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Hi everyone. I want to turn my dining room into a tunnel! The problem is, I'm not sure what the easiest/cheapest/lowest tech way of partitioning it off would be.

Please advise a hapless haunt newbie. Thank you so much.

can you post pics of the room so we can see.. it would help on giving advice/opinion on the best way

Originally Posted by Hyprosick

can you post pics of the room so we can see.. it would help on giving advice/opinion on the best way

Yeah, sure. Please forgive the mess!

Also please excuse Grim, who's being kept in the dining room where I can easily work on him



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The tunnel needs to go between these two doorways...kitchen/dining room doorway and dining/living room doorway



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This side doesn't especially need to be partitioned off...as you can see there are built-in bookshelves which can easily be spookified with cobwebs and stuff. If it's easier to just build one partition, I can just partition off the major part of the room and leave the bookshelves as they are.



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This pic will explain to you why I want the room blocking off. My pets live in this room, and my pets aren't very scary!



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Tammy the guinea pig...demonstrating how un-scary she is



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I'm now unsure whether it'd be easier to just build a tunnel, rather than attaching things to the walls and ceiling. Also, the house I'm in is rented, so I can't do anything to the walls/ceiling that can't easily be repaired (not too worried about eg holes in the ceiling as I can just fill these in afterwards)

Any thoughts would be appreciated

I have a quick way to do that. Get some black sheets (I used black landscape fabric) and put in screw eyehooks into the ceiling (studs if you can find them). Flip the top of the fabric over, sew a hem with an opening that would fit a PVC pipe. This would make the top just like a curtain rod and keep the fabric taut at the top. Hang it by attaching zip ties around the two ends of the pole (will have to cut holes in the fabric for this) with a second zip tie inside to become a hook to hang from the eye hooks.

Use safety pins to close the gaps between two or more of them.



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Originally Posted by Terra

I have a quick way to do that. Get some black sheets (I used black landscape fabric) and put in screw eyehooks into the ceiling (studs if you can find them). Flip the top of the fabric over, sew a hem with an opening that would fit a PVC pipe. This would make the top just like a curtain rod and keep the fabric taut at the top. Hang it by attaching zip ties around the two ends of the pole (will have to cut holes in the fabric for this) with a second zip tie inside to become a hook to hang from the eye hooks.

Use safety pins to close the gaps between two or more of them.



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Thank you Terra! That looks pretty simple to do :-) and I wanted, if possible, to get away without building huge chickenwire/PVC/plywood walls, as I really have nowhere to store these once halloween is over!

I also thought if I created a tunnel that had no lights and stuff dangling from the ceiling, I could freak my guests out more.

It also means drunken fools won't be able to see the animals. so there'll be no "Hey, I wonder what would happen if we gave the guinea pigs some vodka?" ¬¬ < unamused face.

Glad it would help. At the end of the season I just rolled 'em up. If you make sure those eye hooks are in studs, you can hang a lot of weight off of them:



These pictures are of my new rigid haunt wall panels using wood furring strips as a frame but I hung the same stuff off of them before using the technique I just explained to you.