Whitney's Tin Magnet Board

Hey Guys!! Fun project for you!!  I must first tell you where I got my inspiration for this project.  If you have not been by to see Kim at Twice Remembered you must go check her out.  She has a beautiful blog with lots of fun pictures.  While looking through her pictures one day, I saw her island covered in cute magnets... I fell in love! I had to have one of my own!! Only problem... I have no island.  I decided to use the space below my serving bar in my kitchen to make my magnet board.  I also decided to make it a piece that I can take off the wall in case I decide to move it around.  Here's what I did:)

I was lucky enough to find a 2' x 4' piece of raw pressed tin in Canton a couple of weeks ago.  I bought it for $20.  You can buy this stuff online though. 

I started by painting the tin with Rustoleum American Accents Heirloom White spray paint.  I used about two coats to get a good even finish...

I purchased two 8' pieces of 3" pine from Lowe's.

I cut my boards using my hand saw.  I cut my top and bottom pieces 4" longer than the tin and my 3 middle pieces 2" shorter than the tin... two boards were 52" and three were 22".  You do not need a power saw to cut this stuff.  It took me less than 5 minutes, the saw only costs $12 and it was a bit of an arm workout:)

Now to attach everything... I used my trusty Gorilla wood glue to attach the edges together.

And then used L-brackets to secure all my corners...

After you finished this part it will look like this...

I just used glue without the L brackets for my middle piece and let everything dry good.  I wasn't too concerned about how pretty everything looked because I knew I would be distressing and adding glaze.

My next step was to paint the wood with the same paint and let it dry.

I then used my 3M block sander with 80 grit paper to distress my edges.

When I was finished it looked like this...

Then I took some Minwax Dark Walnut stain to all the raw edges just to make them stand out...

My next step was to attach the tin to the wood. I used small finishing nails and my pink hammer to put a nail every 6" where the pattern repeated...

When I was finished it looked like this...

Can you guess my next step;)

Ralph Lauren Smoke Glaze.... Just paint it on and wipe it off...

It looked like this when I got it all rubbed in...

Here's a picture of the whole thing...

I knew I wanted to add a little something so I found this iron scrolly at Hobby Lobby for $3.

I attached it to the top using wood screws.

To cover up my ugly silver screws I cut the nails of two furniture nail heads and super glued them on top of the screws...

I was all finished at this point... I just added a D-ring to each side of the back.  I measured for the wholes in my wall and hung it up.  I LOVE it:)!!

I will be making some fun magnets for it and will share that in one of my next posts. What do you think??

As you can see... I finished my magnets!! To see a tutorial on these cuties just click HERE!

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I will also be linking up at Kimba's DIY Day over at A Soft Place to Land!!