framing the attic

This is the view right at the top of the stairs. This space will be an office/sitting room area. It is approximately 13 feet across and 20 feet long. You see here one of a triple window set. That strange dark triangle on the back right side is where the roof juts out over the garage area.




Turn around and you would see the knee wall behind me...if you look "through" that wall you see allllll this space that we will have available for storage. Yeah! I personally think that I would like to have the access door covered by a bookcase. A "secret door" if you will. Dont you think that would be so FUN!?...maybe even with a trick handle where you move a book and it opens the door. I just giggle when I think of that. :-)


Look at the bottom left corner of the picture and you see the top of the stairs. That is where I was standing to take the first two photos. Now I am standing in the corner of the attic space approximately where the "bookcase"/ door will be. The office space is to my right and I look back at my bedroom. Notice that the doorway is large...it will be french doors with glass panels. (sorry, is that redundant?...for all I know maybe all french doors MEANS that it will have glass panels!)
Anyway, the angle on the doorway allows for more room to exit the stairs. If we brought the wall out square you would come to the top of the stairs and run into a corner. Chopping off that corner just felt like the right thing to do. The bedroom is rather large. 16x18 or something like that.
The hallway at the left of the bedroom allows access to the bathroom without going through the bedroom. See the framing for a linen/anything closet on the extreme left of the photo.

This shot is taken while standing in the doorway of the bedroom. The white pipe coming up through the middle of the floor is connected to the hot water heater downstairs. That will be eliminated very soon. Thankfully we have another place to put the water heater that lets it vent out through the eve space. At the end of the picture you see the walk in closet. Doorway to the closet is in the bathroom.



This is the HVAC unit for the upstairs. Evidently attic space in Texac gets pretty toasty so it needs some kinda big ole cooler to make it livable. I just hope the sucker is quiet because it is right by my bedroom. I am trusting "the guys" here when they say that this is the right monster for the job. Sometimes I wonder if they take my "woman questions" back to the shop and laugh with each other at the end of the day.
"does it make a lot of noise?" (snort)
"where is the filter?" (har har)
Dual unit, BTU, HP coils, 2.5 ton, air flow reduction, compressor, duct work....blah blah BLAH.
"does it cool? is it quiet? where do I change the stupid filter?!" This is all I want to know.