wasted eaves space

8 years ago

Hello,

My husband and I have bought a property that requires modernisation in every room. We are also adding an extension. We are restricted to keeping the property a 1 1/2 storey, but we are really unhappy with the waste of space caused by keeping the roof in line with the original house, so bedroom 1, en-suite and bedroom 2 are just not what we wanted out of this at all.

Bedroom 2 will be a dressing room, but it's clear to us that we are barely getting a full wardrobe in there and if we do, it'll protrude into the room with a large gap behind where the ceiling is sloping down. We know we could get cupboards built to fit in the slope of the ceiling.....but it's just not what we want. In bedroom 1, which is to be our bedroom, we're restricted to where we place our bed because the headboard is certainly not fitting against the wall under the slope of the ceiling.

We are having terrible troubles getting any kind of suggestions from our architect in order to move forward with this, but feel like we're in too deep with him to cut our ties and start from scratch with another architect who could be more in tune with what we are looking to achieve.

The pitch of the existing roof is 30 degrees, which runs from left to right. Is it possible for us to flip the direction of the extension roof running front to back but change the pitch to be much lower in order for us to gain the internal wall height we need without the overall height of the extension exceeding the existing house height?

Any suggestions welcome - we're feeling incredibly frustrated.

Lindsey

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Ash McGregor
8 years ago
Struggling with this a bit but you could have a longer, thinner shower room slightly in favour of bedroom 2 and move the entrance to bedroom 1 left. Also do think about maximising storage space within walls, eaves etc
Lindsey Duthie
Original Author
8 years ago
Thank you. The door can't move to the left because of the roof pitch :(
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OnePlan
8 years ago
http://houzz.com/ideabooks/9321660
Hoping the link will take you to an ideabook of a pitched dressing room . Might be able to do something similar to allow tall storage in the middle and left and right sides - ie maximise the tall storage.
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http://houzz.com/photos/3075981

http://houzz.com/photos/3075975

Didn't think the link would work ! Sorry - look on my pro page - it's a walk in wardrobe project on there !
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