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Stair Bulkhead In Bedroom Ideas

Stairs bulkhead/box in spare room flash

Not really sure what you call it but we have this box in our smallest bedroom which is for the headroom of the stairs IYKWIF..

This is a picture stolen off Zoopla of another house in the street who have gotten rid of the box and are just left with the slope - its such a weird and difficult thing to work with!

Any suggestions? I'm assured that a lot of 1930's/early semi's have these but I wonder how everyone else makes better use of it.

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13 replies

Beginner April 2015
*RMD* · 11 September 2014 at 12:12
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Why would you want a slope in your bedroom? that's odd to me!

I would use it for storage shelf or find drawers that fit on top of it maybe?
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Beginner July 2013
WickyWack · 11 September 2014 at 12:25
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We have a bookcase sat on ours atm, along with about 5 boxes of books!!

Next door said there's was made into a wardrobe but looked to big and oppressive. Thing I'll just make ours into shelving I reckon
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Beginner August 2014
ATB · 11 September 2014 at 12:43
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The slope is totally weird - what a waste of the space!

I think your 'box' is fine! ? Ok - not perhaps ideal but it's only in your spare room. I'd put shelving above it then use the top as the bottom shelf sort of idea, then it's useful.
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Beginner June 2011
Built in bed (Child's) over the top of it, with storage in the remaining under-bed space.

Or built in wardrobe on the top (no good for ballgowns of course, but enough hanging space for shirts)
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Beginner August 2012
Like AC suggests, when we bought our house the lady had a small bed for her grandson built right up to it and then used the box bit as a shelf for his TV/games thingy. I think a shelf/box shape is far more useful than a slope.
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Genius
My old room at my Mums was the box room. I used the "box" as a desk. Was perfect for when I was doing my art homework.

When I moved out, my Dad built a bed over it, for my son. It meant there is lots of storage underneath, and more floor space to play with.

The slope is a total waste of space.
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Beginner November 2011
leni-lw! · 11 September 2014 at 20:36
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I had this in my other house in the box room, its much better boxed off rather than slant, which mine was and was a complete waste of space
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Beginner July 2015
I have one of these. It currently stores all my office & printer stuff but is currently very messy.
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Beginner October 2014
I have one in my bathroom - it is used as a very large and annoying shelf. And a place to bang your knee while you wee.
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Beginner July 2016
laurafish · 12 September 2014 at 09:21
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We have one and like others have said, we have a bed built over it.

Agree with the rest, the slope is much more pointless, at least you can put things on a box!
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Beginner August 2014
ATB · 12 September 2014 at 09:36
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I'm surprised that so many of you have them - I've never seen one before now!

On a similar note - I looked at a house in my area on rightmove that was exactly the same layout as my cousin's - obviously from the same 'kit' and it was very weird!
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Beginner October 2012
Ali_G · 12 September 2014 at 10:29
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We have this in our main bedroom, but ours is huge. I have a trunk thingy on ours. And I also use it as a dumping space, where I dump my clothes over the duration of the week, haha. Ideally, I'd like to box it in and put shelves in there, but then we'd have nowhere for the TV and H would not be happy about that.
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Beginner July 2016
laurafish · 12 September 2014 at 12:40
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Just to add, found a photo on my work computer that explains what I (and probably everyone else) mean:

This is before we moved in, we were renting it out. As you can see the tenant wasn't really making use of the room for what it's meant for, but you can get the idea hopefully. So the white bit sticking out is the stair box, and then everything from the stair box to the wall is now storage - the wood part is doors.

The only other place a bed could have fit in that room is to come out in front of the radiator so this made sense - my OH actually built this as he used to live in our house with his parents, many years ago

Hope that helps to see it!
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