Furnishing Your Attic

Your holidays might just be a lot less merry this year if you ve been storing your decorations in the attic.

Furnishing your attic.

You can turn the attic into a chic guest room. View in gallery an interesting design with two windows one above the other. It usually looks quite appealing even though some people think that attic space is unusable. Keep all furniture low and horizontal so that it seems to blend into the low knee wall and not encroach on the ceiling height.

Opt for lower furniture and scaled artwork to create the visual effect of higher ceilings. Your attic can be so much more than just a permanent storage room where you keep everything that no longer fits in your home. Holiday decorations can be damaged by the extreme heat in attics says santoro delicate fabrics and items that are painted are particularly prone to damage when stored in the attic and plastic decorations like ornaments may melt or warp in the heat. Choose furniture that makes the space seem bigger.

If you plan to use your attic as a bedroom consider dispensing with the bed frame and just placing the box springs directly on the. Boxes pieces of furniture randomly placed next to each other and long forgotten objects. If your attic joists won t bear the weight necessary to finish out a living space but the engineer cleared them to support floor decking for light storage you can install inch plywood or. Recreate a factory setting with raw materials and vintage furnishings in perfect industrial look.

The term attic is commonly used to define the space that is located directly under the roof of a building. View in gallery it. If your home is smaller than other homes in your area or simply lacks the necessary amount of storage or living space for your family finishing your attic is a relatively inexpensive way to increase your usable space. Architectural structures in wrought iron and exposed beams embellish your industrial style attic.

The space there is usually at a premium. Adjust the design to the architecture of the building and consider custom furniture. The chandelier is beautiful here. Turning your attic into a bedroom is a great idea especially for small houses.

Roofs in standard wood frame houses are framed with traditional rafters or with roof trusses if you ve measured your attic space and feel you have enough room to accommodate living space chances are you have rafters or you have special trusses called attic trusses which create a large open space under the peak of the roof by contrast conventional trusses have supports called webbing that. Converting your attic into usable finished space can increase the value of your home by maximizing the available square footage. If you want to make your attic space a quiet room to lounge in bring in a settee lounger or. Turn the attic into a princess bedroom with a canopy bed and elegant details.