Above the bathroom on the upper floor, there is an area we intended to use as a semi-open storage space for a guest mattress, a cozy children’s sleeping area, or similar (it will not be a cluttered space).
The design originally planned for this entire area to remain open, with the bathroom ceiling next to it built like a balcony to give the storage space some additional depth (see image).
Currently, however, it looks like the photo, which so far resembles more of a puppet show stage or simply a wide opening to this room. If we close this opening, there would be an entry width of about 53 cm (21 inches) on the side where the ladder is located.
So now the question is whether we should fully close this OSB wall up to the ceiling in the nice open room and access the storage area from the side via ladder over the 53 cm (21 inches) opening if necessary, or if we should keep the current large opening (approx. 160 cm (63 inches)) to allow easy access to the space but give up on having the covered area above.
This raises the key question of how to aesthetically conceal or design this “hole” so that it no longer looks like a puppet theater.
The room itself is open to the gallery and will be nicely furnished, so we don’t really want a conventional attic door or something similar up there. We are currently struggling with this because there will likely be a larger TV mounted on the red wall next to it, and then there is this opening above...???
I hope the model images with the red wall illustrate the situation well. The photo with the OSB wall and the opening is from today, original condition. I’m already tired and hope I have explained it clearly enough; otherwise, I will provide more details later!
The design originally planned for this entire area to remain open, with the bathroom ceiling next to it built like a balcony to give the storage space some additional depth (see image).
Currently, however, it looks like the photo, which so far resembles more of a puppet show stage or simply a wide opening to this room. If we close this opening, there would be an entry width of about 53 cm (21 inches) on the side where the ladder is located.
So now the question is whether we should fully close this OSB wall up to the ceiling in the nice open room and access the storage area from the side via ladder over the 53 cm (21 inches) opening if necessary, or if we should keep the current large opening (approx. 160 cm (63 inches)) to allow easy access to the space but give up on having the covered area above.
This raises the key question of how to aesthetically conceal or design this “hole” so that it no longer looks like a puppet theater.
The room itself is open to the gallery and will be nicely furnished, so we don’t really want a conventional attic door or something similar up there. We are currently struggling with this because there will likely be a larger TV mounted on the red wall next to it, and then there is this opening above...???
I hope the model images with the red wall illustrate the situation well. The photo with the OSB wall and the opening is from today, original condition. I’m already tired and hope I have explained it clearly enough; otherwise, I will provide more details later!
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hampshire20 Jun 2021 14:22We faced the same challenge and closed off the space above the bathroom. The entrance is very narrow and has a simple handmade door with a surface coated in the same clay plaster as the wall. Upstairs we store children’s toys, old photos, and seasonal decorations :p. To access it, we use a ladder since we almost never need to get in there. Here is a quick snapshot:
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pagoni202021 Jun 2021 08:35hampshire schrieb:
We had the same challenge and closed off the space above the bathroom. The entrance is very narrow and features a handmade simple door, with the surface coated in the same clay plaster as the wall. Up there, we store children’s toys, old photos, and seasonal decorations :p. To access it, we use a ladder since we hardly ever need to go up there. Here’s a quick snapshot:
[ATTACH alt="tempImagem1eMTv.png"]62773[/ATTACH] Thanks, we have a similar situation in terms of use. Unfortunately, we can probably only access it from the living area; the hallway would have been preferable, but in the end, it will likely just fade into the background again. So it will probably be something like that; the open space was more of an initial whim that looked quite nice in the photo..... 😎