The Best Room Dividers of 2022 for Multipurpose Spaces

Homes are the new multi-hyphenate! No longer just our refuge at the end of the day, homes now play double duty as offices, boardrooms, classrooms and gyms. To help create some degree of separation within your spaces (because who wants their boss in their bedroom?), room dividers have become a must-have for mastering the life/work (and even workout) balance. Shop these 10 beautiful room dividers that firmly deliver on both form and function.

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Amazon

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A Tall Wicker Weave Divider to Let the Sun Shine In

To create privacy without sacrificing natural light, choose a woven room divider, like this tall wicker option. The weave allows light to stream through, while still shielding your piles of laundry and unmade bed from view during Zoom calls. Pair this style with bohemian accents and a leafy green houseplant. HOMCOM Tall Wicker Weave Room Divider, Amazon, $130.

Folding screen with square panels to allow light through

IKEA

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The RISÖR Room Divider is No Eyesore

If Wabi Sabi is the celebration of impermanence in design, what could be more fitting than a temporary room divider? The dreamy Zen aesthetic of this three-panel divider will transport you to a Japanese teahouse. Pour yourself a cup of matcha and you’re basically taking your Zoom call in Tokyo. RISÖR Room Divider, IKEA, $179.

Grey curtain panel on tension curtain rod

Umbra

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This Tension Curtain Rod Alleviates Tension in Shared Office Spaces

This curtain room divider is perfect for rentals where drilling walls is often a no-go. It hangs on a tension rod frame, which can be installed virtually anywhere (hence the name!). You’ll breeze through meetings with this handy screen dividing your home into an office. It’ll be the only tension to speak of, until you ask your boss about that promotion you were promised months ago… Anywhere Curtain Rod and Room Divider, Umbra, $66.

Wayfair

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Divide and Conquer with this Bulletin Board Screen

When you install and fill in this bulletin-board-meets-room-divider, you can show it to your kids and explain that before there was Pinterest, there were bulletin boards! It’s the perfect way to fill your “office” walls with photos of vacations, friends and family. Bevers Panel Folding Room Divider, Wayfair, $260.

Urban Outfitters

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A Beaded Curtain Bursting with Blooms

Suffer from separation anxiety? This beaded beauty provides a sense of divide, without drawing a literal line down the room. It’s perfect for open doorways on main floors, or creating a “wall” in an open-concept condo. Not only that, it’s the ultimate backdrop for TikTok videos. Rosa Floral Bamboo Beaded Curtain, Urban Outfitters, $89.

Lowe's

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A Not-So-Private Privacy Screen

If privacy is a loose concept in your home, this gorgeous gold room divider will work perfectly. It adds a subtle contemporary touch, with a nod to art decor design. Grayson Lane Metal Folding Room Divider, Lowe’s, $458.

Amazon

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A Handy Dandy Room Divider with Display Shelves

This might be the most practical purchase we’ll ever recommend: a room divider, which in and of itself allows a room to play double duty, is also playing double duty as a display shelf! Having shelves, even small ones, with room for photos, notebooks, and pens, will go a long way to defining a little corner of your living room or bedroom as a true office space. Giantex Tall Wood Room Divider with Display Shelves, Amazon, $326.

Four-panel folding room divider with half chalkboard panels

Walmart

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A Fabulous Folding Screen with a Chalkboard

Class is in session with this folding screen with chalkboard (even if that classroom is in your kitchen!). When creating a home office or classroom, it’s essential to carve out a small space that’s well utilized but doesn’t infringe on the rest of your home. Your kids want to be reminded of school on weekends about as much as you want to think of work! With this handy screen, lesson plans and 50 lines of “I promise to do my homework” can be discreetly folded and tucked away come Friday evening. Costway Folding Divider with Chalkboard, Walmart, $245.

Wayfair

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A Cool Curtain, Conservatively Speaking

We don’t mix church and state, so why mix study and sleep? A single curtain panel makes a simple, sweeping room divider. Use it as a great temporary option in dorm rooms or bedrooms. It’s the easiest way to hide a messy bed, or sleeping roommate! Aanya Single Panel Room Divider, Wayfair, $89.

Home Depot

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Get Him to the Greek Isles Room Divider

When your boss spots this room divider, with images of the Greek isles, during your next Zoom call, it’ll be the gentle reminder they need to approve the vacation request your submitted weeks ago. Printed 3-Panel Room Divider, Home Depot, $125.