We finally got around to enhancing our living room folding screen that we scored at a yard sale a few months ago. Clearly the screen was lovely enough to remain the way it was but as always we were looking for something with a little more pop so here's what we did...
Snagging some fabric remnants from our craft supplies and a template we made of the inner square of each panel we made 9 cutouts and glued them to the back of the screen with a glue gun. (Do believe the hype about glue guns - they rock.) We were going to put a solid colored piece of fabric on the back of the entire panels but once we saw the green fabric against the color of our walls, we decided they were just right.
Have you ever modified a folding screen or made your own from scratch?
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Yes. Upholstered them. Soft, colorful and moveable.
view ModHomeEcTeacher's profile
Beautiful job, it looks great! I must get a glue gun.
view Griffin's profile
Nice screen.
Would be cool to so a post on where to get nice folding screens like this in various pricepoints
view bepsf's profile
Nice! I was so expecting that you'd spray-painted it white or orange. Great to see a fresh, non-cliche idea.
view Lisa Hunter (Montreal)'s profile
that is a lovely result - i was fearing spray paint, too :-D
well done. very classy.
view maike's profile
very nice touch. i was also expecting paint.. a bright yellow, perhaps. congrats on your find. beautiful!
view animalhouze's profile
Oh, I am so happy I didn't come in here and find that screen painted. The wood is so beautiful.
It looks lovely!!!
view brenjay's profile
agree with all about avoiding paint! some things are better when they aren't glossy white.
view amt230's profile
Love the fabric--thought it was thinly-sliced agate or art glass or something else exotic at first.
view rockypondgirl's profile
lovely
view Stephvixen's profile
oooo ..... likey
view formosagirl's profile
Is this Kyle as in Jamaica Plain Gem Kyle? I imagine this would look great in your living room with those cut-down west elm daybeds...great job. I thought that in the pic above the wall color and the fabric looked not so hot together, bland, but I remember your living room to be pretty color saturated..so this might be a nice visual pause. Would love to see a pull-back shot to show it in the context of your room. (is it just me, or does 'pull-back shot' sound porny. but you know what I mean) And then go re-do your whole house all over again so we can see more of your crafty genius!
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Hi indianroad,
Kyle here. Yes, that's the screen that lives in my Jamaica Plain gem ;-). You are absolutely right that I needed to keep things a little bland in that corner because it is in the same room as the west elm beds and the very saturated colors. Great memory - I'm honored that you remembered!
I'll try to take a "pull-back shot" ;-) at some point.
Thanks,
Kyle
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