Your perfect space Options

[pandora]

I'm planning to move out in a month or two, and I've been dreaming up my perfect apartment space. So I thought this might make a good topic.

What is your dream apartment for when you decide to move out of your parents house? I'm not talking about homes for after you get married to your dream husband. I'm talking about the kind of place you live in as a single working professional or student.

Ideally, I'd like a live/work loft; preferably the ones they've got in Santa Ana, either at the Santiago Street Lofts or The City Place Lofts.

Live/work lofts are "mixed use" spaces... the ones I'm looking at are 3 story lofts where the bottom floor is actually a commercial space for a small business or office.

Here are some pictures. These places have first floor commercial spaces that face some really nice streets/promenades with glass roll-up doors. The places in these pics have been staged for tours etc. so if I did happen to get a place in either of those buildings, it wouldn't look that good haha.

Santiago Street Lofts:

Buildings
http://www.urbandesignstrategies.com/image...ago_full_09.jpg
http://www.urbandesignstrategies.com/image...ago_full_10.jpg
http://www.urbandesignstrategies.com/image...ago_full_11.jpg

Interior (a bunch of different units)
http://www.postlets.com/create/photos/2007...g07_lofts03.jpg
http://www.postlets.com/create/photos/2007...ing_model_2.jpg
http://www.postlets.com/create/photos/2007...ving_plan_2.jpg
http://www.postlets.com/create/photos/2007...rking_space.jpg
http://www.postlets.com/create/photos/2007...tlofts024mr.jpg
http://www.urbandesignstrategies.com/image...ago_full_08.jpg
http://www.urbandesignstrategies.com/image...ago_full_03.jpg
http://www.urbandesignstrategies.com/image...ago_full_06.jpg
http://www.urbandesignstrategies.com/image...ago_full_07.jpg

City Place Lofts:
http://www.livecityplace.com/images/LoftsExterior.jpg
http://www.livecityplace.com/images/LoftsInterior.jpg
http://www.livecityplace.com/images/HannaBean.jpg


Both places units are for sale, actually, but there are some units that people have bought just to rent out for about 1800 a month. But I'm planning to work out a deal with my friend Pam so she can use the commercial space for the web firm shes opening and we can split the rent. Since I'm going to be working there, the commute would be AWESOME. hahahaha.

[angelrevelation]

I would want to live in a loft or penthouse with a great city view, located by lots of shops where I could walk to everywhere I need to go for everyday things or to places to pass the time. It would have lots of windows and interesting furniture/decorations that I've collected at random places that somehow fit together.

It would be fully secured too. Like these people my family knows, their apartment has lots of security with a secretary to check you in, buzz-in doors and elevators...