Home Renovation Project: Attic Conversion: Furnished
With the delivery of our new game table, our new attic area is finally completely furnished (this post will be the final entry for the project). The new game table and chairs are absolutely beautiful. Not only that, but the chairs are quite comfortable... I mean, I was surprised at how comfy they are. I'm very impressed. The furniture was manufactured by Guy Chaddock. We have more than a dozen other pieces of furniture by Guy Chaddock and all of the pieces are fantastic; I highly recommend the company.

I snapped a few pictures today in the afternoon. It was bright and sunny today, so there are a few photos where the sunshine is dominating the exposure. Also, I didn't take any pictures of the audio/video entertainment area, since I took pictures of that very recently (see here). So first of all, here are a few snapshots of the "adult" play area... including the new game table and the billiards table. This area is in the middle of the attic space immediately in front of the stair entry/exit.

The rest of the pictures I have organized by the position I took the pictures as I navigated around the room in a counterclockwise path:

This is a shot of the finished playhouse. This was one of those ideas that just came to us on the fly as the framers were putting up the interior walls. The playhouse has a double dutch door (that includes a mechanical door ringer), two windows (complete with shutters, window boxes, and plastic flowers), a mailbox (with a little red flag), an exterior light, house numbers, real wood shingle siding, and a fake slate roof. The shingle siding is nicely trimmed around a couple of light switches for the room, an electrical receptacle, and an in-house vacuum connection. It looks great and is a wonderful little part of the attic that the kids feel was made just for them... the kids love it, especially Olivia.

The front windowed dormer is a dedicated play area for the doll house, rocking horse, and wooden pirate ship. The drawer storage houses dolls and furniture for the doll house, barbies, and polly pockets. On the right hand side of this area is the entrance to the playhouse. On the left hand side of the area are two doors. Once small door (pictured) which access a small toy storage closet. The other door is for the powder bathroom.

On the wall next to the playhouse door, Kristy painted a "growing tree" that we will use to keep track of how tall the kids grow (making a mark for height on each birthday). We used to have a "growing vine" down in the old bonus room, but that didn't survive the remodel. So this painting is its replacement. Olivia is having fun here on the rocking horse. Say cheese Livy!

Inside the playhouse we have some play kitchen appliances and a toy crib and other toy baby gear. There is also a small bistro table and two toddler-sized chairs in the near corner (the picture shows the top of one of the chairs). Kristy will be doing some custom painting in this room eventually. She wants to paint a fireplace on the back wall and perhaps a bookcase or something.

On the southern side of the attic, there is another play table area for trains, legos, and toy cars. This play table is primarily used by Berkeley, but Olivia is often seen playing with the train tracks as well. Pictured at left is a small built-in shelf in the corner where we keep puzzles, kids games, and other small knick-knacks. This play table and the carpet beneath are identical in size to the play table just outside the playhouse that has the doll house and wood pirate ship.

This is a picture taken in the southeast corner of the attic (next to the train play table) looking back toward the northeast corner of the attic (toward the TV area). In the immediate foreground is the staircase. In the background, the billiards table, game table, and TV can be seen.

In between the three rear dormers are two small closets that will be used for storage. In the closet closest to the southern wall and the kids play areas is a small clothes rack that we use to store dress up stuff. The clothes rack is mounted on wheels and easily rolls in and out of the closet. Eliana loves this.

This is a picture of the middle dormer window seat and trundle bed. In each of the window seats and trundle bed is a twin-sized Tempur-pedic memory foam mattress. The attic has a sleeping capacity of 6 persons for any future sleep-overs on mattresses (plus more on the sofa and in sleeping bags the playhouse).

This is a picture taken from the northwest corner of the attic looking back toward the southwest corner, e.g. it is the opposite view of the picture taken above. The game table and billiards table are show in the foreground of this picture and the train play table can be seen on the other side of the staircase.

The bar nook is tucked in the northwest corner of the room. The area features a small bar-sized copper sink, a mini-microwave, and an under-counter refrigerator and ice-maker. The solid-surface countertop and floor tile are both Brazilian multi-color slate. If you pull the refrigerator out, there is access to a small area behind the audio/video equipment for the benefit of running cables.

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