Has anyone split the main bedroom in a mid terrace into two smaller rooms?

[planthenact]

I would like to split the main bedroom of my 2 bed mid terrace into 2 smaller rooms by building a L-shaped stud wall down the middle and creating a small corridor so both rooms can have private entrances.

I want it to look something like the attached image.

The room is about 14ft by 12ft and already has two windows. Walls to be insulated and plastered. Each room would need to have new radiators fitted (there’s a long single radiator currently), new ceiling light(s) and new wall switches and sockets. Also, internal bi-fold doors to each doorway need to be hung.

Has anyone done anything similar? How much did it cost? Were the rooms spacious enough? Did it impact sale value if you sold later on?

I'd just use the downstairs front room as a 3rd bedroom as it already has a corridor and door and you have the back room which isn't a kitchen like some still are. Yes, you lose the room but it's not going to cost anything

I would have considered it as a solution, but wall in the middle has been knocked through to make a through lounge on ground floor.

Another option is to create your corridor from bed 2

@Turniptracker I think this layout would require structural changes to potentially load bearing walls.

That might be worth it though.

I realised that after I said that yesterday :-).

If it's just a doorway I think you just need to add a lintel

I’m putting together a list of what I want the builders to quote for. Can you spot anything I’ve missed? Many thanks in advance!

Build new L shaped stud wall with doorways to each of the two new rooms.
Plasterboard, Insulate, Plaster and Paint stud walls.
Supply and Fit Skirting
Supply and fit Architrave for doors
Remove old radiator
Install two new radiators, one for each room
Wire new pendant lights, one for each room
Remove central pendant light
Create light switch for pendant lights in stud wall, one for each room
Install four new double plug sockets in stud wall, two for each room.
Fit bi-fold doors

The room currently has the original floorboards varnished, so I’m hoping I won’t have to do new flooring!

Some decor ideas

If you can get ottoman beds that lift up sideways you can store a load of everything under them. Way better than drawers.

This is a brilliant idea!!

The OP says that don't want bunk beds.

Actually it doesn't - that must be another thread

I would look for plug points similar to these

I would put as many electrical points as you can each side of the stud wall. I don’t think five doubles each side is overkill, the do have so many electrical gadgets these days, especially teenage girls with hair straighteners, hair dryers, heated rollers, iron - when you have curled your hair and it’s wrong obviously:-), laptop, phone, lamps, radio, tv, dvd player - you get 10 good dvds in the charity shop for £1, one of ours got a given a small fish tank - which needed a heater plug, light plug and pump plug, there won’t be any need for adapters if you spend an extra few pounds buying extra double or treble sockets.

have you thought about lighting in the stud wall facing down on the bed and one for a desk/dressing table area.

in the existing hallway, whilst you have a man or woman putting up a stud wall, is there room for a cupboard/wardrobe to be built?

We bought a house that had had this done as it worked for us. BUT it was a huge pain to sell, and when we bought it, the previous owners made a loss. People expect a big main bedroom and felt the smaller bedroom wasn’t really a bedroom (although it was the same size as the box room third bedrooms in a typical 30s house. So we repeatedly got feedback that people felt it wasn’t actually a four bed house.

@Wonkypictureframe This is so helpful. It makes me think that ensuring there is minimal disruption to the actual fabric of the building is definitely the way to go, just in case it needs to go back to being a single bedroom at some point. Most of the 3 bed houses around here have the bathroom downstairs so this change will definitely be unusual for the local area but the main reason for doing it is so that it works for the circumstances right now. Thank you so much for your insight!

@ScroogeMcDuckling Thanks so much! Hadn’t thought about the plugs with the mobile phone port!

My student house did it like this... (sorry, terrible drawing!)

Hey we are figuring this out and would love to see pics of the front rooms with furniture if possible?

@planthenact I have been reading your thread with interest. Did you do this and if so, what were the results?
And @Mizydoscape could you share what you did?

I am looking to do this for our bedrooms, potentially splitting 2 good sized double bedrooms and a single room into four single rooms.

No chance of going into loft or moving home, so this suits what we need for our home right now.

Thank you!

We did something similar although you have to go through the first bedroom to get to the second one as there wouldn’t be space any type of corridor. It looks very similar to OP diagram.

We split ours because we had four children in a three bed. The youngest two girls were sharing one room and the boy and girl (eldest pair) had got to an age where they needed their own space.

Each side has space for a single bed, wardrobe etc and was a box room size. Each side had its own window. My ex’s stepdad is a carpenter so he did the work for us putting in a stud wall so I’m not sure how much it would have been privately. Mine is a council property and a few years later they rewired the house and they moved the light fittings and put electric sockets in the stud wall as only one side had the original over head light the other side used lamps until then.

The main issues have been the fact the second room is accessed through the first room and currently two of my daughters have one half each but they both also have boyfriends. They are all on the verge of moving out though so my next decision will be whether to keep the wall or take it down. It would be lovely to have a big bedroom!

Hi could you send me a link please I have similar measurements and am.interested in doing the same thing