Build your own green bulletin board

In the past couple weeks I’ve been hard at work on the home office. It’s just about done and today we put up an artistic and productive creation — a green bulletin board!

It’s made of homasote, a construction material made of compressed recycled paper. It’s also used in walls and underneath floors to dampen sound. I covered the board in some cool graphical Marimekko fabric I picked up at the CB2 outlet on Inwood.

Homasote is tough to find. There’s only one place I found in the Dallas area I found that carries it in stock — Ivey lumber on Plano Road at 635. I had them cut it into a 4 ft. by 6 ft. piece. It comes in sheets of 4 ft. by 8 ft., just like plywood and sheet rock.

I used a staple gun to affix the fabric to the backside of the board. It’s sort of heavy, so I screwed it directly into wall studs in four places, using aluminum finishing washers on the facing side so it would look nice.