Super Awesome Ikea Chalkboard

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Originally this was titled simply "Ikea Chalkboard" but that was just so boring. And the truth is, I do think it's super awesome. Super totally awesome. So I thought I'd share.

A chalkboard around the house, and especially in the kitchen, is hardly a novel idea. But me, I was a chalkboard virgin. So I'm completely thrilled to have one now. I can jot mushy love notes, must-get grocery items, and menus for dinner parties. And apparently my guy's buddy Todd will be drawing dirty pictures on it for our enjoyment. That should be interesting.

Here's a glimpse of the super awesome Ikea chalkboard (along with our Sunday-after-Thanksgiving menu) before I digress for a bit.

So, an aside for a moment. About Ikea. My first few times at Ikea probably 15 years ago, I was giddy. I was bright-eyed and bought lots of stuff. For instance, I bought an office chair. I tried to put it together by myself. The hydraulic thingy flew out of the bottom after I thought I was done, and I had no idea how to fix it. It was trashed. Some of the other furniture I got there eventually fell apart. I was no longer giddy. I was over Ikea.

(Well, except for their cheese grater. Their cheese grater is the best ever. I do still have my cheese grater from those first visits, and it's still awesome.)

But I've gotta say that today, I'm not over Ikea anymore. In fact, I'm totally back under Ikea. Yes, I do steer away from certain furniture items that I know likely won't stand the test of time. But their Expedit line of shelves? Come to mama. In the last month, we've picked up three. Okay, so the second one was the wrong size but it was so huge that we really couldn't get it back down the stairs to take it back, so it went into the spare bedroom. And the third one – a smaller size of 60×60 – was meant to replace the second one in the craft office. (The first is a black-brown 3' x 6' unit acting as a buffet in our dining room. And it's perfect!) And I love some of their picture frames. Super classy. And the fabric they now carry? To die for. I picked up some Fredrika in the orange and red and recovered the stools with it.

So anyway. Another cool thing Ikea has is the Luns chalkboard. Here's a picture from the Ikea website.

We painted ours red (an idea stolen from the most awesome Ikea kitchen I've ever seen in one of the showroom areas) and left the hooks off.

And I guess that was a lot of writing just to tell you, I love my super awesome Ikea chalkboard. It's not cool or different enough to be an Ikea hack or anything, but I just thought I'd share.

Here it is again.

Love it!