SHUT THE FUCK UP

Originally Posted by Nirvana

http://www.bedbathstore.com/tenshowrod.html

Temporary cheap solution, fits any doorway and no one could mistake the message a closed curtain says or maybe you can embroider Keep Out on the outward facing side..... Leaves no marks and fully removable at any time.

That is actually a totally cute idea, and I've thought about putting up a curtain (I even bought the curtain for it, just never got around to putting up the rod - I bought these cute brass cafe curtainrod brackets and then misplaced them) but because of the floor plan, I don't think it will help - when we built the addition where my office is housed, I designed it with the assumption that my husband and I were staying together, and I wanted it to be fairly open to the house so that in the evenings, when everyone was home, I could use my computer/listen to music/read without being isolated from the rest of the family. All the bookshelves are in here, so it doubles as the library. It's open to the kitchen via a large, not-door-sized doorframe on one side, and the back door is on the far wall. To the left is my oldest daughter's bedroom door.

The room is impeccably functional as I designed it, with the assumption that I would be working in it when everyone was at work or school, and using it as recreational/open access space the rest of the time. I can even let the dogs in and out without getting up from my chair! I just failed to plan for contingencies like divorce.