7:  After our three layers of cork were assembled (and we were officially loopy from the smell of the contact cement) we were ready to put the corkboard up.  Casey put it up with more liquid nails.

Step 8:  Painting was next.  We opted to paint most of the trim around the corkboard before we nailed it to the wall so we wouldn't get paint on our cork.  We are sloppy painters.

Step 9:  Casey nailed the trim around the cork board and we did a little touch-up painted and voila!

We didn't waste much time before we junked it up.  Organized chaos.  The current theme of our lives.