Some rooms have no closet space at all, possibly because they weren't meant to be bedrooms. However, if you want to turn an extra room into a bedroom, it can happen very easily, as long as you know frame a closet wall. This project involves some basic carpentry and framing skills, along with the ability to handle power tools. If you are up to the task, you can add the framing for a closet wall to any room in less than a day. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Draw the layout for the closet on the floor with a ruler and carpenter's pencil. Make the interior depth at least 27 inches wide in case you plan on using this as a clothes closet. Leave a gap of 32 inches for the door on the front side of the layout.
2. Draw the layout up the side walls to denote the side wall frame, and across the ceiling to denote the top of the framing wall for the closet. Use a carpenter level and pencil for this part.
3. Cut 2-by-4 boards to fit along your layout with a power saw and fasten them along the layout with regular framing nails and a hammer. Do not install a board along the 32-inch section that will become the doorway. Fasten a 2-by-4 board on the side walls with a hammer and nails wherever the closet intersects the existing room's walls.
4. Measure the distance between the 2-by-4 on the floor and ceiling. Cut 2-by-4 boards to this length and install them every 16 inches on center between the ceiling and floor boards. This creates the frame for the wall. Install two, 2-by-4 boards together at the edges of the doorway to form a door frame.
5. Measure the distance between the two door frame boards. Cut a 2-by-6 board to this measurement and install it 80 inches from the floor with nails and a hammer to finish the wall frames with the doorway header.
Tags: 2-by-4 boards, closet wall, distance between, door frame, Draw layout
