Renovating Denver - One House at a Time

Planning the Inside

So, yeah… we’ve been working with an architect since October on planning the inside. We’ve had so many different plans, I feel my head is spinning over the whole thing. I might be jinxing us, but I think we finally have a direction.

At first, we wanted to finish the currently unfinished attic space. We saw another home nearby with a finished master suite in the attic - bedroom, office, closet, bathroom. That sounded fantastic and we thought we could do the same, but we soon realized the space was not there. Our architect suggested we raise the 2 dormers on the home to get some more headroom in the attic. Although this sounded like an expensive option, we were wow-ed by the idea of a master suite. We went through with all the drawings for this and had it approved by the Landmark Commission (remember the home is in a historic district, so all exterior changes must first be approved by them). We thought they were the tough ones. Turns out it was the zoning committee that had the problem. They wanted us to wait until the middle of April to run the plans through the zoning board (it was the middle of January when we found this out). So, not being able to wait 3 months just to have the plans approved, we decided to rework our inside layout.

Turns out, we probably won’t be finishing the attic. We may pull some attic space above the master bedroom to vault the ceiling. We may keep the attic space for storage and add a pull down stair system to access it. But no bedrooms will be up there.

The second floor will have 3 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms. We will pull space from one of the bedrooms to add the second bathroom (currently there is only 1 up there). This will allow us to create a master suite on this level.

Images to come …