Modern Apartment Hip Urban Loft: Design coordinator Charles Burbridge divides the open space with a fabric screen held to the ceiling with a wire cabling system. The 1/8th-inch steel cable wire has a plastic coating that makes it easier for the grommeted panels to slide back and forth.

Snijders gets creative with two large-scale art pieces he makes out of RhinoBoard, a strong foam-core posterboard. He cuts geometric shapes with a utility knife and paints the pieces with blue, black, silver and gray spray paint. He then layers the shapes to determine the composition, then disassembles them in order to hot-glue wood block spacers in between the boards to make the entire piece three-dimensional.

The Solution: Graphic art and a cool color scheme give this open space a cohesive look. Here's how the design team creates a new look on the $1,000 budget.

Design coordinator Summer Baltzer creates two lamps out of basic pipefitting parts. She assembles the pieces, threads the light kit through to the top and attaches a lampshade with hex nuts.

Two of the walls are painted a pale gray-blue. New furniture includes an industrial-style metal desk and blond-wood dresser and coffee table.