How can i make stairs to it.
How to access attic above kitchen.
I have a floored attic room over my kitchen.
One feature that makes an attic bedroom so valuable for homeowner use and for eventual resale is a bathroom.
Over the window we knew there was electrical so we opened the front of the soffit first to spot the electrical and then worked around it.
After the remodel the attic itself was smaller plus access to space above the bedrooms and bathrooms was nonexistent the new ceiling cut off access to the attic space above the bedrooms and bathrooms.
Soffits are typically installed just above the kitchen cabinets bridging the gap between the cabinets and the ceiling above them.
You ll need solid framework to attach the paneling to.
Depending on the look you re after paneling over an ugly ceiling is still a viable option.
When we started renovating the kitchen we had asbestos removal and drywall installed.
We had the contractors just drywall over the original attic access panel.
The difficulty of removing soffit in a kitchen.
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Attic access is not needed and you won t need to patch the ceiling after.
I agree adding stairs inside the kitchen may take up a lot of room.
Not sure why we did this probably because we knew that creating the small attic access door was easy.
So anyways we had an attic access panel when we moved in.
Before the remodel the entire attic was accessible via a pull down door in the garage on the opposite side of the house.
At the moment there s an attic ladder which folds down into the kitchen explore projects.
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Be sure to take into account the weight of the paneling.
We hung a thin rope from our access hatch so we can easily pull the stairs down when we want to use it.
Paneling was very popular 50 years ago and when it fell out of favor people removed it or covered it up.