An extra room at a lower cost, without too much work, is an achievable dream thanks to the mezzanine net. Especially when you have a house with an attic and a high ceiling. Feelnets, specialist in indoor and outdoor nets, explains why and how to create a mezzanine with a net in your attic.
Why Create a Mezzanine in the Attic?
The answer to this question seems obvious: to create an extra room. But there are other benefits to creating a mezzanine in your attic: “utilizing” often wasted ceiling height, offering even more light to your living spaces, multiplying storage options, and creating a room that truly “communicates” with the rest of your house.
Using Lost Roof Height in your Attic by Creating a Mezzanine
Whether sloped or flat, your living room ceiling may have some “wasted” height that you don’t know what to do with. To create a new living space, it’s generally said that you need between 1.80 m and 2 m of height. If it’s simply a sleeping area, a height of only 1.20 m may be sufficient.
To create a comfortable mezzanine for daily living in your attic, you also need to consider the floor space. A decent living space is considered to be from 9 m² upwards.
Offering Even more Light by Transforming your Attic into a Mezzanine
Attics are often “closed off” by nature. By deciding to create a new room in your attic, you will necessarily create a roof window, or even several. Thus, this “blind” space will be able to benefit from very pleasant natural light. And by opening this space to the room below as a mezzanine, you will be able to bring this additional light to your living room, kitchen, or entrance.
Creating Additional Storage
Whether you’ve decided to create a large or small mezzanine, the floor space can be used to create new storage. For example, you can create small closets on each side of the roof slope, running the entire length of the room. Or, if the walls are straight, install shelves that cover the entire wall surface.
Creating an Extra Room, Connected to the Rest of the House
The principle of a mezzanine (this “small platform built in a room with a high ceiling” according to Le Robert) is that it is almost always open on one of its sides to another room in the house. As a result, in addition to bringing more light to the room below, as we highlighted earlier, it allows you to stay connected to it. This is particularly useful for families, when this room is used, for example, as a playroom for children, who are then easier to supervise.
The Benefit of Choosing a Residential Net to Create a Mezzanine in the Attic
While creating “a mezzanine in your attic has multiple advantages, it becomes (almost) child’s play when you decide to” install a residential net or, even better, to replace the entire floor with an indoor net.
Even more Light for Rooms under the Mezzanine with a Residential Net
As we’ve seen, a mezzanine brings new natural light to a living space. And this is even more true when this mezzanine is a residential net. Indeed, all of the light gained through the roof windows will be diffused to the room below the mezzanine, through the mesh of the residential net.
Thus, while offering a real design touch to your living room, for example, the mezzanine residential net will allow you to see even more clearly!
Create an Additional Multi-Purpose Room: Bedroom, Playroom, Home Theater…
When used to create a mezzanine, the living net offers a distinct advantage: it serves as both a “floor” and a relaxation space. This is not the case with a traditional floor. As we explained in our article on the different “uses” of a living net, a mezzanine net can become an additional play area for your children, but also a home cinema room (thanks to a projector) for young and old, a guest bedroom, or simply a relaxation space where it’s pleasant to read and lounge on cushions. The mezzanine net requires nothing more to switch from one use to another…
The Mezzanine Net under your Attic: an Extra Room without Construction
Finally, choosing to install a mezzanine net rather than a fully solid mezzanine has two other advantages: lower cost and less construction work. As we “explained in our article on Why the mezzanine net is a good alternative to major renovations in your home, the only real requirement for installing a mezzanine net” indoors (as well as “outdoors) is to have” a solid framework. Then the “installation is so easy that some people try” it themselves. But if you prefer, Feelnets can direct you to its network of professionals for creating the “framework and installing your” living net.
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