Ideas for decorating an attic with style
- Photography: Luis Asín and Belén Imaz.
You can turn interior design challenges into opportunities with decorating ideas for all types of attics, from those with low, sloping ceilings, which generally have little light due to few windows, to those with high ceilings and great lighting.
You can turn interior design challenges into opportunities with decorating ideas for all types of attics, from those with low, sloping ceilings, which generally have little light due to few windows, to those with high ceilings and great lighting.
Let’s take a look at some of the guidelines that will help you solve the most common attic decorating dilemmas:
1.- Evaluate the space. Measure every available corner in your attic. Is there room for a large bed or just a single one? Will that piece of furniture you like fit in the space available under the window or is it better to use a custom solution? Where are the best natural light points? Doing all this preliminary work will get your creative juices flowing when it comes to finding the most appropriate solution.
A very special room in the attic. If you have little space and want to enable a room for multiple uses, here are some ideas from the project Ático en Rosales where we take advantage of every centimeter turning the door into a shelf and leaving the bed hidden, to create a work area.
If the space for the bedroom in your attic is somewhat reduced, or has little natural light, we recommend avoiding the use of dark colors. You can create points of color through the textile elements of the bed, or through paintings and decorative elements.
Maximize space and light by using white. In this way the light flows more easily providing that feeling of spaciousness that we seek, neutralizing the visual presence of the architectural elements, as in another of our interior design projects, integral reform in Alcalá. Whose architectural project was carried out by Wespi de Meuron Romeo and ÁBATON Arquitectura, being awarded in the Architizer Awards 2017.
Here the pieces chosen had to be especially careful. The comfortable sofa, pure in its lines, had to serve as a base for the ascending lines of the wrought ironwork. The neutral fabric in ecru, on the one hand, is responsible for not betraying the architecture and to complement the balance between the white of the walls and ceiling and the rest of the room.
4.- A different floor. In this case, in the flooring of the house, micromortar of low waterproof thickness was used for the technical and decorative coatings, making everything flow as an infinite space.
5.- Use low furniture for storage such as sideboards or consoles that provide a greater sense of spaciousness and allow the room to look tidy.
In case of having large windows, the low storage furniture will also allow the light to pass through.
6.- Personalized storage. Closets integrated into the style of the house, fully functional and unnoticed, in order to enhance the structural and decorative elements of the room.
7.- The penthouse terrace. One of the advantages of living in an attic are its terraces, from which to enjoy the views of the city. We must not neglect the decoration of the terrace of our attic so that it is consistent with the rest of our home. Here we leave you some of the terraces of the previous interior design projects.
