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House design for a warehouse?

I was wondering if anyone knows any good places to find floor layouts or pictures of warehouses turned into houses. I was thinking that when i buy a house i might just buy a warehouse or a plot of land and build a warehouse and then make that my house. I'm pretty much looking for an open floor plan with the only walls being for a bathroom. I was also thinking of having it 2 floors, the second floor only having floor space on either end with a catwalk of some type and maybe have walls around those to make them bedrooms. Does anyone have any ideas of where I can find some good floor designs or pictures of anything like this?

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  1. TRY HGTV . COM THEY HAVE SHOWN THOSE KIND OF REMODELS ON T.V BEFORE. THEY ARE REALLY NEAT LOOKING PLACES. AS FOR ME I WOULD LOVE TO LIVE IN A REMODELED BARN, I LOVE RUSTIC!!! GOOD LUCK
  2. Everything you want points to the standard "loft" design. Large commercial buildings / factories in inner cities converted to the extreme open concept look are fabulous to say the least. I can think of a dozen amazing designs seen on TV - HGTV, as buddy above me says - and also by googling "loft" or "loft layout" in text and Image searches. (the latter generates good results.) I'm a huge fan of open concept designs, and bought a house 5 years ago with 900 Sq ft. of windows just on the back side of the house (130 feet long.) If you were here I could design you an amazing loft / warehouse design on my Architect 3D 4.0 program (free download off limewire.com) in about 10 minutes. I'm going to toss a couple things at you: Steel buildings: You can buy brand new steel buildings (round tops) with 20' ceilings, eg 40 x 100 (4000 SF) here in Toronto for 55K CAD delivered, and another 12K installed (on a poured concrete pad.) You can do window cutouts, and so forth. There are dealers all over the US that carry and custom build these to your specs.
  3. Olympia Steel Buildings offers great information and pricing on their products for free at: www.Olympiabuildings.com. I have attached a link below showing how their buildings may be utilized as residential structures. As Construction Managers we recently used their pre-fabricated structures on a commercial Golf Course in New York. Their quality is very good and they have great installation crews. Their pricing is also very competitive. Best of luck with your housing plans.
  4. Consider http://www.holdfast.com/icf.php or http://www.polysteel.com/ These are especially good if you live in hurricane prone areas. Check out http://www.archivaldesigns.com/ for plans layout ideas, they have some nice stuff - or google open floor building plans Happy hunting.