26 Good DIY Room Divider Ideas

With a little bit of imagination, you can create your own DIY room divider that will serve to divide your space and give your space more privacy. It's good enough in the living room, the bedroom, the guest room, wherever that it is necessary to wall off an area or separate rooms when space is at a premium. The projects above are simple for beginners to DIY, and they only need some simple tools and materials to create these dividers.

Try using storage bookshelves, plants for a more natural divider, floating bookshelves, wooden pallets, chicken wire, and upcycled bifold doors or old shuttershanging from a track. Or for a more subtle feel, consider hanging curtains, drapes, macrame art, reed fencing to bring a little bit of the tropical feel that you are looking for.

Discover these and other creative DIY room

Ikea Pax Door Room Divider

Source : Ikea

If you need some creative ideas about how to decorate or use room dividers, IKEA Hacks is the right place. Jules Yap, the woman behind the blog Ikea Hackers, offers a clever idea for studio apartments. To create a separate bedroom, she put up sliding walls made from IKEA Pax wardrobe doors. With frosted glass panes, these doors stand higher than floor-to-ceiling and effortlessly glide on their tracks for a sleek and practical addition to your.

Ikea Pax Door Room Divider from Ikea Hackers

IKEA Bookshelf Room Divider

design by Sherly

Bookcases are widely used as room dividers, providing both space separation and extra storage. For this Ikea room divider hack, simply rotate a shelving unit to stand perpendicular to the wall. Ensure it's securely fixed to prevent tipping by using sturdy restraints like metal L brackets attached between a wall stud and the unit's top. Additionally, reinforce stability by driving screws through the unit's side into the same stud.

Ikea Shelving Unit Room Divider Hack from Homedit

Tie-Back Curtains

Design by Nadine

Employ tie-back curtains as an inexpensive option to delineate a bed alcove from the overall living space in a studio apartment. They can remain open to stylishly frame the opening or be closed to ensure privacy.

Wood Pallet Room Divider

Design by Leonardo

Shocked at the high cost of a reclaimed wood room divider at a Boston retailer, Staci and husband Doug took matters into their own hands. They located free wood pallets and quickly fashioned a divider to separate a large room into office and bedroom space.

The partition also serves as a vertical scrapbook: finish nails placed in various spots serve as hooks, with binder clips grasping and displaying personal trinkets.

Wood Pallet Room Divider from My Friend Staci

Salvaged Window Room Divider

Design by Pablo

Emily from the craft blog Jones Design Company achieved an elegant look with this beautiful salvaged antique window sash for a minimal cost. By attaching it to the ceiling with a barn door track, she and her family quickly created a DIY room divider. Emily pointed out that her aim was to define the space while maintaining a bright and open atmosphere.

Hanging Window Room Divider from Jones Design Company

Simple Jute Rope Room Divider

by Home Simple

Renovation fan Morgan Satterfield, a self-proclaimed lover of redoing her midcentury modern home just outside Palm Springs, noticed that her friend's upholstery class, which took place in a large warehouse, felt a little cold. The addition of a divider at the entrance proved to be the ideal fix to give the large space a more cozy feel.

This DIY home divider stands apart from other creations due to the simplicity and the affordability of pricing between $50 and $100.

Jute Rope Room Divider from The Brick House

Salvaged Lath Room Divider

By Jola

Lath once served as a substrate for plaster, nailed to the studs in buildings. Now it has been repurposed as a room divider for a living room.

The Brooklyn Home Company, a family partnership, crafted a special room divider from lath boards from one of the original plaster-and-lath walls. The gesture is a nod to the history of the aged Brooklyn duplex in Brooklyn, New York. The rough texture of the lath boards beautifully contrasts with the smooth, light-colored walls.

Curtain Room Divider

By Smart Room

If you're dealing with a compact living area, consider opting for a simple, cost-effective, and non-permanent solution like curtains, instead of embarking on an expensive renovation. This approach is ideal for renters as well.

High-Gloss Bifold Doors

Diane from In My Own Style had to separate her office and living room. She received the perfect budget-friendly DIY solution in the form of thrift store bifold doors, which she purchased for just $5.00.

By Hack Door

She painted them a glossy white to blend with the rest of her decorating style. To complete the task, Diane mounted the doors on the wall with hinges on one side and attached a handle on the opposite side so that they could be opened and closed with ease.

High-Gloss Bifold Doors from In My Own Style

Macrame Room Divider

by Beauty Room

Macrame is not just ideal for wall decor; it can also be employed as a textured room divider. Rachel of A Beautiful Mess created a macrame divider approximately 7 feet tall to provide her workspace with some privacy. She enhanced it by adding small air plants in the spaces for a pop of green.

Macrame Room Divider from A Beautiful Mess

Barn Door Room Divider

A barn door room divider might be just the thing for homeowners who love the farmhouse look. There are several different barn door kits on the market that can suit a wide range of settings. Amber from Amber Interior Design, however, built her own barn door room divider, which was custom made to create a walk-in closet space.

Barn Door Room Divider from Amber Interior Design

Vertical Garden Room Divider

Nature Green

Vertical gardens are a great space-saving concept, particularly perfect for all those plant enthusiasts with limited space. An easy DIY room divider idea taken from Urban Gardens can be put together easily. It involves arranging approximately 70-inch tall Ikea plant stands in a row together, with three plants on every stand. The planters here are free-standing, meaning one may move them around easily in order to arrange them the way one desires.

Hanging Divider

by Christine

Nicole from Making It Lovely required some space on her front porch, so she created a show-stopping hanging divider using painted pieces of hardboard, wooden dowels, s-hooks, and chains. She began by designing the pattern for the boards, cutting them out suitably, and hooking them up with the hooks. The divider can be simply personalized by experimenting with colors and shapes of the wood.

Hanging Divider from Making It Lovely

DIY Tropical Room Divider

Home Smart

For those who enjoy adding the natural feel of the tropics to their decorating, reed fencing makes a wonderful room divider. Inspired by the idea at Very Irie, this DIY uses cheap reed fencing, with wood detailing, suspended from the ceiling. Not only is it quick and easy to assemble, but it also brings a deep, spa-like ambiance to any room.

DIY Geometric Fretwork Screen

Best Home

Individuals seeking a divider that creates separation without encasing the room can turn to this DIY fretwork screen at Remodelaholic. The same types of screens can cost hundreds, but the DIY version uses a few cheap materials like wood, hinges, and nails. While precise measurements are necessary for the geometric patterns, the construction process itself is easy.

DIY Geometric Fretwork Screen from Remodelaholic

DIY Multifunctional Room Divider

Desing by Jeha

Effortless Style Interiors' room divider is an ideal solution for partitioning the space to make a dedicated office space. The freestanding wooden trifold divider has one side padded and upholstered and the other side chalkboard painted, providing a convenient surface for taking notes while working. The upholstered side can also be used as a headboard when the divider is not in use.

DIY Multifunctional Room Divider from Effortless Style Interiors

Beaded Curtain DIY Room Divider

By Nice Room

This DIY room divider project from Design Love Fest is more about creating visual separation and a sense of whimsy in a room than it is about creating privacy. Inspired by the retro beaded curtains of the 1960s and 1970s, this room divider uses 2-inch styrofoam balls as beads, strung on natural cotton cord. You can customize the number of strands to perfectly fit your space.

Hanging Succulent Garden

Smart Planting

If you want to divide a room without encroaching on floor space, hang plants. Succulents are an ideal choice because they remain fairly compact, so you can hang dozens of tiny planters in a group and use them as a room divider. Borrowing an idea from a DIY room divider project at Skinny LaMinx, this hanging garden uses macrame plant holders to suspend a row of planted succulents in a series. This method not only creates distinct rooms but also creates visual appeal and still retains a sense of open and natural room.

Pony Wall Divider

Nice Room

Constructing a pony wall is easier than you might think. If you don't mind taking on a bit of DIY, this is a great choice. It creates a divide without blocking light, since it doesn't extend to the ceiling.

Metal Bookshelf Room Divider

Dine In Design

Using a little bit of furniture like a bookshelf to divide a room is an easy solution. Alvin Wayne utilized a sleek black metal bookshelf with sparse decor accessories to achieve an impressive sense of separation.

Stencil Screen Room Divider

Best Room Design

Make a custom hanging divider with painted plywood or hard foam board. Design your patterns, stencil them, paint, and then hang them. The divider provides for simple customization with the ability to select among several different patterns.

Screen Room Divider

by Clean House

This is similar in function to the above hanging window screen room divider but begins from the floor for convenient movement if needed.

Budget-Friendly PVC Room Divider

by Room Cheap

Design blogger Susan wasn't willing to let go of her old but still functional trifold room divider. So she proceeded to strip out the flimsy pressboard inserts, leaving the wood frame intact. With a penchant for shabby chic and elegant country styles, she bought chicken wire and stapled it onto all three panels. By filling in the holes with various curios and photographs, she ended up with a personalized DIY room divider that effectively screens her kitchen from the dining space.

Chicken Wire Divider from Home Road

Coiled Wire Fabric Divider

by Yum Decor

This room divider made from fabric is actually not fabric but coiled wire mesh that is draped and suspended like fabric. Cascade Coil in Oregon designed it for a Hyatt Hotel, and now the innovative room divider can be yours too by having the option of customizing through purchasing metal coil products directly from them to create your own one-of-a-kind space divider.

Adjustable Fabric Room Divider

by Simple house

Jennifer Eckert of Fresh Crush design blog created this simple and affordable fabric-covered room divider. With hanging ceiling connectors, it has easy vertical adjustment. The project is a matter of draping fabric across 30 by 50-inch artist canvases.

Fabric Screen Rack

by Hack Beauty

Creating a room divider need not break the bank. For a no-nonsense solution that's all about functionality rather than aesthetics, this DIY project from Instructables is unbeatable. It involves creating a 5-foot-by-5-foot divider using PVC tubing and canvas for $25. This divider provides you with privacy without overwhelming a room, and if you feel like giving it some flair, the canvas can be dressed up easily.

Cheap Room Divider from Cheap Office / Instructables