What can I say, I like to work with salvaged materials. They always have character and the price is right.
Recently, I got some old slate chalkboard from a friend. Perfect for my toddler's first writing material, but the wrong size for where I needed it to go.
Here's a video to show you what I did about it:
Salvaging materials keeps them out of land-fills and makes the best use of the "embodied energy" of that material.
See more over at my home projects blog:
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