I turned a covered fuse box in my kitchen......

into something useable. This is the before. Not ugly but rather pointless. 

First I sanded it and wiped the sanding dust off real good.

Then I painted it with chalkboard paint. First across like you see in this picture. Then I let it dry for 4hrs as the paint can said. Then i did another coat up and down and let that dry for a few days.
(There's not much space here to take pictures so that's why I had to angle it.)

 And now it looks like this. I rubbed white chalk all over it to season it like they say and then wiped it off with a dry rag. I found Crayola has some great colorful sidewalk chalks to use. I wanted to get some Chalk Ink pens but they are very expensive.....almost $4 a piece. I have one or two but wanted more color. 

So this will be my grocery list. I figure I can use the colorful chalk to draw cute borders across the top to match the holidays and such. Since its summer..........I drew the beach.........with a sign telling you which way it is. My bf thought this was such a cute idea. 

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