Dividing a bedroom into two, can it work?

littlemissmoney

Is it for siblings to share? If so, could you do something low cost like this: Teens room gets makeover after IKEA store inspiration - IKEA Hackers

savvymum1

No it's got to be two separate rooms ideally 

deannagone

My stepfather was a builder by trade and we had to move into a two bed house after parents divorced.  He built a stud wall, but divided the rooms so there was one larger room and one very small room.  It had just enough space for a single bed, with a tallboy chest next to it.  There was a small hallway, on the other side of which he built a wardrobe for the smaller room.  A folding door was used instead of a normal door in the smaller room.  It worked for us but not sure a buyer would be impressed.

TripleH

I looked at a 5 bedroom house, when researching the area before viewing next door looked identical but was 4 bedroom.

Turns out the master bedroom was split in 2. It worked in that property as the room was big enough to make 2 rooms of a reasonable size (I don't think you need massive bedrooms).

I think the issue always is how you access the bedrooms.

cheeky-peach

So glad you put this thread up OP. We are planning on splitting a large reception room into two to use as an office each for me and my husband. Is it only the windows that need Building Reg compliance? 

zagubov

Cleverest way of doing it was in a carpentry book I saw ages ago. Someone had made two bedrooms out of a larger one. The adjoining stud walls were vertically staggered so it was built around a pair of bunk beds, each bunk belonging to a separate room.

In one room the bed was under some fake cupboards hiding the neighbouring room's bunk and the other room the bed was up a ladder above some fake cupboards hiding the first room's bunk.

Very common in Japan apparently, where they know a thing or two about saving living space.

A bit like this: https://www.mattressnut.com/bunk-bed-room-dividers/