How to Build a Unique Wall to Divide One Large Room

It can be difficult to create a cozy, intimate feeling in a very large room. Unless you have many pieces of furniture that you can pull out of storage to create various areas for personal interaction, you might be left with a great deal of empty space. You could build a wall to separate your one big room into two smaller ones, but this is costly and time-consuming. Achieve the same affect by whipping up a unique, semipermanent room divider from relatively inexpensive, ready-to-assemble cabinet units purchased from a discount store.

Ready-to-assemble cabinet units, each 24 inches deep
3/4-inch plywood sheets
Table saw
Finishing nails
Hammer
Wood putty
Sandpaper
Paint
Paintbrush
Flathead screws
Drill with screw bit
Angle brackets

Instructions

- 1
  Purchase as many ready-to-assemble cabinet units as necessary to stretch across your room. Remember that you will need room at one end or the other to move around the divider.
- 2
  Assemble each unit, but skip the backs and the doors. Place one of the loose backs onto one piece of plywood and trace around it. Do the same with the rest of the plywood pieces and cut out the new unit backs using a table saw.
- 3
  Attach the new backs the cabinet units with approximately 4 finishing nails along each edge. Cover the nail heads with wood putty, let it dry and sand it to a smooth finish. Paint the cabinet units as you desire and let them dry completely.
- 4
  Place the units flat on the ground, with every other unit face down. Align the sides of the units and attach them with flathead screws sunk along each side on the interior.
- 5
  Paint the unit doors separately and reattach them once they are dry. Hide the screws with wood putty just as you did the nails, then touch up the paint and let it dry before positioning the divider in your room. To permanently secure the divider, attach it to one wall with sturdy angle brackets.

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