Storage

There's a decent amount of closet space in the house, but relatively little storage space for bigger items, boxes, and things you don't need access to all that often. The only place there is any appreciable amount of it is in the mechanical room, where a few shelves were installed. But it's only a fraction of what we need. Meanwhile the attic is big enough to build two more houses in. So we're working this week to build that out with proper floors and shelves.

These are the "before" pictures.

Looking west from attic entrance, showing the area over the hall and living room.

Looking south from attic entrance. The built up area in the lower left is the top of the master bedroom closet.

Looking west, showing area over hall and dining room or study. Note the goofy pvc pipe sticking up. It contains all of the phone, coax, and data cables that run from the mechanical room in the basement to all points in the upstairs part of the house. The only reason I can think of why they would have had it sticking up this far is to help keep it out of the line of fire for blowing in the insulation. But all of those cables should have been relaxed and not had that tension on them. Dumb. We'll have to try to fix that.

Hard to get perspective here, but it is about 20' up to the apex of the roof. Very large attic. Tempted to try to make livable space out of some of it. Maybe in another life.