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An example of how to place a bedroom, work area and even find a place for a bicycle in one room. The vehicle was hung on the wall at the head of the bed - and the bicycle became at the same time an interesting accessory that matches the style of the room.
In order to dilute the red brick, the designer added bright red accents. The desktop is also with a "surprise" - roomy drawers will allow you to store not only working documents there. And if desired, he can even transform into.
A slatted partition separates the desk from the bed. It does not create a visual load, it serves as an excellent way of zoning.
2 Loft with spacious storage systems
It is very important to think over the storage of things, and the owners of this small apartment decided to give the main "burden" of storage to the bedroom. A chest of drawers and a cabinet with veneer fronts "support" the chosen industrial style, and drawers under the bed are one of the best storage solutions in small spaces. Take note.
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The owners of this odnushki separated the bedroom area from the living room with a glass sliding partition. In order to dilute the red color of the finish, we chose light furniture and the same textiles. This gave him ease.
4 Loft style bedroom with glass cabinet doors
Mirrors in small rooms help. The owners of this apartment decided to use a well-known technique, but they did not use it quite standardly - they made part of the cabinet doors mirrored.
Few people like to make mirrored walls opposite the bed, so they designed the far corner in this way. The rest of the doors are decorated in the same style as the ceiling, so the cabinet became its continuation. This is another way to "dissolve" a large storage system in a small room without weighing down the interior.
5 Loft with colored walls and a sliding partition
In this apartment, a non-standard technique was used - they combined the bedroom area and the bathroom, but installed a sliding partition with frosted glass. They also used zoning with lighting and color. There is a ceiling chandelier in the bedroom, and built-in spots in the bathroom. The rich green color of the wet zone finish is very well combined with brown brick.
Please note that such a . You can’t do without a partition for official approval, but you can use a sliding version.
6 Loft with thoughtful zoning
Sometimes just finishing is enough. Just like in this apartment. The living area is decorated in a standard way for a loft - brown bricks and wooden floors, but in the dining area they made porcelain stoneware with a marble pattern and painted the walls with black paint.
In order to make the interior not boring, successful accents were chosen - a bright poster picture in the dining room and a colored carpet-skin on the living room floor.
7 Scandinavian studio with loft elements
Eclectic interiors today can be found much more often than "pure" style. An example is this one. An accent brick wall serves as a visual zoning of the kitchen and living room, and a classic chandelier, which is often added to the loft style, gives the small studio a touch of chic and luxury. An interesting trick worth noting.
8 Loft-style kitchen trailer
Kitchens that are elongated are usually difficult to design functionally and stylishly - there is too little free space. Here, the designers decided to "sacrifice" a full-fledged table in order to leave more space for free movement. The role of the table is played by a wide wooden window sill. This is a great idea for very small kitchens.
9 Small loft-style studio for a man
Loft style is considered by many to be a "masculine" style. And this is due to its brutality - brick finish, "under the concrete" or no finish at all.
This small studio with an area of only 17 squares was designed in a loft style and managed to place a full-fledged kitchen and a living room with a sofa bed. The bar counter serves as an element of zoning.
Good photos on the Internet! And what about the residents of a odnushka, do they also want to live in a luxurious spacious loft? Despite the skeptics, we will prove that a small loft-style apartment is not absurd, but a reality. And we will also show that the style of the loft is ideal when the budget for repairs is very small.
Because the interior style is a way of life and the atmosphere of the house. Not the footage.
Many people think that the loft style is only suitable for apartments, at most for a country house, they say, a loft is a huge industrial building, and it is unrealistic to recreate it on 40 square meters, which means there is nothing to write about.
But the designers do not agree - and they do an excellent job with small-sized projects in the loft style. The trouble is that residents of small apartments often do not have money for a designer. So, excuse me, dear designers, we will style our house as a loft with our own hands.
Loft style design - why is it like that
The fact is that the loft style is not so much an architectural format as a mood, a way of life. It all started with the fact that in the 1940s land became very expensive in New York, and industrialists had to move their plants and factories away from the big city. But the buildings remain.
Wealthy people completely refused to move into the empty workshops, but for the simpler contingent, and especially for creative people, the huge premises were quite suitable - both inexpensively and a ready-made art studio-house. Because a little tidying up, arranging art objects and a few chairs - and here you have a bohemian salon for exhibitions and performances, you can also live. So the loft style ceased to be an architectural indicator and turned into a way of thinking.
And this is the whole loft: it is asceticism, contentment with little, endless creative flight and the rejection of luxury (although a chic velvet sofa looks great against the background of old plaster).
Do you understand? For a real loft style, five-meter ceilings are not so much important as the spirit of freedom. This is not a brick wall and pipes under the ceiling, but a creative eclectic interior, inconceivable without modern art in all its manifestations.
Even designers do not understand this line, but now you know: first of all, you need a creative interior, and secondly, an industrial one.
What should be the interior of a loft-style apartment
So, what should be changed during the renovation so that the very mood of the American loft is felt in the apartment?
1. Introduce the spirit of the factory (crossed out) loft interior
But you will have to start by searching for those very elements of the “abandoned factory”. Because if initially industrial premises were turned into residential ones, then you, the owner of a typical apartment, will have to do the opposite, turn the apartment into an industrial object.
Here you will need to think: what is in your apartment similar to the view of the plant? It turns out that a whole system of water pipes was once hidden under the drywall, under the plaster of the load-bearing walls you can find an old red brick, and cast-iron batteries, if you remove the decorative shutter and paint them brighter, the situation is ideal. So we look under the laminate, we are interested in what we have behind the suspended ceiling ... Bare concrete? Gorgeous - let's go! The floors, however, would be better to fill with a special non-dusting mixture, but on a concrete ceiling, even metal suspensions may not have to be removed.
Many of these "finds" will be found already in the process of repair. Record all observations in a notebook so that you can later use them when drawing up a project on your own.
2. Work with surfaces. Top 3 loft textures according to Loggia
Materials and surfaces in a loft interior play a huge role. And if the walls of your Khrushchev are made of shingles, it doesn’t matter, brick and concrete can be perfectly imitated with the same textured plasters.
The Italian manufacturer of decorative coatings Loggia recommends choosing textures that combine luxury and rough industrial processing. It is the loft style that allows you to use, say, a concrete-like coating on one wall, and Venetian plaster or a velvet-like texture on the other - and all this in one room! We recommend the following materials.
- Kymera is a unique coating not just with a rust effect, but a natural oxidized metal, it even has magnetic properties.
- Marmo Romano - allows you to create a deep texture.
- Diamond - the effect of natural metal.
After all, the task of the loft is to give one room a variety of functions (as if the former workshop became a kitchen, an office, and a living room at the same time), and it is better to separate functional areas, if possible, not with partitions, but just with different wall and floor designs. In this sense, decorative plasters, which have become more accessible in recent years, allow the soul to unfold. Brickwork, concrete blocks, crumbling plaster, noble surfaces of silk or marble - plasters can do it all. Unless the wood in the loft should be used natural, even if your master knows how to perfectly imitate wood with plaster.
Of course, we are far from a classic loft with spacious rooms, but maybe even in your apartment the layout can be changed? Talk to a familiar architect or show an apartment plan on a professional forum - it may very well be that, for example, a living room can be combined with a kitchen or partitions between rooms can be made of glass. Here is the treasured space for you.
Even if it is impossible to move the walls in your case, one feeling of a large space is enough. The light color of the walls, not too high furniture - there are enough tips on the Internet, we even wrote an article about expanding the space. Thinking about the loft, it's time to think about storage systems, and choose better hidden ones.
And also windows: it is unlikely that you will be able to drastically increase them, but it costs nothing to remove traditional curtains - there will be an order of magnitude more “air”. If you have to hide from neighbors, choose laconic blinds or something similar. But don’t even think about changing windows to plastic ones, you’ll kill the style - you can quite tolerably restore and insulate old wooden ones, and after successful contrast staining, they can become an interior decoration.
4. Clean up
The loft does not tolerate a heap of unnecessary things. Many attributes of comfort will have to be taken out of the house: give carpets to student neighbors, blankets with which each chair was covered - to grandmother, and in order not to offend, ask for her old bookcase instead.
Art objects, unusual furniture and attributes of romance are responsible for the comfort and homely atmosphere in the loft.
By the way, for the repair of an apartment in a new building, the loft style is generally salvation. At the same time, you can save a lot: the walls do not have to be plastered, and the floors are perfectly leveled. Ceilings can also be left draft, and you don’t even have to hide the wiring in the walls, saving on their scraping. But in order not to overdo it, choose only one or two surfaces that you leave untouched, the interior should remain residential and welcoming.
5. More style, more creativity!
To design a loft-style apartment on your own, you need to be really free. Here you can safely combine Buddha figurines and modern paintings with an ironic colorful armchair, a magnificent crystal chandelier with cheap plastic furniture - the loft calls for mixing styles and eras.
Bachelor's hole 35 sq. m. on the top floor of the house turns into a stylish attic for a man in his prime. Designer Anna Bogacheva evicts the refrigerator from the kitchen and shows how to create a fashionable loft in a compact area, based on convenience, not convention.
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If the dimensions of the living space leave much to be desired, try to arrange a loft in a small apartment. This design will make the room bright and spacious.
Information about the apartment: one-room apartment 35 sq. m. on the top floor in a house built in the 1930s, Moscow.
About the owners: young man
Customer wishes: loft-style apartment, bright bathroom.
For 35 sq. m. You can’t really turn around, especially if you want to get a bedroom, a living room, and a kitchen. And so that it looks modern and spacious. Designer Anna Bogacheva chose the loft style to solve this problem. The idea was facilitated by the characteristics of the room - spectacular old brick walls, high ceilings "for air" and location - almost in the attic. The choice turned out to be successful: a small loft-style apartment turned out to be spacious, modern and comfortable for living.
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Modern designers offer a huge number of apartment interior styles, each of which is good in its own way and can radically change the space due to its features. One of the styles that are gaining popularity in recent years is the loft. A loft-style studio is a room whose main concept is the absence of any partitions and the maximum amount of light and space possible.
Translated from a foreign language, the word "loft" means nothing more than "attic". Accordingly, this style is as simple and functional as possible. It is based on white colors, large windows with no curtains, brickwork, plaster on the walls and much more.
This style of interior came to us from the forties of the twentieth century from the United States of America. In those days, there was a very strong economic crisis and people began to take rooms in various workshops and factories for living. The condition of these places was appropriate, but the residents did not have special financial resources and physical strength to repair the building and bring something more elegant and beautiful to the design, so everything was left as it was. That is why many elements that characterize industrial and factory buildings remained in their original form. Gradually, such home improvement flowed into a separate stylistic direction in design and took its place in this niche.
By the way, the loft style is popular not only in apartments, but also in many modern restaurants, where brick walls and hanging pipes are combined with soft, dim light and cozy sofas with tables. Water pipes and the absence of any kind of plaster are also common in loft-style rooms. Of course, the designs of modern apartments imply a more rational and attractive design than the original, rough loft, which was just born in American factories.
Style Features
As a rule, this style is used in the interior of a small apartment in order to try to visually enlarge its space and organize it as competently as possible. It is not necessary to do everything in one color scheme, the loft allows you to bring a variety of bright colors and accents to the interior design with original objects that will not only decorate the room, but also bring its own special zest to it.
This style has its own special characteristics that accompany its best performance. The most important thing is the simplicity of the interior. No luxurious details in the form of heavy curtains made of expensive materials, large classical furniture with various curlicues and other elements of wealth. The loft style also implies the absence of various draperies, as well as wallpaper, which is replaced by brickwork or plaster.
High ceilings are also another hallmark of the loft, and the number of partitions is kept to a minimum, with the exception of the bathroom, which stands out separately. To somehow mark the boundaries and zone the premises, furniture or movable partitions are used. When creating a loft-style design, they try to make the most of natural light and open engineering communications a little.
Of course, in small modern apartments, it will not be so easy to fulfill all of the above characteristics, but you can make a really good loft style.
How to organize in a small apartment
There are two types of small apartments: a studio with a small area and high ceilings and an apartment with low ceilings. Each of them has its own characteristics and, with a competent approach, will become an excellent place to live in the "attic", as it is also called, style.
Of course, the first option will adapt much better to the loft style. High ceilings provide more space for designer fantasy. If the ceilings of your studio apartment are not lower than three and a half meters, then a small area can be made two-story by building a platform in the middle. On the upper part, as a rule, they equip a sleeping area, where you can place a TV with a small cabinet. In the lower tier there is a small library with a bookcase, soft sofas and a coffee table.
High ceilings make it possible to equip the apartment both in light colors with white brick, and a little in dark ones. Metal lamps will hang from above. To create a loft-style studio in an apartment with low ceilings, you will need to tear down walls and partitions to open up the space and make it visually larger. After that, by adding a few characteristic elements and cozying up the rooms, you can become the owner of a beautiful studio apartment with a modern loft-style interior design.
Interior and furniture
The apartment begins with the hallway, respectively, from the very entrance you need to make it clear in what style everything else is designed. In a brick house, the wall can be left in its original form, only lightening the joints a little to give it a more pleasant look. When it is difficult to get to the bricks due to a thick layer of plaster, you can simply stick wallpaper in a loft style with imitation of brickwork. If you are not satisfied with the natural color of this material, you can paint it in white or gray tones.
There is a second design option for the hallway: in this case, all walls are plastered with a light mortar, but without finishing grinding. In small rooms, designers strongly recommend painting the ceilings in white, as it visually enlarges the space and expands it.
As furniture in such a hallway, you can put the most simple wardrobe or cabinet without any decorative elements. Everything should be restrained and tasteful. The mirror is usually placed directly on the floor or it comes with a wardrobe. This style does not involve any additional decorations, so wall paintings or framed photographs will have to be abandoned.
As lighting in the hallway, metal shades and sconces are most often used, which are also very simple in design.
In order for the living room to maximally resemble the loft style with its interior, one of the walls must be brick, at least outwardly. The brick wall is a hallmark characteristic of this direction. The remaining walls can be decorated with plaster. The floor in the living room should be wooden, made of boards. You can also use a coating that imitates natural stone.
In the loft style, designers try to make the most of natural light, so the windows in the apartment should be large. If they are small, and this is most often the case in apartments with a small area, you can order window frames with vertical imposts that will visually lengthen them. It is desirable that the frames are made of wood, or at least brown plastic.
Curtains are not welcome, as they add luxury to the interior, so in this case you will have to limit yourself to roller blinds, which can be easily raised and lowered at the request of the owner.
Furniture for the living area, as a rule, is also the most simple and ordinary. A small soft sofa and a couple of armchairs with a coffee table will immediately complete the territory.
In this style, two main colors are chosen, which are later played up with various details and bright accents as plants on the table or cheerful pillows on the sofa.
The requirements for the design of the bedroom area are similar to those for other places: simplicity and one brick wall. The bedroom is made in light and pleasant colors so that the owners can comfortably relax and fall into a soft sleep. A minimum of furniture is selected: a metal or wooden bed, a large closet and bedside tables. All this should be multifunctional and easy to use.
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Heart-to-heart conversations about art, now loud, now muffled music, dim diffused light and another knock on the door: this is a new guest with an original outlook on life. This is how we let the freedom-loving and devoid of roundabout loft style into our lives, which is unusual for conservative personalities. It became popular not today and not the day before yesterday, so the editors of the online magazine site again return to the "attic" life of America in the last century and offer to learn more about what a loft-style apartment is.
If you translate the word "loft" from English, then you can easily understand why the style is called attic, because the word itself means "attic". Industrial New York, having survived the 1930s and briskly stepping into the rise of the 1940s, faced the problem of a surge in urban land prices, especially in the center. Therefore, the owners of industrial plants were forced to bring the production process closer to the outskirts of the city. In their place came the local bohemia - artists, musicians, actors.
By the middle of the 20th century, the loft style had become independent and gained popularity.
Loft style lighting
There should be a lot of light, but it should not hit the eyes. Diverse lighting is obtained due to numerous lamps located in a special way - the light also zones the space.
Of the lighting sources, chandeliers, suspended structures, spots, LED lights, sconces, floor lamps are used.
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Loft style accessories
Loft-style decor dots the i's. These are original and bold little things that create that same bohemian atmosphere, turning a factory into a living space.
The main thing in choosing accessories is to emphasize and maintain the feeling of spaciousness in the room not overloaded with trifles.
Decoration of different rooms of the apartment in loft style
Arranging a loft-style room in an ordinary apartment is not as difficult as it seems. This option is suitable for those people who, for various reasons, cannot buy a two-level or very spacious housing in order to equip the entire apartment in their favorite style. We suggest considering the ways and options for decorating different living rooms under a loft.
Hallway and living room
The house begins in the hallway, so it makes sense to pay close attention to it. In an ordinary apartment, this is far from always a multi-meter room, but we don’t need much. If the hallway is small, the brick and wall decoration should not be overly dark. Although lovers of twilight can argue with this. Here, as they say, a matter of taste.
Massive wardrobes are not frequent guests in the loft, so utility rooms, storage places in sofas, and hinged inconspicuous mezzanines are used.
The loft-style hall will be the center of the apartment, so you need to choose the most comfortable and suitable furniture. The most difficult thing is the choice of colors for upholstered furniture: no floral patterns, ruffles, flounces. Where did you see appropriate floral ornaments at the factory? Although we are talking about the arrangement of a residential apartment, but since we have taken up compliance with the design, we need to go to the end.
Study and bedroom
A loft-style office looks interesting: it does not look like a home, but there is no impression that this is an office. This is really a workshop for the master of thought, word, pen. Any room can be converted into an office, and not necessarily the largest in the apartment.
The design of a loft-style bedroom involves a certain amount of textiles: usually it is a carpet, bed linen, a bedspread, pillows and curtains.
The bed can be metal or wooden, light or massive. All textiles should be both inconspicuous and an indispensable stylish accessory.
Kitchen and bathroom in loft style apartment
Equipping the kitchen is the most difficult thing: it is problematic to do without drawers for storing kitchen utensils, and choosing the right furniture set is not always easy.
The bathroom and toilet also claim a special atmosphere.
Loft-style studio layout and zoning
Owners of a small apartment or studio can also decorate it in a loft style. The difficulty lies not so much in the small footage as in the lighting: most often in the studio there is one, less often two small windows. The way out will be a clear zoning according to the frequency of use of the zones. If the owner prefers to cook most of the time in the house, then the priority is the dining area with the kitchen. So, a kitchen area is located near the window. How much time is spent at work? So, a desktop is placed under the window.
