Climbing wall??

Changing this aspect would really change the appearance of the front (or back) of the house. It could be done though..

Pretty bold of them to call this a "room", no?

I would use it for storage. Unless you have small kids, in which case I would let them have it (may require creative use of duct tape and pillows....)

Meditation space? Seriously, you can't get rid of the obstructions, unless you are up for making serious changes to the roofline of your house, as mentioned upthread. If it were my house, it would be filled with books and a desk under the window.

Could you back the wall up to where the roofline begins? It would make this space smaller, but you would gain space on the other side...

Perfect playhouse spot for younger SHORTER children. Even as is with a single bed under the window you have another bedroom. Once upon a time, I had a bedroom that was smaller than that-and having it be MINE alone made it more than grand

You don't mention where the room is located in the house. Is it off of the master? If so, you have an awesome closet right there. Our master closet is the space above the garage. As a closet, it's enormous - about 12x24.

You can do with that space pretty much anything you like and if the budget allows, down the road you can turn that into a shed dormer and have a normal size room.

Good luck

At six foot one, I'd hit my head every time I got off of one of GN's couches in his/her otherwise lovely design suggestions. I'd do storage. Of stuff like Christmas décor that I'd access twice a year, once to bring down, next to put away.

I like this room quite a bit:

Perfect playhouse spot for younger SHORTER children.

Oooh, put a tension rod (or even a shower curtain rod) into the dormer /pop on a brightly colored cloth, and you have a small playroom for a child. Put in a small beanbag, and it'll be a magical little reading nook.

you dont have bulky ugly dormer, you have a roof between two separate
dormers. you can connect them (at expense) to make a single "shed"
dormer. it would go from looking like photo 1 to photo 2 on the
outside.

Yeah, but that's an expensive fix, and -- from the exterior -- the two dormers are much more attractive.

My conclusion:

It's a bonus room. An extra space. You're excused from the pressure of making it look as nice as your living room. I'd put a sofa against the dormer wall, a TV on the other wall, and it'd be a nice little away-space. I like the bookshelves.

OR tuck a small desk into the dormer itself and make it an office.

What do you need this room to do?

mrs pete i completely agree with your assessment of my advice, i was just trying to be neutral.

The light in that dormer would be great to work by.

Office, library or craft room? Kid's study or dedicated play room? Media room?

I would put shelves and drawer units along the outside wall to minimize banged heads.

The inner wall could have desks and shelves.

I live in New England. This just looks like a bedroom in a Cape Cod style house to me.

I think you're looking at it wrong. If they hadn't put the two dormers in, you'd have an unusable attic space. Because of the window dormers, you have an extra room!

What do you need? If you put a TV and a table up there, you'd have a kid rec room. Someone said meditation room. It could be a home office, a storage room, a library, a guest bedroom an art studio.

What does it look like from the outside?

How do the dormers affect the exterior appearance of the house?

Exterior photos would help the discussion.

Out of curiosity, could that door entry into the room be moved? Or, a barn door type entry where the opening for door is at now?

If for example the room was used as a craft/art/office/guest room the height in that entry dormer section could greatly be utilizesd for head room for a desk or bed.

A guest room with barn door? Or a craft table area or little sectional in the vicinity of the guest bed head in below example.

If not using as Guest room the closet could go. This sectional is a tic big but you get the idea.

Make use of other end with a dresser and tv with luggage storage behind. There is room for a chair under the window or a little desk.

Full shed dormer, playroom for young children, exercise room, closet/storage space. Heck, even an extra bed for guests. It's just not a regular room with a regular ceiling height. If you watch Escape to the Country on YouTube, you will see that most English "character" houses have at leas one true bedroom like this.

I would not change peaked window dormers for a shed unless I was desperate for the space. A cape with peaked dormers is classic & my favorite home style.

I'd use that as an exercise room/yoga room/study. Or as my own private reading space. Lots of possibilities for part time use IMHO.

As auntthelma mentioned here in New England that would be similar to a Cape Cod style with one exception. I have never seen so little actual ceiling area. Could you use it as a closet? Maybe line it with cedar?

If you plan to use it as a bedroom you should put the bed under the slanted ceiling. That leaves headroom under the windows to access the bed. That is how we have our dd's room. The grandkids love that room the most because it feels cozy!

I think maybe we should all wrap this post up, OP seems to be missing in action.

Agreed, justerrilynn. Signed on just to post a question and then gone. I don't get it.

So many cool ideas from this wonderful community. It reminded me, however, that when my DS & new wife were looking for a home 3 years ago, she would not even consider a house with a sloped/angled ceiling in any room. She said it gave her a weird, creepy feeling. She would walk in some homes and walk right out. We live in NE and a lot of affordable first homes are old stock with nooks and crannies and at least one sloped ceiling. It took some time to find something in a tight market.

I really need to check on if it's a first time question before I plan to put any time into my response. Anyone who has been here a while realizes that a poster will like some ideas but not others. Replies are really meant to inspire. However, these hit and runs are ticking me off. If you weren't too busy to ask the question you shouldn't be too busy to respond to the suggestions...just saying.

A few ole timers have suggested that people can't find their way back. I don't buy it. You get replies right in your email box that link right back here.

Justterrilyn, yes, the spate of hit-and-runs is getting to us. But not everyone has their replies sent to their email, it all depends on how you have your account set. And it can be hard to get back to one place. On one of my devices, posts show up in more than one forum at once! When I get to my other device which access more of a GW than Houzz, I can't find a post because it's actually posted in one forum, and the Houzz programming on the other device re-sorted it based on terms in the post.

Grrr! That screwy email thing plus real hit-n-runs is eventually really going to hit the quality of replies.

Very true, but maybe somebody else can use some of the suggestions provided.

Yes, you are right nosoccermom! The over twenty helpful replies may help someone.

For the benefit of any future readers, the OP is actually complaining about the roof, not the dormers. The roof is what is creating the angles. The dormers project outward from the roof and are what give the place room for windows and a bit of headroom.

How were you wanting to use this room?

You could add or build in cabinet beneath the window nearer the wall that extends into the room as far as the lower vertical (roof support) wall of the part of the roof between the two windows. That would give you a straight, albeit short (in height), "wall" for consideration for furniture placement. Add a potted plant atop that cabinet.

(Otherwise, you might find an oversized bean bag chair, plop it in that narrow corner with the second window and then otherwise ignore that nook, then focus on using the rest of the room.)

As a home office -- homework room or craft room -- you could add filing cabinet(s) under the low end of the roof that's in your way so as to minimize the likelihood of someone walking beneath it and bumping their head. You could ten place the end of a desk or table against that. There would be room for a chair or two between that desk/table and wall.

Hi everyone and thank you for your replies! I'm working on answering some questions/responses to comments that were left on my post.

justerrilynn, I get your frustration but rest assured it wasn't intentional. I posted my question to numerous places, hoping for responses but when I didn't get much of a response from the other websites, I just assumed I didn't get anything back here either. I made my account in a hurry and didn't set notifications to be sent to my email address (I find that rather annoying as I once did that with Facebook and I was bombarded all day with notifications so I don't typically do that anymore). When I followed a link from Pinterest back to Houzz this morning, I wasn't logged in anymore so I didn't see any notifications. It wasn't until I started browsing the "Design Dilemma" section that I came across the post I created with the 30 new responses.

Artisan Timber Works llc that's going to be a solid "no" from us on the climbing wall lol.

Rita I like your idea on making it a meditation/yoga space. I currently have an exercise room in the house we are living in now until we move. However, there isn't much space in there for exercising aside from maybe yoga, which is a bummer. I'd likely bonk my head jumping around in there with any cardio workouts lol. The pictures unfortunately aren't really conveying the size of the room. It's a longer room but there isn't much room width wise, especially with the bulky roofline jutting into the space.

pennydesign That's a great suggestion and I think that would have worked to increase the size of the master bedroom (the left wall is shared with the master bedroom) but the attic is right through that right side closet door on the second picture I posted. We have the HVAC system there and I think it would create an uneven wall if we moved the master wall back. Otherwise that would have been a great idea.

Michelle The room shares a wall with the master bedroom. The only problem is the wall it shares is the only space for a bed. If we created an entry to the closet from there, we wouldn't be able to fit the bed. The other walls won't fit a king size bed because they have windows, a entry door, etc.

How about making it a lovely master closet and dressing room?

I think you are saying the entry door can not be moved?

How wide is the room?

Maybe this could just be a secret little room just for you to escape to with a book or laptop. Put a TV where I suggested above. Store your pedicure supplies in there. Add a little frig with wine and snacks. Add some music! You can't be bothered in the manicure/ pedicure room because toes and finger paint could get messed up.

There, I just gave you a "keep out" excuse.

Some other information I think might be helpful:

* We don't have any children (possibly in the future but even then, not for a couple of years) so a playroom isn't needed.

*There are four other bedrooms (including the master) in the house plus this bonus room. Three out of the four bedrooms I've decided on what to use them for (guest room, master bedroom, and office/library) with one bedroom and the bonus room being unused.

*We have considered the shed dormer idea but we really like how the two dormers look right now being "two" instead of one big joined dormer. In the future, if we run out of space or have children and we need an extra bedroom, we may revisit that idea.

*We are considering using it as a storage room as well. I was just hoping to make use out of it creatively somehow but it's very hard for me to look past the bulkiness of the room. I'm a huge fan of clean lines and symmetry so this room is a challenge for me lol.

justerrilynn I wish we could move the door to the left as that would free up some space by the built ins to put a bed. The only problem is the master bedroom is right where the new door would go. You'd have to enter the master to enter the bonus room and that just wouldn't work. Now that I'm thinking about it, a barn door on a slider might be the best option to properly fit a small bed where those built ins are located right now. Thanks for the suggestion! I'm going to mention this to our contractor.

bonnie_ann Our master bedroom shares a wall with this room and it happens to be the only wall that our bed will fit on. Plus we have decent sized walk in closets in the master already. Otherwise that would have been a great option.

suezbell We didn’t really have any plans on how to use this space but we wanted to create something with it. I was hoping for a workout room or a place to do yoga but I’m just trying to figure out how to make that space work. It may just have to be a guest room but the built ins would need to come out for bed placement. I just want to get every square foot out of our house and I’d hate to just store odds and ends in here without at least trying to make a cohesive space.

I’m just torn over if guests would really want to stay in this kind of room? Maybe it’s just me, but I’d feel a little claustrophobic lol.

This response is probably less design related and more psychology related. Someone early in the thread mentioned that you are looking at it wrong. It would have just been attic space had they not finished it, so it's a great bonus. You are worried that a guest wouldn't like it because it's too claustrophobic -how much time does a guest spend in their bedroom? Could it be that you are too worried about what won't work?? It's a really neat space! Whatever you do, focus on the fact that you wouldn't have been able to do it at all if they hadn't finished that space. Hopefully my words come across as helpful not critical. I certainly don't intend to be critical. :)