Stylization of housing makes it possible to stand out, helps to improve the interior and increases comfort. Everyone has their own goals in this regard. A striking design tool was the loft style (also industrial). The attractiveness of this trend is a combination of gross features of the decor and delicate taste. The fashion for industrial housing has been growing for several decades, and in recent years has reached a peak, especially in 2014-2017. The relevance of the style both in our time and in the future is guaranteed by its laconicism and focus on technology, the absence of causing colorful accents. Not the last significant factor and driving force of the direction is its popularity among young people, programmers and hipsters. Thus, the current continues to evolve, receive something new and contribute to the culture. An apartment in the loft style will probably cost a considerable amount, but there will also be opportunities for savings.
Initially, lofts were called attics or the upper internal parts of industrial facilities. These technical floors are sometimes converted into workshops, coworking centers and alternative housing. Then, after the appearance of apartments stylized for such lofts, the name “neo-loft” spread. In the last 5–7 years, spacious housing in industrial style and with a minimum number of premises in dozens of countries around the world has appeared in large numbers.
Such objects were immediately called “loft” and now the words denoting style and housing are used as equal. The style incorporates the features of the industrial environment since the first manifestations of the trend in the 60s. Now it includes massive furniture objects, metal pipes, wooden racks, unprocessed rough surfaces and brickwork.
Features and salient features of style
The course is characterized by slight negligence and large dimensions. The concept is based on a combination of different pronounced textures, textures. Large wooden furniture, a lot of metal and materials that, in one way or another, are associated with processing - without all this, it is difficult to imagine a modern interior for a loft. Almost everything, except luxury goods, fits into the style direction. This is because industrial stylistics seeks to simplify, visually “reduce” the cost of the interior.
So, undisguised parts, including ventilation pipes, plumbing and sewer units, will become appropriate here.Harmonies will add modern objects, new technology, avant-garde forms of metal, glass and plastic. Together with the loft style, steampunk is perfectly combined. They complement each other perfectly.
What rooms is suitable
Loft is a spacious dwelling with an urban view. Residents of Khrushchev and Brezhnevka will not be able to repeat such features, but preserving the palette and using style techniques is possible. In lofts with small rooms, there is nothing special, such also occur in practice. Then you have to observe minimalism, as well as visually expand the space. The situation is different with studio apartments, because their configuration corresponds to the desire of the industrial to delimit within one large room. In the lofts you can see the whole variety of zoning.
For two-story apartments and penthouses, the loft style is one of the "native". At first, lofts were attics, and there they implemented bold design projects. Large living space also makes it possible to "accelerate." Country houses are designed in the spirit of comfort and coziness, and they use the special qualities of industrial stylistics, including for this.
Loft style and zoning features
The industrial area turns large rooms and studio apartments into a coherent space with good aesthetics and functionality. Interior designers prefer to dilute it with light decorative partitions, shelving, avant-garde art objects, sometimes racks. In other words, the fact that they are used in the arrangement of studio apartments to highlight the dining, work and rest areas.
Stylistics involves the use of multi-colored sections of walls to highlight some rooms even without partitions. To this all add features of textures. To separate the bedrooms and children's rooms, ordinary walls will be needed, and not necessarily to the ceiling. Furniture is placed in logical clusters, while saving space.Industrial housing is not piled with large partitions. Instead, they make thoughtful, logical transitions.
Typical finishes
There is a place in the apartment for almost all basic materials:
tree;
a rock;
metal;
concrete;
brick;
wallpaper.
It is easiest to work with walls: the process technology is not connected with difficulties, and there are many coating options. In the case of a brick surface, it is not necessary to form details, but an even, neat coating like wallpaper will have to be painted in a special way so that there are bumps and transitions. Ideally, it does not hurt to violate their integrity and add a few spots. Wood panels are also suitable: the solution is rare, but acceptable and simple. It is more difficult to work with the ceiling and floor, but there will not be much need for accents. An ordinary floor covering like boards or a concrete version will do, and a simple stucco or whitewash in white, or even darker, will suffice on the ceiling. Industrial style does not mean a ban on neat finishes with technological materials and interesting decor.
Walls
The finishing materials for the walls of the loft are usually plaster, natural brick and artificial brickwork. Wall murals imitating various materials will fit in normally. Concrete walls after the old cladding with large visible residues of paint, whitewash or wallpaper are also suitable, so it’s worth thinking about this option in time. Some designers use a technically simple option - wallpapers that can be painted. But among the finished facing materials, you should choose canvases in dirty shades or with a blurry pattern.
Cracks and chips on the walls will add expressiveness to the style, so if something like this is on the coating, it is better to leave it to somehow beat with the decor.Designers often resort to highlighting one main wall, the most attractive in appearance and original in terms of material or the least prepared.
Floor
Standard option, concrete is suitable for large apartments. But in a small apartment of the type of a studio or multi-room space, the decision will be dubious. Concrete is replaced with a wooden coating or a simulating version: a cycled varnished parquet, a laminate. Perfectly even colors are avoided, prefer brown and reddish with dark fragments, white with a splash of gray. The kitchen floor is laid out with ceramic tiles or stone. This will diversify the interior, although the laminate will also be welcome. Sometimes carpets are placed on top of the decoration, 1-2 for all housing. It is better to put one of them under the sofa, and the other, the long one, between two remote zones or rooms. Ordinary rugs can be replaced with imitation of animal skins. To implement the situation in an industrial style, bulk polymer floors are also used.
Floors must cope with the stress and pressure caused by heavy metal furniture!
Ceiling
In the case of coating the upper part, simple solutions are used, for example. white painting or plastering with the same color. A light ceiling will add volume and emphasize other shades. For high ceilings, beams are almost an obligatory component. Checked compositions are collected from them. Ventilating pipes are used as styling parts; they are very lucky if they are in the interior. It’s definitely not worth collecting tension or suspension structures, and if something similar already exists, then it is better to paint them in a light shade of gray. The wires are hidden in special covers, for example, leather. Concrete ceilings, in turn, cannot be left inaccurate, because for industrial styling a subtle sense of taste is important with general rough execution.If there is time, money and space in the apartment - in its upper part it will not hurt to equip a ceiling farm.
Style color scheme
Ideally, they choose something between dark and light shades. In any case, it is impossible to execute the room only in light or only dark colors, although both of them will also suit. At the same time, spectacular combinations include black and white, red and white, brown and gray tones. In a contrasting interior, industrial accessories look more stylish. Design in the loft style necessarily provides for color contrast, but it is desirable only in one color temperature.
The dominance of brown, dark orange, gray-blue tones is considered a classic. Under these colors, 80% of the area is sometimes allocated with 20% for contrasting - for example, a floor, a ceiling or one of the walls. Furniture is selected in saturated shades with a gray tint. The reflectivity of surfaces and objects also matters: the more light there is in the room, the better. Options for color accents:
pictures;
graffiti;
posters.
Furniture
Lofts do not pile up with a repeating abundance of objects - the interior should not look natural and banal. At the same time, freedom and ease, a slight craving for minimalism, are welcomed. Industrial-style furniture is heavy and bulky, sometimes non-functional. Moreover, the concept itself requires ergonomics, conciseness. For loft-style housing, you definitely need 5 categories of things.
At first they buy and correctly place a large sofa and armchairs. Following this, shelves of various configurations are acquired or assembled. Containers with lids as sections will bring many practical benefits. In lofts often place rails for clothes, ordinary and two-story. Mirrors choose large, ideally floor. One very wide table for temporary placement of objects will not hurt.Thus, the loft style embodies a new look at the use of space.
Lighting
Lofts fill with natural and artificial lighting. In this sense, they use large window openings, lighting devices for evening and day use. The number of fixtures is limited only for functional reasons, while their originality and shape are a matter of fantasy. True connoisseurs of style combine lattices, glass, ropes, brown metal. Lamps are selected with an unusual shape or antique. Lighting devices are often installed on pipes.
Some go further and use spotlights. The light is then directed to the floor, walls, ceiling, furniture. The color for lighting is usually chosen yellow, but bright white lamps will also come in handy. Due to several options, rooms are divided into zones with a romantic, evening, working light. Large mirrors will not interfere. A simple rule works in the interior of a loft: it should be light, but not too soft.
Actual options for fixtures:
ceiling point;
massive chandeliers;
floor with the original form;
pendant lamps;
illuminations.
Decor and accessories
Style is associated with art and the industrial sphere - these aspects become central motives. Paintings, drawings, graffiti, prints and posters represent the pictorial part of art, and industrial design - small architectural forms and technological sphere. The right accessories are always in a conspicuous place, they are striking and attract attention for a while.
Interest will be caused by road signs, turns of pipes, parts of mechanisms, old globes, control panels. Needlework is popular: they independently assemble storage systems, lighting devices. Decor, in turn, should not be too openwork. Constructivism, complex geometry and abstractness are welcome. The interior can be saturated with bright color elements, small crafts.Antique decor, which clearly characterizes your era, is suitable.
Interior features of different rooms
In apartments with a continuous and traditional layout, the space consists of:
Dining area (kitchen).
Recreation areas (living room / bedroom).
Worker (living room / study).
In this sense, ordinary apartments with a long corridor even have an advantage in terms of zoning space, but for the sake of a classic loft, you will have to demolish at least 2 walls. In general, the rules for the design of different rooms / zones do not differ, and at the same time, an ordinary apartment will be devoid of transitions, which are expressed in a sharp change in color and decoration material. The right choice of furnishings begins with the acquisition of furniture: spaciousness is important and at the same time, compliance with style.
Sometimes bulky loft cabinets and drawers take up a lot of space and do not give normal options for storage. The design of different zones and rooms is characterized by desirable materials and lighting, color and interior elements. The principles of arrangement of the hallway and bathroom / toilet are different from the general concept. At the same time, all rooms are finished and filled with accessories in such a way as to give them an identity.
Living room
The axis of the industrial trend is a large leather sofa, usually brown or dark red. A living room without this item is more likely to resemble an object in some other style. The room “needs” a full soft zone. The presence of large armchairs is mandatory, small poufs will not interfere. The design of the central zone will be finished if you add a non-standard coffee table and a lamp with ceiling or floor placement there.
The hall is decorated with dimensional and small paintings in contemporary style (contemporary) and even in realism. Use carpets wisely, more than 3 - bust. At the same time, the option with a bare floor will be more practical, and in many cases aesthetically pleasing. Furniture set with a noticeable margin to the walls.At least if possible. All those who do not know how to collect compositions from objects should avoid piling them.
Kitchen
In a studio apartment, the kitchen area is usually not separated by partitions. It is emphasized with furniture or with different wall finishes. Glass, brick and a large number of household appliances create the characteristic atmosphere of a “loft” kitchen. Some plaster the walls in white or blue, on top of any texture. They combine headsets in cool or warm colors. Sinks are installed huge, made of steel, often with joystick mixers. All wires and pipes are exposed if possible.
They are not painted and try to highlight in every possible way. Among the facing materials, preference is given to rough wood, stone and metals. The design of the kitchen apron uses tiles, decorative finishes or steel panels. Unlike textures are actively combined throughout the kitchen. The tabletop is selected from wood or metal.
Bedroom
This room is distinguished by high walls or partitions, but a transom is usually left under the ceiling. In high rooms it is advisable to allocate a second tier for the bedroom. What exactly to do a recreation area is an individual question and in the context of style is controversial. Some recommend something light in light colors, while others suggest performing it in dark shades. With light furniture, even red and black walls are combined. Softness will add an element in the spirit of classics, for example. false fireplace. The bedroom does not interfere with panoramic windows and large curtains, glossy surfaces, mirrors and a large wardrobe.
The decor will not be superfluous: there are many flowerpots with large plants and flowers, textiles with drawings, abstract paintings. The transition to the bathroom, if any, is performed with another floor covering and translucent partitions. One of the walls of the bedroom, as a rule, is left untreated: concrete or brick. They buy a large bed in the room.
To make the bedroom comfortable, you should buy noise insulation finishes.
Children
The loft room will appeal primarily to boys and teens. Walls can be used as a surface for drawings, furniture can be assembled with your own hands, introducing the child to the occupation. If the nursery is large in size and is located in the attic, you will get a classic mini-loft, but only ordinary items should be replaced with the attributes of a children's room. These include table football, cars, children's corners. The color scheme is kept in calm colors. Attic option can be "moved" to the floors by adding beams, including several inclined ones. In each of the children's options, a compact but roomy book partition for literature and toys does not hurt. Walls can be painted with a soft shade of the main color palette, decorated with backlight. Photographs should also be posted there. Disordered objects are covered with a thin screen.
Bathroom
A bathroom in the style of a loft looks favorably against the background of other options. Firstly, it is about choosing a form. Non-standard sinks and bathtubs are bought in the bathroom: with uneven edges, made of unusual materials (stone and others), with lining, lighting, etc. Secondly, a game with color is possible. The same plumbing is acquired in any tones, from yellow to black. In general, the color scheme for the bathroom is chosen among dark shades.
So it will turn out expressive. A universal light option will deprive a clear commitment to style. As for lighting, the choice of the buyer is almost unlimited. Dotted, hanging, shaped, rounded and even expensive classic chandeliers are suitable for such an interior. The degree of illumination in the bathroom does not matter. Some stop in dim light, while others want more brightness.
Hallway / hallway
In the design of these parts of the housing there are many restrictions and requirements. You need to choose the right wall.Possible errors: too bulky furniture or not enough roomy. Categorically it is not recommended to organize level ceilings. Corridors sometimes go to workshops - there the ceiling height does not matter. In the hallway, chrome elements and several decorative details are necessarily placed. The corridor is left clear of heavy and lightweight partitions, while the zones are marked with furniture near the walls. The style forbids the use of wallpaper in the entrance room. Brick and materials imitating it, natural and artificial stone, plaster - you should choose from this list. In addition, the finish here should be simplified. The direction of the loft in the hallway or hallway also means:
Bright lighting, a large number of lamps.
Lack of draperies.
Conclusion
The history of the industrial style, or loft, began in the 40-50s of the XX century. Factory inspiration in Europe and North America became a source of inspiration for designers, and as early as the 60s, it was formed around like-minded people. Nowadays, a loft is a popular option for repairs and an interesting conceptual environment. Interior designers recognized wood, brick, metal and stone as the main decoration materials. They learned to combine them better than any other style would suggest. For studio apartments, a loft is both a design and a way of zoning space. The demarcation function is performed by materials, textures, as well as a color palette and furniture. Masterpieces of the interior appeared due to decorative design and original lighting. These aspects are given extra attention.
Stylization of housing makes it possible to stand out, helps to improve the interior and increases comfort. Everyone has their own goals in this regard. A striking design tool was the loft style (also industrial). The attractiveness of this trend is a combination of gross features of the decor and delicate taste. The fashion for industrial housing has been growing for several decades, and in recent years has reached a peak, especially in 2014-2017. The relevance of the style both in our time and in the future is guaranteed by its laconicism and focus on technology, the absence of causing colorful accents. Not the last significant factor and driving force of the direction is its popularity among young people, programmers and hipsters. Thus, the current continues to evolve, receive something new and contribute to the culture. An apartment in the loft style will probably cost a considerable amount, but there will also be opportunities for savings.
Content
Appearance: the story of the appearance of style
Initially, lofts were called attics or the upper internal parts of industrial facilities. These technical floors are sometimes converted into workshops, coworking centers and alternative housing. Then, after the appearance of apartments stylized for such lofts, the name “neo-loft” spread. In the last 5–7 years, spacious housing in industrial style and with a minimum number of premises in dozens of countries around the world has appeared in large numbers.
Such objects were immediately called “loft” and now the words denoting style and housing are used as equal. The style incorporates the features of the industrial environment since the first manifestations of the trend in the 60s. Now it includes massive furniture objects, metal pipes, wooden racks, unprocessed rough surfaces and brickwork.
Features and salient features of style
The course is characterized by slight negligence and large dimensions. The concept is based on a combination of different pronounced textures, textures. Large wooden furniture, a lot of metal and materials that, in one way or another, are associated with processing - without all this, it is difficult to imagine a modern interior for a loft. Almost everything, except luxury goods, fits into the style direction. This is because industrial stylistics seeks to simplify, visually “reduce” the cost of the interior.
So, undisguised parts, including ventilation pipes, plumbing and sewer units, will become appropriate here.Harmonies will add modern objects, new technology, avant-garde forms of metal, glass and plastic. Together with the loft style, steampunk is perfectly combined. They complement each other perfectly.
What rooms is suitable
Loft is a spacious dwelling with an urban view. Residents of Khrushchev and Brezhnevka will not be able to repeat such features, but preserving the palette and using style techniques is possible. In lofts with small rooms, there is nothing special, such also occur in practice. Then you have to observe minimalism, as well as visually expand the space. The situation is different with studio apartments, because their configuration corresponds to the desire of the industrial to delimit within one large room. In the lofts you can see the whole variety of zoning.
For two-story apartments and penthouses, the loft style is one of the "native". At first, lofts were attics, and there they implemented bold design projects. Large living space also makes it possible to "accelerate." Country houses are designed in the spirit of comfort and coziness, and they use the special qualities of industrial stylistics, including for this.
Loft style and zoning features
The industrial area turns large rooms and studio apartments into a coherent space with good aesthetics and functionality. Interior designers prefer to dilute it with light decorative partitions, shelving, avant-garde art objects, sometimes racks. In other words, the fact that they are used in the arrangement of studio apartments to highlight the dining, work and rest areas.
Stylistics involves the use of multi-colored sections of walls to highlight some rooms even without partitions. To this all add features of textures. To separate the bedrooms and children's rooms, ordinary walls will be needed, and not necessarily to the ceiling. Furniture is placed in logical clusters, while saving space.Industrial housing is not piled with large partitions. Instead, they make thoughtful, logical transitions.
Typical finishes
There is a place in the apartment for almost all basic materials:
It is easiest to work with walls: the process technology is not connected with difficulties, and there are many coating options. In the case of a brick surface, it is not necessary to form details, but an even, neat coating like wallpaper will have to be painted in a special way so that there are bumps and transitions. Ideally, it does not hurt to violate their integrity and add a few spots. Wood panels are also suitable: the solution is rare, but acceptable and simple. It is more difficult to work with the ceiling and floor, but there will not be much need for accents. An ordinary floor covering like boards or a concrete version will do, and a simple stucco or whitewash in white, or even darker, will suffice on the ceiling. Industrial style does not mean a ban on neat finishes with technological materials and interesting decor.
Walls
The finishing materials for the walls of the loft are usually plaster, natural brick and artificial brickwork. Wall murals imitating various materials will fit in normally. Concrete walls after the old cladding with large visible residues of paint, whitewash or wallpaper are also suitable, so it’s worth thinking about this option in time. Some designers use a technically simple option - wallpapers that can be painted. But among the finished facing materials, you should choose canvases in dirty shades or with a blurry pattern.
Cracks and chips on the walls will add expressiveness to the style, so if something like this is on the coating, it is better to leave it to somehow beat with the decor.Designers often resort to highlighting one main wall, the most attractive in appearance and original in terms of material or the least prepared.
Floor
Standard option, concrete is suitable for large apartments. But in a small apartment of the type of a studio or multi-room space, the decision will be dubious. Concrete is replaced with a wooden coating or a simulating version: a cycled varnished parquet, a laminate. Perfectly even colors are avoided, prefer brown and reddish with dark fragments, white with a splash of gray. The kitchen floor is laid out with ceramic tiles or stone. This will diversify the interior, although the laminate will also be welcome. Sometimes carpets are placed on top of the decoration, 1-2 for all housing. It is better to put one of them under the sofa, and the other, the long one, between two remote zones or rooms. Ordinary rugs can be replaced with imitation of animal skins. To implement the situation in an industrial style, bulk polymer floors are also used.
Ceiling
In the case of coating the upper part, simple solutions are used, for example. white painting or plastering with the same color. A light ceiling will add volume and emphasize other shades. For high ceilings, beams are almost an obligatory component. Checked compositions are collected from them. Ventilating pipes are used as styling parts; they are very lucky if they are in the interior. It’s definitely not worth collecting tension or suspension structures, and if something similar already exists, then it is better to paint them in a light shade of gray. The wires are hidden in special covers, for example, leather. Concrete ceilings, in turn, cannot be left inaccurate, because for industrial styling a subtle sense of taste is important with general rough execution.If there is time, money and space in the apartment - in its upper part it will not hurt to equip a ceiling farm.
Style color scheme
Ideally, they choose something between dark and light shades. In any case, it is impossible to execute the room only in light or only dark colors, although both of them will also suit. At the same time, spectacular combinations include black and white, red and white, brown and gray tones. In a contrasting interior, industrial accessories look more stylish. Design in the loft style necessarily provides for color contrast, but it is desirable only in one color temperature.
The dominance of brown, dark orange, gray-blue tones is considered a classic. Under these colors, 80% of the area is sometimes allocated with 20% for contrasting - for example, a floor, a ceiling or one of the walls. Furniture is selected in saturated shades with a gray tint. The reflectivity of surfaces and objects also matters: the more light there is in the room, the better.
Options for color accents:
Furniture
Lofts do not pile up with a repeating abundance of objects - the interior should not look natural and banal. At the same time, freedom and ease, a slight craving for minimalism, are welcomed. Industrial-style furniture is heavy and bulky, sometimes non-functional. Moreover, the concept itself requires ergonomics, conciseness. For loft-style housing, you definitely need 5 categories of things.
At first they buy and correctly place a large sofa and armchairs. Following this, shelves of various configurations are acquired or assembled. Containers with lids as sections will bring many practical benefits. In lofts often place rails for clothes, ordinary and two-story. Mirrors choose large, ideally floor. One very wide table for temporary placement of objects will not hurt.Thus, the loft style embodies a new look at the use of space.
Lighting
Lofts fill with natural and artificial lighting. In this sense, they use large window openings, lighting devices for evening and day use. The number of fixtures is limited only for functional reasons, while their originality and shape are a matter of fantasy. True connoisseurs of style combine lattices, glass, ropes, brown metal. Lamps are selected with an unusual shape or antique. Lighting devices are often installed on pipes.
Some go further and use spotlights. The light is then directed to the floor, walls, ceiling, furniture. The color for lighting is usually chosen yellow, but bright white lamps will also come in handy. Due to several options, rooms are divided into zones with a romantic, evening, working light. Large mirrors will not interfere. A simple rule works in the interior of a loft: it should be light, but not too soft.
Actual options for fixtures:
Decor and accessories
Style is associated with art and the industrial sphere - these aspects become central motives. Paintings, drawings, graffiti, prints and posters represent the pictorial part of art, and industrial design - small architectural forms and technological sphere. The right accessories are always in a conspicuous place, they are striking and attract attention for a while.
Interest will be caused by road signs, turns of pipes, parts of mechanisms, old globes, control panels. Needlework is popular: they independently assemble storage systems, lighting devices. Decor, in turn, should not be too openwork. Constructivism, complex geometry and abstractness are welcome. The interior can be saturated with bright color elements, small crafts.Antique decor, which clearly characterizes your era, is suitable.
Interior features of different rooms
In apartments with a continuous and traditional layout, the space consists of:
In this sense, ordinary apartments with a long corridor even have an advantage in terms of zoning space, but for the sake of a classic loft, you will have to demolish at least 2 walls. In general, the rules for the design of different rooms / zones do not differ, and at the same time, an ordinary apartment will be devoid of transitions, which are expressed in a sharp change in color and decoration material. The right choice of furnishings begins with the acquisition of furniture: spaciousness is important and at the same time, compliance with style.
Sometimes bulky loft cabinets and drawers take up a lot of space and do not give normal options for storage. The design of different zones and rooms is characterized by desirable materials and lighting, color and interior elements. The principles of arrangement of the hallway and bathroom / toilet are different from the general concept. At the same time, all rooms are finished and filled with accessories in such a way as to give them an identity.
Living room
The axis of the industrial trend is a large leather sofa, usually brown or dark red. A living room without this item is more likely to resemble an object in some other style. The room “needs” a full soft zone. The presence of large armchairs is mandatory, small poufs will not interfere. The design of the central zone will be finished if you add a non-standard coffee table and a lamp with ceiling or floor placement there.
The hall is decorated with dimensional and small paintings in contemporary style (contemporary) and even in realism. Use carpets wisely, more than 3 - bust. At the same time, the option with a bare floor will be more practical, and in many cases aesthetically pleasing. Furniture set with a noticeable margin to the walls.At least if possible. All those who do not know how to collect compositions from objects should avoid piling them.
Kitchen
In a studio apartment, the kitchen area is usually not separated by partitions. It is emphasized with furniture or with different wall finishes. Glass, brick and a large number of household appliances create the characteristic atmosphere of a “loft” kitchen. Some plaster the walls in white or blue, on top of any texture. They combine headsets in cool or warm colors. Sinks are installed huge, made of steel, often with joystick mixers. All wires and pipes are exposed if possible.
They are not painted and try to highlight in every possible way. Among the facing materials, preference is given to rough wood, stone and metals. The design of the kitchen apron uses tiles, decorative finishes or steel panels. Unlike textures are actively combined throughout the kitchen. The tabletop is selected from wood or metal.
Bedroom
This room is distinguished by high walls or partitions, but a transom is usually left under the ceiling. In high rooms it is advisable to allocate a second tier for the bedroom. What exactly to do a recreation area is an individual question and in the context of style is controversial. Some recommend something light in light colors, while others suggest performing it in dark shades. With light furniture, even red and black walls are combined. Softness will add an element in the spirit of classics, for example. false fireplace. The bedroom does not interfere with panoramic windows and large curtains, glossy surfaces, mirrors and a large wardrobe.
The decor will not be superfluous: there are many flowerpots with large plants and flowers, textiles with drawings, abstract paintings. The transition to the bathroom, if any, is performed with another floor covering and translucent partitions. One of the walls of the bedroom, as a rule, is left untreated: concrete or brick. They buy a large bed in the room.
Children
The loft room will appeal primarily to boys and teens. Walls can be used as a surface for drawings, furniture can be assembled with your own hands, introducing the child to the occupation. If the nursery is large in size and is located in the attic, you will get a classic mini-loft, but only ordinary items should be replaced with the attributes of a children's room. These include table football, cars, children's corners. The color scheme is kept in calm colors. Attic option can be "moved" to the floors by adding beams, including several inclined ones. In each of the children's options, a compact but roomy book partition for literature and toys does not hurt. Walls can be painted with a soft shade of the main color palette, decorated with backlight. Photographs should also be posted there. Disordered objects are covered with a thin screen.
Bathroom
A bathroom in the style of a loft looks favorably against the background of other options. Firstly, it is about choosing a form. Non-standard sinks and bathtubs are bought in the bathroom: with uneven edges, made of unusual materials (stone and others), with lining, lighting, etc. Secondly, a game with color is possible. The same plumbing is acquired in any tones, from yellow to black. In general, the color scheme for the bathroom is chosen among dark shades.
So it will turn out expressive. A universal light option will deprive a clear commitment to style. As for lighting, the choice of the buyer is almost unlimited. Dotted, hanging, shaped, rounded and even expensive classic chandeliers are suitable for such an interior. The degree of illumination in the bathroom does not matter. Some stop in dim light, while others want more brightness.
Hallway / hallway
In the design of these parts of the housing there are many restrictions and requirements. You need to choose the right wall.Possible errors: too bulky furniture or not enough roomy. Categorically it is not recommended to organize level ceilings. Corridors sometimes go to workshops - there the ceiling height does not matter. In the hallway, chrome elements and several decorative details are necessarily placed. The corridor is left clear of heavy and lightweight partitions, while the zones are marked with furniture near the walls. The style forbids the use of wallpaper in the entrance room. Brick and materials imitating it, natural and artificial stone, plaster - you should choose from this list. In addition, the finish here should be simplified. The direction of the loft in the hallway or hallway also means:
Conclusion
The history of the industrial style, or loft, began in the 40-50s of the XX century. Factory inspiration in Europe and North America became a source of inspiration for designers, and as early as the 60s, it was formed around like-minded people. Nowadays, a loft is a popular option for repairs and an interesting conceptual environment. Interior designers recognized wood, brick, metal and stone as the main decoration materials. They learned to combine them better than any other style would suggest. For studio apartments, a loft is both a design and a way of zoning space. The demarcation function is performed by materials, textures, as well as a color palette and furniture. Masterpieces of the interior appeared due to decorative design and original lighting. These aspects are given extra attention.