How to Make Cheap Room Dividers for Kids

Divide a room with a decorative curtain.

Sharing a room can be an adventure for children but it can also pose challenges, even for those children who get along most of the time. Kids need their own, personal space and when a room is shared, it's hard to get a feeling of privacy. In order to eradicate personal intrusions and enable kids to feel as if they have their own area in a shared room, create an inexpensive room divider that is easily opened and closed and even adds to the decor of the room.

Things You'll Need

• Cup hooks
• Curtain
• Double loop chain
• Decorative accessories

Instructions

1. Screw cup hooks into opposite walls, just below the ceiling, at the point where you decide you want the room divider to be. Screw one cup hook into the middle point of the ceiling between the first two cup hooks.

2. Select a curtain to use as a room divider. A thin, nontransparent curtain is ideal, as it will provide maximum privacy. The curtain should be long enough to suspend from the cup hooks to the ground and wide enough to reach from one wall to the other. The material can be stiff, but light, because cup hooks do not hold a great deal of weight.

3. Thread a double loop chain through the top of the curtain. The chain should be hanging out of the openings on both sides of the curtain.

4. Place one end of the chain onto one of the cup hooks. Snip a small hole in the middle of the curtain and hook the middle of the chain onto the cup hook in the middle of the room. Bring the curtain to the other side of the room and pull it tight. Hang the other side of the chain onto the cup hook on the opposite side of the room.

5. Clip any excess chain with a pair of wire cutting scissors.

6. Pull the halves of the curtain on either side of the central cup hook toward the middle of the room to open up the divider. The curtain will glide across the thin thin double loop chain, leaving a decorative display of fabric in the center of the room.

Tips & Warnings

• Choose a curtain that features a color or design that works with the decor of the room.

• Allow children to use fabric paint, iron-on transfers, faux gemstones and any other decorative accessories to personalize the side of the curtain that will be seen from their side of the room.

References

• Curtain Room Dividers: How to Make Hanging Curtain Room Dividers