Fabric help!

[kitchen_kink]

So imagine you have a room. A room that used to be a porch. It's supposedly a four-season room at this point, except that it has very little insulation and is equipped only with a single baseboard electric heater. It also has ten-foot ceilings.

On one side of this long, narrow room, you have a little office. On the other, a guest bed. In the middle and to the right of the door, there's a beam in the ceiling that would be perfect for hanging a curtain from to separate the room in two. Which is my plan: separate the room, and get another space heater for the other side.

Question: what material would you use to make this curtain out of?

Comments

[much-ado.livejournal.com]

if you're looking for something with a degree of insulation value, i'd recommend something in an upholstery weight with a tight weave. you can always double it or line it to hide the backside, especially if it's coated with some kind of sealant (as some upholstery fabrics will be).

the downside will be the amount of light it blocks out from what i'm assuming is a windows-on-three sides kind of porch. you'll be down to light from a side and a half, so you might need to consider *which* side gets the best light during your likeliest working hours, and make sure your office is on that side of the curtain.

[muffyjo]

So what about a compromise, put the insulated plastic from the ceiling to about 7 feet. Attach it to a wooden 2x4 or something that you put up there. That will keep the light passing through most of it. And then an upholstery weight fabric would work. I also would suggest an old blanket, honestly. For years I had a wool blanket that I used, before I made a quilt to solve the same problem.