Sloping ceilings, low roof lines and all sorts of angles bring the aesthetic interest bigtime, but awkward corners and areas with minimal clearance can be tough to navigate. With some clever design ...

Sloped ceilings and awkward corners don’t mean you have to compromise on style in your home. We asked the experts for their advice. You may think that a sloped ceiling bedroom doesn’t offer much room ...

Dear Pat: My living room has a pitched roof over it. Iwas thinking about removing some or all of the roof trusses toconvert it to a sloped ceiling with a skylight. Is this a feasibleproject, or will ...

IN DISNEY’S 1950 animated film “Cinderella,” the eponymous heroine is consigned to sleeping in an ostensibly punishing attic room. Despite dreary stone walls and rough-hewn floorboards, however, her ...

This is the biggest bedroom that Diane Mohamed has ever had, and due to the sloped ceiling, the most challenging to decorate. “It looked cavernous, cold, and characterless,” says the founder of MOMO ...

Dear James: I think our small living room would seem larger and more open with a sloped ceiling and a skylight. Can I change the flat ceiling to high sloped one? -- Kathy J. Dear Kathy: Increasing the ...

One of the joys of touring an old, premodern pile isn't just looking around at the stately furniture and beautiful wall coverings, but looking up at the fine materials, intricate murals and meticulous ...

Sloping ceilings, awkward angles and irregular windows will all require you to consider your layout, furniture, lighting and access in more detail. That said, once you get it right, loft conversion ...

Ceiling height and floor area requirements for bedrooms in 1.5-story homes seem to befuddle everyone. I teach a lot of CE classes to real estate agents, and whenever I get to the part about ceiling ...