Please help!! Seeking ideas for dividing a shared room to create privacy
For more context, I’m doing a room (space) makeover with my 5th grade mentee who shares her room. And it’s a small room. Any help/advice/general wizardry is much appreciated! Note: I cannot share photos to help add a visual to the brainstorm session as it’s not my space and it’s a policy with the mentorship program. Space between beds/available to create separation: 12” Requirement: at least 60” high and 65” long Obstacles: ceiling fan sits right in the middle of this space. And I’m on a very tight budget. Ideally this solution is under $75. Less would be a godsend. Ideas already considered that won’t work: + Suspending a drape from the ceiling either with anchor points drilled into the ceiling, or with tension rods between ceiling and floor, with a crossbar holding the curtain below fan height. The fan interferes with tension rod placement at one end. This same tension rod can’t be placed farther from the fan due to furniture placement or minimal access of movement through the space. A rod/pole cannot stretch the entire room without at minimum one anchor mid-way. + clothing rack (to add curtail to), none I’ve found are tall nor long enough. + IKEA cube shelving. Creates needed storage and gets the job done, but no room to get in and out of beds. Considering but not seeing the solution clearly: + Possibly drilling poles into the floor at points A and B (each end of the length of the beds), and somehow adding a crossbar to hold a curtain. I don’t love this as I hesitate to add a “permanent” fixture to the floor, but I’m feeling desperate… + Folding Screen room divider. What I have seen have been beyond the budget. Or (on Facebook marketplace) not very long and in not great condition. I know, beggars can’t be choosers, but this is a special and big deal project for my mentee so I’d like to try my best to bring in materials that will bring energy and joy to the space, plus serve them well and last many years. This solution is also more cumbersome, perhaps, than a drape. submitted by /u/Any-Jump-1366 [link] [comments]
For more context, I’m doing a room (space) makeover with my 5th grade mentee who shares her room. And it’s a small room. Any help/advice/general wizardry is much appreciated!
Note: I cannot share photos to help add a visual to the brainstorm session as it’s not my space and it’s a policy with the mentorship program.
Space between beds/available to create separation: 12”
Requirement: at least 60” high and 65” long
Obstacles: ceiling fan sits right in the middle of this space. And I’m on a very tight budget. Ideally this solution is under $75. Less would be a godsend.
Ideas already considered that won’t work: + Suspending a drape from the ceiling either with anchor points drilled into the ceiling, or with tension rods between ceiling and floor, with a crossbar holding the curtain below fan height. The fan interferes with tension rod placement at one end. This same tension rod can’t be placed farther from the fan due to furniture placement or minimal access of movement through the space. A rod/pole cannot stretch the entire room without at minimum one anchor mid-way. + clothing rack (to add curtail to), none I’ve found are tall nor long enough. + IKEA cube shelving. Creates needed storage and gets the job done, but no room to get in and out of beds.
Considering but not seeing the solution clearly: + Possibly drilling poles into the floor at points A and B (each end of the length of the beds), and somehow adding a crossbar to hold a curtain. I don’t love this as I hesitate to add a “permanent” fixture to the floor, but I’m feeling desperate… + Folding Screen room divider. What I have seen have been beyond the budget. Or (on Facebook marketplace) not very long and in not great condition. I know, beggars can’t be choosers, but this is a special and big deal project for my mentee so I’d like to try my best to bring in materials that will bring energy and joy to the space, plus serve them well and last many years. This solution is also more cumbersome, perhaps, than a drape.
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