Here’s a simple curtain concept that you can use as a soft and elegant room divider. All you have to do is suspend a rod from the ceiling and use hooks or rings to attach the drapery of your choice. Velvet is dramatic while gauzy gives a lighter look. It’s easy to open and close the curtain whenever you need to use the areas accordingly. This room divider is ideal for a studio apartment or sleeping area.
Wood is a popular choice of material in homes, and wooden slats are our choice for room dividers! If you have wooden boards left over from another project, you might consider turning them into a slatted partition like this. You can choose the gap between the slats, but when they are placed closer together, it creates a much more cohesive feel and presents like a room divider instead of columns to support the structure of your home. This divider style could be used so well in a bedroom with an open-plan bathroom.
If you’re ready to get creative or want something very different in your home, you should steal this designer-style room divider! Using chunky beech squares and rectangles, this double-sided partition is used to separate two rooms but still achieves an open plan feel. It also adds a lot of warmth to the space while feeling modern. It looks almost like a grown-up version of Jenga, so if you’re a lover of board games, this is how you can pay homage to that part of your personality.
If you have discarded doors or shutters, this is the most incredible design for a divider, especially in a cottage-inspired home or a French Provincial-inspired decor. You could also contact building sites or hardware that may have items like this for you to get at a bargain price. You’ll be able to stain or paint the doors or shutters in a tone that fits your space and connect the panels with hinges. This divider style adds a lot of personality and is very classic in its design.
This room divider is one for the modernists as it’s created in wrought iron and is very sleek in its design. You can leave it bare or add hanging pots to bring in another design element. This could be the inspiration you need to create a foyer in your home, now that you see it doesn’t have to block out light or take up much space. Your guests will be amazed when they walk in the front door and see this eye-catching design element. This would also be a good divider for a seating area and dining room. You could hang artwork on it instead then!
This room divider is similar to the idea of a column divider – a way to divert attention to a particular area and to create a better flow in your home. This room divider has MDF beams, and the wood is stunning in a home like this one. You can get a bit more creative and add cube shelves to the partition so that this space in your home can be used for storage or decorative display. If your home is a no-go shoe zone, you might even choose to make these cube shelves for functional reasons such as key storage or shoe storage.
Here is definitely one of the most intricate room dividers on offer, and it works so well with a home that is more traditional in its decor. An elegantly carved wood divider will truly become the talk of the town! If you’ve been looking into purchasing art for your home, this is a wonderful way to incorporate a flare. It is very classy, but it will most likely come with quite the price tag. This is clearly a more permanent room divider, but it could be just the investment you need to make to complete your home.
This is the prime example of what you should do if you have a compact space in your home or apartment that needs to be divided. The base of this room divider is a storage unit – yes, we love extra storage, especially in smaller homes! While the storage unit is solid, the upper beams of the division allow light to flow through and not make the space feel even smaller. It’s keeping a balance between division and openness is essential so that the area doesn’t feel too closed in.
Here is an inspiration for a fun yet functional divider for your home. This integrated divider can be handy but also look fantastic. The metal frames are set up on a plywood base with more closed storage – if this is in your living area, you can keep items like remote controls, games, and more. The frames on the metal partition allow you to display beautiful things such as a vase of flowers or pieces of small sculptural art. We would highly recommend this design for either a foyer area or even a dining space.
This hanging room divider is much more solid than a curtain or a beautiful piece of fabric. If you want something more robust that is easy to install – this could be your option. It is simple and elegant but has many points of interest with the carving detail. Black is always a good choice for a design like this as it will never go out of style and can add some needed depth to a room. Divide up your living room and dining room with this style of partition – you’ll create a very intimate feel in your dining room and create your own private restaurant in your home.
As a more permanent way to divide rooms, you could definitely look into adding sliding doors into your home. Sliding doors that fit back into the opening of a wall or parallel to a wall aren’t taking up unnecessary space. This design gives you the best of both worlds – you can enjoy an open-plan home or close off the spot when needed. You can choose for your sliding doors to be made of wood, plastic, metal, or glass – depending on your home style and also considering safety.
Continuing with the sliding partition inspiration, ceiling-mounted sliding doors are becoming super popular. You might not always be able to drill into the floor to have normal sliding doors, so these are a great option. This style of the sliding door also helps to raise the ceiling height of your home if you make them extend high enough, which can add a beautiful aesthetic to the space. With room divisions, the goal is never to create a smaller area; it’s just for practicality, so these elegant and tall sliding doors help to make it feel larger.
These sliding doors run from the floor to the ceiling and are stunning. The frosted glass is the perfect way to create privacy, which a clear glass sliding door wouldn’t. If you have a studio apartment, this could be the way to create a division between your living area and sleeping area. You can keep it open during the day when you want to feel like you are in a bigger space and close it when you sleep at night to feel more private. You could also use this in a room where the bathroom is ensuite, and you want a more open plan feel but still an air of privacy in the bathroom space.
Cutwork screens and wrought iron grills are incredible options for room dividers – you can have big ones or small ones – whatever suits your needs. A wrought iron divider is ideal if you just want to slightly divide up space for a visual reason rather than a practical one. You can still see through them, and they can have some exquisite designs integrated into this room divider style. It’s going to be a permanent feature so make sure you are ready for this commitment before spending lots of money.
Slatted wood “fins” are a good idea for partitions where you don’t want to block an area visually. When you allow for gaps between the slats, the light can pass through, keeping the space light and bright. If you have them too close together, you may as well have gone for a solid wall. It’s also an amazing idea if you want to do a curved design instead of a straight line of the wood panels. You can literally create any shape you like and mold it to your home’s aesthetic.
We’ve shown you a set of shelves with a tree intertwined within it to create a room divider, but what about going full tree to create a more natural look than the wooden fins made with slats? Line up bamboo poles, tree logs, or branches to complete your room divider. If you want a more delicate look, opt for the slender stalks of bamboo. If you wish for a more coastal chic look, pick something that resembles driftwood and start your DIY day. Wood is so effective in home design and seems to be a popular room divider trend.
Room dividers are great for dividing rooms – obviously, but they can also be fantastic life savers when you need extra storage room. Add some shelves to your room dividers for it to become a multi-purpose item in your home. Depending on what you want to store in this area, you can add small shelves, large shelves, and even some closed shelving. You could even get creative and turn it into a coat hanging area at the front of your home by adding hooks or a built-in coat wardrobe.
Glass partitions like this one are incredibly modern, with clear glass and black window framing around the glass panels. While a clear glass panel is effective for a physical partition, this one serves that purpose and elevates the style of your home too. This black frame gives the divider a distinct design, and you can still enjoy the light flow through your home. This design could be used anywhere in your home as it is neutral but still striking in its design.
Swap out your glass room dividers for something even more fun – mirrors! Mirrors are fabulous for small spaces when used as partitions because they don’t make the area smaller and create an optical illusion that the space is much bigger. If you have an open-plan bathroom and bedroom, this would be a great option as you can also use it when getting dressed in the morning before work. Putting the mirrored divider on wheels will be even better as you can move it just like you would with a barn door.
Here’s another more natural room divider that would be the perfect addition to a coastal-inspired home – rope! Choose extremely thick rope and create beams with it from the ceiling to the floor. You can attach as many as you need to divide spaces. It’s practical and affordable – what more could you want? You’ll also allow a lot of light while creating a really interesting design moment in your home. You could even get a bit more creative and criss-cross the ropes depending on the style of your house.
Do you love having greenery in your home? Then you need a pot plant-inspired room divider! If you’re running out of space to put your indoor plants, this could also work as an option. Using a cube-like metal shelving unit, place pots in every other room so that you are creating a beautiful pattern to look at. You might want to do it like this one where they’ve used the same type of plant, or you could choose an assortment of pot plants to fill your room divider with.
Many people have old clothing rails lying around in the garage, so put this to use and turn it into a divider in your home. Make it even more interesting by incorporating some greenery into the look. Put three or so plants on the base of the clothing rail and choose climbing plants so that you can wrap a tendril around the top of the clothing rail to help create that division. If you struggle to keep plants alive, you could buy faux hanging plants such as ivy and attach them, so they dangle down from the top rail – just as effective as the real thing and much less maintenance.
Plant walls have taken the world by storm as we try to better care of the earth and what it provides. Plant walls don’t just have to be a thing at restaurants or fancy offices. You can have one in your home and create a room divider from it! You might even consider it for an outdoor space where you would like to have a shower area. A plant wall is fully covered, so it is an excellent option if you want to increase the privacy factor of a spot in your home.
Many home stores will sell plant stands and some fascinating ones like this example where you can insert small pot plants, which looks stunning. It provides a modern design with sleek metal edging, but it is softened by the flower pots placed within it. Here is another time when you could consider using faux flowers instead of the real deal, but it could be a way to divide a space and brighten it up simultaneously! You could even put glass vases in these holders and fresh flower bouquets.
If a harsh black geometric room divider is not your style, there are attractive and more delicate options like this one! These panels can be hung from the ceiling and are a light and bright way to define areas of your home. This divider style is simple and elegant and would work in a dining room, office, or even living room. If you have an existing sliding glass door or a glassed-in space, you can add these panels to this to create more privacy if that’s what you are looking for.
Here’s another rope-inspired room divider that makes us think of a beautiful hotel in the Greek Islands. You won’t need to book expensive plane tickets if you have this divider in your home. Rope is a beautiful and natural material that can divide space but do it very softly. The ropes are pulled very taught and suspended from the ceiling into the floor. It could be wooden beams if you weren’t up close and personal to it. Something like this would also work well in an outdoor area instead of fences and walls.
We showed you a macrame room divider earlier in this list, but here’s a macrame curtain that goes above and beyond any room divider we’ve seen! It combines two great concepts for a room divider, and it’s just incredible. A macrame curtain like this could be what you need to turn an open-plan room into an office or even an extra guest bedroom. The cord used in this macrame project is quite thick, so it provides a lot of coverage, making it perfect for areas crying out for more privacy.
Rolling bi-fold doors? Yes, please! Here is a modern take on the room divider and is a fantastic option if the glass sliding doors do not appeal to you or suit your home’s aesthetic. Choose a high gloss to make it stand out from your walls and create a feature in this space. When the rolling doors can fold back, you can open up space when you want to and close it off when you don’t. As a built-in feature, you won’t have to carry a room divider around the space to achieve this.
We’ve seen some great folding screens, but none quite like this! It’s a mirror folding screen, and mirrors always make a room feel bigger. Even though you’re closing off a space within a home, the mirror will bounce light and keep the area feeling large. Consider adding mirror panels to your folding screen; you’ll have a designer-style divider in your home. This divider idea combines the best of both worlds – a simple folding divider and the illusion of more space with the addition of mirrors.
You can go a step further with bringing the outside in. What about creating a trellis-like to act as a room divider? It’s a great way to guide foot traffic through your home. You can divide a sunroom and sitting area just like this, and what better way than a beautiful arched trellis? You can even grow plants on it or decorate it with faux plants. If plants aren’t your style, pick a beautiful framework that will look just as amazing without anything extra. This room divider ties the outdoors and indoors together beautifully.