Sometimes, it’s the small inventions that make you smile the most. We live in impressive times; the means of communication and business are changing, technology is changing politics in fundamental ways, and sometimes the thing that catches your attention is as simple as dry erase paint. If you’ve ever had to watch a child, your own or someone else’s, you know they love to draw on the wall. It seems to be a stage everyone goes through. Now hopefully you can discourage this habit, so you’d like to provide them an alternative outlet. Kids aside, can dry erase paint benefit adults? Yes, it can.
If you constantly take notes everywhere, and when you’re in a fevered pitch of thinking, your writing gets bigger, being able to brainstorm onto the wall, take a step back, and see how everything fits could make the process easier. Have you ever noticed that when you use dry erase boards that they’re usually not big enough, or they become devoted to just daily notes and to-do lists? Dry erase paint can help give children a place to doodle and work that creative caveman part of the brain that wants to cover the walls with iconography. For adults, dry erase paint means greater ease of leaving messages or taking notes. Especially when you’re at the early stages with an idea, perhaps in a meeting, the ability to write big, write much, and erase or refine as needed can help you brainstorm.
The other place people often take notes is in the kitchen. If your mom is a fantastic cook, you may call her for emergency recipe consults and need a place to jot down notes. Every conversation begins the same way when asking Mom for recipe help: “Oh, that’s easy…” Then she offers a list of 12 ingredients and 16 steps. You don’t want to make her repeat herself, so you scramble to get it written down as the recipe is spiraling away from what you’ll be able to remember off the top of your head when you hang up the phone. Having the recipe on a wall covered with dry erase paint—within sight of the stove—written large enough that it can be read from a distance would be perfect. Back to the subject of children, it will obviously be important to teach a child which walls he or she can and cannot draw and write on, but other than that, dry erase paint makes a wonderful outlet for children.
Is dry erase paint the greatest invention ever? Well, at the very least, it’s one of those amazingly simple, elegant solutions to daily problems that also provides an outlet for fun, inventions, and innovations that tend to be underrated yet often show a type of creativity that should be celebrated. It’s appropriate to commend the creativity behind dry erase paint, considering how it’s a creative idea itself that ultimately helps facilitate creativity.
Wolf-Gordon can supply all your dry erase paint and other home designing needs. Visit in person at one of the following showroom locations: Los Angeles Showroom Pacific Design Center at 8687 Melrose Ave., Suite BM5 Los Angeles, CA 90069; Chicago Showroom Merchandise Mart at #10-161 200 World Trade Center Chicago, IL 60654; or
