Turning an Attic into a Playroom with a GIANT Chalkboard!

When we moved out of our old house we knew we were loosing a basement for the kids to play in during the long Michigan winters. Today we will be turning part of the new attic into a playroom and the icing on the cake is a FULL WALL Chalkboard!

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If you have not see the other addition videos you can get up to speed to see where we are at!

It was always part of the plan when we bought this house to build an addition and include a big attached garage with a huge attic that we would turn into a "basement". The time has finally come to complete the attic to playroom transformation!
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The new playroom space is at the top of the garage stairs and is roughly 13'x20' making it a pretty large room! The walls are 2x4 construction and I had to do a little trigonometry to correctly calculate the stud lengths to fit under the angled attic trusses.

Since we had to build the attic with 19" centers to allow the largest room we could I had to cut down all the 24" R30 rockwool insulation to fit between the trusses. A pain to say the least but I made a quick jig to allow me to stand on the batt, compress it and cut it with a 6" knife without too much difficulty. For the walls we used R15 insulation and this went in MUCH easier since I build the new walls to 16" centers.

My brother and I hung the sheetrock, 1/2" on the walls and 5/8" on the ceiling and man does a collated drill make this task SO much easier! You might ask why we hung the walls and then the ceiling vs the more typical method and it boiled down to the way we brought the material into the attic and not wanting to shuffle it all around again...it is a playroom after all, not a cathedral. I did a VERY un DIYTyler act and hired out the mud work, professional sheetrockers are SO much faster and better than I am and I simply didin't have the time to mess with it this time around.

Painted the room using my Grago airless sprayer, again, there is not better way to put a finish on anything than spraying! Fast and if I do say so, kinda fun! For one wall we used Rusloeum chalkboard paint so the kids would have a GIANT chalkboard to write, color and draw on....so far it's a big hit!

Added some door and lights and the kids have been thoughouly enjoying their new space! A dry, comfortable and functional room where they can exert their energy when they cannot go outside. A great way to turn an ugly attic into a usable fun space!

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