Dear James: I see these makeover shows on television. I want to open up my kitchen to the family room and it would be fun to knock out the wall myself. Someone said to be careful of bearing walls.

Installing a LVL Beam and Removing a Load Bearing Wall To Create an Open Space It may look like home improvement skills come naturally for my brothers and me, but it’s mostly due to a lifetime of ...

Non-load bearing walls, as the name suggests, carry no loads and are simply there to divide up the interior spaces into separate rooms – these are relatively straightforward to alter or remove, ...