A warehouse is built for goods, not for living. It offers volume, height and raw character, and little of the warmth, softness or intimacy of a home. Turning one into a place to live is a question of balance. How do you keep everything that makes a warehouse worth living in, and add everything it was never designed to give?

That was the starting point for this loft in Antwerp. The owners did not want the industrial character scrubbed away and replaced with a conventional interior. They wanted the building to stay itself, and to become a home at the same time.

As in every Masters of Interior Design project, the work began with the people rather than the plan. Through the MasterPlan Methode©, Marc and Sven mapped how the owners actually live. Where the day starts, how it ends, where they want to gather and where they want to withdraw, how they receive guests, and what they want to feel when they walk through the door. In a large open volume those answers matter even more than usual, because there are few fixed walls to hide behind. The life has to give the space its logic.

From that analysis came the zoning of the loft. Areas to cook, to eat, to sit and to rest, each defined without breaking the openness that makes a warehouse feel like a warehouse. Warmth, texture and considered lighting were layered into the industrial shell, so the space carries both edge and comfort at once. The raw and the refined were treated as partners rather than opposites.

The process itself shaped the result. This was a genuine collaboration, with the design growing through conversation over time. In the owners' own words, the conversations, the interventions and the suggestions brought the plans to another level. That back and forth is where a good loft becomes a personal one.

The outcome is a home that could only exist in this building. It keeps the scale and the honesty of its industrial past, and it holds a life that is warm, functional and unmistakably the owners' own. It is another expression of the idea that runs through all of MoID's work. A home should not ask you to adapt to it. It should be designed around you, so that you can live entirely on your own terms. In this loft, that idea takes on an industrial accent, and the result fits the owners perfectly.