As the company grew and eventually outgrew my loft, child care became a necessity.

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My neighbours are for my application for a loft conversion, yet the council still refused.

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See my photo of Gary at his loft-style Shanghai office.

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After moving from my small apartment in Manhattan to a large newly renovated paper factory loft in Brooklyn, I started to design DIY pieces to decorate my new space.

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"This loft is what I would consider all mine, my style and everything I wanted to put into it, " Ms. Herrington says.

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After we lost the World Club Challenge the other year, he spent half an hour listening to my dad telling him how he was putting a ladder up to the loft.

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"Singapore is my home, this is my base, this is where I feel safe, " says Comer, speaking in the loft of his four-story office in a shophouse on Singapore's Ann Siang Hill precinct, a preserved historic area just off Chinatown.

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