Her mother immediately began searching Facebook Marketplace for room partitions with doors and ended up finding a family on Manhattan’s Upper West Side selling EverBlocks — reusable, oversized plastic building blocks they used to create a room for their young son.

The set included a door, and Barre realized that combining the blocks with IKEA wardrobes would give her both privacy and storage.

The price, however, made the idea even more appealing. While the traditional flex wall she inquired about had been quoted at $1,975 plus tax, the secondhand EverBlocks cost her about $700.

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