In offices as well as in open-plan homes, small studios and the like, we often need to find ways of marking off certain areas, for example to separate a home office from the living room, or the bedroom from the lounge in a studio apartment.
With this in mind, Morgan Satterfield of Morgan of The Brick House, while helping Shelly Leer design her workshop (ModHomeEc), came up with a highly functional, original and, above all, inexpensive solution: an easy construction made from plain rope.
Achieving this striking result is fairly simple.
You need to build a few wooden boxes to serve as the floor and ceiling bases for the ropes, sized to suit the area you want to define.
In these you drill the right number of holes, carefully spaced and large enough for the rope to pass through. Next, fix the bases firmly to the ceiling and the floor, making sure they are parallel and directly opposite each other. All that remains is to thread pre-cut lengths of rope through from the top (allowing some extra for the knots in the top and bottom bases) and then tie each rope off at its corresponding position in the floor base. Finally, to hide the knots, you can nail a cover onto the open side of the bases.
Besides its low cost for such a striking result, the advantage of this construction is that the divider lets light filter through the space.
Tip!
Using this idea as a starting point, many other applications could be designed that would make impressive solutions in commercial and residential spaces alike: for example, replacing the ropes with coloured ribbons, fabric cords, cables, and so on.
Imagine a divider like this made with coloured wool, measuring tapes, or multicoloured balls of thread strung on fishing line – and that is only the beginning! The space the divider is intended for may well give you the inspiration for your own unique idea!
Text: Natasa Lianopoulou
Source: www.the-brick-house.com
