For the record, I absolutely love your place. It's large and spacious, especially for one guy, but you seem to fill it well. The deck and large windows with trees in the living area gives it a sense of peace and you forget at times that you are in fact in a city. I had an industrial converted loft space in Maine that had huge ceilings - like 20ft ceilings - and it was amazing to have those ceilings. Turned out to be a total expensive bitch to heat though. Like yours, when you were inside you often forgot that you were surrounded by buildings and people and dogshit. Having high ceilings makes a huge difference in terms of claustrophobia. I had two places in NYC, one with 11 foot ceilings and one with 7ft drop ceilings. Even though the second was larger in square footage, the first felt far better to live in.