Are you looking for a homemade room divider?

Well guess what... you've found it! I live in a tiny studio in New York city and I was looking for a cheap room divider but not the kind of cheap that would have left my studio looking like the set of an old chinese movie from the 70's, and by chinese I mean one of those ugly three folds that when you actually fold them it only covers half of their own size.

They are so ugly and it looks like they are the only option for a room divider because every single furniture seller has those kinds and nothing else. I looked and searched all over the internet, local furniture stores, ikea, ebay, craigslist, google, everything, is like an epidemic, if you do a search under "room divider" the only options you get are those kinds of folding crap. Other options that I found but didn't find adequate were curtains, lamps, bookshelves and some other expensive weird and rare artifacts that seem more like a tumor standing in the middle of your room.

There is actually a beautiful stylish room divider at divider.com that would have been the perfect solution for my studio but paying $600.00 for a room divider seems like too much and it's only a piece of white fabric between to metal tubes. So after months of looking for the perfect room divider I said to myself "fuck it~ I'll do it myself then" (I really said that) and I did.

I went to home depot and bought 4 pieces of wood of 1in. x 4in. x 6ft. to make a frame with the intention of installing a set of blinds under the upper rack to make some kind of portable window but then I found this cheap blinds made out of paper that were even more easy to install just by sticking them to the upper surface. I bought four of these, sticked 2 of them to one side and the other two on the back side creating an empty space between the two which I used to place a set of 3 spotlights similar to this ones to create a light effect inside through the paper blinds. The cost of the pieces of wood was around $7.00 each, blinds were also around $7.00, the spotlight was the most expensive part for about $25.00 and about $10.00 to $12.00 for building materials to assemble the frame and the L-shape brackets that I used to make the frame stand still.

Here are some pictures:



The paper blinds are stick to the upper and bottom racks only not to the sides as there is no way to do that or doing so would brake or damage the blinds that are made out of paper, just like the one you use at your office xerox.



The lights are just lying on the bottom rack and the cable goes out through one of the sides on the bottom to a wall outlet.



To make the frame stand still on the floor I used this kind of ugly L-shaped brackets because I couldn't find wooden ones that would have make it look even better.