Review on 🎨 Rust-Oleum 206540 Chalkboard Brush-On Paint, Black, 30-Ounce, Pack of 1 by Everald Mendez

Ah, chalkboard paint. Let's see where do I start? *insert insane cackle here* So the other day I had a very brilliant idea to paint an entire wall in my kitchen with this material. Wait, don't judge me just yet—I didn't want to let my kids do this with a bucket full of sidewalk chalk. No, I envisioned a stylish wall full of beautiful holiday menus, cheeky quotes, inspirational poems, and other cute things. I blame Pinterest entirely for this temporary decline in sanity. Armed with Martha Stewart's creative vision and my German Shepherd's DIY skills, I bought two cans of Rustoleum chalkboard paint and some supposedly smooth (hahahahaha) paint rollers. I sealed the edges with tape and started smearing this stuff all over the wall. Two coats and a few hours later, I stood back and admired my new shiny chalkboard finish. I let it "harden" for a few days according to the package instructions and then decided to take it for a test drive. I found a cute chalkboard drawing of a pumpkin via a google image search and tried to reproduce it on my wall. Since I'm not only an artist, but also a pterodactyl (well, not at all, just in case there's any confusion), my pumpkin looked more like a sad, partially deflated beach ball with a wig. Oops, I think I needed some more practice. never mind With the determination of a newborn colt, I grabbed a children's blackboard eraser and happily erased my drawing. EXCEPT THAT IT WAS NOT. The surface was rough and difficult to erase. Now a solid, poorly drawn, sad looking pumpkin was hanging on my kitchen wall. You see nobody tells you when you buy this amazing fancy paint that unless you have used a really thick primer your walls should be sanded down before application to get a smooth painting surface. And that you should probably apply it with a foam roller, not one of those fluffy ones. Since I couldn't just make my wall look like the side of an overpass, I realized I had options: use a paint I'd used elsewhere in my kitchen or try sanding it down. Since I definitely didn't have enough worries with three children, a small business and a lot of housework and obviously don't use all synapses, I decided on the latter. I went back to my favorite hardware store and bought a few packs of sandpaper and some more paint. (Although it's not a mask because it would just make sense and nothing like that happens under my roof!) I came home with a vengeance and attacked that stupid chalkboard wall with this sandpaper. Well, if you've never had to grind a high vertical surface, let me tell you this is probably right next to a water board on my list of amazing life experiences. In fact, being filled with water is probably more interesting. After ingesting enough black dust to develop coal pneumoconiosis and looking like I'd just crawled out of someone's chimney, my wall was nice and smooth. I wiped it down with a damp sponge to remove any remaining dust, then pulled out a new can of chalkboard paint. I began to paint with a new sense of joy and again imagining how beautiful my chalk wall would be one day. it was done. Oh man, that must have been BEAUTIFUL! And then I accidentally knocked over a can of paint and spilled half of it on the edge of the kitchen table and on the floor. Looking back, I think that was probably the moment when I was totally out of touch with reality, but who knows. After cleaning up that huge puddle of thick black paint (soap and dishwater, for all you clumsy folks) I had pretty much lost all interest in decorating that stupid squeaky wall. Actually I hated it. I started splattering paint on the wall the way an animal rights activist would splatter blood red paint on old women in fur coats. Eventually I finished painting. , works perfectly! I mean, I wasted hours of my life and probably sacrificed any chance of long lung life, but hey, now I can write on my wall with CHALK. That's all. (Seriously, the product itself works great. Just make sure you sand down the walls and maybe even use a primer.)