Converting attic space into bedrooms is a great way to add living space at home, without having to build major additions. When planning this kind of a home improvement, you should strike a balance between finished rooms and storage areas.
Achieve head height in an attic room by using furniture that hugs the floor, placing twin cabin beds beneath soft striped or floral fabrics and warm throws that create a retreat.
Use Knee Walls for Closets
If you are limited for space, knee walls (walls that are usually located at the top of the attic space) can be used to create closets designed to maximise storage space despite the fact that they won’t take up any of your precious floor space. If extending a bedroom into the attic, you can create a decadent attic bedroom design with a walk-in wardrobe that is perfectly adapted for and fitted to an attic space. Because of their slanted angles attic rooms can be tricky to organise and store. Streamline your organisation efforts by opting for a built-in attic bedroom storage unit shaped for slanting walls. It makes organising much simpler and prevents attic bedrooms from becoming messy. Add interest and demark the space of an attic bedroom with unique architectural features – especially the ceiling – through the use of treatment and colour. Above, a strong hue, such as this ombre coral fade, makes for a big statement.
Add Ceiling Treatments
Slanting ceilings certainly reduce the apparent size of a room, so in an attic bedroom make the most of it. In this attic, the sloping walls are emphasised by tagging them with low furniture. The overall effect is of a snug cabin. Sloping ceilings have the greatest possibilities for built-in storage,such as padded window seats taking advantage of attic corners. Built-ins can also create reading nooks without intruding on floor space with bulky bookshelves. If your attic has windows, adding French doors can allow light to spill into your bedroom. Adding colour to the walls and a few light wood tables softens this tall, high-contrast attic space.
Paint Your Ceiling
Ceiling treatments are crucial to making an attic livable. To do that, produce a bold main interest through colour or texture (panels) – which is vital for attic rooms to not look like other rooms in your house. Paint can really contribute to this look, with medium tones of the same hue as your wall colour melting into the overall scheme of your home. If painting your ceiling in a dark shade, consider adding some white to avoid an overwhelming appearance. Wallpaper is particularly well suited to the display effects in an attic room, as brick and wood-effect schemes, and especially brick patterns, bring structural interest into this room and serve the attic bedroom well in terms of style, complementing its storage ladder and rustic window seat.
Add Wall Treatments
With Attic bedroom ideas, it’s important to choose wall treatments wisely to create depth and appearance, patterned wallpaper adds a dimension and allows the pattern or texture to take full or center stage while neutral shades promote easier transitions and create a sense of calm. A padded window seat is a good resource for an attic bedroom Incorporating practicality as well as beauty, a window seat placed in an attic bedroom serves as a good resource. Its base usually fits into an awkward corner beneath the eaves and there’s usually plenty of storage space underneath the seat. Insulation can also help keep a floor as exposed as yours as comfortable as possible for years to come. In addition to the temperature differential between your living space and the attic that allows for hot air to rise, it also allows your heating and cooling bills to drop. Depending on your insulation choice, you can save big time with insulation. Traditional fiberglass batt insulation is typically readily available and not that expensive, so you can DIY an insulation project that has huge potential returns. Alternatively, learn more about the more labor-intensive spray foam insulation that is much quicker to install as an Installed building products pro and gives fast returns.
Add Lighting
Attic rooms tend to be separate from the rest of your house, which means more freedom, colour-wise. Plunge into rustic themes with brick walls and leave the finishing touches industrial style, with an industrial storage ladder and individual industrial-style light fixtures in an otherwise neutral attic bedroom. Insulate your bedroom in the attic so that it will be comfortable – there is no use in fighting the gravity because hot air moves up. An uninsulated attic likely would be quite hot in the summer, and also quite cool in the winter. If you install recessed lighting you are able to light a room, but also to visually enlarge it. If you’re looking for a cool light source, LED bulbs can expel less heat. Recessed light fixtures will also help you to easily hang drapes over a sloped ceiling.
