Closet Reno

We closed on our house in September and have been doing renovations since. I'll def post pictures once the kitchen and bathroom are fully done. In our bedroom, the only thing we really want to do is combine closets. We have two really small his/her closets side by side and want to make it one large closet. Has anyone done this and know how much work is entailed? We would be doing this ourselves. Thanks!

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We had closets that backed up against each other and turned it into a large walk-in closet.

It's not hard to do and since yours are side by side, I'm sure there isn't a support beam between them.

It will be messy to demo it but the only materials you will need to buy are sheetrock, sheetrocks screws, tape and spackle.

Of course once you are done you will need to get paint and closet organizers.

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Closet walls typically aren't load-bearing, but you need to verify that. If they aren't load-bearing, you can just take the doors down, and the separating walls, then rebuild whatever structure you need to fit the new layout. You'll need to do some carpentry, since you'll need to build the structure to support the doors.

What type of door(s) were you thinking of using? Sliding, bi-fold, single hinged door?

You could probably get most of it done in one day. The complete project will have to be about a week, since you'll need time for the spackle to dry, then the primer, then the paint, but it's a day or two of actual work.

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Thanks for the feedback. I couldn't picture it taking that long to do.

I know the question of load bearing was on my mind. How do you check or know if it is load bearing?

In my mind, I picture just knocking down the wall in between the closets and the frame in between the closets. And then just restructuring the frame and like you said, spackling, and painting. Am I simplifying it too much. I think we would want to do bifold doors. That's what we had in our previous apartment and we really liked the ease of it.

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Thanks so much for your explanation