If you're like me, you hate seeing that attic access door taking up perfectly good space on the bedroom wall. The answer?
Our ugly attic access door became a great ribbon board to hold the dozens of cards that came in after my daughter's birth!
I wish I'd taken a better before picture of the door (you can just see it to the left), but you can see my husband pulling green and gold striped carpeting (that's right, carpeting) off the wall, so I'm sure you can imagine that it wasn't pretty.
The wood underneath the carpeting turned out to be barely a step up from plywood, so it was replace the door or re-purpose it.
My daughter's nursery is decorated in a patchwork of many different cotton quilting prints. The door is 2ftx4ft, so I sewed together large blocks of fabric diagonally to make the center piece of the cover. I pinned the ribbon in place over the center piece and then sewed the darker border over the ribbon so that it was sewed into the actual cover and the entire piece was flat.
If your door fits snuggly as it is, you may need to sand it down to make room for the fabric around the edges. Our door was loose enough that we didn't need to do any sanding.
After I removed the hinges and doorknob and put them aside, I sprayed the front of the door with adhesive and laid down three layers of quilt bunting. With the cover face down on the floor, we laid the door on top, bunting down. Being careful to keep the door centered (easier with a friend), put one staple in the middle of each edge, folding the fabric edges under to hide the rough edge. Tuck the corners as neatly as possible and put one staple in each side of each corner. Add addition staples as needed. I'm of the opinion that you can never have too many staples. Make sure to pull the fabric tight!
Flip the door over. In each place where the ribbons intersect, put a loose staple. I covered my own buttons to match my fabric, but any buttons will work. Tie the buttons to the loose staples with dental floss.
Replace the hardware on the door and enjoy!
I wish I'd taken a better before picture of the door (you can just see it to the left), but you can see my husband pulling green and gold striped carpeting (that's right, carpeting) off the wall, so I'm sure you can imagine that it wasn't pretty.
My daughter's nursery is decorated in a patchwork of many different cotton quilting prints. The door is 2ftx4ft, so I sewed together large blocks of fabric diagonally to make the center piece of the cover. I pinned the ribbon in place over the center piece and then sewed the darker border over the ribbon so that it was sewed into the actual cover and the entire piece was flat.
After I removed the hinges and doorknob and put them aside, I sprayed the front of the door with adhesive and laid down three layers of quilt bunting. With the cover face down on the floor, we laid the door on top, bunting down. Being careful to keep the door centered (easier with a friend), put one staple in the middle of each edge, folding the fabric edges under to hide the rough edge. Tuck the corners as neatly as possible and put one staple in each side of each corner. Add addition staples as needed. I'm of the opinion that you can never have too many staples. Make sure to pull the fabric tight!
Flip the door over. In each place where the ribbons intersect, put a loose staple. I covered my own buttons to match my fabric, but any buttons will work. Tie the buttons to the loose staples with dental floss.
Replace the hardware on the door and enjoy!
