I was thrilled to share my Craft Room Pegboard with you–and it turns out y’all loved it too! So today I’m going to share the tutorial with you, although I have to say it’s not very difficult! But I know it’s sometimes just easier to have someone spell it out for you, so here are all the nitty gritty details. I also apologize that there are not pictures of every step–I was so excited I just worked and forgot to take pics!
For this Project, you will need:
- 1 White Pegboard, cut to 6×4 feet (or whatever size you want it to be.)
- 4 Pieces of Crown Molding, flat on back, to about 8 inches longer than each side so you can miter the ends
- Miter Saw
- Paint in your color choice for frame
- Gorilla Glue or Wood glue
- Short finish nails or staple gun
- Caulking
- 2 Pieces of scrap wood, at least 2/3rd the length of your board and 1/2″ thick
- Long screws
You can find white pegboards at home improvement stores, they cost about $17 for a big 8×4″ sheet. You can also have them cut it for you. Shove it in your van along with the crown molding and drive home, anxious to start your new project.
To miter the corners, just lay your molding out on top of the pegboard and mark the intersection of where the molding meets. Then using a miter saw (we just used the hand saw miter box kind–they are super cheap) cut the ends to be at the correct angle. You should be able to get pretty close to them lining up, but don’t worry if it’s not perfect–that’s what the caulking is for.
Paint the crown molding in your color. I used Martha Stewart metallic paint and then glazed it with black glaze. This gives it an old vintage frame look. I was tempted to leave it white like everything else I do but I wanted some metallic accents in my craft space. I love how it turned out! Glaze is super easy to do–just paint it on, making sure it gets in the cracks really well, and then wipe it off. And yes, I paint multiple projects at once.
Once your molding is dry, line it up on your pegboard so it all lines up. Then use the Gorilla Glue to glue it in place. Do this over a dropcloth or somewhere you don’t care glue gets because it will seep through the holes in the pegboard. I put a bunch of heavy books on top to help them hold in place. Once that’s dry, flip it over and either nail in the finish nails (in a spot they won’t show through) or shoot staples through it so it’s all secured.
After your frame is secured to the pegboard, use the caulking to fill in the cracks of the mitered corners. Shoot the puff out and then make sure to wipe away the extra before it dries (I might have waited a little long to discover this and spend some serious time scraping away the excess.) You can touch it up with some paint if you need–this was easy for me because I just used the glaze to darken the white caulking. This might seem like an obnoxious step but I feel like it was worth it to make the frame look professional and finished. (The picture is before I touched it up!)
The pegboard itself is now ready, but here’s the big question–how do you hang this beast up? This wouldn’t be an issue for a small pegboard, since you could arrange the hooks on beforehand and then hang it flush to the wall. But this board is HEAVY and trying to get all that hardware up on it and not fall out would be a nightmare. Plus I wanted the freedom to rearrange the hooks as I pleased. This meant we would need at least a 1/4″ gap between the board and the wall for the board.
This is where the scrap wood comes in handy. I bought the super cheap CULL wood at Home Depot (it’s in the back by the saws and usually spray painted neon). I didn’t take a picture of the wood on the wall (dang it!) so I just used my photoshop skills to show you basically what we did.
My husband found the studs in the wall with a studfinder and then screwed the wood straight into them, one on top and one on bottom. Then we held the board up and he screwed the board right into the scrap wood. Now it’s very secure and I can move the hardware as I please. Plus since we are renters, this didn’t require us to but in one of those ultra-heavy duty screws that leave a quarter-size hole in the wall.
For the pegs, I bought two of the pegboard kits at Home Depot–two because there were certain pegs I wanted. I used large hooks for my wrapping paper dowels to sit on. For the vinyl organizer, I drilled holes in the frame about 2.5 inches apart and used screw in hooks for my dowels to slide into.
I bought the bucket set at IKEA. It was a little pricey so I recommend getting those $1 buckets at Target if you’re trying to do it inexpensively. But I was really in love with the look so I splurged on it. It’s in the kitchen section. And I had to attach this one before we attached the board to the wall because you have to screw it in from behind.
For the rest of the details on the other items, read the Extra Large Organizational Pegboard post.
Finally, I had a small area of space leftover after filling everything up and decided to put a framed quote up that I designed in Photoshop. Here’s the file if you’d like it for your own craft room!
This project was fun and very rewarding. I highly recommend making yourself a HUGE pegboard–it’s SO helpful for organization!
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Your pegboard is amazing. I can’t believe how many things you were able to store on it. So practical, but beautiful too!
I cannot wait to make this! We just moved into our new house this week and I have a whole room for my crafts and I am beyond excited.
Yay for a new craft room! I’m jealous, I wish I had a whole room to myself. Someday!
Your board looks fantastic, Heidi! What do you use all that vinyl for?
Haha I actually don’t use vinyl that much which is why I HAVE so much. I went through this phase where I thought I would use it a ton so I ordered a ton. But now I mainly use it for stencils on small signs.
Thanks so much for sharing this, I was thinking of doing something like this, but not sure how…..and you have done it SO artistically! I am gonna do this.
Also, so sorry to hear about your terrible day, how scary and exhausting!! I will keep your baby and family in my prayers, I know what it is like to have your kids sick…. you feel so helpless! Add the snow, and that is crazy. Take care of yourself, you will get through it.
xoxo
Pam
Thanks Pam! I hope you can make one for yourself, they are awesome! And thanks for your sweet words.
I love this idea but I’m pretty lazy so I would probably go to my local thrift store or salvation army and get a big frame or 2 or 3 smaller frames and use them to “frame” the peg board. It would be easier and would also give me a chance to be creative in frame choices.
Thanks so much for posting this with all the specifics and commentary. I need an extra large pegboard but I hate the look of it just plain on a wall –too utilitarian. But your framed look makes it both attractive and utititararian and should (theoretically) keep everything off my work table!
It has worked great to help me get organized! But I have to admit–I have WAY more stuff than fits on this pegboard and it’s still all over the table.
I just found this project today because Scrapbooking 24/7 shared it on Facebook. What a fabulous project.
I had a large UNPAINTED, unframed pegboard in my old craft room. It was not nearly so nice to look at as yours, and I never thought to use it with such versatility. I don’t have time for a new project, but I might have to MAKE time for this one; my craft room is a mess!
Thank you for sharing the idea and the tutorial.
Thanks for stopping by to read it! I hope you can make a craft pegboard too–this has been a HUGE help to me!
Hi, I have just came across this Amazing post and can i just say that you did a great job. I am just in the process of organizing my craft area and have been looking at ways in which to store my thread, and am so pleased i came across this, i am off to attempt this project hopefully this weekend. I am just wondering how did you make the thread storage bit? I am a newbie to DIY so would really appreciate to know how you did it.
Thank you.
I actually didn’t make the thread storage–they sell these at fabric stores! I got this at Joanns.