Moving On Up - The New Attic

A house attic does not evoke images of style and chic design. Rather, we find ourselves thinking of dark, cobweb-infested, damp and dreary crawl spaces. We think of attics as leftover space under the roof where we abandon unwanted stuff – outdated clothing, old books, grandma’s hat boxes, grandpa’s hunting gear, coin collections and bags of seashells from that long-ago beach vacation.



But space in our urban areas is at a premium and there is not a square foot to waste. Architects and designers are now starting to see the potential of this extra space, and offer solutions that meet the needs of the most demanding style freaks. Sunlight, additional rooms, extra bathrooms — it is all possible in the attic. Starchitects around the world have made dramatic rooflines trendy, so we can all give up on our visions of the embarrassing drywalled and pine-paneled disasters that attics tended to morph into, every time we tried to make them livable.



Within very few square feet, designers are finding space for sleeping, cooking and eating, and using the sloping rooflines to create impressive skylight windows.


We can all see the delightful benefits of maximizing the amount of livable and useable space – even if it meant clearing away the precious collections of bric-a-brac we’ve spent generations accumulating. Ample sunlight penetrating the attic apartment means than even nocturnal arachnids have been sent packing. By Andrew J Weiner and Tuija Seipell
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