All my life dreamed of building a house with an attic, realized a dream, but now we regret it.

The layout of the house with an attic in the picture can look like the limit of dreams. And in fact, such a project has both pros and cons. Before you understand whether you need to make an attic floor in the house, you need to weigh the pros and cons. In order to decide, some builders and interior designers advise some time to rent such housing. Then it will be possible to accurately assess the advantages and disadvantages of this option.



At first, the attic floor seems more like a pleasant bonus than a disadvantage. Still, in small houses, additional square meters will never be superfluous. Instead of making a single-storey small house with an attic, you can increase the living space by one and a half times.

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The bedrooms in the attic look very cozy. Here you can arrange a children's room or a small library. On the attic, a workshop or a small recreation area, and perhaps a guest room, would be well located. Depending on the preferences of the owner of the house, the attic floor can become the embodiment of a lot of interesting ideas in reality.

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In comparison with the usual attic, where there are two times less space, the attic will fit everything that does not fit in cabinets and nightstands on the first floor. And if you make large windows in the roof, then from the attic floor there is a beautiful view of the starry sky. Perhaps this is why people like to plan a bedroom in the attic.

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Inspiration, inspired by pictures from the Internet, will be enough to decide to build a house with an attic. But already in the process of construction you will understand what are the disadvantages of such a structure. For example, there will simply be no places for storing garden equipment if the entire attic is converted into a bedroom or a playroom. In a cozy nest in the attic is unlikely to fit trampoline and bags of cement, and in the attic they would stand perfectly.

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To be or not to be? Despite the fact that the attic floor is defective, it should be equipped in the same way as other living rooms in the house. Additional costs will go to insulation of the roof and floor, communications and finishing. And sometimes such a pleasure can be even more expensive than a full second floor, if you install attic windows, which are a necessary source of light and fresh air. Otherwise, the attic floor will look not like a cozy place, but like a dark kennel.

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Installing furniture on the attic floor is a separate conversation. Since the walls are located at an angle, ordinary furniture like cabinets will not work. There is an option - to make furniture to order or make something yourself, but it will take some more money and time.

When building a country house with an attic, you need to choose powerful water stations, otherwise the water to the upper floors will simply not reach. Ventilation, thermal insulation, and in some cases, the repair of the roof will cost more.

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Experts say that the construction of a house with an attic implies a number of difficulties associated with additional costs and nuances in the interior design. But the cost will still be less than building a full second floor.

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In fact, everyone decides for themselves what size and shape to build a house. Practice shows that the more compact the dwelling, the less resources it takes and the easier it is to keep it clean. It is not for nothing that one-storey frame houses, barnhouse houses and so on are popular now. Would you build a house with an attic floor? Share your experience of construction in the comments. Have a good day!