DIY Room Divider

….We have been so delighted when we have been approached by the talented group at Martha Stewart to compete for an possibility to join the ”12 Months of Martha Stewart Crafts Team”. As part of the program, Bloggers get a month-to-month box of Martha’s newest and hottest craft product, create some factor outstanding, and submit about it on their internet sites. These tasks are promoted  on the @MarthaStewart Pinterest board and MarthaStewart.com. All we required was a point of inspiration, so I looked about my house for some thing that would be practical as effectively as aesthetic and quickly identified something that was lengthy overdue to be tackled.

My husband and I have each the convenience, and inconvenience, of functioning from house, in really numerous careers. We share a light-filled, lofty, room on the 3rd floor of our suburban NJ residence. In typical, the pros do outweigh the cons when both partners are residence-mostly primarily based and operating, but we desperately required something to divide our office regions and give a sense of privacy and definition of workspace – with no dropping all of the luminosity we take pleasure in from opening the space up when we remodeled. So, Michelle and I made the decision to make a fashionable, but value-efficient, area divider and create it ourselves from scratch, to serve as a distinct border in between the two offices. Sounds ambitious, appropriate? In fact, it was surprisingly effortless and value-efficient – and not to mention a whole lot of entertaining. Here’s how we did it…..

one) Wooden Dowel rods (we chosen 3 distinct sizes, by thickness)
2) Eye screws (the smallest we could uncover in the close by arts and crafts store)
3) Aluminum jump rings (12mm dimension)
4) Martha Stewart Crafts™ Gloss Spray Paint Kit
five) Martha Stewart Crafts™ Sprayable Gloss Enamel Finish
6) Martha Stewart Crafts™ Multi-Surface Glow-in-the-Dark Acrylic Paint
seven) Martha Stewart Crafts® Stains

Here’s a stroll-through of the technique:

We had an old patio backyard table we did not thoughts to function on with paints and supplies and stained the dowel rods by wiping on the stain with a cloth and leaving them to dry. If you don’t have an outdated table, make assured to place down dust sheets or newspaper whenever you use paints and stains.

Masking / Painter’s tape is the quite very best approach for covering any areas that you do NOT want to colour or stain.

We then produced a makeshift ‘dryer’ from an outdated plastic tub and designed a grid from the painter’s tape to avoid the painted rods from sticking collectively. We then utilized the spray paint to the sticks, utilizing the white paint with 1st and permitted them to dry. Note that you might potentially need to apply a couple of layers of spray paint for a clean,continual, finish.

Repeat the final two measures for any other colour you would like to introduce to your task. We chose colors that are fairly current, i.e. dark wood with white contrast and a splash of luminous pink.

As quickly as the paint is dry, basically take away all of the masking / painter’s tape and start off fixing the eye screws in two at the bottom and two at the very best (for our undertaking we measured one.5″ from the edge, which was also at the paint line on a single finish of every dowel rod). A fantastic tip to help you with repairing the eye screws in spot is to use a micro phillips-head screw driver (we improvised and did it this way), or far far better nevertheless a Bradawl (we couldn’t find out ours), to make a tiny hole in which to begin repairing the eye screw. This will conserve your fingers feeling like you just went 15 shelves deep with Ikea’s finest.

We linked the rods, through the eye screws, with 3 12mm jump rings, but you can choose on no matter what volume you feel is suitable. As a rough rule of thumb, the thinner the dowel the much less rings you would want to location amongst them so you do not shed the feeling of one particular issue physical in among the rooms.

We then stained a piece of wood that we had measured to the wanted length of the 3 columns of rods, with some space in amongst each and every column. Making use of nylon fishing line, we linked the columns of rods to the major piece of wood and voila! – we had a gorgeous room divider. From commence to finish, with out taking into consideration time to acquire the components or for the paint to dry, it took about two hrs to prep and full the task. If you started out in the morning, on a warm sunny day, as we did, you can be set up and placing the drill down in a single day!

The bonus for us was when we recognized that when we’re bored with the colour scheme, or just in search of to alter, we feel this undertaking would make an outstanding statement as a piece of wall art. It was a lot of entertaining, supplies a whole lot of function and design, but most of all – it was straightforward and affordable!