Attic sewing rooms with slanted ceilings...pls share!
 

I love my sewing space but there are no vertical (walls) to put shelves on or even incorporate bookshelves. the ceiling is pitched. Anyone have the same challenge? IF you have already shown your space, please post the link because I would love to see your storage ideas.thanks

Wish I could help, have never had this problem. Good luck I know when you get it all figured out you enjoy your new space!

My bedroom growing up had a slanted ceiling. Luckily it was just one direction, So there was wall space between the door and the closet - i had my desk there and book shelves over my desk. After I moved out my folks put in additional book shelves on one wall and just changed the length of the shelves to meet the slope of the ceiling. Unfortunately we sold the house after my mother passed away in 2009, so cannot send a picture. My dad had designed a paper holder - he did water color painting and had a dresser with thin wide drawers made to hold his paper - it looked like a map holder, and it went in the area where the ceiling sloped. You still had to be careful not to hit your head on the ceiling, I am 5'9" and my dad was 6'2", but it worked well, and I could see how drawers would work for you. I had put my dresser in the area too. Had to make the best of the area.

Not knowing how your room looks, and how big it is, it is hard to say if it will work. There was a show once about making use out of the sloping ceiling area, unusable space is how they referred to it. On the show they made the space into a closet, by putting a wall out to a comfortable area, and then put a couple doors in it to get to the storage area. On the wall facing out to the room they put cubbies. But one could put shelves. They were designing the the area on TV for a kid's room.

go to New Cabinets for my stash by Marcia. her ceiling was sloped and her dh made cabinets for her. very nice.

Actually I have been in my space for 8 years. Marcia's new cabinets made me drool! I am always looking for new ideas.

sandy

Couldn't you put a design wall on a one of the walls?

We live in a 1 1/2 story house and how I wish my room was as large as Marcia. I have taken over the 1/2 story sorry I don't know how to post pictures but I use a wardrobe on one end of the room and I have mismatched dressers to store my stash in. Not the prettiest but it is all my space.

I used the closed maid shelving system. Some with doors some with cubes. I just bought the different sizes and stacked up as far as I could. I put small things on the top (baskets, bowls, boxes, etc). the lower one in the middle (the 9 hole cube on its side) has a small 22" TV on it. It sits out far enough that just touches the ceiling. Onthe other side I used an old dresser with more closet maid on top. The open 2 shelfs. I have my fabric stored on these. i have been meaning to take pictures. If I get time tomorrow I will post some.

When our son was school age, he wanted his own room and the only available one was the attic.with pitched ceilings.....
his bed had the legs removed, his dresser went from 4 drawers to three and his comfy chair became a low-to-the-floor seating..but he loved it and so did all his buddies........

this doesn't solve your problem but just wanted to show you that there are solutions to all.....

our fist house was 1 1/2 stories. We chose the upstairs for our bedroom. My DH made built in dressers to fit in the knee walls. It was a great way to use up the space behind the walls, leaving more space in the room.

I lived in a cape cod type home with 2 bedrooms upstairs with pitched ceilings. Yes i had the dresser in the knee walls but i had a problem with frost. Cloths inside the drawers would get damp due to the change of tempature. I had to get inside the crawl space to add more insulation to prevent this. One of the bedrroms i turned into my sewing loft at that time and spent many hours there. It was a very narrow room. I didnt have any shelving space as it only had 3 walls. The 4th wall we knocked out and put in a railing to make it look like a loft. We took pine boards and nailed them up on the walls to make it look rustic. I used leftover pine boards and bricks and set it up as a shelving unit type wall like a partition in the room. l-l Half of the room was for sewing and cutting table. the other half was for storing larger items such as totes bolts of fabrics etc. on teh shelves, i stored my fabrics, patterns, batting, magazines, sewing notions etc.. At that time i worked for a woman who had a small cottage industry and so i need a place for this. It worked for a long time and it was cozy. I even had a rocker, small stereo system and end table to relax when i needed too. I love the big designer sewing rooms but for me its not practical. Keep it simple, recycle, reuse is my motto. Only expense i had then was for the pine boards. If u dont have wall space, then make wall using shelves to store ur items. Use bins from wally to store fabrics inside. Hope this helps.

slanted sewing room
 

Will try to send u picts. of mine. It is above my garage, with hubby next door with his office, so is a small area. try to keep it organized as I can, but gets mussy fast

Go to

http://www.houzz.com/sloped-attic-ce...shelving-ideas

They have many creative ideas.

same problem

I have the same sloped ceiling, and it slopes all the way to the floor. I am fortunate that there is 1 straight wall. It used to be our master bedroom but we just moved downstairs. So this will soon be my space! I find I have to use short base cabinets so the space waste is less. If the room is large enough, put a storage cabinet in the middle, creating a wall, or even 2 back to back. I know your pain!

Even a kitchen island would work as a cutting table with storage underneath. Depends on the size of your room.

Thought I'd share a pic of my in-progress sewing room. The credenza is up against the slanted ceiling. As long as you keep it low, you don't waste too much floor space.

I like it there is something very appealing to me those attics with slanted ceilings they make cute sewing rooms. I love the large window

My grandfather did this in their house & it was my uncles room.

my sewing room has 4 foot knee walls on 2 sides. the end walls have windows or doors. I use each cubby to put fabric in, in boxes. they are open. I plan to make quilt covers for their fronts to make them look better. each cubby labeled. I've hung shelves on hooks with salvages. They are for sorting, can't pile to high, or will touch ceiling. Squares by size, triangles, and small scraps for coin quilts.





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Our last house in Calif had slanted walls on three sides in the sewing room upstairs -- it was a huge room (nearly 400 sq feet), but the slanted walls were a challenge. The previous owner built in bookshelves and one set of dresser drawers into one wall. The second was slanted down 2/3 and then straight, and DH built me a raised cutting board area, which left tons of room for a really heavy and very long table that I put there, to sew on. Put fabric on the table edge to cover up, and used the area under for storage. It was pretty and functional. The third wall was by the window, and both high ends were next to the centered window, and dropped down to the corners. DH and I built in cabinets on each side for fabric storage & put a window seat in the center that had a lift out to put storage into the seat. I loved that room....it was charming, functional, full of light and all mine!

Great use of space! I really like the 'repurposed' desk, although I think I'd be a bit leery of putting it on stilts like that.

Your space if far more organized and neater than mine - good for you! My problem with organization is that I'm really good at taking things out, but not so good at putting them back!

Sandygirl, I don't have your problem and the amount of slant you have is not completely clear, but have you considered hanging your shelves down from the slant ceiling on chains, or for fabric storage, you could hang metal clothes rods from chains, maybe even two rungs long, and use regular hangers or pants hangers to hang fabric pieces, rolls of batting etc. I don't think I would do it the entire room or it may end up feeling like a bowling alley (unless your room is quite wide).

I would first place the desk and chair so I can walk in, sit and stand up again without hitting my head (done that too many times in my craft/storage room). A book shelf for stash/book can be placed up against the back of the desk or covered with a curtain if you don't want to look at it. If it's tall you could use that vertical space to your advantage. There's an odd space just inside the door my DH put up pegboard and hooks for me to hang rulers, etc. on and I put the mats underneath. Might have to take pictures and let you see my mess tomorrow.

Slanted ceilings/walls
 

This is my storage area for not only my quilting but other items too. It is unfinished (and will stay that way for a while as I am unwilling to move things out and move them back in by myself again). The area adjoins a gable-style addition to the roof portion of the original house. There are two roofs sloping down and in and two down and out. I think you can see the beam I have to watch my head on, and how my DH used it and studs for the pegboard so I can hang rulers, etc. My fabric cabinet is back to back with another one and the sloped wall holds batting. Hope this helps you find your creative side.

I bought this floor lamp at Lowe's that works great in my slanted sewing room! Plus I can turn it around & shine the light on my cutting table. We were going to go with track lighting, but this is better for now.

I have slanted ceilings as well. I too am looking for a better way to store and organize, lots of good ideas on this posting!
I have a stairwell that comes up right in the middle of the room making it even more difficult to use. So far all I do is store totes in the room but I want to get a sewing table and cutting area in the room also. Challenging to say the least !