Modern furniture, as well as innovative appealwith various well-known materials, including brick, glass and steel - these are the fundamental principles of the interior, created in the style of a loft. The latter is ideal for turning a warehouse into apartments with a free layout. Although with the right approach, a loft is a style that can take root even in a small country house.
From the history
In America, once upon a time on central streetsin the big cities, the sky was smoked by factories, the workers worked in factories, filling warehouses with various goods, also located right in the heart of the city. This did not last long, and immediately stopped as soon as rental prices rose. Factories quickly gathered their belongings and moved to the suburbs, and writers, artists, designers and poets drove into the vacated buildings - in general, those who did not go to the factories.
Developing for themselves a loft project, they arrangedthere are comfortable dwellings in which poetic meetings were held, exhibitions. Here they whiled away the lonely cold evenings of the fifties of the last century, leaning their backs to the cold concrete wall.
За данным стилем, таким образом, закрепилась the glory of housing is creative individuals. Most likely, this is exactly what makes hipsters today to make something like a loft out of their house (photos of such premises are presented in this article).
A century of lonely living creative people onthe huge squares also ended very quickly with the fact that enterprising people realized that even a shoe factory could be a good place to live in. Thus, the original settlers of these territories were driven out, increasing the cost of rent, after which bankers, businessmen, lawyers and other wealthy citizens entered.
At the moment, a loft-style design is designed to demonstrate the viability and creative spirit of the owner of the premises.
Loft in Russia
In our country, find a house in this style -great luck, because most people live in simple apartments. But in this article we will still give some tips on how to bring the style in question into our nest.
Features of the layout
The main costly article in the repair of housing styleLoft is redevelopment of the premises. According to the concept, it is assumed that there are no isolated rooms (as in a factory workshop). The spaciousness and emptiness are the characteristic features of the style, that is why it is so difficult to embody it in small apartments. If you have less than 80 m², with the ceilings below 3 m, you will not get a full embodiment of the style, only its imitation.
Loft is a style in which all zones are available.spaces are allocated conditionally. The permissible exception is a bathroom, while the entrance door to it must be disguised. The rest of the room should be one common space, created according to the principle of functionality with the help of various finishing materials.
If a similar version of the studio seems somewhat uncomfortable, then you can separate the kitchen or bedroom with the help of mobile furniture, using racks on wheels, glass sliding partitions or screens.
Colour
Loft is an individual style.Some people pick up bold coloristic blocks of bright colors, while others prefer to use “gloomy” colors and graphics to emphasize the urban feel. When creating a design loft, decide what exactly you want from your home: industrial aesthetics, expression or a mixture of these styles.
Open colors focus on themselves inopen and large spaces, although it is better to spend them "economically" - about twenty-five percent of the surface of the walls in the room. A single wall of indigo or red shades will add a theatrical effect to a “brick” or white interior, and will also highlight some specific area. So, you can paint a blank back wall, and it will perfectly mark a certain area. In addition, add different accessories of the same colors, such as a vase and pillow, which will give a sense of integrity to the space.
Keep in mind that consistencythe interior does not match the ideas of the loft style (photos are given in this article) about harmony and blending. If the bright, open colors you do not like, then muted smoky shades are likely to like. For example, deep gray-green water and dim eggplant - they are softer for the eyes, and for the urban style more subtle. The next advantage of smoky shades is that in one interior you can use more different tones, while creating an aesthetic and harmonious atmosphere.
Loft in an industrial building
The use of this style in the once non-residential premises involves the creation of maximum comfort in a concrete cold box.
In the main number of industrial buildingsIn the past years, brick, concrete, and wooden beams were visible. They simply did not need to hide, because the factories were not particularly chased at the factories. Creating a design in a loft-style, you need to take into account that often in rooms stained huge windows, which mostly occupy the entire wall, remain unchanged. Homeowners often repaint the floor or lay parquet, because the type of wood provides coziness and warmth. Upholstered furniture and fabrics are also added to the interior.
It is necessary to place accents correctly.colorful photos, illustrations on the walls or bright pillows. There is a huge amount of options - no need to forget that the lofts originally belonged to creative people.
Loft in the apartment
The task of this style in residential apartments is to introducein the interior is the atmosphere of industry, unfit for life. To do this, the walls are ripped off from the walls of a cozy apartment, the available communications are shown on display. Accents in the form of industrial equipment are relevant in the bathroom and kitchen: bronze, chrome and stainless steel. Choose plumbing from these metals for your kitchen: worktop, sink, extractor hood, oven, chandelier and other accessories with incredible success will continue the started industrial theme of loft style.
The apartment as a whole should be maintained in this.design. In the bathroom you need to use the same materials, adhering to the principles of openness of the technical filling in order to create a uniform atmosphere.
Bedroom Ideas
Одна из самых важных задач в промышленном A room that has been converted into a living room is to feel as comfortable as possible there. This is most relevant to the bedroom, since there is often no division into rooms, and the house is represented by one room. Often use wardrobe beds, transforming beds, bunk beds.
In addition, many designers use techniqueszoning, creating a loft style. The bedroom in this case is separated with the help of various floor coverings, glass partitions, lighting, as well as warmer and softer shades.
City life over the years has come a long wayas, in fact, the idea of beauty. At the present moment there is a certain industrial aesthetics - it can be recreated in each apartment.
Kitchen Ideas
Despite living in a big city, with food onon the go and out of the house, we are fascinated by the magic of professional chic kitchens from various culinary television shows. Steel-shining utensils and appliances are one team with wooden or tile floors and frosted beech doors. The same style is different and loft apartment.
Autonomous placement of furniture in a specificThe corner retains the idea of an open style layout. All cabinets and drawers in this case are mounted on one wall, while the working mobile table on wheels moves around the area with ease. Chubby refrigerators - cobalt, pale blue, scarlet and pastel pink - are also very popular. At the same time, the standard size of the tile is completely inappropriate here, it is better to stop your choice on a monochrome mosaic tile, from which you can lay out the apron between the wall cabinets and the table top.
Materials for the kitchen
Do not forget that the loft is industrialstyle. So, it will be appropriate to look here unbreakable greenish glass and stainless steel sheets that bring the spirit of factory ethics - also a spectacular and very common replacement for the tile we used for the sink. In addition, do not forget about the things that are in the public domain. For example, such a kitchen would fit wide open shelves, as if floating on the walls. It will also be interesting and appropriate to look here the bar with various metal elements.
Loft style in the living room
In these loft apartments, the living area is fromthe rest of the territory is separated only with the help of a competent arrangement of furniture. Although even if there are walls in your room, you can draw inspiration from modern materials and forms.
You can create a loft style in the living room of the landingproportional places with cream or frankly bold upholstery: shades of cobalt blue, red wine or terracotta. In this case, strong feelings will definitely arise between the leather chair and the couch. You will need to add here only a minimalist or glass wooden coffee table, preferably on wheels. Although you can put the Indian table Thakat in case you want to declare that you are no stranger to world culture. A geometrical expressive carpet on the floor or a shaggy flock of great flock will also be appropriate here. In the open plan, the carpet can play the role of a powerful optical unit that protects the territory created in the loft style.
Гостиная предполагает, что вся домашняя аудио- и video equipment will be on display with respect to logos and brands. The musical supercenter and the huge flat screen TV for a loft style declaration mean nothing less than the rest of the interior furnishing.
Loft design for bathroom
Cleanliness, even surgical sterility isThe main feature of the bathroom, created in this style. At the same time, the bath standing in it can be anything: “on the feet”, made under the old days, with “historical” taps, as well as with ergonomic facing.
It is in the bathroom modern stylereaches apogee. The mosaic tiles here cover the walls and floors, creating the feeling of a swimming pool, while glass, steel and matte ceramics will be a “make-up” for all other surfaces. Only unusual terry towels can break the overall smoothness of textures. Soffits embedded in the ceiling, spill a clear clean light, while exposing any fingerprint, a trace of water, which were left by the owners.
Loft is a style in which a shower cabinIt is advisable to install with a chrome-plated old-fashioned large "watering can" high in the wall or directly in the ceiling, which makes it possible to make the most of the available space. But such a design is suitable only for bachelors or childless and very tidy single couples. For large families, tiled surfaces are not safe.
