Detailing under the shed roof dormer
We want a cozy look in some upstairs bedrooms we are cooking up, and here is where we get the idea. Look at this pic.
The ceiling of 2×8 collar ties runs at 97-1/8″, which matches interior wall heights. In the photo, the ceiling over the shed dormer wall comes down close to the window heads, and we propose to frame it down using 2x4s as shown in this pic.
You can see when looking at the dotted line ceiling break, that we have the same line transitioning ceiling to slope, whether we are adjacent the principal end rafters with their 12:12 pitch, or adjacent the little 2×4 drops we’ll do. We need height over the shed wall windows for a header, thus the wall height.
This “cozy” look gives us one triangular dormer endwall, and one common ceiling line transition, which we think is prefered to leaving out the 2×4 drops, and having the 4-side polygon dormer endwall, and the ceiling line jog.
What have you done with situations like this?
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about the same.
But make you walls a bithigher so when the strapping goes on the ceiling, with SR, there is still a bit over 8' of wall
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Can't tell you about the framing, but I CAN tell you that I have the same sort of bedroom...though in my case it's skylights, not windows...and I have to wear a hat to bed in the winter to keep my head warm ;-)
why not recess the header into the roof and hanger the rafters to lower the wall height?