Idea for the stair box

renfirsttimebuy

Hi all! 

So I need some ideas for my living room which will be my soon to be project. I have the stair box in my living room beside the door. I hate it! What could I do? I don't want to lose space but i hate it! 
I have attached a pic and a sketch of the room. Please excuse the mess its an ongoing reno. Thanks! 

ouraggie

I'd build a big walk-in in floor to ceiling storage cupboard along the wall with the window on. Then the stair box would be inside this and also you would have a wall going right up to the ceiling.

Emmia

ouraggie said:

I'd build a big walk-in in floor to ceiling storage cupboard along the wall with the window on. Then the stair box would be inside this and also you would have a wall going right up to the ceiling.

This is what I would do as well. - I had a big walk in/built in cupboard hiding the stairbox in a house I rented, and it was fantastic for storage.

TELLIT01

You can't do much without moving the stair.  The box is there to hide the underside of the stairs which would be far uglier.

renfirsttimebuy

I was thinking of a cupboard it will eat the little space I have... should I do it? Would it look better than having a small cupabord underneath it? 

Doozergirl

The angle is a bit strange.  I'd rip the boxing off it and box it in completely tight to the underside of the stairs as there's no way it needs to be as bulky as that.  I'd also remove the coving from it.  It delineates the room and makes the room smaller because of it . 

Whoever decided to artex the underside of that was insane.  

Take the underside off first and see just how intrusive it really needs to be.  If I did put storage there, I would only make it a half depth bookshelves, completely built in to the bulkhead angle to hide most of it, and just allow a reasonable top section of it to show.  

 I feel like a full size cupboard is a bit much for a lounge.  There's only a certain depth that can be useful, so don't go mad and box the whole thing in.  It can definitely be made to feel less, not more intrusive.  

JIL

What about this?  
Although I would be tempted to take the whole thing down, see how far it goes back, and build a false wall, plaster it and fit a door to match the same doors as the room. 

Apodemus

I too would build a cupboard.  But I wonder if a cupboard below the stairs was removed during the last renovation?  And in all probability the cupboard you build will be removed in the next renovation!  Such are the vagaries of taste and fashion!