The furniture in the loft-style: simple ideas for making your own hands

In the 40 years of the twentieth century in the United States it has become very in demand industrial style of your home. He gained popularity because of the lack of access to affordable housing for ordinary people. In the course of furnishing the premises were not originally intended to stay - lofts, attics, abandoned factories and warehouses premises. Premises settles quickly, because they were left in their original form, only slightly making livable. Thus was formed a new style of loft.

In the near future, their homes and apartments, in the style began to draw creative people - artists, actors, owners of large country houses. Loft has more than 60 years. He does not have the spatial and temporal boundaries, because the originality and singularity of the interior in this style fits perfectly into vital positions creative people, free-spirited.

This trend makes it possible to arrange their living space so that it becomes possible to realize the most daring ideas, to go beyond what is permitted to stand out with its individuality. People striving for anything unusual, a lot not only in America, but there are a large number of followers in Russia.

Line up the right loft-style interior will help the implementation of key elements.

• Open space without walls. Enclose only the bathroom and toilet. Even the bedroom organized on the same property.
• Large windows to the floor, is the main source of daylight. Typically, the windows are curtain curtain.
• Massive beams on the ceiling, exposed ventilation pipes, iron fittings.
• The walls are not decorated with wallpaper and decorative plaster. Leave or simulate brickwork, concrete walls. At present the finishing wooden elements, plywood sheets and aged metal.
• The floors are often left with concrete, replaced by the old wooden boards. The variant of the marble slabs.

To fit the loft?

As part of the style was formed three main areas.

1. Bohemian. It is preferred to apply the "creators". Artists and theater-goers, conducted fashion shows, theater shows, art galleries place. In personal interiors it is used more often.
   

   Bohemian Loft with interior design

   

   Loft-boho assumes the maximum preservation of subjects of industrial premises in the finish, but the situation is made in a colorful style

2. Glamorous. It differs from other more delicate color palette. Heavy iron beams and brick walls mixed with elegant chandeliers, Baroque-style furniture.
   

   Loft glamor - customary rock and wood tones and pastel diluted bold combination of gray and magenta, pink and turquoise

   

   Glamorous Loft provides accent lighting on

3. Industrial. It is the most popular. To implement this direction space is filled with elements reminiscent of plants, a storage room with the effect is not very populated area. It is appropriate to make furniture in the loft with his own hands, air fork, the external wiring, circuit, a combination of rough wood, aged iron and rough stone. Quite simply, without unnecessary embellishment.
   

   Industrial Loft - diluted housing components plant equipment

   

   Industrial loft suitable simple furniture with regular geometry without any extra elements

Attributes bohemian loft is considered to be the following elements.

• Is large common space without partition walls, with high ceilings, visually broken into zones. It must be sure to save the characteristics of a large factory premises without a trace of fresh finish.
• The walls are decorated with original paintings, paintings by unknown artists-modernists and expressionists, unusual posters, photographs.
• Designer furniture, sculpture, musical instruments. Furniture situation choose vintage or artificially aged, with traces of wear. Most of the elements under the power to make their own hands out of scrap materials. In the course will wooden pallets, old boards, pipes and metal elements - of a bed, spinning wheels, sewing machine, from the wire coil and even drums.

Delineates space: how accents?

As mentioned above, a characteristic feature of industrial style is spacious, single room, divided into zones. With the help of furniture, light screens, carpets on the floor we select the border.

To separate the kitchen from the dining room will help a beautiful bar with a top made of a single piece of wood or stone. Open shelving visually hide the bedroom from the living room. Loft is attractive because it combines old and new, luxury with unsightly plastered walls.

The furniture in this design plays a very important role. With the help of the accents are placed. Playing with style, not necessarily rush to buy designer furnishings. They can make their own hands, because the essence of it is that the situation in the first place should be functional, and only then beautiful.

Materials needed for the manufacture of furniture

When the house with the style defined, well thought out color scheme and interior as a whole, choose furnishings, underlining it. It is not necessary that all the items were made to order or bought. A couple of things under the power to make their own, using just about anything that is at hand. It may be a pipe, old boards, concrete elements.

The most favorite materials used in this regard are as follows.

• Natural aged wood.
• Metal and stone.
• Glass.
• Leather, textiles - in upholstery.
• Plastic imitating wood and marble.

Sofa and bed: Make yourself

The central element of living is undoubtedly a sofa. You can do it yourself, using wooden pallets, which will go on the frame. Assemble the shape of the sofa, to treat the surface of cloth, sew soft pillows and mattress. Put on the frame, and in the armrests to make shelves for books and magazines. Come cheaply and effectively.

Useful for the production of pallets and beds. Three pallets of standard size bed will suffice. Make it by following certain guidelines will be simple. This is done in several stages:

• Abrade the surface, removing all burrs. Walk sandpaper.
• Primed and varnished, or leave it as is.
  

  Preparation and processing of parts prior to assembly

• Seal the trays to each other, forming a frame.
  

  The basis of the future bed

  

  Installation on a base pallet

• Put the mattress.
  

  Obbivat top base with a soft cloth or carpet

  

  Then falls mattress with linen - and the bed with his hands ready

There is another interesting option - a bed-podium. It is possible to build additional storage space. Made of plywood or boards, painted or varnished.

Shelving and coffee table to make quick and cheap!

Fine "will join" in the interior shelves and open shelves made with their own hands. It looks nice thin metal frame of the rack, painted black. This color makes it almost invisible. The shelves are made of solid pine and oak. To emphasize the wood structure, shelves treat tinted composition. Fill the shelves with books, frames with photos, vases and designer accessories.

Stylized Loft Furniture stores is expensive. The price of a coffee table rectangular metal frame high.

To do it yourself you need to take only two right size board, four bars or metal pipes for legs, screws, paint, stain. Make the countertop can be from the pallet. Fasten it to the base of the wheel and the table is ready.

Do not restrict the flight of his imagination, boldly combine incongruous, mixing styles and colors. The Loft can be everything and it is necessary to use it!

Video: The table in the loft with his own hands. Furniture with his own hands.

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