Knee Wall Storage

Select a pair of adjacent studs to use as guides for your wall opening.

Knee wall storage. 27 nov tips for transforming your knee wall into storage space. Tips for transforming your knee wall into storage space. You ll gain a full size eight drawer chest without sacrificing a single square inch of floor space. Knee walls represent found space sometimes about knee high sometimes taller under the rafters in an attic and in the slant of a gabled roof or dormer.

Draw a vertical line on the wall in. As much as we love the extra space it can be tricky to figure out how to best make use of it. Perhaps a knee wall dresser is the answer. You can convert hidden unused spaces into valuable storage areas.

Here you ll recess a chest of drawers into the knee wall of an upstairs bedroom. They are typically false walls built. The higher the knee wall the greater the amount of useful wall space you create in your finished attic. Making knee wall storage doors step 1.

Some homes today have an attic or bonus room with a knee wall. Use a stud finder to locate the studs in the knee wall where you intend to install your storage doors. Building in drawers under the eaves or in a knee wall niche provides storage and function. Knee walls are the short interior walls built beneath the roof rafters.

It won t eat up any of your floor space as you will be taking advantage of an awkward wall space that normally don t get much use anyway. Knee walls are typically found in homes where the attic is finished. Categorised general storage ideas. Building a knee wall dresser is a great way of making use of these awkward areas in your house when you re looking for extra storage space.

Designed by woodmeister master builders. You can take advantage of this extra knee wall space by building a chest of drawers or a recessed dresser into the existing wall. The knee wall storage unit must be insulated similarly to the attic space or the room will suffer from infiltrating air leaks. Written by bryan fulop.

These are vertical walls that have attic space directly behind them. But you do so at the expense of floor space.