Home Improvement Pick

Woven Bamboo 4 Panel Folding Room Divider

Four tall panels hinged edge to edge, so one screen can close off a corner, hide a desk at the end of the day or turn one long room into two usable halves. Both the frame and the panels are natural bamboo, which is unusual at this size: most folding screens use bamboo only for the woven field and a different wood for the frame. Each panel is hand woven from fine horizontal strips, so it reads as basketry rather than as a flat board, and light passing through it stays soft instead of being blocked flat. Stainless two way hinges let the panels fold either direction, so the screen shapes itself to the corner it is standing in rather than only zigzagging one way. It arrives ready to stand, and folds flat against a wall when the room needs to be whole again.

What you're getting

• Four tall panels hinged edge to edge, ready to stand with no assembly
• Frame and panels both natural bamboo, not bamboo panels in a wood frame
• Each panel hand woven from fine horizontal strips, so light passes through soft
• Stainless two way hinges fold the panels in either direction
• Folds flat against a wall when the room needs to be open again

Why we picked it

Most folding screens use bamboo for the woven field and something cheaper for the frame, and the frame is what you actually touch every time you move it. Bamboo throughout keeps the weight down, which matters on a screen this tall, because a divider that is a nuisance to move stops getting moved and then it is just a wall. The two way hinges are the other half of that: a screen that only zigzags one way cannot sit into a corner properly.