To provide some privacy to a renter in my lovely living room...
I needed to produce a door for an arched opening that connects to the dining room.
1) Must be able to work with no holes in or damage to the walls
2) lightweight and easily removable, easy to insert
3) provides a bit of sound insulation
4) cost around a hundred dollars or less.
Materials:
Two 4' X 8' 2" thick rigid Styrofoam panels from Home Depot $37
One 96" X 24" roll of 1/2 inch foam rubber - cut into 2" strips to pad the edges of each panel
One Large roll of Industrial mounting tape
5 yards of felt from the fabric store
Four 8 oz containers of Aleene's Quick Dry Tacky Glue from Joann's Fabrics
Tools needed:
Fine toothed Shark Pull saw.
Manual hand held jig saw
scissors
tongue depressors
gloves
220 sand paper and sanding block
sharpie marker
Know the size of the arch before you go to the store...
so you know exactly what you need and what materials will work.
If you have a pull saw already, bring it to the store...
I had to buy a few saws in a package to trim off a foot, and the corners so the panels fit in my Honda Pilot. I already knew I could fit a 4 X 8 piece of plywood, but with the panels being two inches thick each... I had to trim them to fit them in my car. Because I knew I could spare a foot, and the corners, I cut that much off.
