Steinbox

Our latest project:  finishing a room in our attic…

We are blessed with a finished attic…well, mostly finished.  It was one of the things we loved best about our house when we bought it almost eight years ago.  We have a large room on one side that we use as a guest room, and a smaller room for storage on the other.  Above Amelia’s bedroom was an unfinished room.  We’ve always wanted to finish it and finally went ahead with it.

The floor space is 12′x12′, the same as Amelia’s room, but obviously because of the roof line there’s not nearly the wall space!

Looking back out through the doorway before:

…and after:

We’ve been using it as a school room the last few weeks and it’s working out very well…although I noticed when I took these that Amelia has outgrown her table and chairs!

It’s also getting cold in there…we don’t have heat in that room of the attic, although there is heat on the other side.  I think we’ll start using a space heater soon!  We did add an overhead light and two sets of outlets.  We did some of the work and a professional did some of it.

We also had our professional build a railing as you come up the stairs!

So any of you who wouldn’t sleep over for fear of falling off, or were told you shouldn’t because you have young children, etc…it’s much safer now!  Come on over!  To get to the finished room, in the picture below, when you come to the top of the stairs, you would hang a left into the storage room, and then another left into the school room.

I wanted a railing on the other side too (where the mattresses are standing at the moment), but was told it wasn’t really possible because of the roof line.  In any case, it’s all much improved!  The professional also patched the holes in our bedroom and fixed our downstairs bathroom such that we have HOT water in there for the first time in five years!!

So, Jeremy, you’re off the hook!  I can hear your sigh of relief from here!  We still want you to come visit, but we won’t ask you to do any work…