Lofts - a necessity for you?

[HappyLondonWoman]

So I grew up in a semi with a loft. Everything went up there. Old school books, outgrown toys, bits of furniture, Christmas decorations....

As an adult I have never had a loft as we've lived in a variety of flats.

I would love a loft, to store decorations. But when I think about it, I'm glad we don't because I'm a natural hoarder and this way we can't keep everything. I have to be sensible about mementos and keepsakes I have.
When my parents left the family home after over 30 years, there was stuff in their loft that'd never seen the light of day!
We don't have a garage either, or a garden shed. Or a spare bedroom!

So love your loft? Or overrated? A dumping ground? Or necessary extra storage?

A bit of both. Great storage for things like suitcases, Christmas decorations, summer/winter duvets etc. but there is also a lot of stuff that isn't needed up there.
It one of those jobs where every time we go up we say to each other that we need to sort the log out. The loft has never yet been sorted out!

I bloody hate autocorrect 🤦‍♀️😆

We have eaves accessed from a bedroom and then a loft with a hatch and ladder.

We use the eaves for Christmas tree, decorations, that sort of thing. We have nothing in the main loft - just don't see the point, we get rid of things instead

I use mine for camping gear, luggage, Christmas decorations etc.
Sometimes it really stresses me out knowing all that stuff is up there, and if it was just me I would make it so I didn't use the loft at all.
But we have a small home and so it is what it is.
A lot of the stuff up there is because other family members want it.

I pretty much put the sentimental stuff up there eg photo albums, drawings etc from my child.
So I don't believe I've got unnecessary things up there but it's not things I look at all the time but they are important to me

I have a loft. And a garage and a loft above the garage. As a bit of a hoarder I love them and need lofts in my life!

I have lived in my house for a year and have never been in the loft. I guess it depends what other storage options you have. I have a garage so have a few boxes in there but not much else.

I love my loft, I had it boarded out a couple of years ago with some redundancy money. It's not high enough to convert (I can just stand up in the apex of the roof) but I don't have a huge amount of storage space in my house, and don't have a garage. My garden and therefore my shed are tiny.

I'm pretty good at decluttering, but my loft is useful for things that are "big" that I don't use all year round. And I zone it. So one zone is for Christmas things, one is for decorating/DIY stuff, and one is for camping stuff and luggage.

I have a loft, and a garage, but nothing in either of them. It's a deliberate choice, I'm in my late 50s and don't want to leave a house that's literally full to the rafters for my DC to sort out when I'm gone.

We recently moved (good sized newbuild) and the loft is huge, almost twice the size of our old house.
Nothing is going up there..... Nothing. 😠

Our argument is that if we put it up there now then it probably won't ever come down again (mid-50's).
Turned a bedroom into a box-room and anything that had previously been in the loft (Christmas decorations etc) is now stored in there, a place where we can actually get to it with minimum effort.

I live in the first floor of a house conversion so have a loft but no garden. DH is a bit of a hoarder so the loft is his space. I'd be driven mad by his hoards without it.

The first time we moved, the loft was so full the removal company had to go and fetch another container

Lesson learnt! Subsequent and current lofts have remained blissfully empty unlike the garage.

Love it love it love it!

It's huge and floored. It has so much in it but yea sometimes there maybe is an element of keeping stuff u don't need but generally I'm quite good at not hoarding stuff.

My old house had a wee teeny loft that was only partially floored cld just about keep suitcases and the Christmas tree/decorations up there.

i live in a small house and don’t have a loft. It’s fine as it forces me to be disciplined about what I keep. E.g have kept some toys, books and clothes from dd’s childhood but it’s only a few boxes.

We had a big walk in loft in our old house which was amazingly convenient for storage. By the time we moved it was so full you couldn't walk into it any more and it took me ages to sort it all out. I resolved (and succeeded) to empty it out and sort it completely before we moved and our new house has an empty loft! In fact at the moment I'm resisting getting a loft ladder so I'm not tempted to start again...

A garage and 2 big loft rooms….we know when we sell that everything apart from the Xmas decorations will probably be chucked or moved to new house not unpacked since our move 2 years ago. But neither of us can bring ourselves to go sort it out….