How To Ensure You Get the Most Space Out of Your New Loft Room

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An ideal home involves making use of the available space, whether it’s for storage or for comfort and relaxation. Unfortunately, as years go by, the living space may not be enough to give room for everything. Today, we are going to look into some tips to maximize the existing space in your loft room.

As homeowners, we may feel the need to improve our living space, so that we can enjoy that homey feel without having to spend too much. Building a loft is a practical way of creating more space, since it is cheaper than having to tear down a wall to create another room, or relocating to a bigger house.

How To Maximize the Space in Your Loft 

Here are some quick tips and techniques on how to convert a loft with ample space in mind:

Know the room dimensions
To check if the existing space is fit for the purpose that you intend, take the measurements of the loft into consideration. For starters, an ideal height of a loft should be at least 2.0 to 2.1 meters. Make sure that the furniture and fixtures will fit inside the loft.

Choose the appropriate furniture
If you intend to use the loft as a walk-in closet or vanity room, you may want to carefully select the right size of furniture so that it would not cramp up the space and leave you with no room to roam inside. If you choose to make it as a children’s bedroom, using a bunk bed instead of two separate single beds is more ideal.

If you want to turn the loft into your own personal meditation room, you don’t need to place a lot of things inside. A small table, vase (as an accent piece), candle, mat, and probably a comfortable chair where you can relax and read are already enough to keep the purpose intact.
In other words, keep the furniture to a bare minimum, and build up from there.

Decorate sparingly
If you have limited loft space, putting a plush carpet at the center can already make a huge difference. Of course, that would depend on how you wish to use the loft. The key in choosing the right decorations is to focus on function rather than form.

To give the illusion of a big room, paint your loft in white and add a few colorful accents to make the room come alive. You may also use bright, vibrant colors using pieces with contrasting colors.

Provide storage spaces
Increase storage space by using furniture with multiple drawers. This gives you the ability to stock things inside the loft, without making the room appear cluttered.

Some ingenious examples of furniture with storage spaces include a sofa with storage bins beneath the cushions, a coffee table with sleek drawers under it, and seemingly bare walls with pullout drawers.

You may also want to make use of the overhead space for storage. Some people install hooks and rails on the ceiling, so that they can hang and store home items without affecting the floor space.

Use multi-purpose home items
Another genius option in small spaces is to make use of home furniture designed to have multiple functions. Some examples include a sofa bed, and a cushioned cube that serves as either a coffee table or an extra seat.

Optimizing floor space in your loft requires a ton of effort at the start. However, when you’re able to pull it off, you can enjoy the fruits of your labor and live more comfortably in a wider home space than you can imagine.