Thread: Want to Enclose/Partition space in garage. Need help please

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So I will have tot's walking past my garage to get to my front door. There are two windows in the garage that face the walkway where they will be. I would like to partition off a 8' deep x 8' wide section in front of each window and create two different horror "scenes".

I am searching for a material to use to drape from the ceiling to enclose the area so the rest of the garage is hidden and the scenes are seperate. I want the color to be black. I have been thinking of using several black plastic tarps or king sized flat bed sheets to do it.

My garage is 10' high and the typical king bedsheet isn't long enough to cover from ceiliing to floor. I was thinking of buying several and then stiching/adding material to make them long.

Does anyone have any ideas of what I could use and where I could buy it wholesale? I saw Black King Bedsheets on JCPENNY online for $30 a piece but I would need 3 or 4 just for the one window. There must be a cheaper way to do this. (No, I don't want to tape together a million large black trashbags.)

Help!

If you are going to sew stuff together anyway, look at buying cloth by the yard. You ought to be able to find 60" wide cloth in black or very dark blue or brown cheap if you are not picky about how it feels. Look at clearance fabrics or if you have an outlet for remaindered fabrics in your area you can check there.

You can use some of the black pastics out there. i don't use it a lot myself so I don't know the best kind but i know people get rolls of the stuff at home improvement places.

another idea is to not go all the way to the ceiling. If you don't have light behind the drape, nobody should be able to see the top edge or ceiling. you can attach your cloth/tarp/whatever to a piece of pvc pipe that you hang from the ceiling or you can build a frame out of pvc pipe to hang walls.

have you looked at the scene setter decorative wall rolls? They come in lengths of about 40 feet long by 4 feet high. the design can be stacked so you get a relatively nice looking background. Dollar Tree in my area had some cheap versions of the scene setters that are 42 inches wide by 6 feet tall. You could get a 7 foot wide by 6 foot tall scene for $2. That $6 per room. The DTs near me have 2 designs: creepy rotting manision room with spiders everywhere or stone wall with JoLs

I don't know whether this is a sensible suggestion or not since I don't have a very good concept of how much things cost(!), but we used some stuff from the garden centre called weed control fabric (it seems to be also known as mulch fabric or landscape fabric). It's black and apparently made from 'spunbonded polypropylene', whatever that means!
We sewed lengths of it together to create wider pieces, and used them to block off the front entrance of our garage. I don't know that it was any cheaper than buying 'proper' fabric or bedsheets, but it was effective.

Another economical solution is black plastic sheeting. You can find it near the paint aisle at Home Depot or Lowes. They have "small" amounts of 10 ft by 25ft for around $10.

Originally Posted by Pumpkinprincess

Another economical solution is black plastic sheeting. You can find it near the paint aisle at Home Depot or Lowes. They have "small" amounts of 10 ft by 25ft for around $10.

This is the way to go for an inexpensive but effective result. We use this stuff in our garage each year for a scene and it works well.





at night with red lighting

harbor freight has painters tarps (the cloth ones) relatively cheap. the best part is they are easily painted to your scene or used for something else when it isnt halloween

we just did a haunted house at my son's school last weekend and I built frames out of 2x2s and covered them with black plastic sheeting, I used 6mil to keep out as much light as possible ( mid day haunt), it worked pretty well. it's fairly cheap and easy to store.

I am not sure I like the plastic look, but at night it's not easily as seen. I would prefer fabric but plastic is a cheap option. I guess I need to compare how much it would cost me for the fabric verses a few 10' x 25' plastic sheeting. Where did you buy the sheeting from? 6mil is pretty thick. Does Home Depot or Lowes sell this?

Home Depot and Lowes both sell it, and I have bought at both places, I believe that the stuff I bought from Lowes wasn't as shiny....



Sorry, only pic I have on the computer ( right now ) that even shows the plastic...

Thanks for sharing. I will try it.