If you need to put visiting relatives, guests to sleep in the same room, learn how to make a screen from scrap materials and quickly make it. If you have a small living space, but sometimes guests or visiting relatives stay overnight, then, having learned how to make a screen, you will quickly separate a corner for rest. When this item is not needed, just fold it and put it in the pantry or put it on the balcony, behind the closet.
How to make a screen with your own hands - ways
In order not to spend money, make it from the material that is available. If guests come to your dacha for the weekend, but there is no free room, separate a corner for them using fiberboard or thick packing cardboard.
The manufacture of screens begins with the preparation of material and equipment, in this case it is:
- fiberboard sheets or thick cardboard;
- small door hinges or tape;
- dye;
- hacksaw or clerical knife;
- bar and sandpaper or sanding roller.
Consider two options for making such a folding wall.
Cardboard screen - 2 options
You can do this in an hour if you need to quickly divide a room into two. If you have a TV box, this will work fine.
- The easiest way is to cut the top and bottom (small sides) and remove the junction of the first and fourth edges.
- You will have a large rectangular canvas with three vertical seams. Now you need to bend these seams a little differently: leave the first and third the same as they were, and bend the second in the other direction. Then, when unfolding, this temporary wall will be well fixed.
- The second method is suitable for those who want to make a beautiful screen. The basis is the same refrigerator box. Cut it off at the top and bottom so that only the large sidewalls remain. You can keep all four or three. Paired parts are identical in relation to each other, both pairs are cut in mirror image.
- The loops of the pattern are repeated, but these cuts start from one or the other edge. Match the two blanks with solid sides, glue them in these places with tape. If you have 3 canvases, then there will be 2 stitches. If four - then you get 3 seams.
Glue the canvases only on the back side, then the screen will fold well. For decoration, you can paint the cardboard or attach a self-adhesive film.
Fiberboard screen
- Using a pencil, draw a drawing on the surface of each of the three blanks, cut out all the bends with a jigsaw.
- Sharp edges must be sanded, then each fiberboard sheet must be painted in the desired color.
- To connect the blanks, attach one side of three loops to each one - top, bottom and center. Screw the other sides of this hardware to the second wall of the screen. Also attach a third piece.
A sander is quickly made if you wrap the block with sandpaper and attach it to it. See how you can turn unnecessary doors into this item. The old ones could remain after the renovation, they can be found, because people, making the transformation of their dwellings, get rid of these items. And you will make a wonderful screen out of them. It can be placed not only in the room, but also in the garden, separating the corner of the dacha.
From old doors
If they are not in very good condition, then first remove the peeling paint, cover the formed indentations with wood putty. When it is dry, sand it lightly to make the surface even. Then go over it with a primer.
When it's dry, cover the canvases with two coats of paint. If it is acrylic, the doors will be ready for subsequent work in half an hour, but it is better to wait an hour.
After that, you need to attach the loops. How to do this is shown in the following photo.
As you can see, two door leaves are placed vertically on a long sidewall, one side of the hinge is screwed with screws to the left door, the other to the right. But the third piece is fastened on the other side so that the result of the assembly resembles an accordion.
Do not immediately tighten all the screws to the end, you must first align the doors, then securely fix the screws. The structure will turn out to be quite heavy, if you want to make a light folding wall, then watch another master class.
Making a fabric screen
As you can see, such a screen folds well and takes up little space in this position. To do it, take:
- wooden bars with a section of 30x30 mm;
- self-tapping screws;
- screwdriver;
- the cloth;
- furniture stapler;
- braid for strings;
- saw.
Then follow this plan:
- Decide on the size of the finished product. If you want it to be 2 meters high when unfolded, and about three meters wide, then you need to knock down the frames for each of the three sections so that they turn out to be 2x0.7 m. To connect two pieces of bars, match them, attach a self-tapping screw on the side, screw it in.
- Legs should form at the bottom. Put on a flat surface two bars of 2 meters vertically, at the top, between them, place one, 70 cm long. Exactly the same should be placed at the bottom of the structure, but lifting this bar up 20 cm - legs will turn out to be such a height.
- Cut 3 canvases of fabric measuring 187x77 cm (2 cm on one side and the other, so that there are no gaps in the screen, 3 cm for seam allowances - 1.5 cm on each side).
- Tuck the canvas on all sides, sew the edging. Sew on ribbons - 4 pieces at the top and bottom, 9 pieces each on the sides. Use them to tie the canvases to the frames. Then it will be possible to remove the fabric and wash these parts. But if you want to use a washable canvas, such as bologna, and so that no one can peep through the screen, then you can attach the fabric to the frames using a furniture stapler. If you don't have such a tool, nail in decorative nails.
Here's how to make a fabric screen to keep your garment lightweight. If you want the room to have a piece of furniture that looks like an old one or to place your favorite photographs on it, then this is another informative lesson for you.
How to make a screen book?
An extraordinary effect can be achieved if you use thick cardboard. Here's what to use when doing this kind of work:
- cardboard;
- stationery knife;
- putty;
- putty knife;
- cork canvas;
- burlap;
- scourge;
- Scotch;
- photographs or napkins with a pattern;
- PVA glue;
- varnish.
Decide on the size of the folding partition. You can make 4 canvases. Place the first piece of cardboard on a surface. Draw a pattern on its top, cut it out. You can apply a pattern to the entire canvas. Use burlap, cork, napkins or photographs to decorate the outside and inside. Mark with a simple pencil where you will be located. Cut out fragments from cork and burlap, glue them in place.
Make sure that no burlap threads appear around the edges, thread them in with a needle. If you will be decorating the screen with photographs, glue them. If you like the decoupage technique, then remove the top layer from the napkins, grease the place on the cardboard with PVA, attach these paper blanks here.
When the glue is dry, cover with 2-3 coats of varnish.
Other decorative elements that look like flowers also look beautiful. To make them, cut out blanks of this shape from the remains of cardboard.
Lubricate them with glue, starting from the center, attach the twine turns. When the items are dry, glue them in place.
Assemble the partition canvases by gluing them with tape.
You can decorate the screen in another way, perpetuating newspaper clippings on it, pages of your favorite book. To do this, first make photocopies of them. To make the partition look like a relic object, you need to age the leaves.
Dip the brush into the strong tea leaves and iron the paper. When there is no moisture left on it, glue them to the cardboard screen using PVA. Leave to dry.
Here's how to make a screen with your own hands, spending a minimum of money on it.
Similar devices are used to create a home puppet theater. They are also suitable for kindergarten. If the child has a birthday, his peers will come to visit, show them a puppet show. It can be finger theater or characters will be worn on the hand. They are also easy to make with your own hands, as well as a partition wall made of scrap materials.
How to make a screen for a puppet theater
To make one in the form of a house, you will need:
- cardboard;
- hole puncher;
- laces;
- paint or colored paper;
- scissors;
- stationery knife;
- ruler;
- pencil.
Crafting workshop:
- Based on the dimensions provided, make side walls that are 50 cm high and 30 cm wide. The size of the central wall is 50x50 cm, it is cut out along with the triangular roof. In the center, using a clerical knife, a window is made.
- Decorate the screen with colored paper or paint the details.
- Make 2 holes in the side walls with a hole punch or scissors and four in the central one. Match the grooves, connect the parts using laces or pieces of rope.
- This screen is small, it is placed on the table. A man sits behind, wearing a glove with characters, shows them from the window. If you want several children to sit in the back, then make the walls taller and wider so that the guys can reach the window.
If adults will show the performance to children, then the screen for the puppet theater can be of the following sizes.
The same calculations are suitable for a regular screen. If you celebrate children's birthday in nature, then also include a puppet show in the celebration program. You can make such characters in advance so that they look like your family members, like guests. Glue a photo of each person present on the face of the character, try to imitate his speech. But all this must be done so that the guest is not offended, but laughs heartily.
The screen is useful in nature and so that you can place an inflatable mattress behind it and relax. Then see how the accordion screen is made. This one consists of five canvases. If you are celebrating in the country, use unnecessary doors and hinges for them. But these parts need to be securely fastened to the ground using pegs and rope, as well as metal pins.
If you want the screen to consist of several elements, then make it a prefab.
Screen - volumetric partition
To make it, you will need:
- colored cardboard;
- stationery knife;
- scissors;
- butterfly pattern.
When applying the template to the cardboard, cut out the blanks with scissors. Then make 4 slots in each with a clerical knife - 2 at the bottom and the same at the top. To connect the first five butterflies, place one in the center, on the upper slots - on the right and left, put on another winged insect. In relation to the main one, they will be located perpendicularly. Also secure two more butterflies at the bottom. Create the entire screen using the same technology. It can be disassembled at any time.
If you want to make the screen stationary, then attach the cardboard butterflies to each other, gluing the sections. You can make a volumetric partition from plastic bottles by cutting out butterflies or other figures from this material.
Here's how to make a screen with your own hands, using improvised or waste material.
Do not deny yourself the pleasure of sitting comfortably, watch the process of creating such a product in a video.
The next partition is also an organizer. In the pockets sewn to it, you can put various items that will be at hand and will not get lost.
