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By: DIANA FLETCHER
title: Fabric Screen
keywords: screen, room divider, no sew
source: San Diego Union Tribune, 10/2/94
One easy way to create more private space within your home, short
of remodeling, is to divide a room with a free-standing scren. It may not
block noise, but a screen does create a visual barrier; which may be all you
need to conceal a dressing area, exercise equipment or home office.
Covered with beautiful fabric, a screen can be both art and focal
point. Or, when positioned near similar wallpaper or draperies, a screen will
virtually disappear.
Caroline Treder of "A Touch of Iris", an interior-design workshop in
La Jolla, created a free-standing, three-panel fabric-covered screen for
about $50.00 (not including decorative trim)--and she did it with out sewing.
Here's how.
* Decide what size screen you need. Keep in mind a free-standing screen must
be partially folded, like a "Z" or "U", in order to stand upright--so the
barrier it forms will be two-thirds to three-fourths its full (extended)
width.
You could start by selection your fabric, then let the width of the fabric
determine the width of trhe panels. For example, you could divide 60" wide
fabric into three panels, each 20 inches wide. You'd then need four to five
yards (two per side) to make a 6-foot-tall screen.
* Make three rectangular frames, each 20 inches wide and 72 inches tall, from
1-by-4 boards (see material list). Have the lumber supplier cut the boards,
and miter the corners (saw at 45-degree angle). Join the pieces with wood
glue; staple and let dry. At this stage, the screen will resemble three
large picture frames. Paint or stain the wood.
If the fabric you've chosen is light-weight or lacks body (rayon or silk,
as opposed to chintz, for example), stiffen it with a medium- to heavy-
weight fusible nonwoven interfacing, available at yardage stores; use an
iron to fuse it to the back of the fabric.
* Next cut the fabric into six equal pieces. Hem all four sides of each
piece by folding each edge under 1 inch and pressing with an iron to hold
in place.
* Attach fabric to the front and back of the frames. Place a frame flat on
the floor, or ideally, on a large work table. Using a sgue gun, extrude
hot glue around the inner perimeter of the wood. Place a section of fabric
on the frame (leaving a 1-inch wood border on all four sides); staple to
secure it.
* Attach hinges. When the panels are complete, assemble the screen so it will
stand upright and fold. Screw four hinges, each 12 inches from top and bot-
tom, to the outer edges of the middle panel. Position the hinges so the
screen will fold the way you want it to. Then attach the other two panels
to the middle panel at the hinges.
That's the basic screen
Othere options:
* Additional panels. Ascreen can have more than three panels -- three's the
minimum. for stability.
* Decorative trim, such as braid or cording. Glue around the perimeter of
the fabric.
* To make the pattern continue across the screen (instead of breaking it up
into three sections), Wrap the fabric around the two long edges of the
middle frame, and around the inner long edges of the other two. Fold or
tuck under, and glue or staple to hold in place. When you assemble the
screen, position the panels so the pattern lines up correctly.
* Decorate the screen to add utility....... For example, attach a magazine
holder by making loose, horizontal folds in an additional strip of the
same fabric; sew onto one panel.
TOOLS AND MATERIALS
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For a 6-fot-high, thre-panel screen, each panel 20 inches wide, you'll need
the following materials. Total project costs will vary depending on the
fabric. Figure a minimum of $50.00. Includes bargain fabric, boards, inter-
facing, and hardware but not paint, tools or trim.
Material:
* Forty-siz feet of 1 X 4 (1/2 inch thick by 3 3/4 inch wide) boards. Have
the lumber mitered and cut into 12 pieces (six pieces 20 inches long, six
pieces 72 inches long).
* Paint or stain.
* Fabvric, minimum 4 yards, 60 inch-wide (two yards for each side, cut lengh-
wise to make six 20-inch-wide pieces).
* Glue gun, staple gun, iron.
* Fiyr screw-on hinges.
* Optional: Fusible nonwoven interfacing, decorative trim, buttons or hook
fasteners, ribbons to hang picture.
artical by: Debra Lee Baldwin
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