Curtain and Stained Glass Dividers: Beautiful Functionality
Adding a room divider to your pad is commonly a decision made out of function. Perhaps you are looking to hide a perpetually cluttered corner, or you would like to use something creative at the entrance to your screened in porch. Whatever the reason, there are umpteen choices available in many styles, colours, sizes, & shapes. Budget does tend to come in to play as well. Two ends of the budget spectrum are the affordable curtain partition and, on the other end, the exquisite and often hand made stained glass room partitions. Here are some room divider ideas regardless of which end of the budget spectrum you are on.
Curtain room partitions hang from tracks in the ceiling, much like curtains hang from a window frame. There are a number of store bought curtain room separators available, like the White on White Organdy Room Divider, available at amazon.com, which hangs in graceful strips. Imagine this curtain hanging between the kitchen & dining room; it doesn’t impede your ability go from room to room with hands full of plates & bowls, but it does separate the 2 with strips of organdy.
Curtain dividers are sold like unsophisticated curtains, or as something more formal that slides on tracks on the floor & on the ceiling. Another variety is the bead curtain. These are a series of beaded strings, hanging closely enough collectively to form a drape. These beads may be of equivalent or complementary colors, and often include opalescent beads that shimmer when struck by sunlight; others form a picture when they are hanging closely together. These are great in a teen’s doorway in place of a door or in the entrance way to an enclosed sun room.
On the other end of the spectrum is the stained glass partition. There is no end to the colors and shapes & styles available. An astonishing etched glass sliding separator is sold at krauskiartglass.com, depicting a blue heron and a willow tree, with flowers & another heron taking flight in the background. This is an absolutely superb piece that would make any guest catch his breath. This site belongs to a studio, & the partition appears to be 1-of-a-kind, but consumers are invited to contact them to design & order their own custom stained glass room partition.
Stained glass room dividers of one panel, two, 3 or four, are available framed by wrought iron or wood. When used, frosted glass allows the separator to become a privacy screen. What adds to the beauty of the room separator itself is the brilliant colors that dance across the room when the sunlight hits your magnificent piece. These partitions are often used to mark a change in themes, such as a home office built in the corner of a great room, or a breakfast nook at the edge of the kitchen. It is desirable, not only for its beauty, but because it allows light to flow through so no matter which side of the screen you are on, you are enjoying natural light. Because of the translucent and transparent qualities of these partitions, people on either side can still see each other & communicate, but this amazingly artistic partition marks the difference in their spaces.
