On Jun 9, 2:55*pm, David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 6/9/2009 11:50 AM Nail-In-Thumb spake thus:

I live in a ranch style house that has a room above the garage. *I'd
like to install a closet so that I can "officially" count this room as
a bedroom (there is also a window in the room). *All of the websites
that I've visited seem to recommend framing a closet in the existing
room, but I'm wondering if it would be possible to cut into the wall
to frame a doorway then build the closet on the other side of the
wall?

Of course. Often done this way; the closet is actually in the room on
the other side of the wall, but opens into the room w/the sloped
ceiling. Nothing special about it: just frame it in the other room, then
wall it in on both sides and finish the walls. (You'll want to design it
so it doesn't look funny in the other room.)

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re "Do anyone know where I could find step-by-step plans for a project
like this?"

If you were going to frame the closet inside the room, would you still
have asked for plans?

If not, then you shouldn't need step-by-step plans to build the closet
in the attic space.

The only thing I see that might change is that you are going to have
to remove a stud or 2 from the existing wall. As long as it is not a
load bearing wall, just frame out that area for the door, just like
you would have framed it if the door was "in the room" instead of "in
the wall".

If it is a loadbearing wall, then you'll need to add a header. DAGS
"installing a header" and you'll get lots of hits.

Just don't cut into any of the rafters unless you plan as some major
structural work.