If you’ve ever visited the home of someone who lives in one of those cool industrial artists lofts, you know how great it can look to have so much open space.  Sometimes, however, too much open space can lead to odd furniture layouts and awkward circulation paths.  When you don’t have any walls to put furniture up against, how do you lay it out so that it makes sense?

We’ve worked on a few loft renovations, and we’re finishing up one as we speak.  This one is particularly challenging because of it’s square footprint.  What we’ve ended up with I think will be a vast improvement in how the space works and looks.

In the above diagram notice on the right there is an existing plan that shows their basic furniture layout.  Note how the centrally located pool table dominates the layout and makes it cumbersome to circulate around.  By just rotating that pool table and moving it slightly up, there’s now a more direct circulation spine that makes it much easier to circulate through the space.  We’ve added walls on one side of that circulation path both to reinforce this path, as well as to create some much needed privacy for the bedroom.

The above perspective drawing imagines these bedroom walls as places for storage and display.  Their large expanse means that, when open, they still help maintain that open loft feel.

When the doors are closed, the bedroom becomes much more private.

Check back for future updates on this Condo renovation that’s almost complete.