A loft is a building's upper storey or elevated area in a room directly under the roof, or just an attic: a storage space under the roof usually accessed by a ladder. A loft apartment refers to large adaptable open space, often converted for residential use from some other use, often light industrial. Adding to the confusion, some converted lofts themselves include upper open loft areas.
A former warehouse for printing presses converted to a loft apartment on Chicago's Near West Side
A US-style loft; the additional story covers only a few rooms, leaving one or more sides open to the lower floor
Warehouses converted into loft apartments in Hoxton, London, England
An organ loft in Germany
A storey or story, is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people. Plurals for the word are storeys (UK) and stories (US).
A large elevator panel in a North American high-rise omits several floors as well as designating three separate levels as penthouse floors.
An elevator control panel in an apartment building in Shanghai. Floors 4, 13 and 14 are missing.
Letter boxes of a residential building built in the 1970s in Hong Kong. The Chinese and English floor numberings use the traditional Chinese and the British systems, respectively, resulting in different numbers.
A Dover Custom Impulse Elevator control panel with floor numbering. In most buildings in the US and Canada with more than 12 floors, there is no floor numbered 13. The ☆ indicates the main entry floor.
