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The responses have been half right- yeah, you can poke a hole and see inside for wires and/or plumbing. That's the easy part. But, there's no way to determine from that hole if the framing that you'd want to remove is structural or not. The only way to determine that is to rip all the drywall off.
In the grand scheme of things- d/wall is cheap. doesn't matter if there's texture or not.
Some clarification would help though- when you say "bumped out the wall" do you mean a small wing wall (pic 1) or, more like a column wrapped around a wing wall? Something like picture 2.
Hmmm, it's not really like either one but closer to picture 1. It's kind of hard to describe I think I'm going to have to take pictures. I could be wrong of course but I doubt that it's structural it looks like something that was done after house was built for decorative purposes.
I didn't get to poke around in the last night because the lights went out in our neighborhood last night but I will tonight. I'll post pics and let you know what I found.
Okay I just found this picture saved on my computer from before we bought the house. The wrought iron doors have since been removed.
I'm going to try to explain it as best I can. On the right side of the picture where that mint colored wall is, then is that "bump" i'm estimating it's about 36 to 40 inches. Then it goes back down to being level with the mint green wall (which you can't really see in the picture) it's the same on both sides. Make sense??
The pic I think answered everything.
I'm betting that those bump outs are just dead-space. The wall directly contacting the stairs (same plane) would be load bearing as well as the wall at actually has the front door in it (same plane). I'm thinking that the previous owner had that great garage sale find (the wrought iron gate) and used it there. But the original hallway was wider than the gate so, they just closed down the hallway a bit to make it fit.
The pic I think answered everything.
I'm betting that those bump outs are just dead-space. The wall directly contacting the stairs (same plane) would be load bearing as well as the wall at actually has the front door in it (same plane). I'm thinking that the previous owner had that great garage sale find (the wrought iron gate) and used it there. But the original hallway was wider than the gate so, they just closed down the hallway a bit to make it fit.
Thanks for your input! I was thinking this was probably the case as well, fingers crossed that we're right.
As far as the "great garage sale find" i'm hoping somebody feels the same way about them next month when we have our townwide garage sale because those puppies are taking up a heck of a lot of space in my tool room!
Sorry, maybe it's regional, maybe I'm not very worldly, but I've never seen a gate inside a house like that. Why exactly would someone want that? Just for the look of it? Just curious, carry on...
Sorry, maybe it's regional, maybe I'm not very worldly, but I've never seen a gate inside a house like that. Why exactly would someone want that? Just for the look of it? Just curious, carry on...
I have NO idea, it made the family room feel like a dungeon. We took them down after buying the house.
However, I am slightly greatful to those gates, as well as the hideous wall paper, horrid paint colors, over grown jungle yard and questionable flooring choices--They helped me get an AMAZING deal on great house 2x's the size of everything else in my budget
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