Hello, does anyone here perhaps have the rooms mentioned in the title in their house? We would be interested in pictures, specifically regarding the feeling of space in terms of coziness and lighting conditions. There are many pictures available online of rooms with vaulted ceilings and low knee walls, but unfortunately not of rooms without knee walls.
Thank you very much
Thank you very much
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seniordingdong14 Jan 2021 10:20Yes, this narrow corridor-like layout is exactly what we are concerned about. The rooms are 4.50 m (15 feet) high and just over 4 m (13 feet) wide. It’s a difficult issue without seeing it in advance.
seniordingdong schrieb:
Yes, that tunnel-like shape is exactly our concern. The rooms are 4.50 m (15 feet) high and just over 4 m (13 feet) wide. It's a difficult situation without seeing it in advance.Why don’t you draw a cross-section? It’s quick to do with graph paper and a set square.
seniordingdong schrieb:
Great, that’s exactly what I was looking for.??? - so why do you then say you are specifically looking for examples WITHOUT knee walls???https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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11ant schrieb:
??? - and why do you then say you are specifically looking for examples WITHOUT knee walls???I thought a knee wall only exists when the roof starts below the "standard" ceiling height. (Yes, there are differences even here.) So the living area is reduced by the roof.
I learned in this thread that this is not correct. The original poster probably misunderstood it the same way I did 🙂
Ah, now I understand...
Our previous house had exactly those two children's rooms, with a highest point of almost 5 meters (16 feet)! I really liked it. In one of the rooms, we built a wide loft bed where you could still stand up. The larger children's room was about 4 x 4.60 meters (13 x 15 feet). Maybe the pictures will help you.
Our previous house had exactly those two children's rooms, with a highest point of almost 5 meters (16 feet)! I really liked it. In one of the rooms, we built a wide loft bed where you could still stand up. The larger children's room was about 4 x 4.60 meters (13 x 15 feet). Maybe the pictures will help you.
Deadree schrieb:
I thought a knee wall only exists when the roof starts below the "standard" ceiling height. (Yes, there are differences here too.) Meaning the living area is reduced by the roof.No, a knee wall refers to the opposite: not lowering the ceiling plane and basically shortening the gable to pull the roof slope into the upper floor, turning it into an attic space—but rather raising the wall plates to make the attic more like a full upper floor with full standing height. From the room’s perspective, a knee wall is somewhat like a "dwarf wall by other means." In some regions, one of these two approaches is traditionally preferred, and the other is so rarely used that the terms for these actual opposites are treated like synonyms. This often causes confusion when people say knee wall but mean dwarf wall or vice versa—I’m used to that. However, your misunderstanding of the knee wall as a term for lowering instead of raising was new to me. Thanks for that—I always enjoy learning about new misconceptions in layman’s vocabulary ;-)https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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