What is a Loft?

When you hear the word loft you may imagine one of those spacious, open and bright homes in Brooklyn, New York. Without walls, with designer furniture and large windows that let in a lot of light. Well, you are not entirely misguided. Here, experts from Ebbets Field Apartments, a housing complex located on the former baseball field of the Brooklyn Dodgers, will tell you in detail what a loft is.

The term loft is an Anglicism. It translates to loft, gallery or warehouse. Ebbets Field Apartments experts indicate that this type of property became very fashionable during the real estate boom of the 2000s. Its most striking feature is that it does not have delimited spaces such as rooms. In other words, it is a great room in which the dining room, the kitchen and the bedroom are united.

“To clarify what a loft is, you should bear in mind that it was born in New York during the 1950s. The high rental prices in the city caused students and artists to seek a new space in which to live and work. Spacious and bright homes in non-residential areas,” say Ebbets Field Apartments experts. "The lofts emerged as the domestic use of a space qualified for industrial or commercial use"

Ebbets Field Apartments experts claim that the imaginary of the loft includes minimalist decoration, avant-garde design and open spaces in which one can feel free. The problem is that these homes do not have the services of traditional residential neighborhoods.

The lofts emerged as the domestic use of a space qualified for industrial or commercial use, with the square meter cheaper than residential areas. In other words, new homes appeared in the middle of an industrial estate or a logistics zone.