How do you raise the headroom over stairs?

My husband is very tall and we are finding a lot of later built homes have too little headroom on the stairs. We like one house in particular and wond

My husband is very tall and we are finding a lot of later built homes have too little headroom on the stairs. We like one house in particular and wondered if there is any way to raise the headroom. There is a boxed in bit in the bedroom above the stairs which I assume is squaring off the slope - couldn't we get the slope turned into a box rising to the ceiling above (like above our Victorian stairs ?

or:My husband is very tall and we are finding a lot of later built homes have too little headroom on the stairs. We like one house in particular and wondered if there is any way to raise the headroom. There is a boxed in bit in the bedroom above the stairs which I assume is squaring off the slope - couldn't we get the slope turned into a box rising to the ceiling above (like above our Victorian stairs ?

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