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London-based Levitate Architects came up with this ingenious solution to a book storage problem and created a loft-like bedroom nestled under the roof of the top-floor apartment.
The flat occupies part of the shared top floor of an existing Victorian mansion block. Our proposal extended the flat into the unused loft space above, creating a new bedroom level and increasing the floor area of the flat by approximately one third. We created a ’secret’ staircase, hidden from the main reception room, to access a new loft bedroom lit by roof lights. Limited by space, we melded the idea of a staircase with our client’s desire for a library to form a ‘library staircase’ in which English oak stair treads and shelves are both completely lined with books. With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to stop and browse a tome.
Source: Apartment Therapy via Boing Boing
Megret on 05 Mar 2008 at 12:01 pm #
If I could find the person who did this..I could use some nifty storage like this in my place.
super slice of awesome!
laura on 19 Jul 2008 at 11:39 pm #
ha ha i just wrote a post about this after coming across it again somewhere else, and i couldnt remember where i’d heard about it.
shady style