10 Items You Need in Your Industrial Style Converted Warehouse

Let's face it, converted warehouses are cool. There's just something about the steely greys, the exposed brick and the smell of rust in the air that makes the industrial look very appealing. Want to try it out in your house? Even if you don't live in a converted warehouse, here are ten items you need to pull of the industrial chic look…

1. At Least One Vintage Sliding Door

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No industrial style space worth its salt is complete without at least one vintage sliding door. The more metal and banged up the better.

2. Exposed Lights and Electrical Wiring

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You think warehouse owners had the time or motivation to carefully conceal electrical wiring. Or decorate their lamps with fancy colored shades? No. And your industrial style home won't pander to those pretenses either. Leave your wires exposed, baby.

3. A DIY Steel Pipe Feature

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Duck down to Bunnings. Pick yourself up $50 worth of pipes and fittings and get creative. Rolling firewood storage, wine racks and coffee tables. If you can't think of something fun to create, you need to get in touch with your creative side.

4. Something Involving Cogs

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I mean, this hardly requires an explanation. You want your space to have a cool, industrial vibe? You can't go past cogs…

5. A Key Lampshade

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Never lose your car keys again…

6. Some Kind of Frankenstein Piece Combining Numerous Vintage Finds

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I dunno why, but Industrial chic is just more fun when it's a bit random. Mix and match pieces you've found at second hand stores and the tip for maximum effect.

7. A Galvanized Locker

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Yep. Just like the ones you had at high school. Who would have thought they would one day become a designer furniture item? Be sure to thoroughly sanitize and deodorize. The smell of teenage sock can be hard to get out.

8. A Vintage Electric Fan. Or Four.

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Because your converted warehouse is bound to get hot. Just saying.

9. A Metal Chair of Some Sort

No. They're not very comfortable. But the Industrial look really isn't about comfort. So get over yourself. You could try the Navy Chair. Or get your hands on a Marais Chair like the one pictured. You'll find them in every trendy cafe ever.

10. Exposed Brick. Lots of it.

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Honestly. To really pull off the Industrial look, you just can't have enough exposed brick. YOu get bonus points if it has several thousand layers of paint in various levels of deterioration. And you win Industrial if your exposed brick wall has an original painted logo on it. Well done.

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What A $95-Million Apartment Looks Like In New York City

Unfortunately, not too many of us will be able to experience a $95-million view of New York City.

Not long ago, we introduced you to a 17-year-old kid named Demid Lebedev who made it his duty to climb New York City’s tallest building-to-be.
The daredevil photographer just wanted to get a glimpse of what a multi-million-dollar view looks like in the Big Apple!
But, Lebedev didn’t get to experience what the accompanying luxuries would look like. He was just able to capture the scenic views from the top of the incomplete structure, located at 432 Park Avenue, that will house some of the wealthiest people in the world.

The true beauty, however, lies within the recent photos released by Macklowe Properties, which reveal how much bang you’d get for your buck.
Harry Macklowe, the chairman of Macklowe Properties, told Daily Mail:

We are proud to have created a New York City landmark that can be seen throughout all five boroughs, and which will enhance our city’s iconic skyline.

The building will be completed in 2015, but units can be purchased now.
Check out the photos below and take a close look for yourself!
Photos released by Macklowe Properties give people a first-person glimpse into what owning a pricey condo like this would look like.

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Not only will 432 Park Avenue enhance the city’s skyline, it’ll also enhance the lives of those who can afford to live 1,396 feet above the concrete!

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Who wouldn’t want to experience the city from 10×10-foot windows?

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In addition to massive windows, residents will also be enjoying 12.5-foot high ceilings and solid oak floors to waltz across.

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“At 1,396 feet, 432 Park Avenue is the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere, and represents an extraordinary accomplishment of architecture, design, engineering and craftsmanship,” said Harry Macklowe.

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Breathtaking, huh?

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Unit prices start at $16.5 million and reach all the way up to $95 million.

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Aside from living in complete luxury, you’ll also get tons of space, which is extremely hard to come by in New York City.

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Unit sizes range from 3,575 square feet to 8,255 square feet.

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Residents will also obtain over 30,000 square feet of amenities, including a private gym and a private restaurant.

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For $95 million, you’ll get to bathe in pure serenity as you watch the sunset.

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The iconic structure will tower over the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and even the Freedom Tower!

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Panoramic Lake Cabin

Architects working at FAM Architekti and Feilden+Mawson have built this cabin at the edge of a lake located in Czech Republic. The windows enable a panoramic view on the lake, that we can observe from the chimney section. To discover through Tomas Balej’s photos.























 
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Reclaimed Piano into amazing Desk

This computer desk, is designed in the shape of a piano and its old parts. Joinery Brandon Monk uses secondary Furniture and converts it into something new.
On this desk, wooden frame remained intact, as well as the mechanism of the piano string. Designer specifically left the string “for visual and aural feast for the senses.”
All the keys have been removed from the keyboard, and replaced with stacked bars of wood from 5 different species: cherry, oak, poplar, pine and spruce. This surface texture reminds the original keys.


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artist wrapped rooms by jon rafman

artist wrapped rooms overlay masterpieces onto interiors
(above) picasso everybody loves raymond, 2013
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digital artist jon rafman is presenting his ongoing project ‘brand new paint job’ at the armory show 2014 in new york, a series which appropriates the renowned artworks of master painters into the three-dimensional digital realm. the collection is comprised of humble, ready-made interiors sourced from google 3D warehouse, like bedrooms, auditoriums, classrooms and kitchens. bitmap textures, chroma and decorative motifs have been collected from famous historical paintings, and surface the façade of each object placed within the home or commercial dwelling. picasso’s pink and gray ‘les demoiselles d’avignon’, monet’s hazy ‘water lilies’ and lichtenstein’s saturated dots act like a skin, shrink wrapping around bar stools, chairs, stairs and eclectic pieces garnered from a digital, online community of objects.

lichtenstein moe’s tavern, 2013

hans hoffman kitchen, 2013

basquiat classroom, 2013

monet uss enterprise (ncc-1701) bridge, 2013

rousseau study, 2013

guston kid’s room, 2013

keith haring theatre, 2013

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Low Costs And Easy Maintenance House Design

Located in Mar Azul, touristic resort on the shore of Buones Aires, Casa de Veraneo is designed by BAK Arquitectos Asociados. It’s a little holiday home with minimum impact on the landscape, low costs and easy maintenance. The house’s site a gentle rise with a forest of pines around it. 6.50m x 10.30m is the area, covered with an reinforced concrete slab with a raw concrete facade. The house opens up to the landscape with a series of glass walls that connect forest with the house’s interior. There aren’t the main entrance in the house because it could be accessed at a number of different points. The layout of the house consists of two areas. The first one is open to the outer world, completely glassed, and enclosed in a wide wooden terrace, conceived to host the group activities. The second one is protected, the openings are more controlled, thought for the bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen. The furniture around the house is a pine wood. [BAK Arquitectos Asociados]

Photos by Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

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