Woman sick of noisy neighbours builds SECOND wall – and people are hailing it genius
WHILE a couple might be getting some extra cash by renting out half their home, it doesn’t come without some struggle.
Paige and her partner live together and decided to rent out part of their home, with the two sides connected by just one door.
But, it appears their neighbours are a little on the loud side as Paige and her partner felt they had no choice but to put up a privacy wall.
Sharing the ordeal on her social media account, Paige explained: “So we rent out half of our house and live on the other side.
“And this is the door between the two units”.
Panning the camera across the room to show the all-black door, she continued: “It’s kind of weird and ugly and a lot of sound gets between them.
“So we want to cover it up in a semi-permanent way.”
The scene then changed to someone adding insulation to the gap between the wall and the door, which they secured into place with orange tape.
They then got a giant slab of plywood and cut it into a shape they wanted.
“I’m really mad that I didn’t get a video of me cutting this,” she explained. “I cut it so welL into this half art shape.
“It’s not perfect, but it was pretty dang good for the first cut.”
Her husband then sanded the edges of the plywood down in a bid to “fix the imperfections” before they worked together to stain it.
TikTok user @paige3536 said: “I think we ended up doing two coats, but I thought it looked really good. I liked the colour, I kind of just picked a random colour.
“Then we used a polycrylic on top”.
She then shared a video of her partner drilling the plywood over into the wall, which hid the door behind it.
Explaining that the house they live in is over 100 years old, she admitted that it was difficult to get the plywood drilled in.
Finally, her husband added some shelves into the plywood to make it look “more intentional” and once done, she put picture frames and plants on them.
“It really helps to lessen the noise we hear between the two units,” she added as the clip came to an end. In the caption, she added: “I love how it turned out”.
People were quick to comment on the DIY hack as one person wrote: “Pretty clever and looks kinda architectural!”
Another said: “Looks way better,” as a third chimed: “much better actually”.
And a fourth person added: “that’s epic thinking”.