We leave in a rented house, so can't do anything too drastic.
It's a fairly typical Victorian mid-terrace, with two rooms downstairs and then a kitchen in a long, thin extension at the back.
The two rooms downstairs have had the dividing wall knocked through (leaving a 'frame') and to get to the sitting room (front of the house), you enter the dining room nad then turn right, where the wall has been removed.
It's been so cold recently that I'd like to close off the sitting room, so that we can preserve the heat in that one room. It has an open fire and could be really cosy, but it doesn't feel it with the dark dining room next door. I'm just not sure how best to divide it.
I was tempted to just nail a double sheet across the hole, but DH insists that if we're going to do it at all, we shoudl do it properly with a curtain rail etc etc. The thing is, surely this would be very expensive as we'd need extra long curtains to cover the 'door-length' gap, and extra wide.
Has anybody come up with a satsifactory solution to this? I think the room used to have fold-back doors as I can see where the hinges would have been, but these are long gone.