Get the Look: Industrial Chic

I love to add an element to a room that's rusted and crusted. It's probably not very feng shui -maybe that's why I keep losing stuff lately? I digress. With the huge popularity of lofts, found objects, the need to be sustainable and reuse/repurpose, the return to crafting with big old hand-cranked machines like letterpresses, the yen for vintage ephemera (think sfgirlbybay style), rusty and crusty has gone from being a con to a pro!

What gives a space industrial style? It can be exposed brick, ductwork, or pipes; it can be furniture made from pipes; it can be furnishings that came from a factory; it can be metal accents on chairs or big fat gears used as door stops. Let's take a look at some examples from around Houzz;

*SIDE NOTE: When I first made this ideabook, I realized I had swiped about half of the photos from The Lettered Cottage's "Tossed and Found" ideabook. It must have been her ideabook that gave me the industrial inspiration in the first place! Anyway, I cut out most of the pictures that were double-dippers, so as not to be a repetitive copycat, so CLICK HERE to see her wonderful "Tossed and Found" ideabook! I think these two ideabooks work well together.