Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
We have a minor logistical issue: we live in a small apartment with four kids. This isn't an issue of itself, but at the moment Beautiful Daughter is still sharing a room with us. This was supposed to change soon but with the job situation looking a bit static we need a solution until that joyous day.
Our living room is fairly big, so one solution to this is to make our living room into a bedsit. Of course this means we need to make a space for the bed that is relatively private. We've got a set of Ikea shelving units that can serve as the basis for a partition.
The problem is that the main window is the opposite end of the room from the door, therefore any divider needs to allow light through, and preferably be removable so we have light in the living room when there's no-one here.
Ideally, I'd like to make Shoji screens but that would take too long, and apparently a painted theatre flat isn't acceptable (even when I offered to paint it to look like fine stonework...) This means fabrics and other soft movable things, which to this cabinet maker are a bit of a mystery.
What we need is something:
At the moment I'm thinking in terms of a rail on the back of the shelf and some kind of light coloured material, possibly patterned. Dominant colours in the room are wine red, browns and creams.
Exact products will probably be different here unless they are from Ikea, but any ideas for kinds of fabric or hanging/rolling methods are welcome...
Our living room is fairly big, so one solution to this is to make our living room into a bedsit. Of course this means we need to make a space for the bed that is relatively private. We've got a set of Ikea shelving units that can serve as the basis for a partition.
The problem is that the main window is the opposite end of the room from the door, therefore any divider needs to allow light through, and preferably be removable so we have light in the living room when there's no-one here.
Ideally, I'd like to make Shoji screens but that would take too long, and apparently a painted theatre flat isn't acceptable (even when I offered to paint it to look like fine stonework...) This means fabrics and other soft movable things, which to this cabinet maker are a bit of a mystery.
What we need is something:
- Inexpensive.
- Translucent but not see through.
- Removable, as in something we can push aside or roll up or something.
- Pleasant to look at from both sides.
At the moment I'm thinking in terms of a rail on the back of the shelf and some kind of light coloured material, possibly patterned. Dominant colours in the room are wine red, browns and creams.
Exact products will probably be different here unless they are from Ikea, but any ideas for kinds of fabric or hanging/rolling methods are welcome...
