A converted loft is a great way to capitalize on your home's square footage. Be it a guest bedroom, a family bathroom, or even a mezzanine floor, ridding an attic space of cobwebs to make way for an ...

Folding stairs are a great convenience in opening up an attic for storage, but they can also be a significant cause of heat loss. This is also true of uninsulated trapdoors that lead into attics and ...

Some old houses have attics the size of a small barn, complete with dormers for light and air. You want a few extra bedrooms or maybe a bowling alley, no problem. But in most houses these days the ...

The attic stairs cover is an energy-saving cover for folding, pull-down attic stairs. The product reduces air leakage between house and attic, saving heating-cooling loss and energy loss, states the ...

Tom heads to Minnesota to replace attic stairs. Kevin uses paint for a kitchen makeover. Tom checks out street caves in St. Paul, Minnesota, and then replaces a rickety attic staircase in Minneapolis.

Without the ability to alter the roof’s pitch, however, the low-height areas of an attic room often remain unusable, and the resulting usable space is restricted by how low its functions can go. By ...