Cheap Office or Room Divider

Step 3 Creating the base

Saw two of the PVC pipes into four 5F long pieces. Take one of them and saw off two 5" pieces (DO NOT DISCARD, you will use these). Slide the crosses over the now 10" shorter piece and put the 5" pieces on both ends. Measure how much longer the base piece is now than 5F (for me this was 3 1/4"). Take the crosses of and reduce the length of the base to make it 5F (for me 3 1/4"). Slide the crosses and 5" pieces back on and check that the length is now 5F.

Into the crosses we will slide 4 pieces of tubing to hold the frame upright. As you can see in the photo my base has all different lengths. The tubing on side of the base that will be at the doorway I've cut to 5" pieces. The tubing on the wall side is 2F and 1/2F with a cut-out. The cut-out is used to place a desk on top of the tubing to give the room divider some real stability. Be creative and adapt these to your needs.

You will need to glue the base together to make sure that it doesn't twist. Only 2 pieces need to be glued on both ends and those are the 5" tubes that attach the crosses to the corner pieces. Once these are locked the frame will stay upright, yet you can still take the thing apart if needed. Make sure when you glue then that the corner pieces are pointing straight up!

Update: The divider seems to work really well and is very stable, even a baby tugging at it doesn't make it topple over, however I will glue the base together in all spots for extra stability.

Comments

[rcaceres]

If I wanted to make a longer frame, say seven or eight feet, would I need to get more of the cross pieces to keep it stable?  What length would you recommend that I cut the longer pieces to make the frame more stable?  Thanks!