Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — MAKING THE BEST OF ROOM [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAKING THE BEST OF ROOM

With a Little Care and Arrangement Much Extra Bpace In, Attic May Be Contrived. There are thousands of thousands of homes where attic rooms are “done off,” and In almost every Instance a lot of space Is wasted. This can be overcome in moßt cases. Making a room In a top floor or "attic” is generally done by panelling or plastering the walls, and where the roof slopes down to the floor, or almost to the floor, a large place is cut off by building a short partition down from the roof to the floor. The partition or “wall” of such a room Is generally not high enough for the average bureau or dresser with Its swivel mirror; no old-fash-ioned bureau without a mirror is high enough for a chiffonier. And so a Bmall one is generally placed against this wall. This takes up a lot of space, sticking out into the alrdfey small room. This can be avoided If, when the room is done off, instead of cutting

off this space back of the short partition, a. series of drawers is built in. The bottom drawer would be deep and wide and the other three or four drawers would taper up, the top one being' quite narrow as the roof is sloping toward this shqrt partition all the time. With two such built-in bureaus or sets of drawers’ the entire floor space of the room remains for the bed, chairs and table, and yet there are plenty of drawers handy.

Simple But Valuable Method for Saving Space in Attic Rooms.