Cleaning: Art Board

Been getting into the whole spring cleaning. Going slow and mostly getting one thing done a day or so. That way I get to really focus on what I'm doing and get a deeper clean. Lots of areas still to clean up i get stressed easily if i take on too much.

My very start was cleaning up my daughter's art board. It wasn't really that bad but she had drawn on the wood and i had been wanting to clean it up for some time now. The other side of it is a chalk board which was mostly just chalk dirty.

It didn't take long getting this cleaned up because of using a magic eraser. Well an off brand one that was from the Dollar Tree. Cheap, works, and saves even more when you cut them in half before using them. This is what i used.

I'm glad it worked well enough on the marker, because of the groves in the wood, some spots were left but were a lot more faded. The board started like this.

Then after some scrubbing, it got all clean!

Even got some of the marker off of the tray.

I spaced on taking a picture of the before on the chalkboard side. I'm always surprised how dirty chalkboards get though is why they are so hard in getting back to black without deep cleaning. Even my drying the board was still picking up chalk.

Possibly could of gotten it a little more clean but it was cleaned up enough for me. It looked black and got the wood wiped up. Looked much better.

It wasn't too long after i got it cleaned that my daughter decided to draw with chalk.

Even with it being random scribbles, it looks better on a clean board than it did before i cleaned it.

Once I can get around to making up more of my set chore list of when to get things done, I'll probably add deep cleaning this to it. At some point i would like to paint the wood to give it a fresh clean look, just not sure on the color.