my new obsession

i've been to 2 houses in the last week with one of these:

that's a chalkboard paint wall. and i'm a little obsessed.

you can apparently buy chalkboard paint in a variety a colors. you can also make your own. we are a bit worried that having a chalkboard wall will only encourage our children to think they can color on walls that aren't chalkboard. but i think the fact that our nephews took permanent markers to their cream-colored leather sofa and basically destroyed it makes us a little paranoid. my plan as far as markers and crayons is to only let the kids use them when i'm supervising (and put them away in a cabinent when it's not craft time) until the kids are old enough to know what they can and can't draw on. perhaps parents are laughing at me for thinking i can do this, but all i can say is that you didn't see the purple and blue scribbles all over the cream sofa. i figure, though, that if our kids take chalk to something they shouldn't, it would be much easier to clean than permanent marker. this is just a guess -- somebody correct me if i'm wrong.

so, where to put the chalkboard wall? the sunroom on the back of our house is going to be our playroom, so i think it'll go in there. that room is already yellow, so i guess we'll choose a color that goes well with yellow since we're just going to tape off a section of the wall and paint it with the chalkboard paint. i'm hoping this is just one of many "nesting" projects i undertake while waiting for the kids. i'll post pictures...