in inspiration for it daily.

Sounds like a quick little step right?This probably took the longest of anything, but was totally necessary.

I had a couple of good non-disposable angled brushes on hand that I switched out and cleaned up if they started to seem like the paint was drying on them too much.I’ll share my super-easy paint brush cleaning technique with you next week.Oh, you just wait!.

I saved a good 5 minutes per coat with a little technique I called the “beadboard rule of thirds”.At least that’s what I called it to myself in my head while I was doing it.

I basically only painted one third of each board at a time, rather than trying to make the paint on my brush spread out over as much of the board as possible, I just filled my brush, put a few dabs down the center on just 1/3 of the board, used what was left on the brush to do the edges and then came back to the center.

And repeat for the remaining 2 sections of the board.. OK, you think I’m a little nuts right now for telling you all that.I did two coats and let them dry about 2-3 minutes between coats.

I always hear people say that you need to put a crazy amount like 8 coats on when you do chalkboards, or that you need to let it sit for 24 hours before you touch it, but I’ve only ever done 2 coats and have always just barely let it dry, even on glass, and my chalkboards always turn out perfectly.So if you want to take the impatient route like I do, I say go ahead!.

Next, I “seasoned” them by rubbing some chalk all over them and then wiping it off.. Time to see how they look!I used some thumb tacks to attach them to the fronts of the baskets.