Screen Revamp! Guest Project

Materials and the sequence of the job sit together on this page.

This is a clever party link that I thought you might appreciate. It is from Alicia at Happy Ever Forever, I know I have seen these screens, and if you need to hide some stuff this is a great option. (or if you want to make a modern screen look at my walkthrough here)

Saturday I started re-finishing this lovely divider I found at D.I. for $5!

I think about 20 million people had these at their weddings a couple of years ago, filled with little pictures of the bride and groom as kids, because I see them at D.I. all the time. Well obviously this one was a piece of junk. It had 11 missing glass/matt combinations, but I had a vision for it! I left with people starring at me, I swear thinking that girl is crazy to buy that… but just wait till you see what I did with it

First we took out the remaining glass/mat combo’s. And then cleaned it up. We took it outside and re-spray painted it black to hide the nick’s and dings. After it looked like this:

Ahhh already so much better! The next thing we did was cut a bunch of cardboard to fit the square holes. I just used one of the mat’s as a stencil.

Then we kept on cutting. First was the batting cut a 1/2 inch smaller than the cardboard on all sides.

Then you are going to combine the cardboard with one pice of batting. I used tape to keep it down… I wanted to save my fingers as long as possible from the hot glue. Dun dun dun!

The next thing you will do is cut your fabric and hopefully you have a nice husband like me that will iron it ALL for you.

Then your going to cover your cardboard/batting combination with fabric. Just fold it over like a present and hot glue the sides down! Then ( I have no picture of this, bad blogger, SORRY!) You are going to sow a button in the front/middle of the rectangle. It makes a nice little dip in the front… then Cover and glue down the back with more fabric, to hide the ugly cardboard

Stick the cardboard piece’s in the divider. They fit right in so you don’t need to glue them in or anything! And TA-DA you have a striking new divider!

Here’s a close up!

I think it is a great option for updating a 
room divider on the low-cost.  
What do you all think?