I’m excited to share with you the tutorial on how to build a sliding wall. About 10 years ago is when I came up with this idea to make a sliding wall. At the time I was taking down our large Christmas tree and putting it away. Of course, this will make anyone start thinking of scenarios to make putting away Christmas EASIER! So I thought what if I had a secret room where I could put all my Christmas decor including my tree that I don’t have to take down and could store the Christmas tree still decorated and of course any other decor that needs storage. I really dislike storing all my decor/Christmas stuff in the garage. Since I don’t need a formal living room (our family room is very well loved and lived in)  I’ve decided this will be the year to share how to build a sliding wall and create a secret room. This is the  third week that I’m sharing on the One Room Challenge. Make sure to check out all the amazingness going on there with all the room reveals.

Here’s the before of the entryway and living room…

And the after:

It doesn’t look like a sliding wall but it really is. This wall is 12 feet long and about 9 feet of the wall actually slides.

You can see the line in the wall where the sliding wall meets the stationary wall. The small portion of the wall on the right does not move. Click on the image below to see the wall move…

Pretty cool, hey???

To get a feel of the entryway and to see all the before pics start here:

Details:

Engineering a sliding wall took some time to figure out. The one thing that was important to me was to make this wall easily removable. So when there comes a day that we sell our home and the new owners want a formal living room. This wall can be removed with just needing to fill in the wall holes and do some painting. All the trim, baseboards etc were left in place. So this planked wall is pretty easy to remove and not have any evidence it was there (once the holes and painting have been done).

The entire wall is 12 feet long with the sliding portion of the wall about 9 feet long.

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Materials to build a sliding wall:

These are the basics we used to build the wall. How much to purchase will depend on the size of the sliding wall.