Translated from English, "Loft" means "attic." In addition, this word denotes the upper rooms of the warehouse. This style began to gain popularity in the middle of the 20th century in the USA, when empty warehouse and industrial premises began to be actively transformed into residential premises and offices. Today, the influence of the Loft style has spread throughout the world thanks to its distinctive features that play into the hands of the owners. People are fascinated by the space that accompanies this style and the combination of state-of-the-art materials, equipment with aged interior trimming, vintage bathroom fixtures and furniture typical of industrialization times.
Today we will learn the features of this iconic style for Americans, the finishing and decorating options in the Loft kitchen, together we will look at interesting photos, as well as we will consider whether Loft and small kitchen.
4 main features of the style
First, consider the characteristic features of the style:
- A landmark difference is the combination of state-of-the-art materials with refurbished floors, brickwork and rough plaster on the walls, and “visible” pipes. The merging of the new and the old here looks like nowhere else harmoniously.
- High ceilings that set the tone for space. Perfectly fit the repair in the spirit of Loft, for example, to an apartment in "stalinka", in a pre-revolutionary house or in a new building with an individual layout and high (preferably even tall!) ceilings.
Loft-style kitchen in the attic
- The room is divided into zones, not rooms: with the help of furniture, color or lighting, the space is divided by function. Living room is often a continuation of the kitchen, and may differ slightly in color design.
- Non-standard decor items, reminiscent of the "factory" origin of the room, here will look very useful.
Repair ideas
At first, it may seem that kitchen design in the Loft style is a low-cost business, because everything looks “factory-made” there roughly and deliberately unfinished. However, repairs with thoughtful carelessness and proper finishing here are costly, both financial and labor. Sometimes a brick in the interior of a kitchen is obtained, as they say, “from a developer”, when you only need to get to it in the process of repairing and decorating walls. If the brick was not used during construction, then it is possible to portray an imitation of brickwork, for example, wallpaper with a pattern. At the same time, if the kitchen is small, we advise you to limit yourself to brickwork only on one of the walls, and the neighboring ones can cover with decorative plaster, stoned or even leave a concrete base.
If the latter is too extreme for you, then you can do with textured monochromatic wallpaper.
Tip: a great alternative to brickwork - glass blocks. An example of how you can successfully beat them in the interior of the kitchen, see the following photo slider.
The floor should be wood based - laminate or parquet, preferably glossy, ottsiklevanny and varnished / oil.
A more wear-resistant floor finish is a large or vice versa small metlahskaya tile, such as in the photo below.
Ideas for finishing the ceiling offer to learn from the following selection of photos.
Furniture and accessories
Loft-style furniture can be either deliberately modern, or have a touch of antiquity - this style holds on to contrasts. There are few places where you can combine different textures and materials, and the Loft-style kitchen is an excellent base for this. Take a look at the following photos: glossy headset, glass apron and the chrome hood here easily “coexists” with rough wooden shelves, and the brick wall in the kitchen organically adjoins the chairs in velvet upholstery and curtains to the floor.
Furniture can zone the space, for example, when living room combined with kitchen, it can be separated by a bar, island or sofa.
Curtains are an optional item of decor that can be neglected. Otherwise, you can choose roman blinds or curtains in the floor as in the photo below. The main condition - curtains in the loft style should be strict in style and sewn from natural or high-quality combined fabrics.
Lighting
Loft-style kitchen means lots of light. In addition to the natural light coming from non-curtained windows, it is necessary to take care of artificial lighting. Loft-style lamps are usually made of metal and glass and have simple shapes.
It can also be emphasized industrial options, such as large, hanging on the cords of light bulbs.
And you can go the other way and select the modern lighting devices as in the following photos.
Useful tips
- Young green. It looks interesting contrast factory brutality with fragility flowers and house plants. Build wooden shelves specifically for plants, greens perfectly dilute the severity of style Loft. Verify this by looking at the photo.
- Loft does not tolerate "loneliness", try to arrange in this style at least adjacent rooms, for example, if the living room is combined with a kitchen, and better - the whole house. A decent couple Loft will play their "brothers" - minimalism, high-tech, strict classics.
- Size matters. If the square of your kitchen does not have two-digit numbers, but you really want to join the fashionable style, you do not need to lose heart. For example, you can combine kitchen with balconythus launching more light into the room. But the best thing is to combine the small kitchen with the living room, then you only strengthen the illusion that this is not a typical apartment, but a former industrial space without partitions.
- Color design. The characteristic colors of furniture, textiles and finishes for the Loft style are brick red, burgundy, brown, dark green, blue, beige, gray and contrasting white and black.
- Custom decor. Unusual objects of the decor only emphasize the individuality of the Loft kitchen: it can be real vintage objects from factories, modern art objects, road signs, graffiti on the walls, in short, all the most non-standard and bold that you can imagine.
We hope that the photos we have selected and tips for decorating the Loft kitchen will help you to arrange it according to all the canons of style. Let your life also be full of light and there will always be a place for everything unusual and unusual.
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Perfectly fit the repair in the spirit of Loft, for example, in an apartment in “Stalin” take, and this is CAO by the way.