Folding stairs are a great convenience in opening up an attic for storage, but they can also be a significant cause of heat loss. This is also true of uninsulated trapdoors that lead into attics and ...

This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. There may be extra livable space in your house just over your head right now. Rather than moving out or adding on, many homeowners are going up into the ...

One of the largest storage areas in many homes is often wasted because of poor access. The area is the attic, which in some cases must be reached by crawling through a tiny trapdoor in the ceiling of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Carol Murto envisioned her empty attic someday becoming a dual-purpose room: an artists’ studio ...

Q: I have an attic that runs the entire length of the house. The peak of the roof is high enough to allow me to stand up in the space. The obvious storage opportunities have me foaming at the mouth.

The owner of a tiny trailer in the Hamptons has been ordered to tear out a staircase he had built without permission after officials spotted photos of the house's sales listing in a news article.

Without the ability to alter the roof’s pitch, however, the low-height areas of an attic room often remain unusable, and the resulting usable space is restricted by how low its functions can go. By ...

The attic is a space you already own, you don’t have to encroach on the garden to get it and unless you’re raising the roof or building out a dormer, it shouldn’t require planning permission. Raising ...

Have you ever looked at your cluttered attic, filled with forgotten belongings, and dared to imagine it as something truly ...