After the wall comes down: WWYD? (x-post)
(Will also x-post in Home Repairs)
At the suggestion of KD and others, we'll be removing the hanging chunk of wall that currently separates kitchen from family room. The wall's sole purpose was to hold up cabinets on the kitchen side, and we'll pick up the storage elsewhere.
View from the family room:
If someone could tell me what this wall is called, please let me know so I can refer to it properly. "It" and/or "hanging chunk of wall" is getting old. :)
Dashed lt green lines are where we plan on making cuts.
This is the view from the kitchen:
The orange dot serves as a point of reference/locator.
If you haven't caught it already, here's the issue (are renos ever simple and straightforward?!): the K ceiling is flat, and the FR ceiling slopes downward. An imaginary plane of the K ceiling extended outward into the FR would sit approximately 4-5" above the point where the FT ceiling is at its lowest meeting the FT wall. (This 4-5" measurement is shown in light blue, in the first pic.) Therefore, if I'm looking at this right, once we make the cuts where we're anticipating, we'll be left with an open view (from the kitchen) of the final few inches of sloping FR ceiling -- essentially, a triangle with a view of the roof deck.
I'm afraid I'm not very good at visualizing the end result, and just keep popping back and forth between the two rooms to make sure. Am I seeing this right? If so, are there any obvious minor fixes that will look okay? Just sheetrock the resulting holes (which means we'll end up with a triangular piece to cover the pitched FR ceiling) and hope a nice paint job will camouflage enough? TIA.
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8 years agoThanks again, Precision. I'll need to google Simpson ties. :) I was thinking this would go better if I could figure out how this structure may have been built, and then work backwards from there. We have attic access in that area directly above the kitchen ceiling, so we'll have a look there. We've poked around up there for other projects, and I'm almost positive we're able to view the vertical framework (next to the AC vent):
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoOK, too much of a coincidence: check out suzanne_sl's U-Kitchen post. Maybe my builder decided Chunky It Wall was better than our having to stare at the backside of a bank of cabinets...eh? Or are we talking six of one, half dozen of another? :)
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoFori: 50% goofy is apparently 50% too much!
stephanj: Nothing says commitment to demo a wall like permanent disfigurement by graffiti! ;)
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