Fabric Covered Memo Boards

You’ve decided to seek out a memo board that shouts out your personality and proclaims your style.  There’s no better way to accomplish this than with fabric covered memo boards!  These boards can be designed to suit literally any room of the house.  They’ll fit into any space that’s available.

Looking in the stores close to your home or online, you’ll find a variety of fabric covered memo boards.  But nothing is more fun than making your own because it reflects your own taste and coordinates with your surroundings.  So visit your online or neighborhood store to buy the materials you need, and get started!

First let’s talk about the kinds of fabric you can choose.  There’s something to reflect just about any theme.  There are fabrics patterned with sports teams’ logos. There are fabrics patterned with bright flowers and happy frogs.  Maybe you just want a floral fabric, or something neutral and satiny.

What if you want to add stylish fabric covered memo boards to your rooms to accent your decorating efforts?  If you are selecting new curtains, buy an extra panel.  Use this panel as the fabric that you wrap around your memo board.  Whether it’s a panel of sumptuous damask for your living room or a Spiderman panel for your son’s bedroom, this ensures your board will match the drapes or curtains perfectly!  It works wonderfully whether you use this idea in the kitchen, living room, den, or bedroom.

If you’re getting your furniture reupholstered, buy a little extra fabric for a matching board.  This is another way to coordinate fabric covered memo boards with the individual rooms where you put them.  An interesting alternative for the office or living room is vinyl or so-called pleather in a neutral shade.

Don’t be afraid to get creative!  For a bedroom, buy a set of fairy wings at the local party store-or choose angel or demon wings.  Cut a piece of cork into an oval that will cover the center between the wings.  Buy enough matching sheer fabric to cover the cork.  Spray it with adhesive spray from the craft store, and smooth the fabric over the cork so that there are no wrinkles.  Then you can affix the cork into the center between the wings.  You can design this for either a boy or girl, a young child or a teen, depending on the wings and trim you choose.

Some people like to make fabric covered memo boards with a porous board to cover, a layer of low loft batting to cushion it, and then the fabric covering.   Others leave out the batting as long as the board itself is soft enough to receive a pushpin.  You can use the adhesive spray to fasten the fabric, as we mentioned above.  Or you can stretch the fabric over the board, flip the board over, and staple the fabric in place using an opened-up office stapler.  Just tuck the ends as you staple.

Once you’ve made your fabric memo board, you’ll need decorative pushpins to fasten your photos and notes.  Or you can dress it up with ribbons arranged like latticework; the ribbon intersections hold the notes.

At each intersection of ribbon, you must place a pin of some type.  You can buy a package of rosettes and simply use straight pins to hold them in.  There are also colorful, spherical pushpins, metallic tacks, brads, and pushpins designed with just about any pattern you can imagine.  Any of these fabric covered memo boards will dress up a room, and you can get your whole family involved in the project.

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