How to create a loft-style interior?

The main requirement and feature of this style is spacious rooms and the absence of partitions. The separation of functional areas occurs not with the help of partitions, but by color zoning, finishing materials and other ways. For example, the kitchen can be separated from the living room with a bar or with different flooring. The combination of zones creates one large, spacious, light-filled room, and partitions are used only to separate bathrooms, technical areas, etc.

Contrasting loft style

The loft style owes its birth to the changes that have taken place in the field of production in the post-war years. Due to the transfer of factories and warehouses outside the city, a large number of empty spacious premises appeared, which were first used by creative people as workshops, exhibition halls, for presentations and meetings. Over time, when the rent of such premises became more expensive, this idea became more widespread, and not only artists, but also businessmen, bankers and other wealthy people began to use these premises as housing, adding expensive pieces of furniture and decor to the industrial interior. Thus was born a style that combines refined and rough, old and new. Today, the loft style has found its place in ordinary city apartments. It is only necessary to demolish unnecessary partitions and do not forget about such details as: wooden beams, brick or concrete walls, roughly plastered or painted, communication pipes. Having created such a casual industrial atmosphere, you just need to dilute it with modern furniture and appliances and the loft-style apartment is ready. The loft style is characterized by a combination of incongruous, at first glance, objects and design techniques. For example, an antique closet with a modern, ultra-modern sofa, roughly plastered walls with modern appliances, old wooden beams on the ceiling and ultra-modern chrome lamps look harmonious here...

Loft style colors

Loft style does not impose special requirements on color. Although the classic interior in the loft style is characterized by a muted range of colors, bright juicy colors are also quite acceptable as accents. For example, gray, black, white, beige or brown are often used as primary colors. These colors can be used for wall and floor decoration. And red, blue, yellow will be good as color accents that will play the role of a bright spot that attracts attention. These colors can be chosen for lamps, furniture or decor.

Decoration of walls, ceiling

The interior decoration of the loft-style room should give the impression of incompleteness and negligence. To create an atmosphere in the loft style today you can find a lot of materials. These are wallpapers imitating brickwork, "aged" parquet or laminate, special types of plasters, wall panels. You can not use any special materials at all. Walls, even concrete, can be left unfinished, or a rough layer of plaster applied, or just paint a brick wall in some color. The ceiling can be painted white or decorated with rough beams, pipes, which will enhance the feeling of an industrial atmosphere. Options for finishing the floor: laminate, parquet or regular floorboard. To protect the coating, varnish is used, which fits perfectly into the loft style concept. Tiles, as a material for finishing the floor, are used extremely rarely; rather, it is permissible to leave the concrete floor as it is, only by leveling the floor and grinding it.

Loft interior furniture

All the negligence of style is compensated by high-quality furniture. Functional, comfortable, expensive furniture is what you should choose if you create an interior in this style. Furniture can be both modern and antique and rare, this is where that bright and characteristic combination of loft style contrasts is created. Furniture is best placed closer to the center of the room, leaving the walls free. The center of the whole interior is the sofa. And it should be big, massive, comfortable and cozy. More often it is a corner sofa or U-shaped. A good option would be to use two identical straight sofas, located opposite each other. Between the sofas you can place a vintage coffee table, and arrange armchairs and poufs on the sides. It should be noted that there are no fixed cabinets in such an interior. For things, it is better to make a custom-made wardrobe built into a niche, in a wall or under a staircase. Loft-style furniture is also used for zoning space, separating one functional area from another. As such dividers, you can use a sofa, bookcases, a bar counter. The same role can be played by movable screens and glass partitions.

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