Loft-style bathroom: choice of finishes, colors, furniture, plumbing and decor

Features of interior design in the loft style

Several main features:

• This design features an unpolished finish such as brickwork or concrete surfaces.
• In the interior of the bathroom, walls with external wiring and open communications on the ceiling are appropriate, which are a harmonious part of the entire composition.
• Loft means a room with large panoramic windows decorated with blinds or iron bars, which are becoming an alternative to the usual curtains.
• It is also supposed to use antique furniture, metal sinks, cast-iron heated towel rails, lamps resembling spotlights, lanterns, and more.
• The layout of the loft is characterized by the presence of various niches, asymmetrical walls and ventilation systems that are not found in typical buildings.

Selection of bathroom furniture

Particularly creative in this style are glass tabletops, shelves or partitions with a metal frame, which endow the atmosphere with air and space. Strict geometry and clear lines are encouraged in pieces of furniture.

To decorate a loft space, you can choose both modern elements and furnish the room with aged, shabby rare furniture with elements of vintage romance and incredibly organic and interesting design.

Pictured is a loft-style bathroom with an antique cabinet with a wooden countertop, decorated with a white false sink.

Such an environment will perfectly complement industrial tables or dressers, which can easily replace the vanity unit for the sink, as well as antique sideboards, showcases and stools. Such furniture elements, despite their slightly rough look, thanks to the soft shades, warm lighting and cozy decor, acquire a truly chic look.

In the interior, there are also various wardrobes with doors decorated with beautiful stained glass inserts or chrome elements that favorably emphasize an unusual interior idea. For the design of a women's loft in the bathroom, you can install a dressing table with drawers or with a box for storing cosmetics and other necessary accessories.

A truly unique piece of furniture in the bathroom is the mirror. The industrial design of a bathroom with a semicircular large mirror, a round canvas suspended from a belt or a laconic product of a square, rectangular or any other shape will look especially interesting.

In the photo there are mirrors in metal red frames, decorated with lighting in the interior of a bathroom in an industrial style.

The choice of plumbing for the loft style

Competently selected plumbing elements can become the main detail of the entire bathroom furnishings.

• Sink. It is an interior accent that requires special attention. In the manufacture of sinks, materials such as steel, glass, wood or stone are used. For the location of the device, both standard cabinets and unusual consoles or stands are chosen. Washbasins can be made in the form of a tabletop, floor-standing, surface-mounted, suspended structure with open wiring, or differ in execution, resembling a simple basin or a large metal sink.
• Bath. For an industrial style, you can pick up a rather interesting steel, enameled bathtub with cast legs, a copper container, a transparent structure, an original model with fiberglass inserts and other options.
• Mixers. When selecting mixers, the features of other interior details are also taken into account. For example, for a bathroom with natural stone tiled finishes, it is better to use vintage brass or copper fixtures. The use of chrome-plated or nickel-plated mixers is most harmoniously combined with an unplastered concrete surface or brick.

In an interior designed in an industrial style, you can install both ultra-modern, expensive and functional plumbing fixtures, as well as vintage devices in the form of brass washbasins, toilets and steel-colored sinks. For pipes and other open communications, you can use a black, copper color or leave them in their original form with a little rust.

Pictured is an industrial bathroom design with a freestanding red bathtub.

Room lighting

For a bathroom in an urban direction, the installation of spotlights with daylight diffusing light is suitable. Quite an unusual and slightly brutal design can be achieved with the use of pendant lamps on cords or wires. Also, this style does not exclude the use of classic lighting fixtures, such as a chandelier or sconces.

The photo shows a lighting option with a black lamp located above the mirror in the interior of the bathroom in an industrial style.

One of the original lighting options will be the use of a rail mechanism, which is a rod with lamps suspended on cables or special fasteners. The most successful place to place such a structure will be the area above the washbasin.

You can endow the space with special airiness due to fluorescent or LED lighting, which is an excellent alternative to heavy chandeliers. For a modern loft, the use of hidden light is especially suitable, for example, in the form of illumination under the bathroom, cabinet or inside mirrors.

Choice of accessories and decor

This style is characterized by a small amount of decor, but despite this, it still provides an opportunity to experiment with the design.

The room is often complemented with collectible designer mirrors, heated towel rails, posters, paintings from different times or plants, and decor in the form of unusual rugs, various mechanisms or gears is also appropriate in the interior. Hangers and hooks for towels and bathrobes can be made of cast iron, copper or have any fancy shape.

The photo shows the interior of a bathroom in an industrial style with a bathtub decorated with a curtain made of canvas fabric.

The walls in the bathroom are decorated with flashy posters, abstract paintings, photo exhibitions or hanging shelves with various decorations. You can add a special flavor to the atmosphere with the help of decorative bottles or jars with nails, nuts, buttons, colored threads, corks or bamboo sticks.

The use of road signs and license plates looks really creative in the bathroom, as well as landscaping with flowers on the wall or the presence of metal buckets with indoor plants, which give the brutal atmosphere a cozy shade.

Bathroom colors

The main palette of loft design is represented by white, black, gray and brown shades. Sometimes terracotta, orange, dark red, bronze tones or blackened silver are chosen as an accent. In a spacious bathroom, to highlight certain elements, brighter green, blue or yellow colors are chosen.

An unusually harmonious addition to the industrial context are light white shades, which endow the space with special purity and spaciousness. The best way to design a loft style is gray, which combines austere concrete and stone colors.

Adding natural notes to the industrial design will allow a brown tint, which, in combination with white, will give the atmosphere a picturesque and delicate expressiveness.

The photo shows a bathroom in the style of a loft in a country house, made in brown.

How does the interior decoration look like?

This style is distinguished by finishes, in the form of concrete surfaces, natural masonry with red, gray or white bricks, stainless steel, exposed wooden beams, ceilings and communications, deliberately displayed and creating an atmosphere of unfinished renovation.

Before starting work, do not forget to look how to choose the color of grout for tiles.

The loft welcomes a rough texture and cladding that has errors, which, due to the contrasting combination with stylish accessories and designer items, contributes to the creation of an interesting interior image.

In the photo there is a ceiling lined with wooden planks in a bathroom in an urban style.

To endow the atmosphere with warmth, naturalness and deprive it of full industrialization, wood will help. Even with the use of small wooden objects, it turns out to change the image of the entire bathroom, as well as dilute the cold look of the concrete surface or tile.

Stone, brick and concrete deserve special attention in this style, which is a fairly practical, economical material, distinguished by its pristine color range and unusual texture, which is fully consistent with the industrial surroundings.

The photo shows the interior of a bathroom with a loft-style window, with walls with a combined brick and stone finish.

No less popular is the decoration of the walls, in the form of wallpaper for painting, embossed plaster, adding the surface of irregularities and cracks, tiles made of white, gray bricks or porcelain stoneware with imitation of antique rusty metal, giving the interior a real brutality.

Take a look bathroom tile ideas.

In the bathroom, the most common ceiling is white, which gives the room a lot of space. Wooden beams will help to add the incompleteness of such a ceiling plane and create the atmosphere of the attic space. The floor can be finished with laminate, floorboards, porcelain stoneware or a concrete pouring plane.

Design ideas for a combined bathroom in the loft style

A combined loft-style bathtub with a toilet is a fairly common solution, characterized by a non-standard and spectacular design with rough finishing materials, vintage plumbing, rusty pipes and industrial details.

In the photo there is a bathroom with a concrete ceiling in an urban style, located on the attic floor in the country.

Since the industrial style, due to the presence of stone, brick and other untreated surfaces, is rather cold, the heating should be thought out correctly in the bathroom.

Loft-style shower room design examples

The shower room looks especially harmonious with a minimum of complex decorative details. An open shower without a tray or a corner compact shower cubicle with a transparent or frosted glass door has a very organic look, which contributes to real saving of useful space in a small space.

The photo shows the design of the shower room, made in an industrial style.

In the cladding of this room, it is appropriate to use tiles, marble or artificial stone, creating an effective combination with brickwork. A hog tile or mosaic is also ideal.

Photo gallery

A loft-style bathroom has a truly interesting and stylish look and, thanks to raw surfaces, industrial structures and other things, forms a very original and unusual design.