Dividers are used to separate a bedroom into two sections, ideal for rooms shared by two kids and rooms that need a sectioned-off area for storing clothes or getting dressed. The divider is either a permanent structure or a movable object that can be removed permanently when one kid goes away to college. But temporary dividers do not look like they're an actual part of the house. Also, the divider takes up space that could be used for storage, unless you create a divider out of storage units.
Instructions
1. Find furniture that is tall and functional in a bedroom, such as bookshelves, wardrobes and clothes storage systems. Choose furniture that matches the decor of the bedroom and that will block vision from one side of the bedroom to the other. Try to visualize which pieces of furniture you want to put together, so you do not have to work as hard rearranging the furniture.
2. Move the furniture into the room. Remove objects from the furniture to make it lighter and reduce the chances of breaking things. If the pieces are too heavy to carry and the floor is carpeted, slide them across the floor. On hard floors, slide the furniture on a towel to avoid scratching it.
3. Locate an artist's canvas frame to construct a wall between the pieces of furniture if you do not have enough furniture to completely block vision. You could construct the wall by itself without storage furniture.
4. Wedge the center brace in the bar frame. The stretcher bar is part of the stretcher frame that artists use to mount canvases. Put the frame in the center of a fabric piece.
5. Stretch the fabric around the frame, from one corner across its entirety. Staple the fabric to the back of the frame. Continue stretching the fabric around the back, using staples to hold the fabric in place.
6. Cover an entire side with fabric. The other side will have the frame and the back of the first piece of fabric exposed. Go to the other side of the frame and repeat the fabric stretching process, stapling the fabric to the frame. Do not wrap all the way around this time, but simply overlap the first piece of fabric, on the frame, and staple it to the frame.
7. Choose trim that matches the fabric. Use glue to adhere decorative trim to the edge where the two fabrics meet. Place felt pads between the jaws of a clamp and the fabric. Tighten the clamp and ensure that the pressure is distributed evenly, holding the decorative trim to the fabric. Hold the fabric to the glue until it dries. Then release the clamp.
8. Place the divider between pieces of storage furniture, which also serve as dividers. Or use the divider by itself.
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