Make a Sideways Room

Creating this room in your home will make you the envy of all your friends! If you do not have a room inside for this project, you might Clean-out-Your-Garage and dedicate a section there, or build a shed in the rear of the house. It's a great place to hang out with friends and have parties. You'll probably be the only one who has a room set up like this—but not for long once word gets around! It's not difficult to make, so gather some friends to help and get started!

Steps

1. Clear out a room.
2. Paint-a-Room white, including the floor.
3. Paint a window on the floor, just for fun. Let the paint dry overnight. You can use electrical tape to make the window frame and bars.
4. Bring in a couch, nail up a rug on the wall, and hang a coffee table over it. You can use mono-filament thread from the hardware store. For an added effect, place a few items on the coffee table, such as a mug, a remote control, some magazines, or a newspaper, or maybe a video controller connected to a game system.
5. Add a wall poster and a light switch on the ceiling.
6. Reinstall the curtain rod and tack up the drapes to make them hang sideways.
7. Nail a trash bin high up in a corner of the room, and arrange some trash around it. "Lean" a broom against the ceiling using the mono-filament thread.
8. Add a bookshelf next to your couch. Fill it with books.
9. Add an end table and hang a lamp on it.
10. Suspend a ceiling lamp and its cord so that it "hangs" sideways out of the opposite wall into the middle of the room.
11. Affix a chair high on the wall (using metal L-brackets). This step will suddenly add an entire whole new level of vertigo. Standing in the room will begin to feel like floating overhead.
12. Take a good picture of the room. Show it to your friends, and invite them to come visit your newly finished room!
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Tips

• While the time is highly dependent on the number of people that are helping you out, this project should take about two days to complete—one day for painting, and one day for arranging everything else.
• Be sure that the walls you choose as your new ceiling and floor do not have windows. If this is unavoidable, choose the ceiling to be without windows and put a rug over the windows on the floor.

Warnings

• It's best to be safe than sorry. Make sure that you securely fasten any furniture on the walls or ceiling! This should be done by nailing into a wall stud, not simply the dry wall. If you feel that a piece of furniture isn't hanging from the walls or ceiling safely, don't keep it up!
• Make sure your walls are solid enough to support the weight of whatever you're hanging. A lot of walls in hot areas are very thin and are merely some paint on a thin wooden plank.

Things You'll Need

• A spare room
• Spare furniture (old or worn out is fine)
• Lightweight lamps
• Mono-filament thread
• Nails, tacks or strong glue (for a more permanent sideways room)
• Fabric for making fake floor curtains
• Friends to help you out

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Sources and Citations

• How To Do Stuff. Original source of this article. Shared with permission.

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