Reading Dezeen, we were intrigued by this Japanese home which uses curtains and lighting to divide the space in unique ways. Click below for links to instructions for hanging curtains this way in your own home...
These photos reminded us of a post Maxwell did a while ago explaining How to Hang Curtains Across Any Space. All you need is a cable line, turnbuckles, rope clips, and screws (and, of course, the curtain).
The thing that we really love about this house is the way that curtains replace walls, letting light filter through the rooms with different degrees of transparency...
Designed by Takuya Hosokai and Hiromasa Mori, the "Kuro" house (Japanese for black) is dark on the outside and white on the inside. For more information and photos from Dezeen, click here.
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Comments (8)
We recently created this "hallway look" in our small space and love it!
http://lovinglivingsmall.blogspot.com/2008/06/small-space-diy-make-hallway.html
Hey lovinglivingsmall - I have the same issue with my bedroom: it has the only bathroom in the house and it also leads out to the deck. I've been looking at IKEA for some curtain hallway ideas too. Yours look great, but I wanted a thicker curtain on mine. Previous experience with the Dignitet: it sags with heavier fabrics.
Forgot to mention: I'll probably go with the Kvartal series. Anyone with advice/tips on installing these?
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00079362
I am in the process of doing the same sort of thing in the bedroom and I am using the bendable curtain track that I discovered through an AT post about a year ago:
http://konnectinternational.com/Products/Products.htm
I did a floor to ceiling shower curtain with this track last year and mounted the track using those large 3M Command adhesive strips on the extended ceiling mount cartridges (I rent, so I didn't want to drill if I could avoid it...). I use the Ikea pull wand and Ikea Dignitet clips to hang the drapery from rollers that go with the track.
Track plus rollers, endcaps, and mounting cartridges for 13.5' run was just under $100 including tax and shipping.
And if you ask nicely, they will cut the track to your desired length (to the inch, give or take a bit) saving you the hassle of cutting it yourself.
search "hospital curtain track" and you will find many suppliers sell ceiling mounts with the curtain hangers for around $6/ linear foot. we used a local supplier (in montreal) for even less. very easy to install.
we did this with a shower curtain in a rental last year. we bought two ikea shower curtains, using one to make a blue band sewn along the bottom of a white curtain at bathtub height (another $25 including curtains, sewing fees, and stainless gromits).
i think ceiling mounts look nicer then wires, but thats my preference, i can see how others would find the tracks jarring. the floor to ceiling curtain, however, is really nice either way.
If I end up living in a studio/open floor plan space I'd definately do this to help carve out living areas.
As it is, a studio is looking like a real possibility in the future. I was already thinking of a canopy bed to help provide separation of space but this would work better.
This seems like one I read about in a book on modern Japanese homes (maybe the same one?), they had storage behind the curtains.
I used to live in a loft and used something very similar to separate my sleeping area from the rest of the space. It was great! Nice and soft, yet still divided the space.