who here lives in a loft?
Lumin
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i stepped my game up and am moving into a loft here downtown. granted its not a huge loft, but its something ive always wanted to live in.im interested in learning how to situate things since i know its not like living in a regular style house or apartment.give me some ideasespecially how you have your records situatedgracias
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I'd rather go around the whole 'Loftstyle' marketing steez and get a big raw open space and parcel it out myself.
i got the same unit, just a few floors lower
its not the type that has a second floor although that was an option
i just aint really ballin out to get one like that
this would be more of a "loftstyle"
its straight though
those are like the ones I've seen. Again, just less walls. But that appears to be much better quality. Not mention the view and frickin Miami Beach.
the view is great but the ocean breeze is where its at.
i really do hope it wont be difficult for me to maximize this space. it is a bit smaller than what im in now. might be a good time to get rid of some furniture
im curious to know where or how i should put a dining room table in
floor plan
http://www.miamicondolifestyle.com/floorplan/loft-downtown-ii-fpa3.pdf
Can't complain about ocean view though. I'm about to trade my view of bridge and Empire State bldg for a garden. Roll on summer
How is that a loft? Looks like a standard studio.
do they have storage units in the building? if not I'd go ahead and rent one.
yeah its borderline studio. studios out here are around 450 sq ft and are a straight up square shape. this is a bit bigger and has a few other things a studio out here wouldnt have. ceilings are 10 ft. there were some with 20 ft ceilings, but i havent reached baller status to move into that yet
arent loft spaces basically big studios? any of the up north ones ive been in have been huge open rooms. some have had a second floor, others didnt, depending on if the owner decided to build one.
I'd say the lines between a loft this size and a studio are pretty blurry. Semantics, really. They call it a loft so it sounds fancier and they can charge more money for it. As long as you're comfortable with the space and the price, it don't matter.
I just bought a condo here in Denver and it's only a one bedroom, although it's a good size. However, I didn't want all my records taking up half of my living space so I compromised some closet space and put some shelving in one of my three sliding door closets to store a good 2/3 of my record collection. I'm down to about 1700-1800 records now so it wasn't too tough to hide them away. Also, if you have big closets, you can install some shelves above where you hang stuff for record storage. My closets already had that built in, it was perfect. I fit about 5 feet of records across the shelf above where I keep my coats and sneakers and shit like that. It really helped keep my living space open and unconfined. I just have 2 skinny black shelves in the living room for the stuff I listen to the most.
Good luck, sounds like a cool spot.
Looks like a dope spot. If anything utilize height and stack everything to the celing. If you have any problems fitting in all your records give them to me.
Me and the boy just moved outta the huge ass loft we lived in for almost four years.
Moving hundreds of crates for days. The space is/was about 1900 sq feet. We had fun parties tho, but I feel that it is time to kind of grow up. Be all Grown and Sexy
We had about over 300 people that night!!!
Now we live in a lovely new spot (brand new!) that is smaller, no roommates, revolving door of drunk idiots, and nice little fireplace. etc....
awwwwww....so nice
But man, moving crates and boxes of records really makes you think, "Do I really need all these Frickin' records??!!"
sure, sure, I do.
1900 sq ft of open area sounds right up my alley
no thanks on moving hundreds of crates though
I am still possibly in the market for a two bedroom, maybe gonna look again in a couple months. They kill you with the maintnance fee's though, most of the fees range from 500 (cheap end) to about 1200, thats on top of the mortgage. If we decide to do this, im probably gonna just rent out my current condo.
renting isnt a bad idea though in downtown or brickell cause of the lack of maintnance fees.
there is a spot on 26th street and 2nd ave thats really really nice
not sure how much it costs to buy one, but when i went in there, they reminded me of what a true loft is. 20 ft ceilings, 2 level... i saw a cat put a basketball goal in his unit. he had a really large one though
i doubt those would be going for cheap but you might want to look into them
they are called parc lofts
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