And because that shelf-set came with four shelves, I still have one to add, if I should need it.. Next to the PC for example ^^.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39337548@N04/sets/72157619571052236/

Yours might be a cheaper solution, cuz that magnet paint ain’t cheap.

OTOH, PIX!!! I want to see what you’re talking about!

Okay, well, I got the idea of a wall of steel sheeting from a pic I saw of a beader’s studio, where she had the little round containers with clear tops, and just stuck them to her walls. Well, I thought I had it bookmarked somewhere, but now I can’t find it.

In my search, I found magnetic paint. I’ve known this existed for a while, but none of the brands seemed to have a decent reputation for strength, and I didn’t think you could paint over it and retain the magnetization, but then I found this and one review said to use these, so I think that’s what I’m going to do.

Now I’m wondering how many coats of Whipped Apricot I’ll have to use, or if I should get a darker color to get nice coverage of the dark gray.

I’ll do one wall and see how I like it. If it works, I’ll do both walls of my office and the support pole.

I still want pix of yours, though!

I bought a cheap iron/steel shelf system (they sold three shelves together, basically a flat sheet that is bent around to form four edges) that lets you buy the shelves separately from the parts that hold the shelves together – those shelves already had holes around the edges to slot into the bearing parts. I then bought some long rectangular blocks of wood that I got cut to size at the building supplies store where I found those shelves, too. So for the magnet board near the entrance I have the longer side up and two longer pieces of wood, and for the two huge boards next to each other in my office directly over my desk I have the shorter side up and shorter blooks of wood.

Now I could have bought the shelves in a metal colour or I could have bought metallic colour afterwards, but the steel look was fine to me.

I screwed the two of the holes on each side to the blocks of wood, then made two holes right through the front of the wood for longer screws, which would be prescrewed into the walls. After that I painted the wood in my wall colour, because I still had some left.

Then I went on Etsy and bought some beautifuly chiyogami paper magnets like these ones Migration. A Trio …. Or just used any old magnets I still had around ^^.

The shelves sort of stick out about 5 centimetres from the wall, so I also put small paintings or bits and pieces on top of the magnet board.

I’ve seen some of your pushpins *want*

I think.

It’s Valspar’s “Whipped Apricot,” although I’m going to get little sample cans of a whole bunch of things, paint some foamcore, stick it up on the walls, and see what I like.