My wife and I bought our house a year ago and we are now at the stage where we would like to improve the inside (it was a foreclosure).
We bought a 1.5 story because we really liked all the room/storage space that it has. What we didn't know about the .5 story was how difficult it gets when it is your master bedroom. It gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
There appears to only be 1 vent up there as well and it's in front of the bathroom, so I'm wondering what we can do to make this space livable as our master bedroom. Right now it's not "bad" but it sure feels inefficient having to run a window unit upstairs just for the bedroom.
Here are some pictures of the space (excuse the mess):
http://imgur.com/a/LqTrjHere is the front of the house:
http://imgur.com/9cpnUtLI'm wondering what we can do in terms of insulation, windows, or what to be efficient and make this livable. Or do we just turn it into the office and move the master bedroom into one of the smaller bedrooms on the main floor.