Furnishing Your Attic

Your attic can be so much more than just a permanent storage room where you keep everything that no longer fits in your home.

Furnishing your attic.

Recreate a factory setting with raw materials and vintage furnishings in perfect industrial look. Turn the attic into a princess bedroom with a canopy bed and elegant details. 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. An attic bedroom is usually associated with romance because it s perfect to get some privacy.

Opt for lower furniture and scaled artwork to create the visual effect of higher ceilings. Architectural structures in wrought iron and exposed beams embellish your industrial style attic. Not only attics but also garrets and lofts when functionally organized can become domestic spaces able to cleverly meet the needs of a contemporary lifestyle. 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.

Your holidays might just be a lot less merry this year if you ve been storing your decorations in the attic. View in gallery an interesting design with two windows one above the other. The term attic is commonly used to define the space that is located directly under the roof of a building. Boxes pieces of furniture randomly placed next to each other and long forgotten objects.

It usually looks quite appealing even though some people think that attic space is unusable. The space there is usually at a premium. 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. The chandelier is beautiful here.

Choose furniture that makes the space seem bigger. Turning your attic into a bedroom is a great idea especially for small houses. You can turn the attic into a chic guest room. 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.

Adjust the design to the architecture of the building and consider custom furniture. No big bulky furniture for attics. 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.