The room above the stairs with the ‘box’

[Pogmella]

Do you know what I mean? Like a big shelf built in to allow head room on the stairs.

Considering remodelling our house and was hoping for super innovative solutions to maximise this space. Will be a nursery/toddler’s room of that helps.

Mine has a hanging rail for coats, and houses the Christmas decks, Hoover, ironing board & iron and stuff like that.

In my DF house, it was at the end of the small bedroom so they extended some shelf & cupboard space into it for the youngest child.

@CalamityJune @LifeInAHamsterWheel

Here are a few taken during the transformation. It took several weekends of building work then decoration. I hope the photos work!

First one is from bedroom with hole cut through to the landing.

Second one is from landing into bedroom.

2 more in next post.

Next 2 showing the cube box now filled in, taken from the landing. It's now all plastered and decorated. There are holes on the bit of wood that the mattress sits on for ventilation plus there's a few air gaps.

Last one is it finished from the bedroom With a surround along the front edge to stop DS falling out. It remind me of a dog basket !

Ours had a deep wardrobe built over it which despite being great storage space was too high and too deep for dd to reach her clothes. I decided to knock the wardrobe down one weekend with only a hammer and chisel. Not recommended. I covered the top with a rug and my dd has her beanbag and big floor cushions on it and sits there to read and watch tv. The room looks way bigger without the walls. I am actually very proud of my achievement.

Ours was in the bathroom and caused a huge amount of dead space. When we remodelled the bathroom, we put a wall up (making the bathroom smaller) so the "box" became an airing cupboard. We had to rip out the wall on one side of the box as someone had put a badly-installed shower against it before we bought the house, and the plasterboard had gone wavy and black. When we re-did it, we made an X-shape shelf area for towels at the back, a flat bit at the front with a secret panel that lifted up for us to store tools away from LOs, and on the opposite side of the space, we put thin shelves for extra toiletries, bulk loo rolls etc. On the stairs side, we cut into the triangular plaster and put a cupboard in with two shelves, where we put our billions of soft toys. I wanted to put a painting over the cupboard as a sort of door, but we never got around to it before we moved.

Sorry I meant the space above the box became the airing cupboard.

@bananacakerox thanks so much for the photos, that looks like a great job, my DC would love that!