Attic not in Paris

I love the attic. Although... Lofts because I like too. Maybe it is strange and even extremely suspicious, but love and cellars. The fact that the arrangement of the main part of the house - it's, you know, my main job, soup and burgers, so to speak.

In it there are quite wonderful customers. I generally lucky people. To make the house a home, even if it is flat, you need a lot of work and desire. All participants in the process. Do not do as a neighbor Lev Petrovich. Or - as in this picture. And - to collect a piece of the house so that these disparate parts of the environment have become a particular family dwelling. Or - a specific person. As much as possible we approached them as clothing made-to-measure accurately. So, the house itself - a main dish. And if I equip the attic and turns it into the attic - my heart birthday party. Champagne with strawberries and cream. We are with the customer, both in the children's story - trying to find a hotbed of painted door in a magical land.

The climate of the majority of regions of Russia boil down to the fact that the autumn rains pour. And in the winter - snowing. And yet there are frosts, but such that it is time to cancel classes in schools, to smear the nose goose fat, and drink from morning to night cocoa. And therefore do flat roof and rebuild, for example, the lovely house in a palazzo style - with a courtyard, fountain and peacocks - there is no way. Even if no peacocks. And we have to do the roof with a slope. Another question - at the approach to the planning of the house at home, rather than as two (three, four) tiered apartments, we have this We can solve the problem right away and avoid any appearance of dark, close and completely unused space.

If we properly think through the whole design of the house, with the volume of work, we can get some incredible things. We will have a "second light" - is when the room height is more than one floor, and the window in it, respectively, too. And it is - a big plus, since it increases the natural light the house, and once the sun ray is capable of much.

In addition, if the work is carried out initially with the plan, and we are preparing accordingly (Insulate and strengthen) the design, the ceiling of the top floor, we leave no ban free. Keep the volume of the room, adding to her height and air. Yes, the ceiling will have a slope. But - he (the ceiling) will height of 3 or even 3.5, but, for example, 5 meters. This difference is very significant, the ability to add spaciousness and intrigue in the top floor room. This is - an optimistic scenario. We are talking about it, because this version of the work with the volume - it's a great opportunity to learn it. This "option A". But, as often happens in life we ​​have to deal with variants of the rest of the set of letters in the alphabet.

Thus, the attic, if nevertheless we have it - it is space between the ceiling and roof of the house. Those. attic floor - is the ceiling of the top floor, its ceiling - roof slope. Inside the attic - it is usually the most perfect "insight" - all the behind the scenes life of our architectural designs seen there. Usually - no decorations and even hidden. What are the features of this room? Little space, a little light, dust. May encounter bats and owls. Cats can even black.

What we can offer to make good with this - a classic from Beetlejuice, attic? If there are ventilation pipes, polcherdaka takes chimney from the fireplace, and we have the size of a window with a portion deflope? Even in this situation - not all is lost. We can use this space to bring home conditioning units. You can also place the pump (if available). Then the external conditioning units will not cling we have on the front, and under the pump does not need to give away part of the residential floor area or to equip basement (can do without it, or - to use as a "clean zone" there to arrange the economic block, laundry room, billiard room, and yes even sauna).

If we are talking about turning the attic into living, ie reshaping of it in the attic, it is possible to do. Typically, for this we need the following.

At first - to equip the ladder, because the ladder to an unused attic and the stairs to the attic, which is, say, a bedroom or study - they are two different steps. My personal priority in the calculation and design of stairs is their convenience.

Please consider how you will bring the furniture in the attic (and in principle - to any other than the first) floor. If a family has children - they are always with the ladder may slip. Let's do it from the calculation to roll it was not for long, and then there were bruises. From this sometimes it depends - how generally will be used this floor.

In my practice was a situation where customers hardly used the second floor of the house. The reason is the incredibly dramatic turning staircase. With a very beautiful natural stone steps. The amount of 20 pieces. To the heap, the last and the first steps were 1/2 the height of the rest. Since it fell not only small children, but also adults drunk. In the end, deciding that an idle second floor - all the same great folly than the dismantling of this miracle, standing as a cast-iron bridge, fixed the problem.

Paying tribute to the engineering part of the project, to work thoroughly on strengthening structures and insulation of the attic floor, we finally can start decorating.

Here, let's examine in more detail.

Plenty of room for imagination here is huge. Attic rooms are often lighter than the rooms downstairs. Views may please us much stronger. General rules and recipes here and there can not be.

Most importantly, from what should be a start - the geometry of space.

The presence of ceiling sections with the slope, I would advise of the downsides to translate into advantages. Using the walls a different color finishes, further highlighting them, you can reach the usual rectangular room unknown results. A kind of "hipped" space allows us to translate accents and see here is not pressing on your wall, and - almost cathedral architecture. Aspiration upwards.

One small design secret: by using wallpaper to prefer modest decor and harmonious color palette combinations. When this pattern with pattern used on vertical wall portions, and portions of the walls having a slope monophonic wallpaper paste having no or almost no non-drawing.

The height of the side walls of rooms may be very different from the end. In this room it is best to use a horizontal piece of furniture, do not clutter up his tall cabinets. Small chest of drawers and nightstand in the bedroom, a low cabinet for stationery or low bookshelves in the study will provide us with the necessary and allow to feel comfortable here.

Two words I would like to say about flooring in the attic. Of course, his choice is mainly dictated by the general style decision homes, but there are also small tweaks: light tone visually increase the room floor. You can also use the reception of a combination of several flooring colors. For example, in one of his latest projects on the perimeter of the rooms of the attic floor flooring I made lighter in color and warm in tone than the color of the main area of ​​the rooms.

This technique allows a bit to push the walls and "raise" them off the floor.

Color - everything is both simple and difficult at the same time. Planning decisions - our alpha and omega. But the architecture without color - is dead. Color at all - one of the main weapons, and mine - so all favorite. Light shades in the attic will help us make the room luminous, warm and alive. But, with moderate consumption of dark and bright colors we can get interesting and non-linear interior.

Selection of colors - a difficult and very laborious. It needs artistic taste and "nasmotrennost". I prefer to search for inspiration coloring carried out by the customer in an environment where there are exactly masterpieces and harmony. Great artists and their paintings - that inexhaustible source. Here you can see the tips in style. Look for the original sources, in a word.

Selection of colors, textures and finishes - this is not just an individual, and almost intimate process. Some like plaster for concrete, metal elements, monochrome and graphic quality. Another love textiles and natural materials, the third - gloss and satin crystal. We are all different.

And - I like the attic. I said already? All love is equal. And most of all - when my meetings with the client, search the palettes, materials and attempts to attach to the minimalist interior of the new house my grandmother's cupboard - born HOUSE. When sketches, drawings, and acquire imaging flesh and blood. And the picture that I saw really only in your head come to life! This - my favorite moment.

After completing the hard work to the magical transformation of a dusty attic in a wonderful attic, you can drink tea with cakes near the samovar. Or a glass of dry red. And congratulate yourself with the fact that absolutely no magic for yourself, you have not only increased the inhabited area of ​​your home, but also have at their disposal very special square meters.

How to turn the attic into a loft, read here. On the Structure of the floor in the attic look here. About Modular and attic stairs Learn from This forum threads.

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