A brown cashmere coat, a pair of sand-coloured shoes and a piazza in Rome influenced Note Design Studio's renovation of this 1930s loft apartment in Sweden. More about Note Design Studio rejects white in renovated Stockholm apartment
Architects Lluís Corbella and Marc Mazeres have converted a former dairy in Barcelona into a loft-style house featuring a suspended walkway and glass walls (+ slideshow). More about House in an old Barcelona dairy has new spaces inserted around its original structure
Belgian creative agency Dift has designed the interiors for a loft apartment housed in a former office space in the centre of Ghent (+ slideshow). More about Dift transforms former Ghent office space into WATT loft apartment
A spacious loft room bordered by a slender handrail is located beneath the steeply sloping wooden rafters of this Tokyo house by Apollo Architects & Associates (+ slideshow). More about Nord house by Apollo Architects boasts a spacious loft room for children to play in
Following the popularity of a Hampstead house with an attic study hidden behind a moving bookshelf, we've pinned some of the most interesting and beautiful loft conversions from the pages of Dezeen to a new Pinterest board.
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This white concrete extension has been added to the roof of an old apartment block in the Austrian city of Innsbruck, providing extra rooms and a roof terrace with panoramic views (+ slideshow). More about Daniel Fügenschuh adds white concrete loft to a 20th-century apartment block in Austria
A bookshelf slides back to reveal a secret study inside this loft, renovated by architect Alexander Martin for an Arts and Crafts-style house in London's Hampstead. More about Hampstead loft conversion by Alexander Martin features "a new twist on the hidden library door"
Belgian studio Graux & Baeyens Architecten has transformed a warehouse loft space near Kortrijk into a family home featuring curving walls, vaulted ceilings and muted tones (+ slideshow). More about Graux & Baeyens uses curved walls to convert a factory loft into a family home
Japanese office G Studio added swathes of white paint to the walls of this loft apartment in Tokyo, making it look like the space is unfinished (+ slideshow). More about G Studio Architects creates unfinished aesthetic in Tokyo loft apartment
This rust-coloured copper home extension by British studio Poulsom Middlehurst sits above the red-brick walls and clay-tiled roof of a Victorian terrace in east London. More about Poulsom Middlehurst adds copper-clad extension to east London attic flat
A marble-lined steam room is squeezed below the sloping ceiling of this apartment extension in Lisbon by local studio Camarim Arquitectos (+ slideshow). More about Lisbon apartment extended by Camarim Arquitectos to include an attic steam room
Slovenian studio Architektura d.o.o. has converted this Slovenian loft space into an open-plan two-bedroom holiday apartment – the second project we've featured by the architects today (+ slideshow). More about Arhitektura d.o.o. renovates cross-shaped attic in Slovenia into holiday home
Irregular-shaped boxes have been grouped together to create storage, a study, and stairs up to a mezzanine play area in this renovated loft by Brooklyn studio SABO Project (+ slideshow). More about Doehler loft renovation by SABO Project features an irregular clustered storage unit
A thin metal staircase provides access to the renovated attic space of this house in Belgium by Kortrijk design studio Five AM (+ slideshow). More about Delicate staircase leads to Isle of Water attic extension by Five AM
Shards of glazing frame views of the distant mountains from the apartments inside this angular attic extension in northern Italy, designed by Plasma Studio (+ slideshow). More about Angular windows create glass shards across Plasma Studio's Schäfer Roofscape
The loft space at the VitraHaus showroom in Weil am Rhein, Germany, has been transformed into a fictitious home by London-based Studioilse using furniture by Vitra and Artek (+ slideshow). More about Studioilse designs home for fictitious couple using Vitra and Artek furniture
Scottish studio Konishi Gaffney has constructed a wide dormer window to convert the loft of a terraced house in Edinburgh into an extra bedroom. More about Zinc-clad loft extension by Konishi Gaffney creates an extra bedroom
Lithuanian studio Inblum Architects has inserted a bar into the attic of an old house in Minsk, Belarus (+ slideshow). More about Bar in the attic of an old house by Inblum Architects
This New York loft conversion by local architect Ali Tayar is divided using bespoke prefabricated panels based on a Swiss modular housing system from the 1960s (+ slideshow). More about New York loft conversion based on a 1960s modular Swiss house by Ali Tayar
The latest residence to feature a combined staircase and bookshelf is this loft conversion in north London by British design studio Craft Design. (+ slideshow) More about Loft Space in Camden by Craft Design