How to Build a Wall to Make a Big Bedroom Into Two Small Bedrooms

If you want to make a large bedroom into two smaller bedrooms, your best bet is to build a temporary partition. This kind of wall allows you to change one bedroom into two without having to do an extensive -- and expensive -- remodel of your home. In addition, if you change your mind you can easily remove the partition.

Saw
4 pieces of clear pine
Screwdriver and screws
Moulding
Hammer and nails
Wallboard material
Furniture levelers
Double-sided tape

Instructions

- 1
  Measure the area you want to wall off. Use a saw to cut four pieces of pine to the proper length and width or purchase pre-cut pieces that are already the correct size.
- 2
  Screw together the four pieces of pine to make a frame for the wall.
- 3
  Make a ledge by attaching moulding to the inside border of the frame using hammer and nails.
- 4
  Put wallboard inside the ledge and attach it by hammering a second layer of moulding around the wallboard.
- 5
  Bolt furniture levelers to the bottom of the wall. Ask a helper to hold the wall upright in the position you want it in. Attach it to the ceiling of the room. If the ceiling is angled, use double-stick tape like the kind used to affix posters to the wall to attach the wall to the ceiling.
- 6
  Paint both sides of the wall so that it matches the bedrooms.

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