Source: greenlight for girls – Delicious red apples on desk with blackboard
Blackboard, Chalkboard, introduced into the United States education system in 1801, the term “blackboard” dates from around 1815 to 1825 and the term chalkboard is used mainly in the United States and dates from 1935 to 1940. A blackboard or chalkboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of chalk. Some sources credit James Pillans, headmaster of the Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland with inventing the chalkboard. Some others trace back its invention to Reverend Samuel Reed Hall and credit him with being the first to paint pine boards black.
Seriously, Scrabble Chalkboard and even a Calendar ChalkBoard, nice!
Source: Pinch Design – Chalkboard Calendar
Scrabble Chalkboard at CanadaListed.Com
LIz Gray in Creative Ways to Take the Chalkboard out of the Classroom offers ways to add the Chalkboard in our decor. The article highlights designs used on doors, fireplaces and headboards to mention a few. I also did some searching of my own. Are you as curious as I am to find out other ways the chalkboard features outside the classroom? well lets see what else is out there.
Source: Crate and Barrel – Chalkboard Clamp Canisters
Source: RealSimple.com – Chalkboard Dish Shelves
- Source: Pottery Barn.com – Modular Chalkboard Tiles
Source danatanamachi.com – Nagging Doubt Viognier bottles
I could totally use the chalkboard calendar and runner! The runner would go great with the wine parties we host and all the food to be paired with wines! Great ideas!
Enlightening. Interesting to see the various ways a blackboard can be employed.
I love the use of the chalk concept on the crate and barrel canisters. I am assuming the labels are erasable so you can reuse the canisters for different things at different times
I agree and more so in this green economy – where the focus is on reducing waste, recycling and other cost-efficient ways of optimizing use of our limited resources. With the erasable chalkboard labels, all it takes is to empty the container erase and relabel- simple, clean and quick.
Particularly love the visuals on this chalkboard piece – simply fascinating