How To Cover Up A Window With Drywall

The View From My Bed

One unique thing about our house is that I can really run across who is at the front door while lying in bed. On the down side, someone at the front end door tin can as well encounter me lying in bed…and that's why nosotros are drywalling over our windows.

Our house had an outdoor patio that was enclosed to be kind of like a sunroom except it is painted dark brown and actually does not become much light. I say information technology is "similar a sunroom" because they left the original exterior windows in place as yous might meet done on a cute cottage sunroom. Our windows are ugly though and there are lots of them: ii windows in the kitchen, ii in the living room, and a sliding drinking glass door and window in the master bedchamber.

The obvious solution is that these windows need to be removed and instead of having a "kinda but not actually a sunroom," we will just accept some other, normal living area. I've helped remove and install a door before and I figured windows would exist the aforementioned process: remove the trim, have out a few screws, and then just utilize a pry bar to loosen the thing up and yank it out.

Not so with windows and sliding doors though! Nigh original windows and sliding door frames have flanges on the exterior of the frame that are nailed into the house before the exterior siding or brick is put upwardly. Accept note of BEFORE. That means the flange is sandwiched betwixt the exterior siding/brick and the rest of the house and you CANNOT hands access it to remove the nails.

Our Solution: Drywalling Over Our Windows

While it is still possible to remove the window and door frames, it is much much harder than I had originally thought. So much harder that nosotros had to ask ourselves;

"Is it was possible to but hide the windows instead of actually removing them?"

And luckily, we think yes, drywalling over our windows to effectively hide them is the style to go. My first thought was bookshelves!!! But then I realized THAT IS ALOT OF BOOKSHELVES.

After nixing bookshelves as the ideal solution, I considered chalk board walls, message boards, and dry erase boards merely we but have too much wall infinite to cover with solutions like those. There are really twelve different openings to comprehend upwards and hide when y'all consider we have both sides of the wall to address.

On one side (which includes the kitchen, living room, and master bedroom), we are drywalling over the windows, texturing, and painting so that y'all will never know they were there! And just so yous know, even if we properly removed the windows, it would exist near impossible and super expensive for us to match the brick and cedar siding on the patio side, and then we would still have the same consequence of how to cover and hide the window openings.

Our Progress So Far

The Patio Side

As of yet, we are all the same not certain how we are going to hide or cover the windows on the converted patio side.

Nosotros need assist y'all!

This room's ultimate function volition be a playroom or a game room or something along those lines and there are effectively six window openings that we will have to address. I need ideas and inspiration! I definitely want to build some bookshelves but I tin't take iii separate walls covered in bookshelves. So what else? Per usual, I am using Pinterest to assist me come up upwards with ideas. Leave me links in the comments if you take any skilful Pinterest suggestions!

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