How to Make a Wall Screen

Tired of that one blank wall in your living room? Maybe you just want to make a particular door look perkier? Make a wall screen for a wall or door and you'll not only fill a large blank space in your home, but you'll have a conversation piece that's beautiful and useful.

There are many different things you can use to make the wall screen. For a country look, glue, nail or screen four flat pieces of wood together, forming a large rectangle. For a more modern look wire together four metallic poles. Other ideas are dowels, old broom or mop handles, handles from old wooden spoons or even a large picture frame with glass and backing removed.

The most wonderful thing about the wall screen, besides it's uniqueness is that you can make it any size you want. Make a gigantic one to fill a large wall or a small one for a bathroom wall.

After you have the perimeter of the wall screen formed, you will need crafting wire, found at most department stores. The wire comes in several sizes of thickness - choose something that's not too hard to manipulate but something that's not thin as thread. The wire may come on a spool or on a flat. You'll need plenty of wire, so choose three or four spools or flats.

Begin making the screen by measuring the top edge of the frame, then the side edge. Divide these numbers by 3, 4, or 5, etc, depending upon how large the screen is, and depending upon what number divide each equally. What you want to accomplish is a look of equal-size sections, somewhat like a window. Therefore, the design is all yours, and you can have 4 "windows", 8 "windows" or more.

Make chalk marks along all four sides of the frame to show where your wiring will go. Start by wrapping the wire from the first mark on top, to the first mark on bottom. Wrap this way three or four times, depending upon the thickness of the wire. Try to keep the strands close together as you wrap, even on top of each other. Clip the wire and move to the next set of marks. Continue in this manner until you have all of the vertical wires in place. Wrap the frame with the horizontal wires, in the same manner.