Magnetic Bulletin Boards to Help You Get Organized

In the bedroom, kitchen family message center, dorm room or home office, a magnetic bulletin board can make it a heck of a lot easier to keep organized and keep your fav photos on display.

What about an ordinary old-fashioned cork board bulletin? Well, I'm not a big fan of stepping on dropped pushpins with bare feet, so a magnetic bulletin board is my first choice. Magnets are great for posting your photos without poking holes in them, too.

Sure, dry-erase white boards are fine for scribbling a quick memo, and your phone has your whole digital life in its memory, but you still need a place to stick all those business cards and tickets and invitations and receipts that you haven't got around to filing away... But which bulletin board will suit your needs? Take a look and see if you can guess which style I like best. ;)

Photo: Umbra Magnetic Pushpin Bulletin Board

Magnets and Pushpins Included

Magnetic chalkboards, dry-erase boards, cork or magnetic bulletin boards, and combo boards that bring together all kinds of... the choices for organizing a busy family, work, or personal life are wide open. We'll take a look at some of those here, including a DIY option to make your own magnetic board.

For organizing in my own home office, however, my top pick is Umbra's two-in-one Magnetic Pushpin Board. Okay, so maybe it's true that we always want to have the "best of both worlds" - but a good-looking bulletin board that will work with both magnets and pushpins? That's got real appeal.

24 pieces (assorted colors) shaped like little pushpins - but they're really magnets.

What I think is really cool about Umbra's bulletin board, besides the sleek modern-tech look of the perforated metal - a patented design by Erik Man - is that you can use both magnets and pushpins on it. Because sometimes you just don't want to poke a pin through an important document or photograph... but a magnet isn't always as secure as you'd like on a breezy day with the window open, or when you need to pin up a number of papers, cardboard, or other thicker material. Pretty slick, eh?

Sarah got a new stainless steel fridge, and now her kids have nowhere to play with their little magnet alphabet letters, except on the front of her washer and dryer. But of course Sarah wants her little ones to play in the kitchen, close to her, where she can keep an eye on them... Solution? Make a magnet board!

In this video tutorial, Sarah shows how to make a magnetic board right on your own wall, simply by using easy-to-roll on magnetic paint primer - you can paint over with any colour you want to match your décor, or even with chalkboard paint for a great kids' play area.