How to Create a Chicken Wire Screen Room Divider

I'm attempting to restyle the room divider screen 
I have in my kitchen.

Green cabbage rose wallpaper on a room divider

 It matched the old kitchen wallpaper and since I just tore down all the old wallpaper, I thought I'd do something new and creative with the screen.

 The fact that the inserts in the screen were cardboard made it a little easier.

Cabbage rose room divider with one panel torn down.

A few punches and I was through.

Green hutch as seen through the room divider

  Now...
How about some chicken wire? 

 It's flexible, inexpensive and textural. 

 It is easy to work with but the only problem is that
they don't make chicken wire that rusts anymore. 

 I bought a can of rust colored spray paint and if you've ever tried to paint chicken wire, let me tell you, it is not easy!

As a matter of fact, it is darn near impossible! 

Picture this... I wrestled 3 pieces of chicken wire that kept rolling up and then tried to hold it down to a board and spray paint it.

The fact that there is a foot of snow still on the ground here didn't help the situation...Need I say more?

paint on snow





















Here's the wire, not as rust colored as I had hoped it would be and definitely not as rust colored as I was.

Looking through chicken wire.

Anyway...I finished it. I was covered with paint and all scratched up but the chicken wire was not shiny and new anymore. 

When it was dry...
(well almost, what the heck I was already covered with paint...)
I stapled it to each of the 3 sections of the screen.

Room divider laying on floor with chicken wire.

I also hammered nails onto the middle section and wound wire around them to make a place to hang photos.

Chicken wire with photos hanging on wire.
Photo display using wire on a chicken wire divider.

The left side holds a sign...and maybe I'm thinking, 
a small chalkboard.
Chicken wire divider with farmers market sign

On the right hangs a bulletin board I made.
Bulletin board hanging on chicken wire.

Chicken wire room divider with bulletin board, photos and signs hung on it.

 Here is the finished screen... 
It came out looking just like I hoped it would before 
I started on this mess!

I'm a little beat up but I'm happy
with the results!

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I am Susan, the author and creator at Homeroad. I am a wife, mother of 4 daughters, and a grandmother of 5 and counting. I am a retired teacher, a DIY blogger and an artist at heart. .

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