Add privacy with a DIY screen
Turn any spot in your pace into a getaway with this fashionable freestanding CRT screen made of dimensional baseball bat and lath . A hardy base make this screen sluttish to use on a pack of cards or terrace and even in the garden . Or waive the base and use taller side posts localize in concrete for a lasting solution . The silver screen I built is 6 foot . grandiloquent and 4 foot . wide , but you may change the size of it to suit your situation — or work up several .
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Putting your privacy screen together
check into out the material list below before you go shopping . Then look over the illustrations for mensuration and view the video above to see how well the screen goes together .
1. Prep lumber for the privacy screen
Start by abbreviate the lumber to the lengths indicate on the illustration above . Then paint and defile all the bit and let them dry overnight — it ’s a draw easier to do this up front and touch up later on , if needed . This combination of blusher and stain works well for our casual psychometric test garden borders but you may alter these to accommodate your garden ’s fashion .
2. Build the base of the screen
What crap this base different from others you may see is that the “ feet ” are join at the back with one longsighted 2×4 to supply added stableness and keep the screen stand straight .
I set up that a scrap piece of 4×4 timber helps the base go together a lot easier . you may see in the photo above how it keeps the legs position correctly as they ’re being attached .
Step 3. Make the frame
Once the base is done , remove the scrap 4×4 and splay in the posts . concentrate a 2×2 on the inside of each 4×4 , as the exemplification above shows , and secure it with a screw near the top , another one near the bottom and one centered in between . Then use a tape measuring to ensure the 1×6 is centered on top of the situation and attach it with a couple jailor to each one .
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Step 4. Add lath to frame
A bundle of 50 pieces of lath may seem like a lot , specially when the cover only needs 32 . But you ’ll demand plenty of extras — some spell may be cracked or warp .
With the side stake in place , start at the bottom and begin attaching the lath to the 2×2s with astaple gun(a brad nailer works , too ) . To get the looking of the screen in the pic at the top of the clause , bit by bit increase the space between pieces of lath as you go up .
To keep the space uniform , I made the handy instrument in the photograph above from scraps of lath taped together . I started with two pieces at the bottom and gradually increased the telephone number to five near the top .
Step 5. Add finishing touches to your DIY privacy sreen
Once all the lath is in place , cover the staple by securing a piece of twenty-five percent around on each side with a brad nailer . you could even add ornaments like theselanternsattached to the top overhang for added style . Then suffer back and look up to your work !
