Bonus room Help with design
Maria C.
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Comments (17)kberrie, I'm not an architect so you'd have to ask yours for the best approach to getting more floorspace up there. I believe there are a couple of approaches... and any of these will likely add to the cost and change the look of the house (possibly making the garage/bonus area more dominent than you'd like.) Here's a very rough mockup. Left to right: Blue is the approximate shape of the current plan. Dotted line shows the approximate width of the space with adequate headroom (based roughly on the height of the front door.) Green is if you just changed the pitch of that roof. You'd have to go high and steep to significantly change the width of the usable floorspace, making that roof higher than the main part of the house. Not only might this be odd looking, it might be very cost prohibitive to build a roof that high/steep. Purple is if you built short vertical walls for the bonus room and kept the center of the roof roughly the same height. Naturally this makes the roof pitch flatter. Don't know if that shallow pitch is recommended/allowed or not. Grey is if you added short walls and made the center line of the roof a bit higher, but not as high as the green option. Naturally the higher you make the side walls, the more usable floor space you have (and the higher your roof is and/or it will be flatter.) Hopefully this shows a bit how changing the roof pitch and wall height (from zero to whatever) changes that floor space. Your architect can tell you what, if any of this, is allowed. But I thought I'd put this out here to give a sense of how the floor space gets to the size it is. I think you'll have to consider the cost and the impact on the look of the house compared to how much you value more space up there. HTH...See MoreNeed help designing bonus room with half bath.
Comments (3)lots of problems with family rooms over garage (frogs) link to google search below: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=family+room+over+garage+and+hvac+issues unless you make plans to insulate/air seal for extreme attic temps you could build a room that is uncomfortable year round. best of luck...See MoreNeed help with bonus/attic room layout -construction starts in 3 weeks
Comments (3)You are pretty far along in scheduling to not have an actual game plan here. Why have you scheduled a contractor without having a final layout from your architect? How could a contractor even give you a bid based on anything? This is not going to be cheap! And you want to pop the roof or add big dormers to try to get more floor space? Not gonna happen without more planning and at least a 100K+ budget. Your ideas do not fit the existing architecture. The whole structure would need to have the second floor removed and rebuilt....See Moreneed design ideas for this bonus room
Comments (7)Sure. What would the built in hold? If you have books or a collection you want to display, built ins are great. If you'll have to run out and pick up a bunch of junk at Hobby Lobby to fill it, then no....See MoreMaria C.
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