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When it comes to new products, I admit, I’m like a lamb led you know where.
And, if given a blank canvas, forget it.
A fairly new product (out in the past couple of years) that caught my eye was something called magnetic paint, or, actually, magnetic primer.
Now, I’d heard of chalkboard paint, and, yes, I found a place for a chalkboard wall in my house, but if I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t. (Too much dust, and dustless chalk is hard to come by.)
So casing the paint aisles one day in search of what else was new, I came across magnetic primer and dry-erase primer.
Of course, right into the cart both went.
After convincing a handyman side-jobber skilled with the brushes that this was a job for him, I (OK, he … ) put both products to the test.
The dry-erase primer? Eh.
For starters, it didn’t exactly work as advertised, and the door I turned into a message board and promptly wrote on still contains traces of words I can’t wipe off.
But the magnetic primer? I’m a fangirl.
I used it on the walls of a downstairs half-bathroom, which is now the go-to spot for any and all extra photos for which the house just doesn’t have room but I like to look at nonetheless.
If you ask me, the goofier they are, the better, especially if you’re doing a photo wall in, well, a bathroom.
The process can’t be simpler: Print out your digital photos, attach magnetic tape, attach to your now-magnetic wall, and voila!
Bonus points: My magnet wall also has made my refrigerator a lot cleaner, as I now have an extra place for tourist magnets from all over creation.
In fact, now I have a good reason to buy even more!
Cans of magnetic primer, by Rust-Oleum, can be picked up at any big-box home-improvement retailer for under $20