Partition Wall - Splitting one bedroom in to two

HikingLady

HI. I was interested your post because when we bought our 'four' bedroom house 11 years ago, one of the first things we did was to return the largest bedroom, split into two by the previous owners, to the one larger room. Their layout had resulted in two very awkward and small rooms. Despite there being light switches in both, they were connected meaning that both rooms had to have the lights on (or off) at any one time. To enter the smaller of the two rooms, the previous owners had created a doorway through a previous landing cupboard and added hanging space to one side! While a small part of me wondered if we were devaluing our property by immediately removing one bedroom, the work we did improved the layout tenfold. We now have a three-bedroom house with a large master bedroom rather than a four-bedroom with just the one double.

zagubov

In our first house, we split the second bedroom into a smaller bedroom plus an office /nursery.
No bigger floor area but didn't cost any space either. Put an extra door off the upstairs landing.
Our house was already a bit of a Tardis; didn't look like anything from the outside but divided into lots of useful rooms.
We speculatively put it on the market for a cheekily high price while we went away for a short trip and came home to find we had a buyer for full asking price immediately we put it on the market.