sliding room dividers tips and ideas

Why Sliding Room Dividers?

Sliding system on any door or window is often being the choice when you want to divide a big room into several smaller rooms. Many people agree that the room dividers become a popular choice.

Use sliding room dividers for the kitchen if you want a separate place where the whole family can eat together.

 

set your own privacy. Whenever you want privacy, you may choose to close your sliding dividers, and open it to get light and air.

  

 

What Style of Sliding Room Dividers Should You Choose?

Make a divider with screen system on sliding parts, whether it’s a clean and clear screen

Use frosted room dividers. Install it with frame or frame-less sliding room dividers can also go with your creativity.

To give the impression of a modern, there is nothing wrong if you try something more bit expensive. The use of glass as a material of sliding room dividers

Use shoji sliding room dividers.

Installing Sliding Room Dividers Tips

It is easy to install sliding room dividers the first thing you should do is calculate the length of the area that you need to install the track. Before select the materials of dividers and its motives. Make sure you install the track strong and well. Use some rollers to shift the screen above and also below the screen, if you want to add tracks to the floor. Make sure you move smoothly the sliding 

room dividers after installing it.

How to Make Room Dividers with Curtains

curtain divider gives you the chance to separate distinct areas of the house, and allows you to add different colors, pattern and texture in a decorative element which can easily changed.


The curtain panel can slide open to allow access to the whole room, or closed to spend some time by yourself. Just make sure to buy the appropriate materials. Thin, gauzy fabric may look fantastic, but will not provide any privacy. Use ceiling-mounted wires or tracks with Curtains that divide large spaces. Wall-mounted track is best for hanging curtains across an opening or passageway linking two rooms.

 

Installing

1-      Choose the space you want to building block with a curtain.

2-      Hold the curtain rod in position against the wall. Enlist a helper to hold the rod while you use a 24-inch level to check the rod for level.


3-      Mark the hanger locations on the two sides of the wall. Check stud locations of the opening using stud finder.


4-      Attach the hangers into the studs with the screws supplied. Use wall anchors if the hangers are not located over studs.


5-      Put the curtain rod or track on the hangers and hang the curtains.

room dividers installation

video from  Armstrong how to successfully suspend these unique, translucent room divider accent panels from any typical drywall ceiling.

Hanging room dividers

Hanging room dividers is a modern way to separate big spaces,
especially on open space designs It always attached to the ceiling with metal cables with clips on the ends.

Types of Hanging Room Dividers:

There are many different styles, it may be made of glass, metal,
bamboo or cloth. you have to choose the type which Integrates
with the entire space decor. 

Advantages of hanging room dividers

one of the advantages of hanging room dividers is that they offer a temporary solution that can easily be removed or changed. This can be useful for people that may rent a space and not have the ability to do any major renovations.

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A great video from discovery channel discovery channel about how they made room dividers

Room Divider Screen Types

There are lots of room divider screen types. You need to know the types of 

screens which available in the market, in order to make the right

selection.  here some types of it:

Paper 

Its cheap and easy option. You be able to provide a pattern and

color that you like in this paper. One of the advantages of the

paper is that you can simply replace your screen whenever you

want.

Cloth or Fabric

Although Fabric is more expensive it is more quality. and you have to

focus on cleanliness. Fabrics get dirty very fast.

Glass

Glass makes the room bigger and gives it a modern look. Easy

to clean, however it is danger with the child room, even with the

frame installed around it. 

What is the use of room dividers? 

Room dividers are functional and decorative

it can be a nice way to enhance your decor plus it

will provide more area to storage changing cloth area If you

have a big space you can use it to separate it or to divide your child

room.   

6 Tips making your own room divider

Room dividers gives a new look to the place by adding a touch to the place. As well serving many functions, there are lots of ideas and types of room dividers. This are some ideas used for creating
your own one:

1. decorate a simple screen with your own photos, or paint it to go with the decoration of the place.

2. Simple bookcase can be a room divider. Choose a bookcase with an open back and fill it with attractive stuff.

3. Make a divider by attaching two sets of louvered folding closet doors with hinges.

  

4. Make it with ribbons. Attach ribbons to curtain rings

and hang them from A curtain rod. Drill hooks into a ceiling and hang 

the Rod from.

5. Add space by using mirrors on a screen it will make your home bigger.

6. Make use of a fireplace screen as a small divider.

Divide your child room

Use room dividers and a creative paint method to separate your 

kid’s room 

Things to use:

· You need 3 different colors one for each child and a shared color.

·  purchase a room divider or you can also use a bookcase as

 a divider. 

· prepare the paint materials 

(Brushes - measuring tape - rollers - painter's tape)

 steps:

1. Draw line to separate the room with pencil and measuring tape. 

2. After dividing the place paint each side with different color. 

3. When the paint dry put your divider into the place you desire
. Determine where is the place of the wall stripes by matching the height and width of the divider.

4. With a measuring tape and painter's tape, carry these lines around the room.

5. Paint between the tapelines. Remove tape. Place divider or bookstore at right angles to the wall, where the two  main colors get together. Use the shared color to personalize each side of the room.