A converted loft is a great way to capitalize on your home's square footage. Be it a guest bedroom, a family bathroom, or even a mezzanine floor, ridding an attic space of cobwebs to make way for an ...

Simple stairs have just two components. The flat board that your foot steps on is called a tread. The treads connect to side stringers and sometimes to one that is in the middle of the stairs. The ...

Folding stairs are a great convenience in opening up an attic for storage, but they can also be a significant cause of heat loss. This is also true of uninsulated trapdoors that lead into attics and ...

One of the largest storage areas in many homes is often wasted because of poor access. The area is the attic, which in some cases must be reached by crawling through a tiny trapdoor in the ceiling of ...

Q. Tim, I grew up in an older home with an attic. I love storing things up there. When I watch new homes being built, all I see are trusses with all sorts of cross supports that make it impossible to ...

Attic remodels to small- to medium-sized houses can be especially challenging construction projects because they usually require good design layout in tight places with sloping roof conditions that ...

Tom heads to Minnesota to replace attic stairs. Kevin uses paint for a kitchen makeover. Tom checks out street caves in St. Paul, Minnesota, and then replaces a rickety attic staircase in Minneapolis.