Building a stud wall to a window?

jaspercat2002

Hi
First time posting on this board and still a newbie to MSE really so hello!

I hope I can explain this properly. We have just moved and have a relatively small main bedroom with no built in wardrobes and no room to build them or put a freestanding wardrobe. However we have a much larger than average en-suite attached (weird I know - its part of an extension)

So we would like to wall off part of the en suite and put a door through from the bedroom to make a large-ish walk in wardrobe and keep the rest as a more sensible sized en-suite. The problem is that there is a large window which we thought would need removing, partly bricking in and the a replacement smaller window in the en-suite side.

We got 3 builders round to quote and the first thought we might even need planning permission for this. Then the last guy who came suggested building the stud wall up to one of the dividers (the window is split into 3 panes) and having a third of the window left in the wardrobe (hope this makes sense)

Obviously this seems to be the cheapest option (although his is the only quote to come back so far) but will this look really naff? Am not too worried how it will look on the wardrobe side. Would we need to put in a wider divider? Has anyone done this or is it a really bad idea?

Many thanks in advance if anyone has any advice

Zoe

ormus

ive seen it done with a large bedroom to make 2 childrens bedrooms and it looked very naff.
the only good thing was that it was a temp solution to a problem, and the stud wall was to be taken down before the house was sold.

steve-o_3

Hi, I don't think I'd go for that option, sounds like a bit of a botch job and would question the workmanship of the builder who suggested it!

I would go with your initial thought, find where your wall will come up to on the window and brick in the wardrobe side and get a new pane for the en-suite side to fit the new opening.

As for planning, you shouldn't need it as you're not changing the useage of the house, ie habitable to non habitable etc (like if you were converting a garage to a spare room, this was once non habitable and will now be habitable - make sense?). At worst, you might need building consent which is totally different and alot more straight forward.

jaspercat2002

Thanks both for your replies - I kind of suspected as much.

Ah well!

Zoe