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Thursday, February 21, 2013

How To Make Room Dividers From A Number Of Sources

By Kevin Mai


Room dividers can be made of a variety of materials or even recycled items. They function in just about any room in or out of the house. And the uses of room dividers are limited only by your willingness to try.

Dividing a room with a piece of furniture is a common decorating practice. Most commonly, a shelving unit or taller table, like a sofa table or library table is used. This allows for both storage and display areas as well as visually separating the floor space.

Paper screens or folding screens with cloth panels are lightweight and easy to move. Some folding screens are extremely heavy and made of particleboard or metal. They can require two people to move them safely.

Why you want to section off areas of room can determine what you use to accomplish this goal. If privacy is an issue or you want to conceal a messy desk that you use in the living room, the solid screen will be more effective than an open shelving unit.

Limited living space is often the reason a room divider is needed. Studio apartments are perhaps the best example of how room dividers can do double duty. While a kitchen cart is available for meal preparation, it can unfold for a dining area and block the off the kitchen when not in use. A bunk bed can have a functional office under the bed or even a closet and dresser.

There are wide desks that have working drawers, knee space and worktops on both sides. They can divide a small office to accommodate two people. Where you place large pieces of furniture can section off space in a large room. Even floor coverings can create separate areas.

There are materials that you may not have considered for room dividers. Three old screen doors that are hinged together will offer space for photos and art and make a great recycling project. There are cardboard walls in different heights that collapse or stretch as needed. The honeycomb structure lets them curve and bend as well.

So you are not greatly limited in what and how you use room dividers. The kitchen, office, living room or even outdoors is fair game for division. Studios can profit greatly from their use. And what you use is limited only by imagination.




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