Finishing the Walls

Fixing the Bedroom Over the Garage

I almost forgot (but of course, I didn't), but we need to "fix" the wall between the eastern bedroom and the rest of the house. Right now this wall is an exterior wall, and the outer part of the wall faces into the bedroom. That's not what we want, but it's easy to remedy.

Use the Break Wall tool and place wall breaks in the left-hand vertical wall where it meets the top and bottom walls of the bedroom. The screen shot below shows what I mean.

Now, open the Wall Specification dialog for this central wall section (between the wall breaks) and change the wall type to Interior-4.

Click OK. The interior wall should snap into place right where we want it. Now let's move on to the closets.

Closets

We need to decide where we want our bedroom closets to be. It's not too difficult to put in closets, but we need to consider where the doors to our rooms will be, and where we might want to place windows, and also consider that we don't want our rooms to be too oddly shaped or narrow.

So, here we are.

Let's start with the bedroom over the garage. I would probably place this bedroom's closet along its left-hand wall, and create a kind of short "hall" at the bedroom door. But, notice that the upstairs hall meets the wall more or less at the midpoint. Hmmm. That means we will want to create 2 closets, one on either side of the door. The screen shot below illustrates this. Just for grins, I put in the bedroom door so you can see what I'm talking about. Neither closet is large, but together they should be ample enough. We'll worry about the closet doors later, once we've finished moving walls around and rearranging things (we will probably do a lot of this).

So, let's make closets for the north bedroom (at the top of the stairs) and for the office/nursery (to the left of the stairwell). The most logical place for the north bedroom's closet is along the hallway. We could place the bedroom door on the right (at the top of the stairs) or on the left, down the hall a ways. I prefer that the door be at the top of the stairs, so that dictates where our closet will be. We could put the closet along the western wall, between the bath and the bedroom, but we wouldn't want to take the whole wall (and a shorter closet would make an alcove), and besides, the bedroom is taller than it is wide.

Across the top of the office there seems to be room for 2 closets. I'd have one open out into the hall (probably the right-hand one), and the other would open into the office. Of course we could put the office door on the right, closest to the top of the stairs, but since this office is intended for the homeowners, I prefer to place the door nearest the master bedroom. So that's what I've done.

To line up the wall that separates the two closets (the screen shot below shows this wall), draw the wall close to the lower wall location (it's inline with the vertical exterior wall), and then open the Wall Specification dialog and check the Align With Below checkbox.

That should about do it for the upstairs closets, unless you decide you want more of them, or want to place them somewhere else. Of course you can experiment as much as you like. Use the Render tool to visualize each change.

Now we move on to looking at some variations. Click this magic link and we'll take you there.