{"id":2176,"date":"2011-11-21T18:27:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T18:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2011-11-30T00:20:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T00:20:28","slug":"2-standing-chalk-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"$2 Standing Chalk Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have been wanting a chalk board for outside my house to write\u00a0different\u00a0fun things on. \u00a0Like those chalk boards you see outside of\u00a0restaurants\u00a0with the daily\u00a0specials. \u00a0I looked them up online and they cost around $189 buck-a-roos! Crazy! I\u00a0recently\u00a0discovered a place called Re-Store in Orem, Ut. \u00a0It is for Habitat for Humanity. \u00a0You can drop off old cabinets, doors, paint, any building materials. \u00a0They use some of it and the public can come in to buy it too. \u00a0It&#8217;s like a thrift store for building materials. \u00a0I love it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I bought these two lovely old cabinet doors there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0572.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2177\" title=\"IMG_0572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I painted them two different colors, to get more use out of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0573.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2178\" title=\"IMG_0573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I tapped of the inside and painted on some chalk board paint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0583.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2179\" title=\"IMG_0583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After that was dry, I turned them over and screwed in some regular door hinges to the tops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0584.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2180\" title=\"IMG_0584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0584.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I probably should have painted the backs too, but I am too lazy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2181\" title=\"IMG_0585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These are the top of the cabinets now attached together. (turned sideways)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0603.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2185\" title=\"IMG_0603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Done! Easy as pumpkin pie! \u00a0Took me only a few hours, mostly waiting for paint to dry, but was fast and easy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And, because I had the hinges and the paint it only cost me the $2 dollars for the doors. \u00a0Sweet! \u00a0I LOVE projects like these!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now I can use it all the time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0605.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2187\" title=\"IMG_0605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0605.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0604.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2186\" title=\"IMG_0604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0604.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0590.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2183\" title=\"IMG_0590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0589.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2182\" title=\"IMG_0589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0586.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2188\" title=\"IMG_0586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0586.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0602.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2184\" title=\"IMG_0602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0602.jpg 587w, https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0602-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/badself-button1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1982\" title=\"badself button\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/badself-button1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been wanting a chalk board for outside my house to write\u00a0different\u00a0fun things on. \u00a0Like those chalk boards you see outside of\u00a0restaurants\u00a0with the daily\u00a0specials. \u00a0I looked them up online and they cost around $189 buck-a-roos! Crazy! I\u00a0recently\u00a0discovered a place called Re-Store in Orem, Ut. \u00a0It is for Habitat for Humanity. \u00a0You can drop off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,42,30,5,13,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-crafts","category-decorating","category-featured-content","category-holidays","category-home-and-garden","category-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnspin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}