How to make a DIY decorative wine cork wall around a dart board.
We had a TON of wine corks sitting around that I've collected for years. I didn't know exactly what I was going to do with them, but I knew I'd come up with something eventually.
I've shared some fun DIY wine cork projects before, but this is by far my favorite. The process for this DIY wine cork wall is very simple, but definitely time consuming!
I laugh when I think about how I purchased a bag of corks online nearly 15 years ago (before my wine-loving days) for a craft project! Now we have plenty. 🙂 I've saved them from wine nights, special dinners or fun trips over the years.
I love the look of a cork wall, but then discovered one installed around a dart board and thought that was such a smart way to use up the corks and protect our walls.
Of course this cork project would make for a great accent wall on its own as well!
We've had our dart board for YEARS and I just got to hanging it up a few months ago. This was one of my last to-do's for our basement kitchenette and bar I've been working on for the past couple of years.
1. Make your frame on the wall
The dart board was such a pain to hang (I lost the instructions), so I didn't want to remove it. The middle of the dart board had to be hung at specifically five feet, eight inches off the ground, so I was working around that.
Since I wanted the wine corks to butt up against something, I found a decorative trim that had a thin and thick side.
I flipped it so the thicker side was on the inside (usually this would go the opposite way if you were installing box/picture frame trim on the walls):
I made sure the top matched up with the door frame. It's just more aesthetically pleasing to me:
