My homemade roll up design wall
 

I had the shelf already. It was in our dining room of our old house, but it didn't fit in the new so I took it for my sewing room. It was wood colored so I painted it (behr embellished blue is the color). I Love the way it looks now. Anyway, I got a cheap roll up shade and some gridded flannel. I glued the flannel to the shade using Aleene's Fabric Fusion. Hint: let it dry well before rolling up the shade. :D Then we mounted the hardware to the inside of the shelf brackets and installed the shade. It rolls down easily. A little touchy going up but I'm getting the hang of it. I had to increase the tension because of the extra weight of the flannel. I've never had a design wall so I have no idea how much I'll use it but I'm happy to have it. I paid about $23 for the roller shade, a dollar or two for the brackets, and about $20 for the flannel (it was a little expensive but I wanted the grid). The width of the shade is about 60".
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And yes I put the flannel on crooked. I had to work in sections. lol. If I was doing it again I would have started at the bottom where it's easier to tell if it's straight.

Excellent idea. I don't have the place for a design wall. Mine is portable. I use the tablecloth flannel backed. Then I use skirt hangers and hang it on my curtain rod at my 6x5 window. Yours is cute and adorable. I still may go out and look for the flannel grid though. At least it's a guide!

Very nice!! Great repurposing of that cute shelf, too. :)

Cute idea!

Where did you find gridded flannel?

Thanks
Nan

Great idea! A good repurposing(is that a word?) and decorating project!

If it works for you, that is what is most important. Love the shelf. I have some shelves without the trim. Hope to get them painted and mounted on the wall this spring.

thanks everyone. :)

I bought it from Nancy's Notions. I saw it at some other sites but I had a free shipping code so in the end, it was cheaper there. I think the per yard price was pretty comparable at all the places I looked at.

Great idea Gale. Love your clothespin thingies too!

Very good re purposing I like it!
peace

I bought those things about 10 yrs ago with big plans and now I can't remember what they are. lol. I figure they look cute on the shelf anyway.

Awesome idea. I will be saving this idea for my future sewing room. Nowhere to put it on cement basement walls right now

I love the colour of the shelf and the whole design of it...great job....is the flannel the Kaffe Fassett stuff...?

it looks terrific

Great idea! Thanks for posting!

I don't think so. I'm not sure who made it though-I saw a name on the selvage but don't remember it now. Here's the link. http://www.nancysnotions.com/product...nnel+fabric.do

I think you will be very surprised and happy with just how handy dandy a design wall is once you begin using it ..great project. :)

Judy in Phx, AZ

thank you for sharing - I love it!

love it!!!

How clever! Looks really neat!

Very nifty idea!

what a cute idea I love the décor on top of that cute shelf especially the clothes pins and the wash tub

That is great! It is attractive and so very clever! Thank you so much for sharing. I need to find somewhere for one of these!

They also sell it by the yard at Mary Jo's Cloth Shop in Gastonia, NC. I believe its in the Notions department.
Just call their 800 #.

Cute shelf, great idea and I know you will love it!!

Very very cute and I love the shelf ..... oh to have a vertical wall to put something like that on!! We have a Cape and all the ceilings in my sewing room are slanted!!

Congratulations on a very neat idea.

Great idea.

That is a totally awesome idea! I like the fact that you are being very practical and decorative, too. You've given me a good idea to try. My other attempts at using flannel-backed tablecloths didn't work out very well. The plastic side wouldn't stick to the double-sided tape I was using, although the tape REALLY stuck to the doors it was on! Thanks for posting this.

Well done!

Pretty. You will find many uses for the new flannel wall.

What a fabulous idea, and my eyesight must be off, as I don't see that it's crooked, but it's probably just me.

You can see the crookedness by the lines on the grid compared to the sides of the roller. It shouldn't matter much. it bugs me a little but I'll get over it. lol

Just too darn cute and great idea................calla

Great idea -just wish I had a place in my sewing room to hang one.

That looks really nice. Great idea!!

that's really neat!! (and I don't mind crooked!!) :-D

Thanks for the great idea! I hadn't thought of using a roller shade!

A great idea. There is a someone who makes these and sells them, but they where like $240 each.