Look at your roof outside. Now imagine a straight line straight down from the peak running parallel with the peak. Supporting wall. Could be two (as a hallway) That basically stays. otherwise the house of cards collapses.

CALL AND ASK LOWES

Load bearing walls run the same direction as the peak in your roof. You can also go to the courthouse and get the original house plans.

look in your attic, if your rafters are not on the wall you want to move you,ll be OK. if its a two story home you can most likely move any wall but the center wall that runs down the middle of your home.

Climb into the roof space and see if the wall frame is supporting any of the roof timbers.

Time to ask a contractor to take a peek. The only way to determine a load bearing wall is look at its placement and then examine the structure above and around the wall which usually means removing drywall, or plaster so you can see.

It is a safe bet an exterior wall is load bearing, long walls near the center of a roof or second floor may also be load bearing.

Don’t cut what you don’t know…

you should ask someone in construction. I think it would be smarter for you not to do it by yourself!

Just try it, if the house collapses or other walls fall down, then you probably shouldn’t have knocked down the wall you chose =)