Cork Board Tetris.

My best friend Miranda requested the kitchen be up next for our photo house tour. That meant I needed to get to work putting up the kitchen wall decor I had been avoiding as it sat dormant in the second bedroom (more like cave, less like bedroom) .

When waiting to make a return at Ikea one day, back in the land of Burbank, I was sitting thumbing through the catalogue, when BAM!, cork boards in the kitchen. I loved how the 6 Ikea boards all put together created a solution to massive wall space. And, very very affordable with the potential for the boards to be painted. At our home in Denver, the wall we share with our neighbors spans from front door to back door (we live in a duplex). The wall is pretty large. Breaking it up was a thoughtful process, and again, because I didn't want to purchase anything new, or more than $10, I made due with what I already had...the cork! 

At our last place, the boards served as a place for papers to be pinned. It was a makeshift gallery, with the potential for anything to be switched around. 

I kept the gallery going in the kitchen, but will be keeping my thinker open for new things to pin. (Hey, its like a real live Pinterest, although I don't see myself pinning delicious foods and outfits in my kitchen...but maybe.) Pinned are tiny postcards of art from our travels, a page from an old book of Degas' ballerinas, polaroids, playing rules to Monopoly circa 1930s found at my grandparents, and a small quilt my grandmother made. I like that the neutral tones combined with the red and green from the quilt and the sky blue in the polaroids tie into my kitchen colors. The papers that are pinned also have a worn in feel, which I think balances the bland new cork boards that canvas them. What are your large wall solutions? What would you pin on a cork board?