With six kids we really feel like we need 5 bedrooms.
Enter our bonus room/office with arch.
(Please excuse the mess. We live here.
No really though, this was less than 2 weeks moved in. Let's just be impressed there is a picture hung on the wall.)
After some deliberation we decided the easiest thing would be to wall up the arch and put a door in the hallway.
After we had the wall tested because our house is old and got back negative results we got busy cutting through the plaster in the hallway to make the door.
Then Wes used 2x4s to make a doorframe and installed the door. We bought a prehung door at Home Depot. But of course the wood behind the plaster on the wall made the door jam wider than the premade doorjam. So Wes got the "fun" job of taking it down and make his own door jam.
Once we had a door, we used 3 pieces of 8x4x3/4in sanded plywood to make the wall. Floor to ceiling our walls are like 8'4" inches. So we ended up centering the plywood between the ceiling and floor.
We used a 2x4 vertical on the floor across the space of the arch as support for the plywood.
(Caleb having a fit on the floor about something earth shattering, like a 2x4 being moved a few inches from where it was a few minutes ago).
We put one solid panel up centered in the middle of the arch and then cut the other two to fit on each side using Wes' table saw. We screwed the plywood up, sanded side facing the living room.
And with that we made a Bonus room from, well a bonus room...
I have some exciting future plans for this archway thingy!
For now we are just glad we have a quiet place Caleb can take a nap in.
