All about loft-style furniture

Loft - a relatively young stylistic trend, it is not even 100 years old. Furniture in such interiors is simple and comfortable. For some, it is rude, but practical and understandable. It is believed that such a design is liked by a strong half of humanity.

You can understand what a modern loft is only by referring to the history of its development. The style began to emerge in New York in the 40s of the twentieth century. At that time, land rent in the city increased significantly. Industrialists had to move their factories outside the city limits. Abandoned factories were quickly taken over by artists and students who had nothing to pay for decent housing. In the halls of the workshops, talented youth arranged exhibitions, and representatives of the bohemia sometimes visited them.

Some wealthy visitors are attracted by the spacious rooms with high ceilings and large windows. Having bought them out, the new owners invited the designers to give a residential look to the voluminous territories. Incredibly, the professionals in their field managed to create a comfortable, simple and brutal style, so loved by many. There is something mesmerizing in spacious rooms with a laconic, rough, but natural setting.

To understand what loft-style furniture should be, you need to have an idea of ​​the style as a whole. It is determined by several criteria.

1. A real loft requires a lot of space without borders. A living room, a bedroom, an office, a kitchen and a dining room are settled on one territory. With proper zoning, the room will not be oversaturated, but it will acquire everything you need for life. Ideally, large studios are suitable for a loft. However, today the style is so fond of many that they equip it even in tiny "Khrushchevs" or in separate rooms. Even more often, the loft is combined with other areas, leaving only brickwork and a few pieces of rough furniture from the industrial theme.
2. Windows should be floor-to-ceiling similar to industrial workshops. The curtains are not used. But in modern transformations of style, roll or textile products are used at will on any version of windows.
3. Open brickwork and concrete surfaces on the walls are the hallmark of this trend. There may be large beams on the ceiling and rough, aged plank on the floor.
4. The decor of the loft is especially extraordinary - pipes, wires, fittings, chains, ventilation grilles and other engineering structures.

Having an idea of ​​the features of the style, it is easy to guess what kind of furniture should be. It cannot be confused with the setting of other destinations. Rough metal beds, tables on pallets, chairs on tube legs, iron cabinets, as if taken from factory machines - all this is an incomplete list of the real "picturesque" loft style.

If you do not go to extremes, a modern interior may have rough furniture with artificially aged surfaces and iron elements, but it will look quite adequate and will cause delight rather than panic.

Today the loft can be divided into 3 main directions, which are reflected in the design features of the furniture and influence the formation of the overall interior.

• Industrial... Closest to the first workshop design options. It is here that you can see deliberately rough furniture made of iron and old wood in a room with a second light and windows on 2 floors.

• Boho loft (hipster)... This direction combines incongruous things. The boho interior is reinforced with objects of creativity, colorful textiles, which are brought into the ascetic rustic loft. In such settings, you can find walls stripped to brick, and a mirrored ceiling with gilded patterns, cold pipes exposed, and soft cozy sofas with bright upholstery.

• Glamorous... This style is for those who love space, have a masculine character, but are not ready to give up luxury. Such interiors perfectly combine expensive furniture made of natural wood and leather with brick walls, glass and concrete.

Loft-style cabinet furniture is massive, brutal and structurally simple. VAll furnishings are made from natural materials and meet the basic requirements - convenience, functionality and laconicism. Of course, different directions of the same style have different views on pieces of furniture, and this should be taken into account in the concept with the overall interior.

Upholstered furniture plays an important role in loft design. Those who want to achieve maximum authenticity of style rarely turn to standard factory models. Usually they order sofas upholstered in aged leather, eco-leather or rough fabric. Making a structure with your own hands is also not difficult - just connect the pallets and lay out pillows on them.

Often, upholstered furniture is complemented with unusual details - wheels, swivel casters, forged sidewalls. The sofas are massive, but practical - they unfold, transform, have shelves, drawers for linen. Their color scheme either falls into the monochrome environment of the interior, or bursts out of it with a flashy bright spot. Sofas are completed with bulky poufs, which can be their continuation or find their place in other parts of the room.

For each direction, loft upholstered furniture has its own look.

1. The industrial sofa is like a railway carriage. It has massive wheels and a frame made of wood and metal.
2. Colorful motley furniture against the background of aged concrete walls is inherent in the boho-loft direction.
3. A spreading velor sofa with an abundance of pillows is quite in the spirit of the glamorous line.

Large rooms, in which it is customary to design an industrial style, can afford large armchairs, wicker rocking chairs, hanging spheres, computer models. There are no restrictions on the purpose of the chairs, but their appearance is important. Basically, this is designer furniture, far from traditional options. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the loft-style models in order to assess their individuality:

• construction, covered with good-quality leather, as if taken from a Viking dwelling;

• designer armchair connected to a footrest;

• a beanbag chair belongs to modular transformers;

• leather model produced on a rough metal frame;

• a kind of computer chair has an iron base with riveted joints;

• the product on metal runners is endowed with practical shelves;

• extraordinary model in the style of an art loft.

Wardrobes, sideboards, loft-style chests of drawers have their own type of fittings, furniture handles, basement base, front doors. They are distinguished by an abundance of metal, aged surfaces, and the use of glass.

In an industrial interior, accents are distinguished not only by upholstered furniture - sometimes you can find iron structures painted in catchy colors, or sliding wardrobes with a 3D image. Loft-style cabinet furniture has open, closed, combined facades.In any case, it is original and functional. This can be seen by considering examples of ready-made models.

1. Sliding wardrobe in the hallway overlooking the industrial city. It looks more like a massive window than a familiar piece of furniture.
2. The metal structure of red color contains specific fittings peculiar only to the loft style.
3. A beautiful engineering structure on wheels is a pronounced representative of the industrial direction.
4. Practical roomy chest of drawers. In appearance and the presence of industrial wheels, it resembles a trolley.
5. Powerful chest of drawers with many drawers. Above the pens are cells for notes with information about the contents.

Metal and natural wood are all you need for a real loft table... Whatever the purpose of the model - dining, computer, bar, magazine, material preferences will be the same. Less often you can see glass inserts on products. Tables on an industrial theme look like this:

• a coffee table in your favorite design - with an industrial wheel;
• outdoor furniture made on the basis of a sewing machine bed;
• the most laconic computer desk;
• slab table top for dining group;
• a bar counter lined with stone - such a technique is rarely found, even in a loft style.

Loft-style chairs and stools use metal, wood and leather.... They are characterized by brown, black and gray shades, as well as accent bright colors. This type of furniture is distinguished by an intricate geometry of structures, a variety of unique forms. The seat and backrest are worked out in a hard version, but sometimes a soft backing is felt under the leather upholstery. Colored chairs made from modern types of plastic are rarely used, as the industrial style prefers natural materials. We suggest evaluating loft-style design models:

• bar stool in industrial style;
• wood, metal and colored tape were used for the stool of an unusual shape;
• a set of loft furniture in the usual design for this style;
• bar stool model made of pipes;
• soft version of a bar stool;
• rocking chair made of colored plastic.

Loft beds in standard versions are single and double. Made to order or by your own hands, they can be of any size. They are installed on legs, placed directly on the floor, on podiums. Most often, mattresses are framed with iron frames, but wood, beams, secondary refurbished boards, pallets and even hewn logs are also used.

In the interiors, you can see products suspended from chains or ropes. Soaring structures look amazing, the legs of which are hidden in the depths. The bed can be attached to an installation hidden in the wall and also look weightless. The backlighting between the bottom and the floor adds a mysterious effect. The examples show how comfortable and practical this style of bed is.

• A bed floating above the floor.

• Chained structure suspended from the ceiling.

• A slab obtained from a powerful old tree adorns the headboard.

• Bed made of laminated veneer lumber, assembled by hand.

• Forged product in the loft style.

• A bed on a podium made of logs. Warm natural flooring serves not only as the basis for the mattress, but also as a bedside table, as well as seating.

• Bed on a leather frame.

This type of product made of a metal frame with wooden shelves. Iron bases are painted black, white or brown; they try to preserve the natural beauty of wood. Structures are securely located on the floor, but some of them are pendant models and are mounted on walls.

In the loft style, space is valued, so whatnots and racks that allow air and light to pass through are important for this direction. They are often used to zone a room.It is especially convenient to use structures on wheels - such "partitions" can change their place of stay and diversify the interior. The geometric lines and shapes of the shelves surprise with their originality. This can be seen by looking at the photos with the description.

1. An unusual miniature design for books.
2. Model with chaotic shelves.
3. Airy shelves for austere decor.
4. A beautiful shelving unit, the shelves of which are separated by a broken line. An interior with such amazing furniture can do without decor.
5. Shelving unit on wheels with open shelves and drawers. It is roomy and practical.

Loft style natural materials are used - wood, metal, leather, natural fabrics in furniture upholstery. But since the style is industrial, their presentation may be the most unexpected. For example, metal is often used to create hull structures in the form of profile, water pipes. Rough frames are made by forging or riveted.

Loft-style iron is used for all types of furniture, including soft options, which is uncharacteristic for other design trends.... Forging is used in the products of shelving, whatnots, beds. To create cabinets, bedside tables, armchairs, chairs, welding and riveting are used. Pipes are used to decorate tables, chairs, shelves. Let's look at examples of what metal products look like.

1. A solid sturdy pedestal is placed on small wheels for convenience. The frame is riveted. Glass doors are opened originally with the help of rollers.
2. The unusual round shelving has a stable metal base on which wooden shelves are held.
3. The metal bed surprises with irregular geometric shapes.
4. A two-tier iron structure in a small area contains two zones at once - for sleeping and working.
5. Wheels, steering wheels and gears are often used in furniture decoration as harsh decorative elements.

Wood plays a key role in industrial style as well as iron. Not only perfectly sanded surfaces are suitable, but also turned old boards, logs, slabs - any wood blanks. Warm natural material with good energy surprises with a variety of colors, textures and patterns. This can be seen in the examples of loft-style furniture, for which wood is used in its most incredible ways:

• coffee tables are made of old wood, showing traces of bark beetles and cracks;
• a curbstone made of antique boards, which would shock any "decent" interior, is the pride of industrial design;
• an unusual island made of logs organically looks in the kitchen area of ​​the loft.

Natural and eco-leather, as well as rough types of fabrics, are used for upholstery of upholstered furniture in the loft style. These materials combine well with wood and metal to create harmonious industrial interiors.

1. Sun loungers contain leather mattresses that mimic old worn items. In support of them, the design contains a leather chest, bags and other decorative items.
2. Automotive sofas integrate well into loft furnishings.

The loft style is extraordinary and contradictory. Furniture that matches it is easier to assemble yourself from pallets and water pipes than to find ready-made factory models in the vast Russian markets. Not every furniture production works in the industrial style format. However, in the country you can find talented teams of designers, carpenters, cabinetmakers and even blacksmiths with great creative potential, who are engaged in precisely pieces of furniture in the loft style, releasing them in small batches, creating original works or taking orders.

Some well-known companies also produce loft-style furniture lines., sometimes they can be found among the rich assortment of Russian, Belarusian and European brands. There are also online stores and online outlets selling similar models. Let's talk about popular manufacturers who can help equip even the most unusual industrial-style interiors with furniture.

The Crimean factory uses European equipment, which makes it possible to produce high-class furniture without chips and cracks.... Wood, slabs, plywood, fittings are supplied to the workshops from the best manufacturers.

The company for 7 years of its existence created 30 thousand items of furniture, designed 700 interiors by customer orders in different parts of our country.

It is not surprising that the famous Swedish company IKEA also did not leave aside the loft theme. In its assortment you can find some pieces of furniture of this style. Simplicity and minimalism are characteristic of the products of this brand.

The distinctive features of the Russian factory Moonzana are good design and high quality. The team itself develops new industrial style models. It is important for her to make designer furniture available for a large number of Russian consumers. At the factory, you can buy loft-style home furnishings made of metal and solid oak, hornbeam, pine, adjust the dimensions for a specific room, but they do not fulfill orders according to personal sketches at the factory.

A team of talented creative people opened their workshop for the production of loft furniture in Arkhangelsk. They create unique furniture in small volumes, selecting for their masterpieces the best slabs from catalpa, mountain poplar, pink acacia, elm, cherry.

A rare production of author's models (Rostov-on-Don), which uses not new wood for its furniture, but materials with history. Barn boards made from tropical acacia, shisham, mango and other precious woods are purchased from India. Products have a warranty period of up to 2 years.

Despite the fact that the loft gives room for creativity, it It also has its own limitations, which should be taken into account when choosing the environment for the interior:

• do not get carried away with large volumes of furniture - space is important for style;
• loft furnishings are formed by separate elements, you will have to forget about headsets and sets;
• each piece of furniture should be not only simple, but also comfortable and functional;
• the loft allows you to combine materials, play with color and shock with shapes;
• it is better to give preference to natural handmade items with a masculine character.

Loft style furniture has calm but expressive shades - black, chocolate, deep gray, white, as well as natural wood colors. For accents, bright bursts of red, orange, blue, yellow, green are chosen. The play of color is more related to the boho and glamor subspecies.

More and more imbued with the extraordinary rude beauty of the loft interiors, you understand how unique and endowed with their own courageous energy. This can be seen by looking at beautiful examples of furniture made exclusively for industrial design.

• The multifunctional loft cabinet is practically arranged under the TV.

• The bathroom is decorated with a slab countertop decorated with chains. In support of her, a metal retro washbasin is ideally matched.

• The industrial style is also suitable for a teenager's room, and a boho loft - even for a nursery.

• Light elements have been selected for the dressing room, which form the storage places. They do not burden the situation, retain volume and fill the space with air.

For how to make a loft-style bedside table with your own hands, see the next video.