#Our Handmade Home: Our Kitchen Blackboard Door

Our Kitchen Blackboard Door

When we began designing our new home (oh so many moons ago) we had written on our wish list for the kitchen 'a blackboard door' and we love how it works for us.

The door is between our Kitchen and our Utility room. It is a sliding 'pocket' door (meaning that it slides neatly into the wall), it is an amazing space saver and makes the room more flexible than if it was a normal opening door.

All it took was a couple of coats of blackboard paint and it brightens up the whole kitchen. yes. despite the fact that it is black.

It changes all the time, depending who is feeling in an artistic mood. Just now it is our 'Kitchen Cafe Menu' and we take turns writing up what we are eating for meals.

We also use our Blackboard door for:

• Shopping lists
• Memos
• To do lists
• School work
• Motivational messages

I like the old-skool style of our blackboard - we use normal chalk sticks to write on it. (top tip - dampen the chalk tip before writing, it makes for a bolder colour)

I'd love to try chalk pens but I've heard they don't readily wipe off and need painted over? If you know differently please let me know.