Lofts sometimes misunderstood

The gorgeous urban loft in the picture is on the market. Located in the Rossmor building across the street from the new Lunds and pedro park and is being offered for $164,000.  It is very common for a loft to be one large room. In the example above the owner has divided the space into separate living areas with furniture and rugs and the bedroom if you want to call it that is behind the large black bookcase and storage unit.  Lofts like these are very flexible.

The bedroom or bedrooms can be any where in the loft. Some people build platforms so that they have a kind of second story for their bed and others build separate rooms and some buy dividers or storage units or curtains.

For some the flexibility is too much. They reject the idea of living in a space that doesn’t have a bedroom. One of my clients choose to use a space between her kitchen and the entry door to the unit as a bedroom. Several potential buyers rejected the loft because of the location of the bedroom.

I followed up with each agent who brought in a buyer that did not like the location of the bedroom and explained that the space is flexible and the placement of furniture determines where an occupant eats, sleeps or dines, and suggested an alternative arrangement that would put the bedroom in a corner away from the windows and the door.

Many of these lofts are live and work spaces. I remember working with a seller a few years ago who wanted me to photograph his loft but did not want pictures of his paintings or sculptures on the MLS so I had to work around them.

There are several units at the Rossmor that have been modified and that have rooms in them. Owners sometimes put in walls and doors.  I’ll be honest I would love to live in a loft. It is a flexible space that can be changed and I think that would be fun. To some folks the idea is overwhelming and that is alright because we have plenty of condos and homes that have well defined rooms and spaces.