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We tore out the old one added insulation and then painted and hung real beadboard up strip by strip.

If you’d like to make your own, all you need is a cheap bag of plastic eggs and a bag of craft moss.You can usually find each of these at the dollar store and you’ll probably be able to make several topiaries with these supplies..

So, you start out with some basic plastic eggs.Grab your hot glue gun and start gluing them together.You’ll want to make a ring of about 4 eggs on the bottom and then start building up from there.

I like to make sure they look a little random.It’s really quick and easy to get a nice shape and you really don’t need to shell out the $10-$15 that those foam forms can sometimes cost.. Next, you’ll need to paint it!

To get this natural look, I used some antique white craft paint.

Once that was dry, I took some watered-down brown paint and used my brush to kind of flick the watery paint at the eggs.For Chris this meant a pretentious local craft beer too, of course.

Also a nail gun, air compressor, jigsaw, router, three saw horses, glue, a mitre saw, and a table saw..He started out by cutting a piece of 1/4″ MDF to the size that he wanted to chalkboard to be..

He also cut a  basic frame for the thin MDF out of some 1×4 MDF boards with a routed out inside edge for the thin MDF to sit in.. Because another decorative frame made from molding would be mitred right on top of this stronger structural frame, he made the joint a little fancy to make the whole thing have more structural integrity.. I’m pretty sure he must have invented this joint, but it does the trick!From the side, it looks like a regular mitre, but it’s got the extra little right angled bit that adds extra strength..