The Sunday News
Amanda Ncube
DECORATING or designing your home can be tricky especially if you have a large undivided space. It becomes difficult to know where to put what when there are no demarcations. With the availability of room dividers, now the job is done much quicker and easier.
A room divider is a screen or a piece of furniture placed in a way to create partitions between two spaces to diversify their functionality.
Room dividers are multi-functional; they serve different purposes, from dividing a space more effectively to adding privacy to any space, hiding clutter and increasing storage and accents to the room. They can also be used as focal points at the same time adding colour, redirecting foot traffic, creating cozyness and adding a decorative background.
Choosing a room divider for your home should not be taken lightly. This divider will become a fragment of your furniture collection of home plus an addition to your interior decorating scheme, as well as becoming a piece of art which enhances the beauty of the interior. Like all other art pieces of your house that makes the inside of your house beautiful they too have a part of their own in adding to the fashioning of the place wherever they are positioned.
It is important to be sure what type of a divider is suitable for your space before acquiring one. For instance, if it is for privacy purposes, you will have to look for various properties that it has to turn it into a faultless privacy divider. Here are some tips to consider when selecting room dividers.
There are permanent room dividers which vary in design and size as well. These include bookshelf style structures, wine shelf structures among others.
These do not just provide a partition between rooms but have an additional storage function; they can be a great way to enhance style and interior décor, for instance a great wine bottles arrangement can be quite a display at home. In your study, a sliding bookcase is a great example of a more permanent room divider.
There are also temporary room dividers which are the traditional folding room divider designs. They tend to be light and easy to move as compared to the permanent variety. Their main benefits include their different styling for a better look as well as their easy to move lightweight nature.
When selecting room dividers for your home it is important to consider its use. For example there are some which offer total partitioning of the entire room — they cover from ceiling to floor. In such scenarios, the room dividers do not allow for anyone to see through them. These room dividers are great for creating total privacy. There are also shorter structures. They mark out the space but do not offer complete privacy. Others like wine or bookshelf style structures can maintain a clear line of sight through.
Room dividers can also be categorised in terms of the materials used in manufacturing them. Leather, wood and even paper structures are available a well. —Additional information from online sources.
