The walls, ceiling and floor in the loft-style: from wood to brick

Unusual styles and designs capture a wide audience, moving from one country to another. Today came to us from the west loft style can be seen in many homes.

What is the style of Loft

In the middle of the twentieth century in New York emptied many factories, and become massively bought up by ordinary people who wanted to live in their apartments. They began to alter them to your taste. But here and there we stood out in the interior of concrete walls, partitions, masonry, pipe elements. Artists and architects saw it as its own charm, and gradually, such "simple" elements began to decorate more and more homes.

This finish is used for the creation of volume of space, lightness, and home atmosphere. Loft style has an individual choice for the overall color gamut. All shades are selected, depending on the room decoration technology. Loft - minimalism and natural, harmonious space with natural materials and metals. Create a style is quite simple, there is not need some expensive materials. We just need to properly consider all the details.

The walls and ceiling

In the style of Loft is often used finishing the walls with the help of brick in a large square rooms. It looks impressive and unusual. Sometimes, the replacement of real brick used wallpaper.

concrete walls suitable for the industrial version of the interior. But in contrast to the brick, concrete - solid, gray material, which in many cases require painting, for example, in ivory or pearl gray. The walls are made of concrete blocks should be well cleaned with a vacuum cleaner before finishing. Modern gas and concrete blocks have a flat structure and a well-cut with a hacksaw on wood. The blocks can be cut into tiles, 2-3 cm thick and thereby create a simulated masonry block.

For ceiling finishes use pure white color to visually enhance and expand the room. Further attached to the ceiling or massive wooden walls of the pipe, thereby creating "loft" atmosphere. Wood does not paint, leaving the color intact.

Floor

A characteristic feature of sex - minimalism, with laminate or wood covered with transparent varnish. Plinth made of solid wood. Decorative tile or stone is used less frequently.

How to make a wall of bricks or how to remove plaster

Spacious living room or bedroom - a perfect place for such a wall. If the house has a brick wall, it need only properly handle. If it is covered with plaster, and you want to change anything - it's time to work. Masonry will give a warm and cozy look of the room.

Stages of finishing works

• The plaster must be removedAnd clean the wall. This is a fairly time-consuming process, using:
• drills;
• punch;
• grinders;
• grinding wheels;
• hammer and chisel;
• vacuum cleaner;
• paint and varnish.

The plaster is removed with a pointed chisel hammer.

2. After removing the plaster must clean the seams. For horizontal seams take grinder or a hammer, and for more complex locations in a vertical seams apply chisel drill with a 10 mm.

We clean the joints from the edge to the center - not to accidentally break off adjacent bricks.

After finishing the clearing, the seams are best wipe with a solution, which can add the paint.

Grinding brick use the grinder with a grinding wheel or a belt sander with a vacuum cleaner. At the beginning of the work is taken sanding belt coarse grain, and finally go to a fine. At this stage of grinding is completed.

4. Grouting brickwork. Walls can turn out very unattractive and jointing help conceal the irregularities and protect from moisture. It can be done - convex, or zaglublonnoy. To do this, you need to take:

• Tool "panel lines";
• level;
• ready solution.

Fancy-work is best done together, using a special tool that can be bought at the hardware store. Is first treated with the vertical (about 10 mm), and then the horizontal joints (12 mm).

A solution for jointing 1 part cement mixed with 1 part lime, where then added with 10 parts of sand and water, bringing the solution to a thick homogeneous state. Use it is necessary for two hours.

5. Finishing brick wall

Brick - porous material that absorbs coloring materials. Before painting the walls need to be primed with the deep penetration of at least 5 times. The primer will fill all the fine pores, will give a shine and eliminate the manifestations of white salt, significantly reducing paint consumption. Coloration can be a brush, roller or sponge. To give the old brick effect can be selected acrylic paint, to paint the wall 2 times.

Each brick was stained separately.

6. After painting the wall varnished. Pre-cleaner to clean masonry several times to avoid getting the smallest dust particles in the lacquer surface. Varnish need to purchase for interior work and it is for stone materials. And before the second cover layer, wait for complete drying of the previous one. Roller for the coating must be a long nap.

Special cleaner for brick facades helps avoid white salt deposits on the masonry.

Not everyone wants to mess with a brick wall, but for many it is a great opportunity to update the image of the living room, and create in it a warm atmosphere.