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Since I recently revamped the upstairs bedroom, I figure this is the perfect time to revisit the kids' room in the basement. It's a bit of a continuation on the how we added the basement bedrooms. When we finished the basement in 2020 in anticipation of adding another set of twins, we added two bedrooms. One to be used as a Work-From-Home office, and the other to be our big kids' bedroom. I tried to keep them really involved in the process of creating a room just for them. And while it's been tweaked a few times in the last three years, it's still a really fun spot for them to relax. Eventually, I'll share an update for this room: this is from when we first arranged it three years ago. The desk has been swapped for a better one for this room, and the kids are fully bunked these days instead of sitting in an L. As they've gotten older, they have wanted more space for activities. 
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If every major project has a side quest, the kids' bedroom on the main floor was that for the attic project. The attic has been our "must-do" project of the year, thanks to winter heat loss. We're through the bulk of the insulation, but to really finish it, we had to move the door to the attic from the bedroom into the dining room: a very natural spot for the door. That move is mostly completed! I just have to get the new door in place, in the meantime... the door-hole is covered with rigid insulation that will eventually be installed on the underside of the attic rafters. But this is really about the side-quest. We jumped into the kids' room when there were other issues in the dining room that required moving the toddlers out of the house for a little while (more on that later). With them out of the house, we did all the things we needed to do to keep them safe.  We've started the first phase of insulating our attic, and are on our way to having more energy efficiency, better climate control across our house, and storage we can use year-round. While a lot of our attic may be used for a kids' space at some point, the real need it will fill is storage. With all our basement work, we've run out of a lot of what we used to use for storing off-season items! It'll be great to have that back. There were a lot of considerations we made to plan the insulation upstairs, and I've been thinking about this for a really long time. It really started with preventing ice and eliminating thermal transfer through the roof: this is the main source of heat gain in summer and heat loss in winter, and we really hadn't made major improvements in that area. I wrote about that issue this winter, and about our initial plans too.  |
Katie SwansonI am a parent, creative spirit, and old house lover. My big passions are sustainable design and preservation. Bringing these together is key to moving existing homes into the future. * By subscribing to the monthly newsletter, you consent to receive links this month's blog posts and other relevant blog updates, a round up of things I love, and as a throwback to my DIY days, I may toss in an exclusive knit or crochet pattern of mine. Archives
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