Online Inspiration: Ironing Board Holder

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Please tell me I'm not the ONLY one who feels this way about laundry!?

bleeek!

So, now that I've gotten a handle on the laundry room, I wanted to actually GET the supplies that go in there. LOL.

Yes... I didn't have an iorn, till about 2 weeks ago. haha. Don't judge.

(if you're wondering how I got along... let's just say that a large towel on the kitchen island works WONDERS!)

K... so I was out to find an ironing board... easy peezy right?

WRONG. I was DYING... have you LOOKED for a cute ironing board lately? Almost impossible.

I snagged up the $18 board complete with ugly cover at Walmart and thought... that...that was that.

I was a little peeved that I had spent ALL this time on a "cute" laundry room, and now I was gonna hang up an ugly huge ironing board... WITH a massive ironing board holder that stuck out about 6 inches from the wall!?!?

Uhhhh... no.

I was on the hunt. I looked a couple of places for a great ironing board cover, and almost gave up. And then... I went into to Tuesday Morning. It was my first time in their stores, and I was IMPRESSED! They have some AWESOME stuff at amazing deals!

I found this beauty of a cover, for under $9!!! woo hoo!

Problem solved.

Almost...

Now, I had the "how to hang it problem"

I don't think that this option is bad, by any means...

And by the way, the one at MY Walmart, wasn't even THIS good....

but I just didn't want all the "stuff" out. I'm pretty OCD like that. lol. I wanted it to look... like part of the decor, and less like... a laundry room.

I know, I know. It's weird.

So here's how I did it.

Oh... you want a tutorial...... Mmmkay!

First I got a piece of scrap board that we had left over from another project that we didHERE.

Painted it white...

Sanded the edges... and because I was bein' lazy, and didn't want to pull out the whole glaze mess... just to do this itty bitty board's edges, to get a distressed look, I whipped out the Distress Ink, that I use to make cards and such. lol.

It TOTALLY works. And is SO easy!

Just ran the ink pad on the edges, where I exposed the sanded wood, smugged it with my thumb a bit, and wa-la! Glazed look, without the pain of mixing glaze!