I have a living room which is huge! how do I build a wall so I can turn half of it into a small bedroom?

Answer 1

Build a frame and then put up dry wall. Plaster and paint.

Answer 2

Before you slice and dice your living room:
check out the availability of a "murphy bed"
It is installed IN the wall...and whenever you want/need the bed, you pull it down into the room

that way you have a huge living room for relaxing/partying/big screen TVs, furniture, bowling alley...what ever you want

If that doesn't appeal....

frame out a wall in the room and look into putting a "pocket" door in .....a pocket door slides across the door opening....it has the advantage that it doesn't take up space IN the room..in other words, you don't have to make room for the arc of a normal door...which leaves more usable area in the room

If you are going build this room:
check the placement of eletrical outlets and heating, a/c ductwork
you may wind up spend more $$$$$$ on rerunning the wiring and the ductwork than on the room itself....also remember that the lighting for the "bedroom" will have to be run seperately...as the switches that you have now will not control the appropriate lights/outlets


Good luck whichever way you go

Personal Opinion....Keep the large room

stuff always seems to find a way to fill it up

Answer 3

Just build a wall. Joking. First, for code, you need receptacles in the wall and a window or door for egress.

Carpet? Lay a board where you want the wall. Use roofing nails to tack the carpet in place so it doesn't lose it's stretch, then cut the carpet about the same size of the board, little over is ok. Then build wall. You will have to put studs in one at time, because you can't just stand the wall up. Studs should be 16"oc. Call the electrician to wire some receptacles in the wall. And you probably need a switch and light. Drywall, or paneling, to finish trim and paint. Call the carpet guy to install tack strip and trim the carpet and stretch it. You may need some HVAC work, too. You may need supply and returns, changed.

Answer 4

Just measure off where you want the wall. ,build a frame and then put studs about 16" a part , then add dry wall, Then paint. Our home, which was a resturant ,we built 3 rooms for it. They are about 10 to 12 ft high . But we have very high ceiling so we decided to leave the top part open. You do not need to go to the top of the living room. They have a ceiling fans and this keeps the air ciculating works out great. Also measure for a door, The closet , witch we built we added long ven. blinds for a doors on it. Works out great. Good luck Pem

Answer 5

You could always do something simple that would allow you to use the rooms together and seperate when needed. Instead of using a regular bed, use a daybed. Then to seperate the rooms you could use a heavy drapery that you could slide across when you need to seperate them and open the divider and allow the "bedroom" to also be part of the living room. By putting pillows against the back of the day bed, it can be used as a couch.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

you'll have to frame in the wall, drywall it, and then texture and paint it. It sounds easy, but it will be alot of work! I would google framing a wall to see if it gives you more advanced ideas on how to do that.

Answer 8

Contact companies that sell gypsum dry walling they have all you need for DIY,no special tools required ,wont cost a fortune either

Answer 9

Read a friggin book or watch a cable network! Or have someone do it for you.

Answer 10

Fram it up sheet rock it, & paint , Shazam!