Catering Halls Use Room Divider Screens for a Cost Effective Solution to Divide Large Spaces

Large halls such as catering halls, banquet and receptions halls face the challenge of how to arrange the large space based on the event and amount of guests.  Many large reception halls use mobile folding partitions.  Some are custom made and others are commonly found in institutions or other commercial places.  These types of room dividers are very costly.  To efficiently divide a large hall measuring over 60ft wide, would cost over $5000.  Commercial room dividers are not also the most attractive.  If you are planning an event in a large social hall, yet there will only be handful of guests, the event would look empty if the space was left undivided.

This Italian catering and banquet hall in West Virginia, uses a cost effective way to create attractive, portable inexpensive partitions.  The owner of the venue purchased 5 art print room divider screens of red roses as well as eight shoji screens in 4 panels each.  The art printed screens of the roses are creatively used as a backdrop with accented lights around it.  This backdrop makes for a perfect visual center piece where the bride and groom can sit in front of.

The shoji screens are used to create an extra room for the ceremonial participants.  This partition creates almost like a back stage area for performers.   Since the screens are light weight for mobility, a creative way to add support to the screens is to place floor plants in front and in back as show in the images.

DIY Ideas For Decorating A Room Divider Screen

You can be the most creative person or professional artist, yet if you don't have the proper materials to create your masterpiece, then all your efforts would be in wasted.  The DIY blank room divider screen has done half the work for you.  There is no need to find raw materials for your room divider.   Now you can purchase a blank canvas or white cardboard room divider.  There are many different ways you can decorate your divider.  UrbanAccentsNY offers a 65" tall white corrugated cardboard room divider.  The cardboard measures 72" wide, yet is folded into six flexible panels measuring 12"wide each. This divider is light weight, functional, strong and can be set up to create privacy in a moment's notice.  Great for health screening, public shelters, dorm rooms and much more.  There are many ways you can decorate these blank screens in the links listed below.

The DIY blank room divider screen made from cardboard

Here are some ideas and links for making your own room divider.

How to Make a Light Up Canvas
Creative ways to give color and light to your blank canvas room divider screen

Decorate your Room Divider Using Stencils
Use different stencil templates and create your own collage on a blank canvas or cardboard screen

 Make Your Own Japanese Shoji Screen From Cardboard
DIY cardboard shoji room divider

Explore The New Adult Functional Poster Room Divider with Photos and Art Print
Hundreds of different printed themes from famous art and photography, wrapped around a spruce wood frame with a poly-cotton blend canvas.  High saturated ink printed gives this room divider a long lasting vibrant image.  Use them in your home or business to define or divide a space, use as a corner accent piece.  Perfect for themed events and decorating.  Visual merchandisers and window dressers can use these as display props in stores.

Art print room divider screens from UrbanAccentsNY.com

Visual Merchandisers Get Creative with Room Dividers

The new trend using room divider folding screens with images for showcasing product

Commercial window dressers and visual merchandisers  face many challenges when deciding on the appropriate props and accessories to use for designing displays in stores and showcasing windows.  The way the merchandise is displayed will have a great effect on how customers interact with products in store.   Many store owners will agree that if a product is displayed the wrong way it loses its value and can hurt overall sales.  Many big box department stores have elaborate display windows which attract people from all over the world who come just to see the window displays.   In reality, most small and privately owned store fronts do not have huge window displays, nor a big enough budget to hire a professional to dress up the window.  

This store owner uses a life size cardboard cut out of President Obama with the NYC colorful skyline room divider as a backdrop.

Benjamin, the founder of UrbanAccentsNY.com, an online shopping site specializing in room dividers, devised a plan to market specialty folding screens with poster images to businesses.  He says, “Many storefronts and businesses do not realize the powerful effect these art print room dividers have on customers.”  Also referred to as art print divider screens, manufacturers in China were able to digitally crop an image commonly found on posters, and print a double sided image on a 6ft folding paneled canvas frame.  Because they are mass produced and imported, production costs are fairly lower, enabling these screens to retail for just a bit over a hundred dollars.

The beauty of these 6ft tall printed screens is that the average person has never seen an image to this scale unattached to the wall or a billboard.  From a psychological standpoint, the bigger the image, the more importance we give it. We tend to relate the image with the place of business or the product.  Many retail stores will use hanging banners from the ceiling or pop up banners on the floor.  The advantage of using art print dividers is that they enhance the attractiveness of a product and also they draw a lot of attention.   There are over 200 different images to choose from with a double sided unique image from subjects such as, world famous photography, international travel posters, nature and wildlife, vintage and fine art, impressionist paintings and children’s art, entertainment and cartoons.  

Visual merchandisers are now using these folding screens as backdrops in window showcasing.  Many window displays cases in stores do not have a backdrop, so the product on display is not isolated from the rest of the store and does not stand out. These decorative printed screens isolate the products on display from the rest of the merchandise and deflect the glare of the sun so people from outside can see through the window.  

UrbanAccentsNY.com, features hundreds of these decorative printed screens, along with unique urban style furniture and home accents.   More and more visual merchandisers are starting to realize the function of this product and are starting to use them in creative ways.  Please feel free to share any ideas on ways you would use these room dividers.

Visual Merchandising Display Ideas Using Room Dividers & Folding Screens

One thing I find very useful for these art print room dividers is that they are not only used to divide a section of a room, but also can be used in various ways.  Retail stores can use them as a back drop for the window display merchandising.  Lets say you have a clothing boutique.  There are many different screens you could use.  The Mannequin screen is one of the most popular designs.  This screen comes in 3 or 4 panels.  The vintage theme screens are also quite useful for retail stores.  Another way you could use it is at a trade show, or flea market.  From all the different screens available. There should be one that fits your theme of what you are promoting or selling.  Lastly for those people that produce their own video blogs for youtube or other video sharing websites.  These different themed screens make a nice backdrop for when you are talking in front of the camera.  This helps hide any clutter, or personal items that should be concealed.






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