kaho674
2017-10-25 20:37:12
- #1
Hello dear ones,
my brother-in-law wants to convert his attic. The goal is to set up 2 children's rooms for his grandchildren. The "old ones" are currently moving to the ground floor and the young couple is taking the first floor. The attic will be shared. Grandpa has his mini office there (already there and cannot be changed) and each family should definitely also have a storage room.
Please don't mind that they use the stairs and the attic together. They run around all day anyway. They want it that way.
We have a knee wall of 74 cm (inside). However, all measurements were taken by crawling around with a baby at hand. Deviations have to be accepted. Insulation will go directly on the slopes - no ceiling. Two dormers are in the future children's rooms - I can only suggest them as windows. The 2m limit is 2m away from the knee wall - marked as a line. The starting situation is not entirely straightforward, because of the chimneys and small windows. And of course, the whole thing is not perfectly symmetrical.
Attached is the homeowner's draft. I don't think it's bad at all. What’s annoying is storage room 1 with the door/wall situation and that the wall ends halfway in front of the stairs.
I made a second suggestion with slanted walls. This makes the hallway bigger, but the usable space of the rooms only loses slightly since the winding corridor from the homeowner's suggestion is not usable anyway.
The third picture shows only the initial situation.
Does anyone else have ideas?

my brother-in-law wants to convert his attic. The goal is to set up 2 children's rooms for his grandchildren. The "old ones" are currently moving to the ground floor and the young couple is taking the first floor. The attic will be shared. Grandpa has his mini office there (already there and cannot be changed) and each family should definitely also have a storage room.
Please don't mind that they use the stairs and the attic together. They run around all day anyway. They want it that way.
We have a knee wall of 74 cm (inside). However, all measurements were taken by crawling around with a baby at hand. Deviations have to be accepted. Insulation will go directly on the slopes - no ceiling. Two dormers are in the future children's rooms - I can only suggest them as windows. The 2m limit is 2m away from the knee wall - marked as a line. The starting situation is not entirely straightforward, because of the chimneys and small windows. And of course, the whole thing is not perfectly symmetrical.
Attached is the homeowner's draft. I don't think it's bad at all. What’s annoying is storage room 1 with the door/wall situation and that the wall ends halfway in front of the stairs.
I made a second suggestion with slanted walls. This makes the hallway bigger, but the usable space of the rooms only loses slightly since the winding corridor from the homeowner's suggestion is not usable anyway.
The third picture shows only the initial situation.
Does anyone else have ideas?