Are you single?
Do you view long commuting hours to work as a waste?
Can you gamely roll your sleeves up and fix the minor plumbing problems?
Do you love dining-out, going to theaters and hanging out in other urban leisure spots?
Do you find cityscapes attractive?
Do you mind having artists and yuppies as neighbors?

If you answer yes to all or most of the questions, then you are a certified potential loft dweller! Take the full quiz here.

Anything you do on your condominium is your masterpiece. Any decorations you made, may it be simple or extravagant, it is called a masterpiece. Anything made by your hand and produced with your own mind is your masterpiece. In designing a classy condo, do not be afraid to use and make your masterpiece.

You do not need any architect or interior designer to design your place. You, yourself can add class and beauty in your condo. What is great about making it your own is the personality that can be reflected in your designs. The details and designs will mirror your attitude and your personality.

If you wish to maximize the utility of your roof, you need to know whether the space can actually meet its intended use. At this point, it is best to consult an expert or a technical staff to help you assess and confirm the possibilities. Based on the assessment of this expert, you can then make a rough estimate of the expenses to be incurred in creating this new space in your house.

For instance, your family is growing, and rather than expand the house outwards, or split rooms into halves to accommodate more people, you can convert the attic into a loft. That way, the space is efficiently used, and you don’t spend too much with construction.

Still, you have other considerations, like lighting, electricals, cooling (or heating) and the like.

To answer the occupant’s need for more space, every square inch should be designed for a particular purpose and function. A dark, sharp angled corner for instance can be transformed into a beautiful and functional storage nook. All you have to do is put a cabinet or a shelf where you can stack your old CD’s or photo albums. A lamp can likewise be installed to provide a soothing and subdued lighting effect to the entire area.

One of the major issues in interior decorating of single-living apartments is space or lack thereof. This problem can be solved by a few tricks of mere illusion.

Forget over-stuffed sofa and chairs and try to go for furniture with simple and clean lines. Use tables with clear glass for extra surface space while de-emphasizing clutter. You can also arrange existing furniture so that they don’t block views to doors and windows. Doing so would minimize the feel of smallness.

A warm clutter-free wall can also give an illusion of more space. Paint a single wall with a warm solid color such as berry and wine. Put up one or two striking well-proportioned wall pieces instead of small art pieces that can only clutter your wall.

You can also use plants as the focus of your room. You can use tall narrow plants like bamboos stems anchored by rocks in a large terracotta pot.

You may not be the green-thumb type but a little green in your little abode can surely add to make it feel more like home. Living in the city is not an excuse not to have some greenery around. Although of course, if you are indeed contemplating to start a small garden of your own, be sure that you are committed to the idea. Plants, like all living things, need TLC and being too busy is not an excuse to forgetting to water them. However, if you feel that you can live up to the responsibility, then you’ll be rewarded of the certain benefits of urban gardening. How?

1. Plants help beautify the surroundings. Seeing colorful blooms can help divert the monotony of the drab grey of the urban landscape.
2. Plants help purify the air. Forget about inhaling the usual city smog by seeking some oxygen break around your mini-garden.
3. Gardening is relaxing. It’s one fine way to help reduce the urban-living stress.

What defines a loft? High ceilings, open spaces, town location, huge windows. It can be an expensive way to live but Capitol Hotel makes it relatively affordable. They are the epitome of cool urban living personified and every yuppy’s dream. We are talking, of course, about lofts. Once the work-cum-living space of struggling artists, now a chic living concept. Popularized by Hollywood movies, loft living was literally invented in New York’s Soho in the 1960s. Sit back and relax: Snuggle up in the wicker chair and watch the day pass from the windows of your loft.

Originally vacant warehouses or factories converted for residential use, lofts denote functionality and minimalism. Today, loft living has become so fashionable that developers are building loft spaces to cater to affluent urbanites.

Lofts come with condo amenities that are hard to resist when you are a buzzing corporate worker who sips coffee on your way to work. Lofts, like condos, offer attractive services such as laundry, housekeeping, fitness clubs, gyms, salons and even restaurants. They are also conveniently situated for easy access to markets, groceries, shopping and entertainment centers. Based on this, lofts have become hot picks among people who go for comfortable and convenient living.

As urban living is becoming more and more popular, lofts are also becoming such a hit especially because of the wide space it offers and the convenience it brings in an urban area. In Downtown LA, many industrial buildings are being converted into loft apartments and condominiums. Lofts are also very common across the US country like in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Miami, Atlanta and Chicago where renters and owners turn their industrial areas into living spaces. Such spaces provide high ceilings, oversized windows and open floor plans which can be a perfect venue for artists looking for a wide space in unleashing their creativity. Lofts can indeed give you much freedom.