I'm wondering if there is any knowledgeable person who can help me determine if a wall is load-bearing?
In conjunction with renovating the kitchen, we plan to remove part of a wall in the kitchen to create a more open feel. The kitchen currently looks as below, and it is the circled wall we want to remove.
The apartment is an attic apartment in a building from 1932. We have these drawings from 1932. The drawings show that the wall we want to take down used to extend all the way to the next wall (thus creating a separate room for the kitchen). Today the wall is just a small protrusion, which we think argues against it being load-bearing. The wall behind the kitchen modules and stove, we naturally think is load-bearing.
Drawing from 1932 when the building was constructed:
Drawing from 1993 when the apartment was remodeled:
As you can see in this drawing, the small wall we want to remove is not even included. How should we think?
