Office Project: Inspiration Board

As promised, here are some photos from our inspiration board project for the office.  It was a fun project to work on with Brian and I really like the way it's turning out. 

Disclaimer: The bright red walls in the office are going to go soon(ish).  I'm thinking a gray color for the walls, or maybe a green.  Not sure, all I know is the red is a little too...boom. 

Also, you'll see that our board is not filled up yet.  We're working on it :-)

Oh and if you can't tell by now, we treat our dog like a child. 

A shot of the bookshelf we got from IKEA.
 

So here's what you need to know to replicate:
- 3 2'x3' bulletin boards
- 2.5 yards duck canvas
- 6 packages 3/8'' dritz decorative nails
- Hot glue gun
- Screws
- Staple gun
- Fabric adhesive (not necessary, but nice to have)

In order to save money (because large bulletin boards are expensive) we bought three boards and screwed them/glued them together.  Each of the three boards had a wood trim, so Brian took the trim off of all three boards that would be on the main part of the big board.  He then used that trim to brace all three boards together.  Sounds confusing, but if anyone is interested, we can give further instructions (you can also see in-progress shots here).  Then we hot glued the sucker everywhere to stabilize.

After the boards were joined, we used a fabric adhesive to keep the fabric sturdy while we stapled the fabric to the back.  After all was tight and stapled, we put the decorative nails in.  We just used my pinkie finger to measure between the nails, and because there was a frame on the board, it was easy to keep them pretty straight.