Furnishing an industrial style loft is more and more in vogue. There are many design enthusiasts who have let themselves be conquered by this trend with an American flavor. But what is meant by industrial style furniture?
Furnishing in an industrial style: the loft
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To understand industrial-style furniture, you need to take a step back and look at the place where this trend was born: the loft. Loft is a word that has now fully entered the common language and indicates a particular type of house, recovered from old factories; they are therefore large work spaces, often equipped with large windows and therefore a lot of natural light, which have been given new life,. It is no coincidence that when we talk about lofts we refer to very large areas and “open spaces” (loft is not synonymous with open space, as is often thought, but it cannot be separated from the latter).
In addition to the large space, in many cases also in height, the lofts have a somewhat rough style, far from the classic houses, warm and enveloping, precisely because they derive from places that were not intended to accommodate: metal, raw wood, bricks exposed beams, exposed cables and lighting systems, exposed pipes. And when choosing the furniture to make these spaces functional and visibly pleasant, furniture with a strong style is preferred, mostly composed of materials similar to the structures in which the lofts themselves were built.
Furnishing an industrial style house
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As said theopen space it is the basis of a loft and therefore also of furniture with a strong industrial flavor. Therefore, when we want to transfer this style from the original loft to a house, probably in an urban environment but with less space available and with completely different structural materials, we must keep in mind the concept of open space and use it as much as possible. For this reason at least living room and kitchen they will have to live in a single space. To furnish a house with an industrial trend it will then be necessary to take into account the materials, the second decisively characteristic element of industrial style furniture. L’steel and raw wood are the masters, in these cases, and are also better from a functional point of view, especially if they are recycled and reprocessed.
THE colors then they should not be very intense, indeed, especially for large furnishings. The shades of gray, in fact, are the typical choices of those who decide to furnish your home in an industrial style. To give some originality will be only some elements, such as the sofa, fundamental piece of the large living area. It doesn’t have to be majestic, but it will have to show off a contemporary line and an intense nuance, such as fiery red or canary yellow.
For the industrial walls you can also resort to wallpapers with fake exposed bricks, while for the floors the top could be the spatulated concrete effect resin.
Furnish in an industrial chic style
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If you don’t have a real loft, the industrial style furniture will never be the exact copy of the American one from which the idea was born. For this and to furnish home environments, different from the very beginning, it was born the industrial chic style. It is a question of combining elements typical of the industrial style with something from other styles, such as the contemporary one, made of lacquered surfaces on the doors, and / or floors in glossy or semi-glossy resin, and lighting systems with visible elements, but more neat and tidy.
Lovers of the genre are very fond of i furnishing accessories that have a history, vintage items that can often be bought in antique shops. Examples are an antique typewriter or metal office drawers complete with aged paper labels. On the wall, you cannot fail to hang a beautiful clock that shows all its internal mechanisms.
Furnishing an industrial style kitchen
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A focal point of the furnishing of an industrial style house is definitely the kitchen, where steel must abound, with furnishings that we usually see in restaurant kitchens, bars and large showrooms, and where the combination of black metal and raw wood has almost become a must.
So large metal hoods, steel worktops, tub sinks, metal lamps that hang visibly on the worktop and / or dining table, islands or peninsulas, clearly visible handles, gray and raw wood for the doors, white or black for the top. Maybe steel also on the backrests.
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