Funky Room Divider March 12, 2009

Room Divider

One of my favorite places in Little Rock is this funky restaurant/music venue named “Sticky Fingerz” (www.stickyfingerz.com). I love the funky atmosphere and the homemade art that decorates the space. Some of the windows at Sticky Fingerz have been painted over to look like stained glass. I have always admired this technique and swore if I ever get my own house, it will need to have multi-pane windows so that I can create my own faux stained glass. I was over visiting my friend one day and we were in her back yard. I noticed a couple of white french doors just sitting out in the yard. I asked what she was going to do with those and she said they were supposed to go in the trash, but they just haven’t made it to the curb yet. I immediately saw these french doors as a room divider with the “Sticky Fingerz faux stained glass effect”. She gave me the french doors and I took them home to get to work. They had been sitting outside for quite awhile and the white paint was stained, so it needed a coat of paint. I decided to go with a dark brown and got it in a flat interior paint. It took less than a quart of paint to cover both of the doors with two coats and I have plenty left to do touch ups. I had originally planned on purchasing the faux stained glass spray you can get at craft stores, but I realized with all the colors I wanted to use, that would end up costing quite a bit. I decided to glue tissue paper onto the glass. I used a decoupage goop called Mod Podge to put the tissue paper onto the glass. It worked rather well and if I decide I don’t want to have the colored glass panels anymore, I can just tear the tissue paper off. To create the room divider, I put a pair of hinges between the two doors so you can fold it up. I’m considering putting little stands for tea lights behind each pane of glass so the glass can be lit up at night, but I will save that for another day.