How to Divide Up a Studio Apartment

If you find yourself confined to a one-room living space, it's best to optimize the room to the best of your abilities. Dividing up a studio apartment can allow you to have multiple spaces for different activities, including sleep, entertaining and work. With this article, you will learn how to maximize your space, no matter the size.

Things You'll Need

• Tension rods
• Curtains
• Book shelf or milk crates
• Paper
• Pencil

Instructions

1. Sketch a floor plan of your apartment, including doors and windows.

2. Draw where you want to put your largest furniture, such as your bed, desk, couch and television. Try to keep your floor plan to scale to ensure everything will fit where you designate it to go.

3. Create lines of demarcation for different activities. For example, an space for entertain space the biggest, since it will likely have to fit multiple people; followed by your office space, which needs room for things like your computer, desk and printer; and finally your bed, which will probably just have a bed and a nightstand.

4. Use the lines you drafted on your floor plan to begin actually moving objects around the space to create cut off lines. Specifically use a bookcase or a series of stacked milk crates to separate your entertainment area from your office. This way books will be accessible to both rooms while also providing privacy to both. Be sure to leave a space where you can enter and exit your office and entertainment area.

5. Take your tension rod and place it between the wall by your bed and the edge of the bookcase. If you are using milk crates or do not have a sturdy book case, you could place hooks in the ceiling and attach rope to crate a make shift clothesline.

6. Hang a curtain on the rod/clothesline to divide the bedroom space from the entertainment space.

7. Take another tension rod and wedge it between the other wall by the bed and the front part of the book case. Once again, if you are relying on milk crates or a flimsy bookcase, attach hooks to the ceiling and tie rope to the hooks to create a makeshift clothesline.

8. Hang a curtain on the rod/clothesline to divide the bedroom space from the office space.

9. Step back and take a look at your studio. You should now have a good-sized entertainment space separated from the office by a bookshelf and separated from the bedroom by a curtain. Your bedroom should be separated from the office with a curtain. Make any adjustments you see fit to personalize your space.

Tips & Warnings

• Depending on the shape and size of your studio, you may have to make minor adjustments to these steps. Regardless, rely on curtains and furniture to divide up your studio. That way you won't be using up too much additional space.

• If you have a walk-in closet in your studio that is big enough, you may consider moving your bed in there and using that as your bedroom, giving you more space for your office and entertainment area.