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Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
Century Furniture Living Room One Seat Cushion 42555C: The attic can be the perfect additional sitting room in your home.
If you are searching for space for a master suite or a new bedroom, don’t bother looking elsewhere. What you need to do is to just look up. What you need to determine is whether your attic is a feasible candidate for redesigning. Remember that the attic is an existing square footage in your house and that means a lot of things.
Attic renovation is a smart way to make a difference in your home. Before you do so, make sure that the renovation project will be a safe and efficient one.
Know the Codes and Safety
Code enforcement varies but the codes state, at the very least, that 50% of finished attics should be 7 feet high. Its width should be 7 feet by 70 square feet. Be sure to ask an engineer to conduct a house inspection more specifically the framing and foundation that will carry the load.
Install a Ceiling Fan
Use this appliance to control the temperature in the room. Install it if you have headroom. This will make the warmer months more bearable as the fan will bring cool breeze into the room. Just flip the reverse switch during winter and warmer air will stay indoors.
Beef Up the Floors
Attic renovation will bring about attic activity. The thicker the floor joists, the quieter things will be. Insulation will not just help in climate control but also in keeping noise to a bare minimum.
Plan According to Room Placement
If you plan on installing a new bathroom right where the attic now is, make sure that a bathroom or a kitchen is below this room. This is so there’s already an existing plumbing. This should reduce additional plumbing installation and would also limit damages on the wall. Tie new pipes with the old ones. Run the water supply to the renovated attic all the way down to the basement. This is also to make sure that sewer gases won’t vent into the wrong pipes.
Install Ample Storage
Have enough cabinets, perimeter drawers, and cubbies installed. Even those awkward nooks and crannies, and those niches along the pipe chases and chimneys are opportunities to install shelves.
How to Build the Attic
Figure out how you will be able to get up and down the finished attic. Remember that enlarging a stairway or having a new one added will affect any space below. A straight stairway will eat up about 10-14 feet of space.
Take a peek inside the attic before you begin the project. Be sure to measure for headroom. If an A-shape rafter is able to spread out beneath the attic’s roof then this room is a potential candidate for remodeling.
Cynthia Rowley for Hooker Furniture Bedroom Cornelia King Bed Complete is the focal point to your newly-renovated attic-to-bedroom.
Attic to Bedroom
An attic renovated into a bedroom will make good use of a space that was once devoted to old books and other unused items. Reclaim that space under the roof and convert it into an additional bedroom or a guest room.
Attic conversion costs approximately $65,000 and it would help retain 61-percent of its value should you decide to put the house up for sale. While this is quite pricey, a lot of homeowners still undertake this conversion project. They also don’t show any regrets once they take on the project. Most are even happy or satisfied with the remodeling plans that they take on.
Just be mindful of building codes, access, electrical system, support structures, HVAC and plumbing systems when changing the attic to a bedroom. Hire a licensed electrician, plumber, and an HVAC specialist to help you with this upcoming endeavor.
As soon as the attic is turned into a beautiful bedroom, make sure that it has ample lighting. Use recessed LED lighting fixtures. Do not generate any unwanted heat by making sure that the lights are tucked completely into the ceiling.
After the lighting fixtures are installed, bring in the furnishings and accessories and you’re done.
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Sunday, April 17th, 2016
Flexsteel Bedroom Vanity With Mirror W1901-869 (close-up of drawers)
No one would consider attic cleaning to be a delightful task. Just think about the dander, dust and mold that you would encounter up there and you would surely begin to feel irritated over the idea of remodelling this part of your home into something else. Okay, it is necessary to do the cleanup in order to go about with your attic ideas. Stop having this problem area in your home, instead, have it turned to a living area.
Let’s Clean Up
Since it is necessary to clean the attic first before you begin your project, then see how these simple steps can help you –
The Attic Remodelling Project
Hooker Furniture Living Room Melange Fifi Vanity Chair
There is so much to plan for when remodelling a storage area like the attic. Lighting, materials, space use, and other design elements should be seriously thought through before the cleanup even begins.
Your palette as a creative master for this project begins with the color scheme. You can have a neutral base and dashes of accent colors such as warmer yellows on your walls.
See if you can make the door become the focal point for your remodelling project. Make sure that you choose a vibrant color in order to do this. Bright red is known to be the most welcoming kind of color for any door. Blue is also a great choice.
When the color or colors have been chosen and set, you can begin adding furnishings for your newly remodelled attic. But what purpose does it now serve? Is it the new master bath? Or is it the new family room? It is also conducive to learning as it is high above the ground – see if you can set it up as a home library or an office.
If you want to bring in more light, say, you are planning to turn the attic into a living room, then you could add ample LED lighting. It can be concealed inside the grooves on the attic beams. This should create an interesting layer of atmosphere.
Should the rooflines create difficulty in storing stuff, then try creating niches in the attic walls. These can be effectively used as bookshelves.
The attic can also be turned into an additional bedroom or a guest room. Along with your investment of a comfortable bed, you can have floating shelves and the most interesting cabinetry in one of the new bedroom’s corners.
Do you know what the most interesting room is that you can create out of your attic? A bathroom.
Be sure to make plans for the installation of the new drains as attic floors do not have provisions for plumbing. The bathroom project can be a tad trickier to create when compared to all other rooms. Have a professional plumber do the job of installing the new shower, tub and drains. You can only do so much.
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