The loft style design will be a good solution forlarge, and for a small apartment, for those who strive for great achievements, and for those who value their comfort. The word "loft" came to us from the English language. "Loft", literally translated, is an attic, a room upstairs, under the ceiling. The motto of this new style in design are the words: "Maximum air, minimum partitions."
Photo 1. The loft style uses only natural wooden elements and furniture.
Interior features of the loft
An important detail of this design is the windowframes, baseboards, doors. The loft style assumes that they will be made of natural wood or at least imitate it. In photo No. 1, the installed frames exactly match the wooden material. In a loft, it is impossible to single out a single "center" or one accent. The roles of important interior details for each room are taken on by:
Photo 2. In the loft style, steel and chrome interior details are often used.
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Distinctive feature of design
Photo 3.Loft allows mixing styles, for example, high-tech and industrial design. The basis of loft-style design is a combination of the incompatible, for example, stone, "shabby" masonry and high-tech furniture. In the living room in this style, the old and the new, the past and the future are organically intertwined, creating a truly magnificent present. In photo No. 3, you can see modern furniture and old brickwork, wooden beams, but at the same time everything goes well together. A loft-style room is characterized by simplicity, functionality, the presence of large windows not decorated with curtains. This style turns what other styles try to hide into a bright, individual feature. Plastered walls, old ventilation holes, pipes, plank flooring, all this fits organically into the design of a loft-style living room. When decorating a room in this way, you need to take into account that the design itself assumes a minimum of partitions. This means that the zoning of the room will occur with the help of color. The maximum that will allow you to use for zoning the design of such a room is transparent partitions that do not reach the ceiling. And if you really want to, you can fence off the bedroom with sliding doors. If desired, you can move them apart and significantly increase the space of the room. Another distinctive feature of the design is industrialism. Designers admit that it is not always possible to bare the walls or the color of the masonry does not match the desired one. Then you can use coatings that imitate old masonry or iron, and so on. Return to the table of contents</a>
Functionality of style
Photo 4.Loft style walls can be decorated with the most unusual items. Furniture plays an important role in such a room. It cannot be all large or bulky, its design should be as minimalistic as possible, but at the same time, its functionality should not be inferior to any other furniture. You can combine antiques with modern items, but antique furniture serves to accentuate, that is, there should be less of it than modern. It is also necessary to remember that the main function of furniture in a loft style living room is zoning. Accordingly, furniture should be combined with each other within zones, while combining with furniture from other zones. The loft style allows you to use non-standard accessories to decorate the room: industrial-sized posters, surfboards, a bicycle on the wall or graffiti. In photo No. 4, a world map is applied to the wall and a life preserver is hung, which can symbolize the traveler's spirit of the owner of the apartment. Quite often, owners of two-level apartments resort to loft-style design, since a spiral staircase fits perfectly into the style, and a room on the second floor can be decorated in a style completely different from the loft. An undoubted advantage of the style is its democratic nature. Democratic in everything - from the methods of wall decoration to the choice of furniture and accessories. This greatly simplifies, for example, the selection of a color scheme. A loft-style living room can combine the brightest, most unexpected colors. A living room decorated in light and white tones or in black and white will look great, and even if it is decorated entirely in dark tones. Due to the large windows and a minimum of furniture, a loft-style room is difficult to visually reduce or darken too much. Return to contents</a>
Key Design Points
The ideal solution for decorating a roomA loft is considered to be a crystal white ceiling with wooden panels or pipes. Laminate or natural wood is used to decorate the floor. Tiles or stone are less common. In this case, the floor acts in tandem with the walls and should shade them, since the accent in the loft design is usually placed on the ceiling. An excellent solution is to decorate three walls in light colors, but the wall on which the windows are located is decorated to look like brickwork. In addition, a horizontal combination of coatings can be used to decorate the walls, when the top is a light coating or white plaster, and the bottom is stonework. Or vice versa, but the lower part of the wall, according to the rules of good taste in design, should be darker than the upper one. Large living plants or plants that are suspended from the ceiling will also fit perfectly into the design of a loft-style room. In addition, you can hang swings or hammocks, mismatched lamps, and even just some accessories from the ceiling. Large black-and-white photographs in simple frames or large Warhol-style abstractions would be an ideal solution.
