dressing screens
 

does anyone know of some good retailers of folding 'dressing' screens?
preferably something better than a changing rooms style MDF one.

thanks
DD

dirt dibbler wrote:
does anyone know of some good retailers of folding 'dressing' screens?
preferably something better than a changing rooms style MDF one.

Hospital / first aid suppliers will do a tubular metal frame one, which
you could then cover with your own choice of material.

That said, a couple of old zed-beds and a dangle grinder you could make
your own.

Or a selection of old doors (stained glass would be nice) and some
hinges. If you stick some triangular blocks of wood in the hinge edge to
stop the doors 'closing' more than 135deg it will help stop the thing
folding and falling over.



Owain

In article , "dirt
dibbler" says...
does anyone know of some good retailers of folding 'dressing' screens?
preferably something better than a changing rooms style MDF one.

A few bits of hardwood, a few hinges and some fabric to cover it (or
paper if you're feeling Japanese).

http://www.japangarden.co.uk/easysho...pmaker_31.html

http://www.fine-tools.com/shoji.htm

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:13:41 GMT, "dirt dibbler" wrote:

does anyone know of some good retailers of folding 'dressing' screens?
preferably something better than a changing rooms style MDF one.

A non-Changing Rooms style MDF one ?

Screens aren't popular these days, as there are few modern rooms big
enough to make one usable. You can find antiques, you could have one
made. MDF in a hardwood frame isn't a bad choice for construction
though. I've also seen a very nice fabric-covered one made by framing
panels cut from cheap Chinese cheong-sam (cheapest source of silk you
can find)

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:00:59 +0100, Rob Morley
wrote:

A few bits of hardwood, a few hinges and some fabric to cover it (or
paper if you're feeling Japanese).

Shoji is actually a bad staring design for a screen. Shoji is sliding
panels that are supported by a tight-fitting groove top and bottom. Take
them out of the grooves as a free-standing screen and they're much too
flexible.

You might also find that an extra-wide rail at the bottom of a screen
(Victorian ones typically use 6" width, as opposed to 2" verticals)
makes it more stable, by lowering the CoG.