Magnetic Bulletin Board, 17 x 11.8 in, 4 Pack

Boards
Set of 4
White

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Four powder-coated steel boards, each 17 by 11.8 inches, for holding magnets rather than being one.

$30.99

Only a few left

Price and availability are set by the retailer and change without notice. The figure above is the one we last read from the listing.

A closer look

A pack of four flat steel panels in white, 17 inches by 11.8, with a sand-textured powder coat, rounded corners and a hole at each corner for screws. The listing is unusually blunt about one thing and we will repeat it: the boards are not magnetic themselves. They are a steel surface for magnets to grip, which is the opposite arrangement to a fridge door and the thing people most often get wrong before ordering.

The board is the steel, not the magnet
Nothing in the pack attracts anything on its own. You supply the magnets; the panel gives them somewhere to hold. If you were expecting a board that sticks to a metal surface, this is the wrong product and no amount of reading the photographs will change that.
Four panels make a grid or a run
Seventeen inches each means two side by side cover nearly three feet, and all four in a two-by-two block run roughly 34 by 24 inches with the gaps. Decide the arrangement before drilling: the corner holes are fixed and will not forgive a change of mind.
A no-drill option is built in
Each corner is pierced, so a wire strung between two holes lets the panel hang from a rail, a hook or a picture rod instead of a screw. That is the route in rented rooms, and it is also how these end up over a desk rather than on a wall.
Not cut metal, and we will not pretend
Almost everything else on this site is a silhouette cut out of sheet steel. These are solid panels with a job to do, which is why they sit in their own section at the end rather than among the wall art. Nobody has rated them yet either.

The numbers on the listing

Straight from the maker’s own specification. Where a set lists several panel sizes they are all shown — the first figure is the longest side of the largest panel.

Longest side: 17 in
Shorter side: 11.8 in
In the set: 4 panels
Finish: White
Material: Metal
Mounting: Wall Mount