Materials and tools: Expedit (4x4, 5x1), wallboard, wallpaper, wallpaper paste, screws, screwdriver, white paint, stucco bands, hot glue
Description: When I first saw the slender floor plan of my bedroom, I immediately wanted to separate it into to parts and live the dream of a walk-in closet (or the closest possible thing to it). I used a common 4x4-Expedit with an extension made from a 5x1-Expedit (which I sawed to the length of 4 cubes) as a room divider but for me, the room was still far too bumpy. So I decided to build some kind of screen to close the rack optically and to emphasize the 'walk-in-kind-of-thing'...
I took the wallboard, screwed it onto my Expedit shelf-combination, glued the wallpaper on it and let it dry. While the glue was drying, I took some stucco bands made from Styrofoam, sawed them into the right length (be careful about the angles!) and painted them with white color to receive an even more stucco-like finish. After some other drying time, I took some hot glue to fix the bands getting a nice frame for my new headboard / room divider / walk-in closet.
Voilà!
See more of the Expedit room divider-headboard
~ Caro, Germany
why would you saw the 5x1 towers when you could have simply swapped the long tower into the 4x4??
ReplyDeleteI don't really get your point. I wanted to add height to my Expedit so I added one additional row to my already existing Expedit to get a shelf 5 boxes high but only 4 boxes wide (because the shape of my room doesn't allow me have a 5x5 one).
DeleteI think maybe they meant that you could have used the sides of the 5x1 extension for the sides, and the 4x1 sides for the top.
DeleteBut if you'd done that you would have been missing one thin horizontal shelf.
The link says "see more" but you actually don't see more. It's the exact same post as the one here, Jules.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry, that was the old post. Now, you can see the younger one with more pictures :) (It's still the same link.)
DeleteThat works really well,
ReplyDeleteWunderschönes Zimmer :)
ReplyDeleteMir gefallen die Vorhänge sehr gut. Auch von IKEA?
Dankeschön! :)
DeleteJa, die sind auch von Ikea. Ich kann sie gerade nicht auf der Seite finden, aber es waren die billigsten weißen, die zu dem Zeitpunkt zu haben waren :)
This is awesome! My bedroom is also pretty narrow and one wall is entirely closets, which limit where I can place my bed! I never thought of putting it in the middle of the room and making a sort of walk-in closet area!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for the compliment =)
DeleteI love this! I've been trying to convince my husband to do this is our condo. It would mean we could place the bed to face our awesome city views but he's not interested in decreasing the floor space. Maybe if I keep bugging him about it???
ReplyDeleteWell done.
Thank you so much! A great city view would be beautiful, I'm totally with you! Maybe you can convince your husband someday =)
DeleteGreat idea! this might work in our family room to give me a craft area, but to hide the mess.
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