This week, we explore how to design a room with low ceilings. Basements, low-slung ranch homes, 1980s apartments and attic spaces often present the same issue: low ceilings. Rooms with ceilings ...

The charm of an attic bedroom, with its sloping ceiling that comes to a near point ... McKown and Tsao added low, open shelves along both—a relatively low-touch way to get storage out of every ...

Without the ability to alter the roof’s pitch, however, the low-height areas of an attic room often remain unusable, and the resulting usable space is restricted by how low its functions can go.