5 Innovative Ideas From a Live-Work Space in a Converted Toy Factory (11 photos)

1. Atypical room sizes. The private living and sleeping spaces, including the bedroom, closets, sitting area and bathroom, take up only about 250 square feet; the entire loft has a 1,460-square-foot footprint. The homeowners, seen in these photos, live here full time, but they stressed that their primary space requirements centered on working and entertaining. “That led us to imagine designing a sort of a house within a house, a loft within a loft,” Pande says. The building was once a toy factory, “so we nicknamed the project Toy Loft,” he says.

The architects reduced the private living spaces to their essential sizes and built things on top of each other. The sleeping area sits above the living area and a closet is built into the side of the living area, with the bathroom concealed behind it. The remaining 1,200 square feet was left open for work and entertaining.

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