Small bedroom with weird stairs box in it!!!

spartacusthe1st

Hi my 4 year old has a teeny room and some of the space is taken up with a kind of hollow sealed box that's where the stairs is underneath.
She currently has a small wardrobe that was included in her nursery furniture set.
As it's on the box it's too high for her to reach (which is prob a good thing actually!!)
The box is about 90cm by 90cm and I'd like ideas on how to utilise the space!
Hubby is completely useless with DIY so that doesn't help!
Thanks guys

becca0417

We had this in our old house & planned to build some kind of cupboard on the top up to the ceiling.

Alikay

One of my childhood bedrooms had this feature. My dad was pretty good at DIY (but there are decent carpenters out there if you're not!) and built a fairly shallow bookcase on it, right up to the ceiling. The room was also a couple of inches short for a proper single bed and headboard, so he built the base for a single mattress. It was very compact but I loved that room:)

ash28

spartacusthe1st wrote: »

Hi my 4 year old has a teeny room and some of the space is taken up with a kind of hollow sealed box that's where the stairs is underneath.
She currently has a small wardrobe that was included in her nursery furniture set.
As it's on the box it's too high for her to reach (which is prob a good thing actually!!)
The box is about 90cm by 90cm and I'd like ideas on how to utilise the space!
Hubby is completely useless with DIY so that doesn't help!
Thanks guys

We built a cabin bed over the box....the bed was the height of the box, underneath was used for storage. In a small room it meant our son had room for a bit of furniture and room to play. When we sold the house we asked if the buyers wanted the room "making good", they wanted the bed left in place.

You don't need advanced diy skills to build a bed frame.

My sister removed the box and built a low bed.....what's under the box in most houses isn't very big.

Own_My_Own

ash28 wrote: »

My sister removed the box and built a low bed.....what's under the box in most houses isn't very big.

She removered the box ? And found what ? A big whole ?

In our old house the stairs were under the box, it was there to give head room for people climbing the stairs.

fluffymuffy

I was about 9. I still remember my father sawing the legs off the head of bed and bolting them to the legs at the other end to make them longer.

Played under there for the following decade.

spartacusthe1st

Thanks for the ideas guys

pinkshoes

It's only boxed in because otherwise it's a slope that you can't put anything on!

Get a carpenter to build a bed over it with built in storage.

InsideInsurance

Our old house had similar but it was in the en suite so was just used as a large shelf for "products" etc

Certainly the one we had was of decent construction so you can have built a cupboard on it or something weight bearing but I'd get it checked out by someone half decent at DIY before putting a bed on it. I doubt it'd be any problems but you wouldnt want it collapsing.

rosalie-lavender

I have just bought my daughter a pine loft bed from these people and am very pleased with it. They build beds to order to work round odd features in rooms.

http://www.pine-design.co.uk/index.html

If you are local enough to collect I think they do other furniture too.

Spendless

pinkshoes wrote: »

It's only boxed in because otherwise it's a slope that you can't put anything on!

Get a carpenter to build a bed over it with built in storage.

My MIL took a sledge hammer to hers to turn it into a smaller slope and then built over it.

She used the sledge hammer so she forced FIL's hand to 'get round to it'