In many classic movies from the 1930s and 40s, femme fatales would slink behind a room divider and begin to toss fancy garments of some sort over the top rails of the screen. (For some reason, this held my attention.) While our room divider project here would indeed look at home in a screen siren’s boudoir, that is not what we designed it for.
Instead, it’s for the new situation of so many people working from home, with their “home office” often in the corner of a living room or other multi-use area of the house. This room divider was conceived to create an attractive way to hide the office clutter from view while also providing a unique and attractive background during video meetings.
It’s not difficult to build; you’ll only find three parts in the on page 39, and the Beadlock loose-tenon joints on the frames are simplicity themselves. We covered the ¼" plywood center panels with wallpaper to provide elegant panel designs, but we chose two very different styles so we could change the look simply by turning the divider around. To facilitate adjusting the individual panels to various angles, we used double-action
