You Can Pick Room Dividers From Various Sources



by Kevin Mai


Room dividers can be used for so many purposes that it is hard to decide where to begin. The structure itself can be made of a variety of materials. The rooms that can use dividers are unlimited as well.

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.

Deciding how you use the section of room you want to divide off will often determine what you use to do the job. A light screen can hide a heavily used business area or craft center. An open shelf might not accomplish the same thing.

In studio apartments, methods of allocating space often have furnishings that have multiple uses. A kitchen cart opens into a dining table or blocks off the preparation area depending on what is going on at the moment. A bunk bed can hide a nearly full size closet space or an entire office beneath the upper bunk.

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 room dividers made of cardboard that can be stretched or compressed like an accordion. They will curve around into circles or S shapes as needed. They can be painted, left natural or used to hang art. Using materials besides wood is not uncommon. For a DIY or recycled room divider use three old screen doors, hinged together.

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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