Ironing Board Dilemma – Solved!

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about my Ironing Board Quandary. I was looking for a way to finish it off that would go well in our Guest/Game/Craft room.   Well, I figured it out and it looks great!  Thanks to everyone who left a helpful comment or gave me advice as to what to do with this oak wall mounted ironing board.    What did I decide to do you ask?  Mod Podge! 

Remember the before?  Plain unfinished oak.

Here’s a peek at the after.

I started by painting the frame with my favorite black, Behr’s Black Suede.  Then, I put a coat of Minwax Wipe On Poly on the whole thing. 


I printed out some gorgeous vintage maps from The Graphics Fairy.   Karen of The Graphics Fairy offers beautiful, free vintage clip art images.  Go check her out!  I arranged them on the center of the door panel and Mod Podged them on.

These were pretty large images, so I used a brayer to roll out all of the air bubbles.  When it was dry, I put a coat of Mod Podge over the whole thing.

It looks amazing hung next to our large National Geographic Map. 



You really can’t tell that it’s an ironing board when you look at it.

But, I swear it really is!

Who says ironing is an ugly job?

I’m participating in the Mod Podge Challenge over at
 
and I’ll be linking up to the following great blogs:  The Girl Creative, Between Naps on the Porch and Today’s Creative Blog.

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