9 Tips for Loft Living

Wide open living space is hugely appealing, at least until you have to figure where to store your stuff, and how to separate the bedroom from the kitchen. Here are nine tricks gleaned from the Dwell archives. Slideshow

Up-and-coming Slovakian firm Gut Gut recast the ground floor of an early-90s apartment building as a stylish and scrappy family home. To keep open shelving from looking messy, the architects installed a modular plywood shelving system and kept it consistent throughout the space.