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The interior of the attic with a gable and sloping roof is the design of your dreams!

It is not too easy to make the attic rooms comfortable, beautiful and functional. Extraordinary geometry is what causes the most inconvenience. Therefore, the design of the attic floor has a special approach: it is also necessary to select finishing materials taking into account possible changes in size.

The content of the article

1 Ceiling decoration
2 Wall finishing options
3 Window decoration on the attic floor
4 Photos of interesting design options

Ceiling decoration

One of the most difficult issues is finishing the flow in the attic. The ceiling in such rooms is either sloped or broken. Both options are not too easy to finish. In principle, you can use any material with which ceilings are finished in ordinary rooms, but the installation must take into account the possibility of displacement of the supporting structures. Beams are made of wood, and it changes in size with changes in temperature / humidity, so that rigid attachment of frames or finishing materials threatens to crack.

Can even be sewn with panels ... if you like

With or without beams

Before you start finishing the attic ceiling, decide if you want the supporting beams to be visible. The method of filing depends on this: you will either have to close the beams, or leave them in plain sight. The first option "takes away" the height from the room, but there are no problems with insulation and sound insulation - you can choose without paying attention to the thickness. In the second case, the height of the room will be greater, but you will have to look for materials with a minimum thickness - you want the beams to be visible ...

Some visible supporting structures are considered a drawback that prevents a standard design. But it is necessary to focus on the "disadvantage", as it turns into an interesting design solution. If we talk about style, the attic with beams looks much more "interesting". The space between them can be sewn up with a board, tightened with stretch ceilings or covered with false ceilings. They are combined with any type of finish. It will only be necessary to choose a color scheme that fits the general design of the attic floor or a specific room.

The supporting structures fit perfectly into modern styles, expand the possibilities of decoration, and give the interior individuality. They can be highlighted or colored in the same tone. The visual perception will change, but in any case they look very “trendy”. The only thing to avoid is varnishing the beams - this finishing method has lost its relevance. In any case, you should not use varieties that create a shiny "varnish" surface. The varnish, if used, is water-based, matte or semi-matte, but not gloss.

Plasterboard on the ceiling in the attic floor

If you want to have a standard attic floor design as close as possible to the modern "neutral" style, you can sew up the ceiling in the attic with plasterboard (GKL). In order to prevent cracks from developing along the surface and at the joints of the sheets, all guides are mounted on hangers.

The rails are attached to the roof system with hangers

The second trick is not to rest the sheets against the walls, leaving expansion gaps. As usual, we glue the joints with mesh tape, putty the ceiling. In places where the gypsum board adjoins the walls, gaps remain; to close them, you can use polyurethane moldings or wooden skirting boards of a suitable shape. They can be painted to match the walls or ceiling. When attaching this finish, we fix it only to the walls, but not to the ceiling. We don't even really press against it. It is necessary that the gap is closed, but without a rigid attachment. So with seasonal movements of the bearing beams, the plasterboard ceiling in the attic will not crack.

There is a very interesting option for using drywall on the ceiling of the attic floor. They can only sew up the gaps between the proteins, leaving the beams themselves in plain sight. Due to the greater contrast between the smooth surface of the putty surface and the structure of the wood, such interiors are very bright and memorable.

With this method of finishing the attic ceiling, there are many joints between wood and plasterboard sheets. Covering them all with moldings is too clumsy. It is reasonable to grease the joint with silicone sealant, which remains elastic after drying. Since the distance between the beams is not too large, the gap to compensate for dimensional changes can be left small - it will be easy to fill with sealant. But the paint will need to be selected that can hold on to silicone normally, but this is not such a problem.

You can paste the wallpaper

By the way, the plasterboard ceiling in the attic can not only be painted. You can also paste over with wallpaper, and so that the design is not too colorful or overloaded, make the walls plain-colored. There is also a second option - use the same wallpaper on the ceiling and walls, but you can get a "box", so the first method is preferable.

Stretch ceiling

Film or fabric stretch ceilings can be used in the attic without restrictions. They are not afraid of small deformations, so problems are not expected during operation. They can arise only at the installation stage. If you want to tighten the distance between the beams with canvases, you will need a large number of edge baguettes. But that's all, there are no other difficulties.

The beauty of this option is that you can get perfectly flat ceilings without much hassle. If you want gloss, choose a film. Looking for matte ceilings - mount the fabric.

All layers of insulation and soundproofing of the attic will perfectly hide behind the stretch ceiling, and there are many of them. For light films, you only need to sheathe everything with white material, otherwise the "insides" can shine through. "White material" - any. Whether it's a fabric or a non-woven material. You can fasten it with brackets directly to the beams and lathing.

If we talk about design, then bulky multi-level structures will not work here, except that your entire attic is without partitions and the height of the room is in the region of three meters. The very structure of the attic floor ceiling is broken. It is hardly worth complicating it with additional elements, except to make a box with illumination on the side farthest from the window.

Boards, lining, imitation of a bar or log

One of the most common ways of finishing the ceiling in the attic is filing with clapboard, edged board, imitation of timber and other moldings.Against the background of the beams, this design is quite logical, the ceiling fits into most of the current ethnic styles: Provence, Scandinavian. It can be played great in style loft and rustic. You can find options for modern interiors. Each of the styles requires a specific wood finish:

For interiors in the Provence style, boards or lining, like beams, are painted with paints of gentle, pastel colors, with a matte or semi-matt surface. The hem board can be wide or narrow - not that important.
Provence style bedroom goes well with painted board
For the Scandinavian style, the natural color of the wood can be used (be careful with yellow shades), but either "aged" or bleached boards are more typical. For such interiors in the attic, the beams can be made dark, the filing is very light.
Not necessarily very dark ... maybe almost white
For a loft, there are no rules at all - it all depends on the idea and color. Can be left in "natural" color, can be strongly darkened or whitened.
Loft is a very interesting style
Rustic is a kind of style in which some elements are intentionally rough and "raw". If you come across curved beams, this is a godsend for this style. It will be necessary to highlight the texture of the wood more strongly. To do this, it can be "scraped" with a metal brush. The softer fibers will break out, the hard ones will remain, the relief will appear more clearly. The process can be facilitated by passing the surface with a blowtorch. When heated, soft fibers will burn, making processing faster and easier, but be very careful when working with open fires and wooden structures.
Rustic - gruff style but very artistic

There is another style that can be realized on the attic floor with a wood-trimmed ceiling - Russian. But in this case, for finishing, you will have to choose an imitation of a log or a bar. Accordingly, you will need to select other interior components. Everything is simple here. But we do not recommend covering the wood with varnish or other compounds with yellow tints. Very quickly they set the teeth on edge, although, at first, they "warm" and create a sunny mood.

Exotic materials

Attic ceilings can be finished with unusual materials. It is important not to forget that the structure can shrink. Therefore, the finish must be flexible, or, if it is rigid, its installation must leave room for slight movement. Here's another way to decorate the ceiling on the attic floor:

Bamboo or bamboo wallpaper. An excellent choice, especially if the interior has an oriental focus.
Fabrics. You can tighten the gaps between the beams with thick fabrics. And it doesn't have to be tapestries or their modern counterparts. Experiment - it can get interesting.
Fabrics create a special comfort
Wall panels. The installation of supporting structures is done according to the type of frame for drywall, the seams can be coated with silicone and painted either in tone or in a contrasting color.

Perhaps there are other options, but we have not yet met them.

Wall finishing options

Why are attic walls interesting? The fact that behind the cladding can be hidden a closet or a large niche that runs along the entire room. Often this is the way out if the roof of the attic floor is gable. Using space near the wall is problematic due to the low ceiling height. Coming out of the position, either a bed is placed at the window, or part of the area is fenced off with a false wall. And it would be unreasonable to lose a significant amount, therefore, wardrobes are often arranged on the sides of the attic.

The walls of the attic floor can be finished with the same materials as in the usual rooms of a frame house. To begin with, they fasten the sheathing of sheet materials (on the crate), then putty. After that you can at least paint, at least apply decorative plaster, though wallpapering... There are also faster options: sheathing with wall panels of MDF, wood, etc.The finishing material is attached directly to the lathing, no finishing is required. Everything is fine, but it will be impossible to change the design with a little blood - just take it off and redo it all over again. So if you like to redo the interior often, this is not your option.

If the ceiling is hemmed with a board or clapboard, the same material can be put on the walls, or it can be combined with painted walls or with decorative plaster. But you need to be careful with the second combination: not all combinations look equally good. For example, it is better not to experiment with a Venetian woman - she is not friends with a tree in any way, give her a perfectly smooth ceiling and no beams. Wrong style.

But the wooden ceiling gets along well with brick, stone. It's a win-win combination. If there is no "natural" stone or brick, you can use decorative... It is many times lighter than usual, easy to install, and looks no worse. There is another option: flexible stone. It is somewhat reminiscent of linoleum, but intended for walls. It is generally mounted "for one or two" and looks quite plausible.

What is also interesting about the combination of wood and stone / brick is that it is appropriate in rooms for any purpose. Looks great in the hallway, bedroom. You can make the interior of the living room, only the style will be loft or Scandinavian. But there are a lot of ideas in this area, and one is better than the other. Moreover, they are all "unbroken".

Window decoration on the attic floor

If the windows in the attic are vertical, they can be decorated in any way - with curtains of any type. If the windows are made in the plane of the roof, they can be closed by making special curtains. They make drawstrings above and below, into which a braid or elastic is threaded. They tie the curtains to the latches attached to the sides of the window frame.

So the windows have a more or less familiar look, but even light fabrics sag a little. So it will not be possible to fully adhere to the plane of the window. If you want the curtains to hang down less while closed, you can support them with a special rod. But opening and closing such curtains is not very convenient.

Another possibility to arrange the windows of the attic floor is roller or roman blinds and blinds - vertical or horizontal. In any case, you will have to use models with guides that will hold the fabric closer to the window, but such models are more expensive and more difficult to install.

However, very often the windows that "look into the sky" are left without any curtains at all.There is practically no chance that someone will walk on the roof and look out the window. But, if you are uncomfortable, you can choose one of the proposed options.