- Copy checklist from trello
The vision/motivation
Part of the reason to want to create a bedroom in the attic is to have another useable room on the main floor, but, since we are going to the effort of building walls and adding insulation, why not make it pretty too?
I have wanted a “wall bed” since I was little and saw one in a drawing in a kids book. Just because I have a king sized bed is no reason not to have one! While I am at it, we can even make it a book nook.
So now I have a vision of the east wall of the room comprised of built in drawers for clothes across the width of the room, and up to about hip height. The framing around the drawers can be formed with steps to make climbing into bed easier.
Above the drawers the bed would be centred in the space, with bookshelves on three sides surrounding the bed and framing the window. Perhaps some under bed storage behind the drawers, accessible through sloped and padded hatches. that double as backrests.
The opening to the bed area could be framed by decorative wood carved like knotwork dragons or something, covering the sides of the bookshelves, and curtains (dark blue, of course) could hang down and soften the full effect. It will be interesting to see how near to this vision the project comes.
progress notes
- 2026-01-18 årsmöte we cleaned away our tools from this project and storage things near where the attic loo will go.
- 2025-12-26 a little more progress more tar paper up, more insulation up.
- 2025-12-01 snow and further progress
Today Keldor made some lists to hold the insulation sheets to the attic roof, and they work very well. We put up the first four, and now that he knows they will work, he will make the other type to hold the upper end of the next row down.
- 2025-11-29 a nice day ends with extra flare bought two packages of 30 mm thick Styrofoam house insulation for 1,843.20 kr from Beijer Byggmaterial 2025-11-29 receipt, insulation.jpg
- 2025-11-25 tar paper Tuesday more tarpaper up
- 2025-11-18 a Wednesday at home Tuesday more horizontal boards, and started stapling tarpaper to the outside of what will become walls.
- 2025-10-26 beginnings Sunday Began mking progress on the attic room: started putting up the horizontal boards between the uprights to which the tarpaper will attach before we insulate.
- 2025-10-09 tiny progress on the attic room we cleaned out an emptied the left side of the attic in preparation for insulating it. We also noticed a small hole in the roof that needs to be dealt with: trello_icontillfällig fixa litet hål i taket
- 2025-10-08 new computer we went to the hardware store and bought some vindpapp (no idea what the English word might be), which will be used for step one in insulating one end of the attic
- 2025-10-06 we discussed a relatively simple attic renovation: insulate the portion nearest the stairs to make an upstairs bedroom, freein up the large downstairs room for training and another guestroom space for parties.
measurements
South wall 6000 x 1700 cm but 6.3 m to chiminey North wall 4000 x 1700 cm East wall 3000 x 2600 at peak North roof 1800 cm South roof 1800 cm Chimney 90.5 x 117.5 cm Mellan 94 och 97.5