Ideas for Remodeling an Attic Bedroom

Bunk Up

• Whether you're expecting a new arrival or addition to the family or just want an extra place for visitors to sleep, remodeling an attic single bedroom into a double requires no extra space. If the current bed in the room already has posters, finding a second bed to attach is as simple as matching the mattress size, shaving down the posters and connecting the beds, leaving enough room between the top mattress and the ceiling. Bunk beds are available -- usually in twin size -- from many furniture and decorating stores.

Let the Light Shine In

• While the idea of knocking a big hole in the roof of a home may seem frightening, the benefits will outweigh the fears. Turn the attic from a bedroom into an observatory by adding a skylight. This is a construction heavy job -- which contract handyman services will be able to complete -- that requires removing drywall, plumbing bobs, framing and measuring, along with the supplies of the window itself. Practice some DIY or ask for help from the experts, prop up a telescope and start watching the stars at night and basking in the sun during the day.

Team Time

• If the family banishes you and all of your sports fanatic memorabilia from the main television room, turn an attic bedroom into fan central. Whether your love is a specific baseball, hockey, football or basketball team, root them on by painting the bedroom's colors the same as the team's. Artistic remodelers can even paint the team's logos around door frames and window frames or buy stick-on life-size replicas and cutouts of players to distribute around the room. Note that the attic may not be wired adequately for electricity, cable or satellite, which may require some additional effort to get that big screen or even radio in for game time. Furnish the room with memorabilia such as pennants, flags, foam hands and framed jerseys.

Perfect Princesses

• When your little princess' -- or prince's -- wands, swords and toys are wreaking havoc throughout your house, assign her her own little castle in the sky by remodeling the attic bedroom into a kingdom. Mix sparkly glitter into a can of paint for the walls and floors, where applicable, and purchase a canopy to drape over the bed for princess slumber parties. Decorate the room with cutout wood letters such as "queen," "princess" and "fun," then corral all dolls and accessories into colorful baskets that must stay within the kingdom's moat.