In my former home, an previous colonial, we had a servants staircase that led from the kitchen to the second flooring. That is deceptive in so some ways. We didn’t have servants, simply the occasional babysitter. And our modest dwelling, the smallest on our block, was definitely not fancy or massive sufficient to warrant a second set of stairs. Uninterested in that darkish and steep legal responsibility simply gathering mud (too spooky for the youngsters, too treacherous for the adults), sooner or later I made a decision to trend a curtain from a beloved lungi I’d bought from Aunti Oti, and grasp it in its kitchen doorway. Presto: The beautiful makeshift curtain not solely hid the miserable stairway, but in addition created a hidden storage space within the course of. I now had a spot to stash random home goods, like additional paper towels, pet food, and our bike helmets (I informed you our home was small). Ever since, I’ve been a fan of curtains in lieu of doorways as an affordable, quick repair for hiding and dividing.
Recently, we’ve been seeing noren curtains, particularly, popping up in initiatives. Noren curtains are conventional Japanese cloth panels, hung in doorways, throughout home windows, or on partitions. What we love about them, other than their purposeful simplicity, is that they do double-duty as artwork.
Behold:
