1 Bedroom to 2 Bedroom House Hack
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2014
- I recently moved into my friends 1 bedroom apartment. While it's nice living there, having privacy is nice too. We deiced to put up two walls and two doors to convert the bedroom into two bedrooms. This is a great way to hack rent and pay 1 bedroom prices for 2 bedrooms.
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Thank you, thank you! As my 8 and 11 year olds were fighting with each other once again one night ("he's turning his pages so loudly on purpose...I want the light off...he's breathing too loud"), I googled "how to turn 1 room into 2". We used your video to inspire us and, my boys now each have a room! The room was about 11 x 12, with 2 windows, so each boy gets a window. My hubby is handy, and used drywall and insulation. He also knows how to do electrical, so each boy has a light switch. Thank you so much! Our bedtimes are so much more peaceful now! (We did it 6 months ago, I'm just coming back to say thank you now)
Awesome. Yea, drywall would be better for sound proofing.
Christie... It's great to see this helped you, as I too give you you thanks for the chuckle you gave me. " He is turning the pages to loud, breathing too loud...lol I can empathize! 🤣... Motto for me is better late than never!!
I'm a single mom starting from nothing. This is exactly what I need so I only have to pay for a 1 bedroom but my 11 year old can still have his own space. Thank you for this!
Found this in 2018 and gives me tons of ideas for me to divide a room with my sister. Love it 👍
Just move to Alabama and stay in the same room
Definitely
I'm putting a permanent wall up in my basement. You've helped me map out everything I need & how to execute it. Great job, very creative way to divide rooms
This is exactly what I've been looking for. Selling my 4bd home and moving into a 2 bd condo. Would like my kids to have their own spaces when they visit, being that they're 10 and 8. Good stuff!
It's a good idea seeing as you haven't made any permanent alterations that'd piss your landlord off! Well done
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@@laurabrown6073 It's not a wall though...
Loved it too. Easy temp way to make an extra room. Thanks for sharing
This is really nice work. But-- why are you wasting so much precious space on a hallway? Maybe a diagonal cut, if you're willing to give up the window. Or just move the doors up closer to the existing door of the room, to give you a few more feet for a closet bar or something.
So cramped but awesome idea guys. I am impressed!
Dude such a good video! Thank you for uploading this!
It's perfect. Helps me to craft out my ideas and visualisation for converting 1 of my bedrooms into 2. A bit cramp but it works
Would be extra cool if the narrow room had a tall bed, for storage and things underneath while still having a floor. Like a loft.
Omg! Thank you for this idea! Looks great!
Thank you this is exactly what i was looking for
When I saw the price of the wood 5:35 I had to double back at when this video was made. 7 years ago I wish I know how to do this
love how u did every thing looks awesome
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U r brilliant. Thank u for sharing
one of should have just given up on having a window. you both would have had equal space. both doors to one side opening out towards the smaller new hallway entrance to gain space in the room.. Whoever put their bed just inside their doorway, that should have gone towards the back where your dresser was. keeping your open floor space in front when you enter your room. an accordion door was better in this case I think.
Thank you so much for the idea. You're a genius.
thx
You can also use bi or three fold doors to save the space
Genius! Nice work guys.
Great job 👏
Amazing. I am so attempted to try this in my small rented apt. But afraid it won't come out as good since I' very never built anything. Love your idea.
Hope you tried! Cuz that's how one learns to do!!
How is the sound though? And stiffed, smaller room and no closet for you
Absolutely love this , gonna do it 😊
hows noise? do you feel like you shouldve put something in the middle to reduce it?
Thanks
We have a one story house with only 2 bedrooms and i have 2 kids 4 years apart in age. The oldest snores now 😔 and 18 month old wakes up to the sound of a pin dropping and im a zombie at this point. The girls current room is right behind the living room so im starting in the corner on the other side of the door to section off an L shape from about 6f x 8f with the door the same direction as the original so not to make the small bit of hall too crowded with doors.. I saw this video when we first bought the house and didnt save it so i just took 30 minutes scrolling through my history back to january of 2020 😂
It appears only one bedroom has access to the closet. How did you deal with that?
Honestly drywall wouldnt have been much more and not that much harder to cut
This is excatly what i was looking for
would love to do this since a family friend of mine and i are looking for a one bedroom apartment, the issue is landlords would not agree on this--building another structure inside a structure. probably a divider or thick drapery is good, but i love to do this since my friend stays late at night with the lights open when he study and vice versa....:(
Bummer sorry about your landlord! Maybe you could get shower rod to brace up a piece of cardboard and cover it with a noise and room darkening curtain cheap and no damage done???
Great video! What program did you use ro perform the 3d model? Pr whar software do you recomens for a beginer that wants to do a si.ilar project like yours?
I used blender. It's not an easy software to learn, but I already knew it. Maybe sketch up or something for beginner.
Have to say good for you! If there's a will there's a way! I love those who are not afraid to think outside the box! There are so many ways that are simply Right! It is fact when one holds an understanding the hurtful actions in judging is left out! That's my friends is easy to obtain as well! * It's had by taking the time to ASK why!! From the standing position already knowing that life isn't about one it's about ALL be open to learn where another is and the factors they are given to deal with! No two are ever the same, none are wrong nor right because they are equal, in fact the true value is called UNIQUE. Right Accompanies Wrong ... By nature's design life is rAw. Keep the balance stay focused on the center live rAw love and serve All ..... Thanks for sharing guys! ✌️
How do you fit the mattresses in the rooms 😂 other than that awesome video🏆👍🏻
how wide the hallway that you made in the room? thank you.
Would love to do this in the expensive Bay Area, but I have also heard that firefighters loathe when people start messing with established floor plans. Safety....
how did you use blender to make a 3d model
So this is basically how to create two closets out of a small room and have no privacy due to a shared window and styrofoam walls which allow all sounds to permeate both "rooms"? You might as well just share the room.
True they are pretty small. But we spend most of the time in the living room. It IS nice to be able to goto bed later than the other without waking them up, changing, sleeping nude on hot nights, etc etc. It also has some degree of noise cancellation for things like snoring. So it's a lot better than just sharing the room in my opinion, and yeah it will never be as good as a proper 2BR.
lol
I just wanna bust through that styrofoam wall 😂
I'm planning on converting a living room space with this idea. I just wanted to get some insight on how sturdy the wall was or if anyone else knows how the wall is secured. Thanks!
In my plan, the walls form a T shape, so they held themselves up. I didn't secure them to the apartment because i didn't want to damage the walls. It's basically free standing, but I built it with sub centimeter tolerance so the gapes where our walls meet the real apartment are tiny. it stood fine.
@@hypurban I'm renting out an apartment as well, so I don't want damage to the walls. In my case I would just need one wall across the living room area and it would form a bedroom. I don't have any experience in this type of work. Do you know if that could be done?
@@b5790 If you don't want to mount it to the real walls, then you can do something like this: i.etsystatic.com/16370187/r/il/b4efdf/1396937447/il_794xN.1396937447_ot8t.jpg to make it stand straight at all times. I would probably make them a little bit bigger tho.
hypurban Thanks so much for the advice!
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How did you determine how many vertical 2x4's to put behind the styrofoam walls? In other words, how do you determine how much structural integrity the wall needs? I see you have 2 between the door and the wall.
I wasn't worried about structural integrity - the Styrofoam is extremely light, and this frame would stand on it's own, due to the fact that it was T-Shaped and fit the walls-ceiling perfectly. It wouldn't be able to fall even if it wanted to, because some part of it would bump into the ceiling or walls. (We put foam insulation on the parts that could come in contact with the walls/ceiling so we wouldn't scrape them if it bumps it)
The verticals were determined just so each foam piece could have at least two things to screw into. There were two on both sides of the doors, so the prebuilt frames could also have something to screw into.
Did the window open from both rooms?
looking around on youtube for
sliding doors solutions , less money and work
What's the size of the wood you used? Does home depot cut it for free according to the dimensions you want? Or you have to pay for it?
Pretty sure I listed all the sizes in the chart in the video. Yea home depo will make cuts for free, but nothing under 6" for saftey reasons.
Would have been cool if you had slider doors or bifold doors for more space.
Hi, so I like the design but did u ever think about the closet for bed space. My bedroom is about the same size an since I use a futon mattress I just use my closet as bed space. Just an idea to keep in mind.
Closet has to be big enough.
Thank you for sharing. How did the wall stay up? I don’t think it was nailed in to anything, correct?
It's T-shaped so it could stand on it's own. If you wanted just a single wall, you'd have to make some angled boards come out and hold it up or something.
@@hypurban Thanks!
I just found a 2 bedroom house that’s huge and I wanna convert two of the giant rooms into 2 each
Thanks bro
Love it! Curious to hear if you've thought about how this might handle earthquakes, especially in the bay area
Very clever.
The only real problem is increased danger in the event of a fire.
Styrofoam (EPS) burns very easily, gyprock (or sheetrock) doesn't burn.
No smoking, candles or incense and you should be fine, I suppose.
True. I fire tested the Styrofoam - it doesn't stay lit. Though it does make extremely toxic gasses. Luckily for us we aren't smokers or the candle / incense type. So it works.
Also: the Styrofoam is meant for building houses, but usually it's just inside of walls inside of out. So it's pretty fire-safe to begin with.
I think it's fire rated.
Hello! What are the brackets that you use to place the studs together called?
"Simpson Strong-Tie" check home depot they should have a bunch
@@hypurban i found it!!! It just the type of screws im missing now because its so hard to screw them long ones through the 2by 4 , what kind of screws you used?
Seems like alot of work and uncomfortable just to save like $250 / month on rent, was it worth it?
What’s your email? I have a few questions . Awesome set up by the way. Just moved into a studio apt and I’m trying to spit the room into two.
cool!
"Rent is too damn high!"
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how did you make the base and the top stand still, did you drill it to the ceiling and floor
How how tall was your ceiling and how tall was your frame?
What about the gap between wall and window?.. not very private and after all that effort and you couldnt be arsed to finish that little bit
You should've split the window directly in half. it feels sloppy that it's just slightly off.
Yeah, know what you mean. I think we did it that way tho to either save on materials, or to make sure the square footage was identical despite being different shapes..
still totally rad, i'm glad people are doing this. my friend and i are hoping to get a big one br here in portland and either squeeze another bedroom into the living room or split like you did. might be a little weird if we ever have company. i mean we are pretty close but idk if either of us would want to be hearing smooching next door hahaha.
questions! are the wall structures nailed on to the wall at all or they are just sized so perfectly that they just fit in
Nontaii They are not nailed to the wall. They are sized to fit very closely, and if you look at 6:34 in the video you'll see how we used rubber stripping so it doesnt scratch the house walls.
hypurban also won't you get in trouble with the landlord? how does that work exactly?
+Nontaii Never told the LL, but technically it's just a very specific shaped peice of "furniture." You could also split a room using tall bookcases... but instead, why not a custom structure instead of bookcases?
@@hypurban Hi, I know it;s been a while so I wish you'd still respond. Does this only work because it is T shaped? I am planning on closing a loft for airconditioning and I am only planning on putting up a "wall" on the side that's open. I can build it as close as possible to the ceiling/walls, but I still think it's gonna fall. Can you give me some advise?
Can I hire you to do this for one of my bedrooms ?
How about noise? does it reduce any noise at all? If not, how would you hack it to make it reduce some noise? Just enough to have a conversation on the phone in one room and not being heard in the other.
Noise was pretty bad, but we only really used it for sleeping, getting dressed, and reading. I suppose you could stuff the walls with insulation if you wanted better sound proofing.
What if you fall into the wall, is it sturdy or will it put a dent in the wall?
youll go through
Great vid. How much for the door?
At @5:28 in the video there's a chart of all the prices. Looks like it was $53 at Home Depot!
3:27 - Is it just me or does the blender logo just look like a 666 put together?
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a what about the window?
good idea but sound must travel?
how o u do it ;p
got to hustle
What about the closet
how do you deal with the sound proof issue?
Truth be told, it was pretty bad.
I know ? It reminds me of the movie OFFICE SPACE
hypurban haha
maybe a fire alarm behind each closed door would be good.
Is the bottom of the frame screwed to the floor?
No. It's T-shaped so it stands on its own without falling over. It's never directly attached to the apartment at all.
How did you secure the foam wall, how do the nails hold?
AbdiDeeq M I think he used screws
Am I the only one concerned about noise and privacy? 😅
Right. I feel like the same things could have been achieved by hanging a few curtains 🤷🏼♀️
Any way I can contact you for some help on similar project?
gmiller dot net
@@hypurban is that your email or website?
you waste a lot of space.
had you positioned the doors close to the common entrance, one of the 2 rooms would be bigger.
Maybe they didn't want to fight over who gets the bigger room
@@PandaSings they could've still been the same size with one having a nook by the door where the hallway was in the old design and the other a bit wider to make up for it.
I think they did great for amateurs.
Did you have to drill into the floor or ceiling???
No, because it's T shaped it can stand on it's own. As you can see in the video, we put soft foam on the edges of it so it wouldnt scratch the walls.
If space you was doing was rectangular, how would you do it?
Do you have a video on how to take this down?
No, but if you can build it it's very easy to take down - just go in reverse. Unscrew the Styrofoam walls first, throw screws in a bucket as you go and throw away strofoam. It's easy to cut into small pieces to hall out to a dumpster. Unscrew the metal brackets holding the walls together, in the same order you put them up in. Eventually you'll end up with a bunch of boards, screws, and brackets! The doors can be tossed hole, or sold, etc.
This would work for a single guy who doesn't have a girlfriend. Also and hope your roommate doesn't have on either, or it would kind of be awkward
How much did all the materials cost u
@5:25 there's a cost break down. It ended up being a little more but not by much.
How much was the foam sheets
Air Gunz I saw them $20 each on Home Depot website
If you have to live in quarters this small, it’s time to move. This was definitely an awesome video and very creative. It was executed well. I think would work well if you started with a large room that was at least 12x15. Maybe to divide a master bedroom.
I’m wondering who put the first hole in the wall... this is a genius idea but styrofoam walls?
Haha yea, we weren't really rambunctious so the walls stayed intact. We went with Styrofoam because it was cheap and easy to cut. You could use actual drywall panels if you wanted, but it's more expensive, heavier, messier and harder to cut. There might be some better material that's inbetween, idk.
So home construction/improvement is now called "hacking"?
Since this isn't a proper bedroom addition, and it's just a "hackish" way of making a 1BR a "2BR" then yeah in this case I would call it that. But you're right that it's not always hacking!
This would cost you 5* the price today. 2022 lol
haha yea
Hey...if it works for you! That's okay I guess
Divider protect from tenént
the skinny room..... like where are u supposed to put anything except a bed. lol
The struggle is real!!!
hi, so i can't believe therent any other than ur video that shows how to make more rooms in a small apt. how can u convert a dinning room in to a kids bedroom?
As long as they restore to original state upon departure, shouldn't run into any problem.
in my case I had an apartment with a long living room and dining room area (one continuous room)in a one bedroom apartment. As my family grew we had 3 boys . So when my first son came along , I went to Ikea a picked up what at that time was on sale at 199.00 a 3 unit bookcase/ entertainment system. Which were really just Two Billy bookcases and ONE TV and stereo type entertainment bookcase for the center. I pulled them out away from the wall ,connected the back added wood backings later instead of that cardboard they use. lined it up from one side wall,and left a doorway open on the other end to walk in an out of the newly formed ROOM. Hung curtains using PVC pipe across the ceiling just behind the bookcases to give the feeling of a new WALL. and could go across the doorway if needed for "privacy" . Everyone who came in couldn't believe how the boys had their own room. They even had a FAUX window made from mirrors with a cornice over the top, and curtains. Still had room on the other side to divide what was left into good size spaces for living area and a dining area .
I bet they hear something they wish the wouldn't
Why is ur name that inappropriate
how to open the window? 😂
Help me please I need to get it RIGHT NOW
Help with what
Pepsi hell yeah 😜👍
This time on "Getting Evicted and Blackballed from Your Local Rental Market" ......
Luckily it's temporary.
Why don't he use the thin wood thing(idk whats the name) intead of using sterofoam 😅
Not sure what you mean, but the Styrofoam was the cheapest thing we could find. Also, very easy to cut with just a razer blade.
Plywood or mdf sheets?
why