How to Hang Curtain Dividers

Curtain dividers are an inexpensive and decorative way of creating two distinct spaces inside a single room. Curtain dividers are ideal for concealing a mud room or laundry area. They also make good additions to kids rooms where more than one child plays and sleeps. Hanging curtain dividers is a simple task practically anyone can do with a helping hand.

Curtains
Curtain rod
Pencil
Drill bit
Drill
Anchors
Rubber mallet
Screws
Screw gun

Instructions

- 1
  Unpack the curtain dividers; there will be a rod, curtains, mounting brackets, anchors and screws inside the packaging.
- 2
  Ask someone to lend you a hand. Extend the curtain rod to match the length of the room from one wall to the other, and attach the mounts to both ends.
- 3
  Hold the curtain rod against the walls and mark the holes in the mounting brackets on the wall with a pencil.
- 4
  Put the curtain rod onto the floor temporarily.
- 5
  Select a drill bit that is just a bit smaller in diameter than the screws included with the curtain dividers.
- 6
  Fit the bit into the drill and drill pilot holes into the wall where you made the pencil marks.
- 7
  Put the anchors inside the pilot holes and tap flush with the wall using a rubber mallet.
- 8
  Pull the mounting brackets off the ends of the rod. Hold the mounts in place, aligning the pilot holes in the walls with the holes in the rod mounts.
- 9
  Drive screws through the mounting brackets into the pilot holes in the wall with a screw gun.
- 10
  Hang the curtain on the rod, then hang the curtain divider on the mounts fastened to the wall to finish.

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