A lavish yuppie pad with a plush open plan kitchen is making a stir as the temporary home of constestants on BBCs The Apprentice. Sir Alan Sugar has housed this years aspiring business brains in a luxurious 5 million converted Victorian warehouse, which the Independent claims is the epitome of modern warehouse styling and a throwback to the loft-style living boom of the 1980s.Featuring a large open-plan kitchen and expansive cream-washed brick interiors, the ultimate yuppie flat in Battersea was claimed to marry aggressive masculine 1980s styling with more feminine touches.The kitchen was described as a fusion of the comfort-food colour of Heinz tomato soup with the hard-edged warehouse feel of brushed steel.Interior designer Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen told the Independent that the home drew greatly on the luxurious loft-style apartments of 1980s New York, claiming It recalls the yuppie culture, the shoulder pads and the bachelor pad.Its a home that like Sir Alan requires living up to. But, like all American trends coming over here, its taken a long while to adapt it to our way of living.