When you keep everything this open, you're going to have to keep things extra neat, but you won't have the party kitchen traffic jam problem anymore.

I especially love the photos of converted loft spaces in NYC - they're a great example of quintessential New York design that's trickled out to urban areas all over the country.

An older building with a large and elegant barrel-vaulted ceiling becomes the ideal setting for this modern kitchen and dining area. While the age, size, design and scale of the vaulted ceiling gives the space permanence and history, the "floating" kitchen and dining areas — as well as the modern plywood furniture — give a feeling of the temporal and transient. It's a perfect balance of old and new, modern and contemporary. More: Great Box-Beam Ceilings Get the Look of Rustic Wood Beams See more photos of ceilings in home design

Chairs

Sillas

Chairs

Eames dining chair

Chairs

eames chairs

Dining set

the vault

dining chairs

kitchen chairs

Thonet

Ply chairs

Lights at ends

this table grounds the grandiose ceilings

This kitchen is HUGE! The kitchen looks basically like a white box sitting inside a large hall. You can barely tell a kitchen's there.

chairs

ceiling in Oakland in mag reference

love it!

Eames plywood chair

Room divider

Love chairs

ceiling w/kitchen (barrel vaulted)

Don't like the uplights. Barrell is quite large as well.

refinished thonet chair

Neoclassical vaulting topped off with white gypsum board and eames molded plywood chairs.

cocina flotante

Chris

love these chairs

like

Incredible ceilings.

Great chair

dinsing table and chairs

chairs make this room

Eames - minimal - wood - sm kit

the dining chair

chairs

dining table/chairs

kitchen table

the ceiling, the volume, total spatial quality is very inviting..

cool

dome ceiling

chairs

chairs

love the eames

green, white and wood