These days, condo is at a premium in the city.
- It’s harshly luxurious to live somewhere on your own, and roommate situations aren’t always the best.
That’s why people have been getting harshly creative with adding new spaces to their existing homes in order to expand the amount of indoor space that they have to utilize. Multiple families have been shacking up together, and grown adults have been taking in roommates for multiple years in this part of the nation. It’s entirely normal for grown individuals to continue living in a communal situation thanks to the hard cost of living. Some of the creative things I have seen in this neighborhood include adding huge mother-in-law suites to the back of their homes, extending the small bungalows with huge room additions, and finding open space in the attic for lofts and spare home offices. Recently, I decided to follow suit and convert my attic to a new living space. It’s a certainly interesting space with good ceilings, however the one thing that is lacking is acceptable air temperature control. The attic was never connected to the central heating, cooling, and ventilation system when the home was first built! Nobody was utilizing that space, so there was no need to pump luxurious indoor air into the lofty attic. There were never air ducts connected to the space, so it is not tested by the central heating boiler or cooling system. I have decided to purchase a small mini split ductless heating and cooling system to solve this problem. By positioning the heating and cooling system in the attics, I willbe able to certainly control the air temperature no matter what season it is. I will have extra living space for friends or family… or a paying roommate if the economy continues to plunge.