Room dividers

Modern age architecture are slowly and gradually doing away with the concept of a four walled room, only to come up with new and better ideas to divide up a literally endless space into sectors. The net result is that not only are these new living spaces more aesthetically sound when it comes to our optical senses, but they are also psychologically pleasing, for they do not embrace the feeling of being closed in, in your own home. Moreover, it is a simple calculation of the mind that walls take up space, which is saved when they are not in the scene.

As more and more architects come up with ingenious ideas to divide up homes into rooms, here are some which catch our attention the most, and perhaps are the most pleasing in terms of looks and utilitarian functions.

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The first concept that can be seen in more and more homes is that of utilising a piece of furniture such as a bookcase or a hanging cupboard to divide up a room efficiently into two or three subdivisions. These are utilitarian in the sense that they, apart from dividing increase the accommodation quotient of the room.

Alternatives to such options are the use of not a complete wall, but only a partial wall. This designer ingenuity is in vogue all over the globe as implementing this idea allows an architect or a designer, whosoever, to play with his imagination. Just imagine you giving a blank canvas to an artist and allowing his full imagination to work on it, it’s basically the same thing. There could be gaps and stops within the monolith, you could also use it as a hanging space for portraits or paintings. You could also shape it in irregular and abstract dimensions, the possibilities are endless.

The people of Japan have an age old tradition of using paper panels to divide a room, which is not only eco-friendly and makes for easy handling, but is also pleasing as long as when it comes to looks. However, a different adaptation of this idea renders the use of glass panels standing right in the middle of the room to divide up. The age of curtains is done with; instead you could use a sort of arch or likewise to somehow subtly imply the division, without overdoing it.

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At the end if it all, take your home space to be a wide, lush field, let your imagination work, and go for it.

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