The Loft

If proximity is everything, the loft is essential to metrosexual existence. To really experience the hipster lifestyle and attending urban thrills, you've got to set yourself up right in the middle of it all, in a tower of cosmopolitan cool. Yes, you'll be living with contradictions: upscale trophy stoves and stainless steel appliances coexisting with exposed ducting, naked pipes, concrete floors and freight elevators. But you'll quickly get used to it; those eleven-foot ceilings and tons of unstructured space whisper of possibilities -- and room enough for your full-sized metrosexual self-esteem.

Meaning: Home, victory, triumph over circumstance.

Reversed: Domestic strife, bad plumbing, high building maintenance fees.

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