Blueprint of a house showing floor plans and elevations. Some walls are marked in green, indicating those considered for removal in renovation.

Floor plan with green-marked walls for potential removal in a house renovation project, highlighting areas to check for load-bearing status.

Question about load-bearing walls!

We can't distinguish which walls are load-bearing and are about to renovate a house we just bought.

Uploading two images of the floor plan.
In the image where I've marked in green, these are the walls we wish to demolish, but we first need to determine if they are load-bearing!
 
Normally, load-bearing walls are under or parallel to the roof ridge. So none of the green ones.
 
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I don't think you have load-bearing interior walls, but you need to see the roof truss drawing to know.
 
I also get the impression that no walls should be load-bearing in this house. A load-bearing wall should run horizontally along the ridge, i.e., the one between the living room and the bedrooms, but then it gets tricky at the other end.

However, it sometimes turns out in some houses of this type that they have settled in such a way that certain walls have become load-bearing over the years. You can tell if you carefully hand saw the studs. If the saw pinches, the wall is load-bearing, or at least "under tension." However, this does not apply to any of the green-marked walls.
 
These oranges are probably the only ones bearing in some form
Blueprint of a house with orange lines highlighting possible load-bearing walls. Rooms labeled; areas include bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, garage.
 
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