Here's something you've never seen before

I don't believe I have given you a tour of our attic. It's actually one of the things that I love about this house. It has a regular stairway leading to it just like it was another living floor (which it may be someday.) I'm so happy not to have a pull-down ladder but a real stairway.

It's also a huge amount of space. Here's what it looked like the day we bought the house.

You can see that it is not the nasty, dark spider-filled space that so many houses have. It has full functioning windows on all four sides. It has complete floorboards. It has lights. Actually, it had one very week flourescent light but Doug and his dad have added several lights and outlets. It's actually a very pleasant space to go into.

Notice that the two chimneys are leaning opposite directions. They were built to do that. I think they make the space very interesting.

I may have posted this picture before when we were discussing insulation but I put it here just to show how much head room there is. Doug is 6'4" so you can see that the ceiling is a nice height over his head. Yes, it slopes but there are only a couple of feet on each side where he can't stand up straight.

This picture is looking from the opposite direction as the first picture. You can see the large windows and the light flooding the space. We have had the air conditioner moved to the side so that it is not in the middle of the floor.
This shows a little of the construction of the attic. The studs that hold up the roof are deliberately curved so that the roof has a little curve instead of a straight slope. Kind of interesting once you realize it. Also, the old sheathing is visible. It's not solid. It seems to be the original sheathing so they have never changed it when they reroofed. You can see the original wood shingles through the sheathing. We don't know how many layers of roofing we have but it's a good guess that we have more than we should. I just hope we don't have to deal with it any time soon.