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Living with people other than your immediate family can cause a big and sudden change to your living arrangement. Inviting relatives or visiting friends to stay in your home for instance, should not only be comfortable for them but also functional so as not to disrupt your established routines or lifestyle. A tasteful division of space is not only aesthetically pleasing to the eyes but a privacy winner as well.

Creating privacy doesn’t necessarily need actual rooms to work with. But zoning out and pretending no one is around won’t work either unless you want to be an anti-social difficult person to live with. The easiest way to have privacy is to section off or divide areas. It can even be in a single room or space, especially if it’s quite big. Your own private section can be decorated with your personal favorites as well. I’m crazy about scented candles but one of my flatmates found them freaky (too voodoo as she called it), so I lighted candles in my sectioned-off space…or whenever she’s not around.

Have each individual select a color scheme for their area. If painting is a possibility then this will help to personalize the area. If painting is not a possibility then find screens and an area rug in the correct color scheme. These will be used to make the area feel more like a private room than simply a section of a room.

Sanding dressing screens or hanging privacy screens can be used to section off an area of a room to create an entirely new room. This will give users a private place to call their own, even in small environments. They can also be used to establish a theme that will make the user feel the area truly belongs to them. Area rugs will be used in a similar manner.

Area rugs are also helpful pieces for creating and dividing spaces. They also complete the design of each space no matter how diverse. With the right choice, a single rug can incorporate all the elements in the room, such as in color and design, or a rug can match the texture of the room.

Make sure not to dominate the design of the place with your favorite items. Make it a melting pot of your differences and preferences. My flatmates and I had quite a varying taste in everything, but we made sure that our apartment expressed each of our likes in decorating. We made the most of our common areas like the sitting room and the dining area because these were the areas we spent most of our time hanging out. These rooms therefore, were not just my or their rooms but ours.

It’s easy to lose privacy in a multi-generational home, but it is not inevitable. With the right decorating, everybody can have their much needed privacy and personal space.