HomeStyle: beautiful burlap

<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">We have this ugly little cupboard-looking door (water main access) on a wall in our family room in the basement. The bane of my home-owning existence. Well, it's a toss-up between that door and our mortgage...but still. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I'd been on the hunt for months to find a suitable (translation: cheap, beautiful, and correctly sized) folding screen to put in front of it, with no luck.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-2xdcHmeG98uuGHXF7Nx0h5Z_sjEoPLhG_qF6QKK7RinGtXHLl7vAuPNf-95DL7Z4So4imNHSUkS1kotME9VmR7Owy9Eh9slVJGvmSa2qn79XiZYd8PWXiluak4nmh4f_0tOcF8-nMqdP/s1600/burlap3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-2xdcHmeG98uuGHXF7Nx0h5Z_sjEoPLhG_qF6QKK7RinGtXHLl7vAuPNf-95DL7Z4So4imNHSUkS1kotME9VmR7Owy9Eh9slVJGvmSa2qn79XiZYd8PWXiluak4nmh4f_0tOcF8-nMqdP/s400/burlap3.JPG" t8="true" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The screen had to be tall enough to cover the door but short enough to leave a mounted speaker (near the ceiling) free. It also had to be narrow enough to not block the TV (on a shelf right next to it) but wide enough to cover the door. Ugh. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Stupid, stupid door.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Enter: the best day of my e-life, where I stumbled upon this little gem of inspiration:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVWeULS_PtQHcDCuYi8-QmrnDc-W_WYk5oJuHwa6RyaaavlzbnQmA6BPr1MxQiaIJ97TxyksMo4k69TDVgwEDo9BIi0O8YuFVA5azE7Jg3y7nOvuZt39LOv6cjpA-_Q4adVl-d-yGIOeE1/s1600/burlap_room_divider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVWeULS_PtQHcDCuYi8-QmrnDc-W_WYk5oJuHwa6RyaaavlzbnQmA6BPr1MxQiaIJ97TxyksMo4k69TDVgwEDo9BIi0O8YuFVA5azE7Jg3y7nOvuZt39LOv6cjpA-_Q4adVl-d-yGIOeE1/s400/burlap_room_divider.jpg" t8="true" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Forgive me, I can't find the website where I got this pic from...if anyone knows, please please let me know and I'll credit it!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hanging burlap! Brilliant! <em>and</em> cheap! <em>annnnnnnd</em> customizable! I got some burlap, cut it to size, and, using the above pic as a guide, busted out some acrylic paints and a sponge brush to paint the design.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbgrjFEO_i7v3-Q1zM2nIA_gKS0Tm_einZ_wfrQ7zC4pgASBsAvRY8xh1GMNwb0-9VlfsvsEQf0l6pv1FW9tWq_h58Q7y2Ojtoob44dvujB5EUIsEVVQtEwwrPCI6VQs8l9qtjf3XtWyi/s1600/burlap4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbgrjFEO_i7v3-Q1zM2nIA_gKS0Tm_einZ_wfrQ7zC4pgASBsAvRY8xh1GMNwb0-9VlfsvsEQf0l6pv1FW9tWq_h58Q7y2Ojtoob44dvujB5EUIsEVVQtEwwrPCI6VQs8l9qtjf3XtWyi/s400/burlap4.JPG" t8="true" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I only had to sew the sides, the top (for a curtain rod) and the bottom (to hold a "weight" of sorts so it would hang straight...I used an old wooden blinds slat).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1L1dOwPbwcaMnx9Lsguw8_Q_Kbf9eg-Hp6Qf8CyA4iHXuaqn_8bVubJ6nPbPY4mNw7Nh6ABLFiyMiLFhkGhbHqd1vi3yKUwb47Lc1yMOCMjA6Yvi93PN6wlZg9TOwnJ-7DDJqYtDFlPBu/s1600/burlap5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1L1dOwPbwcaMnx9Lsguw8_Q_Kbf9eg-Hp6Qf8CyA4iHXuaqn_8bVubJ6nPbPY4mNw7Nh6ABLFiyMiLFhkGhbHqd1vi3yKUwb47Lc1yMOCMjA6Yvi93PN6wlZg9TOwnJ-7DDJqYtDFlPBu/s400/burlap5.JPG" t8="true" width="298" /></a></div><br /><div align="center">After rummaging around in the garage, I found my old missing hiking sandals (saweet! they'd been missing forever!) and, more importantly and pertinent to this particular endeavor, some chains and a curtain rod. I spray-painted both black and hung them up. (Have I told you lately how much I love spray paint? Oh man, that stuff is glorious. Easy, quick-drying, and did I mention easy. Bim-bam-boom.) </div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">Hung up the burlap at an angle to soften the corner a bit and make it look less like I had something to hide. Which I did. But I didn't want the world to know that. The world who comes into our basement. Which is at <em>least </em>10 non-family people a year. So.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIUHaXAjNgv3n-j4gE33jPYsOufrIQVKrftilH-M6ya5Nobb9RL9FBfRMOjjuXxiGrJ8tJ8GuLTDzMDb6RXTTk7zJxNpb5By5K-4n4gPqc2kxDs_EDDEjqwfACaAzzRt9Zbuk-mf4iAn5f/s1600/burlap2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIUHaXAjNgv3n-j4gE33jPYsOufrIQVKrftilH-M6ya5Nobb9RL9FBfRMOjjuXxiGrJ8tJ8GuLTDzMDb6RXTTk7zJxNpb5By5K-4n4gPqc2kxDs_EDDEjqwfACaAzzRt9Zbuk-mf4iAn5f/s400/burlap2.JPG" t8="true" width="332" /></a></div><br /><div align="center">End result:</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTvnLhq6qi01DLQOssC1uVCKxjQXewpMf-Dmpk8wyE4gvloCoRhTb8NyUjWmJhASo8OQhWUAjv8xYSBCLl1PShpQyikGRjROLmNIzDxcawYQwa9g4WdWano0QH4ppOISN6SXAgQtbt81Ap/s1600/burlap1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTvnLhq6qi01DLQOssC1uVCKxjQXewpMf-Dmpk8wyE4gvloCoRhTb8NyUjWmJhASo8OQhWUAjv8xYSBCLl1PShpQyikGRjROLmNIzDxcawYQwa9g4WdWano0QH4ppOISN6SXAgQtbt81Ap/s640/burlap1.JPG" t8="true" width="361" /></a></div><br /><div align="center" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">The painting's not the best; I messed up on the right-hand side where it's supposed to "flow" off the burlap, but we've lived with it and survived okay. What about you guys? Do you have anything in your house that you want to hide or that you've already successfully hidden/camoflauged? I'd love to hear about it. Seriously. I love this kind of stuff.</div>

HomeStyle: beautiful burlap

We have this ugly little cupboard-looking door (water main access) on a wall in our family room in the basement. The bane of my home-owning ...

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