• The Living Space Company

  800-761-9947; livingspaceinc.com

  Need to make room for baby? The Living Space Company designs and installs temporary Sheetrock walls without using nails, nuts, bolts, plaster, or anything else that might damage your paint job or your parquet. A standard twelve-foot, three-inch-thick unit starts at $695 (plus a $200 security deposit), with add-ons like French doors ($195) and translucent frosted acrylic panels ($95 and up). You lease the structure for up to three years, which is, technically, the amount of time you can count on the wall holding up. When your lease is over, Living Space will come back and take it away

From the 2003 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine