When the lease to her Chicago apartment was up without the option to renew, Windy City Rehab designer Alison Victoria found herself in a precarious position. Just when she thought it might be time to pack up and leave town, the answer to her dilemma came by way of a 6,250-square-foot warehouse she used as an office for her design business. Built in 1927, the commercial space's sweeping 16-foot ceilings and vast rooms were the perfect blank canvas for a one-of-a-kind, Parisian-inspired home-office hybrid for Alison to take clients by day and live her best life by night. "The goal is never having to leave home," she says.