[brianb1998]

Got a question for the masters here. I'm not sure this is going to work or not. I have a wall between two rooms. the wall used to be an exterior wall. It had a very large window and a a door leaving not very much wall at all. The original owners added on a room. I want to know if I can remove the old exterior wall and use 45 degree braces instead of installing a new beam.
This picture is the old exterior wall

I added the window because my baby currently sleeps in there. I would like to remove the lower portion on the wall and use 45 deg braces to support the upper. the whole wood area to the right of the window was open i just had a bunch of left over 2x6s. there is onlt about 12 inches of wall on either side and about 24 inches of wall on the floor id like to remove.
Like this

 

[Aggie67]

That's not the right way to do it. Everything above that heavy black line is likely nothing more than wall studs and a header for the window and a header for the door. Putting up knee braces at the far ends will do nothing structurally.

You are far better off doing it correctly, or not at all.

 

[Mingledtrash]

Before you can determine if you can remove the wall you will need to pull down the drywall to see how the header is configured and what size it is. most likely you will need a structural engineer or architect.

However, you could remove the bottom from the window down to the floor. leaving the beams how they are. this will give you a good walkthrough with the least amount of hassle.