{"id":24640,"date":"2016-01-30T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24640"},"modified":"2016-01-30T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:45:59","slug":"living-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/living-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Living space!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is going to sound very silly to some of you smart guys, but I’ve never been up in the attic crawl space of this house. Reasons are complicated and I’ll probably go into them in some future BHM article. I knew generally what was up there, but until today I’d never even climbed a ladder, stuck my head through the cobwebby little hatch, and flashlighted around. <\/p>\n

I didn’t go walkabout up there; just stayed on the ladder. But where I thought I’d find only unappealing but potentially useful storage space, I found this:<\/p>\n

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That peak is about nine feet up there, guys! And that’s the original main span of the house, so it’s a looooong room. Vertical sidewalls, too, albeit only about three-feet high (that’s the beginnings of cabinets and countertops). My brain dazzled, then got to work on ideas.<\/p>\n

The only great big tricky thing: The stairway would have to come up right out of the living room. And that’s tough. A pull-down ladder won’t do because I’m thinking accessible living space, not seldom-visited storage.<\/p>\n

Got some stairway ideas, but who knows yet if they’re good ones? Again I’ll keep the details for another time. Mainly I’m writing to say that I am stoked!<\/i><\/p>\n

Laughing at myself for taking such an absurd long time to make this discovery. But stoked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is going to sound very silly to some of you smart guys, but I’ve never been up in the attic crawl space of this house. Reasons are complicated and I’ll probably go into them in some future BHM article. I knew generally what was up there, but until today I’d never even climbed a ladder, stuck my head through the cobwebby little hatch, and flashlighted around. I didn’t go walkabout up there; just stayed on the ladder. But where I thought I’d find only unappealing but potentially useful storage space, I found this: That peak is about nine feet…<\/p>\n

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