this is Jim I'm gonna talk to you today about a corkboard project that we're making my wife bought a four by eight sheet of Nova cork and half inch laminated cork board I'm so thin layer of cork on some sort of backing my wife thinks it's a good product use it at work seems to be pretty durable we've cut it we had a cup when you bought it to five by four feet that's the size we're gonna put on our wall and I've never done anything like this before so I'm trying to figure out how you get it on the wall and to make it look good so first things first is that our house here is a Greek Revival old colonial lots of wood lots of wood moldings and paneling so I figured when I put it on the wall in our kitchen I'm gonna want some sort of large white kind of colonial style molding and so first things first I went to this store just went to the big-box store I think it was Lowe's and picked up some decided I would make it composite with a standard 1 by 5 pine I just looked it found good boards without nos in it I then got a one and a half inch kind of colonial shoe and then a little quarter-inch shoe to make a piece of composite molding and this is how it came together and I'll show you first I cut the 1 by 5 then I glued the 1 and a half inch molding on top of it and then the key that I've discovered here is that the quarter inch I put a quarter in shoe on the very top like that and clamp it on there it gives me a half inch groove here which I can then use to sit the bottom piece of the panel in there a high B cut edge of the two of them done I'm just dry fitting it you can kind of see how how it works so you can see this panel board falls under this little overlapping piece right here and you miter them all you know and do a good job everything will shape up and and look good so the next step here for us is I got to figure how to get this on the wall and I've never done this before so I'm gonna try gluing it and just making it permanent we want it really tight I'll show you where it's gonna go to the wall so this is a kitchen this is where it's gonna go we're gonna put it right across from our island it's kind of cluttered right now so this is how we did it or this how I'm going to do it I've never hung a panel before like this I I'm gonna just glue it on permanently so what I did is I just screwed on a 1 by 5 which is the same width of the pan of the molding exactly where it's gonna go we're gonna bring just the board over rested on this ledge and slowly press it into place and hold it there and use rolling pins and other things to try to get it smooth and and try to get it secure okay here we are with the board being glued on the wall I would really strongly recommend you plan this next time since I've never done this before it really was hard to not come out the way I thought we put two tubes of glue on this panel glue we thought we would just rest it on the bottom board and push it up and it would be tacky enough to hold it there and that we could press it down and just kind of have it stick there and and just be there but it didn't work out that way the glue is not tacky enough the board was just falling off and worse the wall is kind of bumpy it wasn't straight and so the edges of the board were peeling off and the way we designed our trim it needs to be solidly adhered to this so we had to run around with like chickens with our heads cut off we had to create some sort of press down rig which is what you see here and what I did is I screwed quickly two pieces of wood across the studs that extend beyond the boards both top and bottom that press down the edges here and here and then we just started running around and grabbing things I added another couple pieces on top and then we added started running around and just pressing things shoes and magazines crocs are babies Crocs anything we could find that would press the edges of the board down so we wanted these edges to be nice and tight as you can see here then I put a couple pieces of shim in the middle underneath the board I put in some other scrap lumber I had and then I ran to the basement got a two by six cut it quickly and used it as a brace to wedge in and press the center of the board down so now I think it's fairly tight we're gonna let this dry for a few hours before we put the trim on it so next time if I was doing this again I would certainly plan this better it looks like we're done the project it was a little challenging to get the trim on because the wall wasn't level or plumb and so I had to put some screws in there and tighten it down but it came together it looks nice you can see how it looks like in our kitchen the white trim matches all the wooden trim we have this is a very old colonial house so I'll give you a little detail you can see how the molding came together the little overlap seems to work nice and that's it so I'm happy with the project one last view signing off