Watch me create a Modern Industrial Living Room — Transcript

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1. 0:00Sometimes when people view a raw,
2. 0:02unaltered version of their home, it's
3. 0:04difficult for them to envision it as
4. 0:07anything other than what they are
5. 0:08currently seeing. And if they are able
6. 0:11to have some type of idea of what the
7. 0:13room is to be, they question themselves
8. 0:16as to how much money, time, and effort
9. 0:19it will cost them. It really puts a
10. 0:21damper on the excitement of revamping a
11. 0:23house when you have to ask yourself, is
12. 0:26the effort that I'm going to put forth
13. 0:28even worth the final product? And if
14. 0:31you're renting, these feelings, these
15. 0:33cautionary feelings, can become tenfold
16. 0:36because you feel as though you're
17. 0:37limited as to what you can do. Today,
18. 0:40I'm going to show you how we took a
19. 0:41rather bland industrial penthouse and
20. 0:44turned it into a dark and distinguished
21. 0:47home. If you're a returning subscriber,
22. 0:49hit the thumbs up. If you're new here,
23. 0:51hopefully by the end of this video,
24. 0:53you'll be a subscriber. Remember that if
25. 0:55you would like my help in designing one
26. 0:57of the rooms in your home, you can have
27. 0:59that help by clicking the link down in
28. 1:01the description. Let's turn to the
29. 1:03computer and you'll be able to see what
30. 1:05I see. This Chicago penthouse is a
31. 1:08rental. Although it has the bones to be
32. 1:10something spectacular, neither the
33. 1:12owners nor former tenants have ever made
34. 1:15any effort to breathe life into the
35. 1:17space. These new residents wanted to
36. 1:20change that. Their aim was a
37. 1:22distinguished dark industrial design.
38. 1:25Their question was how to do this
39. 1:27without crossing the line of doing too
40. 1:29much to a rental. Dark masculine design
41. 1:32within industrial spaces can become
42. 1:34fairly elaborate in terms of the work
43. 1:37necessary to replicate the look, but it
44. 1:39doesn't have to be. And that is the
45. 1:41point of this video. As you can see from
46. 1:44the original photos, the previous
47. 1:45occupant seemed to have viewed this home
48. 1:47as simply shelter, really, a storage
49. 1:51room for their belongings. Our goal was
50. 1:54to awaken the hidden potential that lay
51. 1:57dormant in this shell of what could be
52. 2:00while trying to keep it rental friendly.
53. 2:03Here is what we came up with.
54. 2:07The change in appearance is about as
55. 2:09subtle as getting smacked in the face
56. 2:11with a shovel. We've taken a cold,
57. 2:13uninspiring warehouse, and we've made it
58. 2:15a rich, dark, alluring great room. Three
59. 2:19minor updates made one major impact to
60. 2:22the base of this room. We painted all of
61. 2:25the pillars and the beams black. We
62. 2:27installed black blinds, and we placed
63. 2:29two dark area rugs
64. 2:31across the floor. Mind you, these
65. 2:33customers were not looking to create a
66. 2:35bat cave.
67. 2:36Although they wanted the theme to lean
68. 2:39in the dark direction, they did not want
69. 2:41to black everything out. There were
70. 2:44three main utilizations they asked me to
71. 2:47incorporate for them. One was a work
72. 2:51space from home, they work from home. A
73. 2:53lounge area for typical relaxation and
74. 2:56TV watching, and an entertainer's space.
75. 3:00This couple also requested that we use a
76. 3:02fair amount of pieces from Restoration
77. 3:05Hardware, the furniture supplier and
78. 3:07designer, as they do love their
79. 3:09products. Starting with the left side of
80. 3:12the room, the beverage and conversation
81. 3:14table.
82. 3:15You can't tell in the rendering, but
83. 3:17there is a large open kitchen directly
84. 3:20connected to this space. The purpose of
85. 3:23this area was to rid ourselves of
86. 3:26distractions, mainly of the TV, to sit,
87. 3:29to enjoy a nice glass of wine or a cup
88. 3:31of coffee, truly connecting with your
89. 3:34guests while exchanging stories. The
90. 3:37four bucket chairs paired with the round
91. 3:39table create an intimate setting that
92. 3:41encourages this behavior. We installed a
93. 3:44mounted beverage rack that is
94. 3:46see-through as to not take up floor
95. 3:48space, and just as well, it made sure
96. 3:51that the brick wall was not being
97. 3:53covered and it continued to be a
98. 3:55highlight, a natural accent, if you
99. 3:58will, within the room. Looking at the TV
100. 4:00area, this couple already had a large
101. 4:03black leather sofa that we needed to
102. 4:05incorporate into the design. No problem
103. 4:08there. It fits perfectly with the color
104. 4:10scheme that we had picked out. What we
105. 4:12did need to make sure is that the
106. 4:14accompanying furniture was a different
107. 4:17color. Returning to that idea
108. 4:19of not making anything too blacked out.
109. 4:22So, we found a couple of complementing
110. 4:24seating chairs from Restoration Hardware
111. 4:27finished in a brown strap fabric along
112. 4:29with an ottoman that paired very nicely.
113. 4:33Notice that we used black pillows and
114. 4:34throws to dress those items and further
115. 4:37connect them to the sofa. The TV wall is
116. 4:41a bit tricky for the untrained eye. The
117. 4:45brick and the concrete do not take up
118. 4:48equal portions of this wall as a whole.
119. 4:51The brick extends across roughly 65%
120. 4:55of the wall, leaving this off-center
121. 4:58line where the two materials meet.
122. 5:01Because it's off-center, it looks odd
123. 5:04when you place the TV and TV console
124. 5:07where center should be, where people
125. 5:09typically would place it on a wall.
126. 5:12Additionally, if we centered the TV on
127. 5:14the concrete portion of the wall alone
128. 5:17or only the brick portion, that also
129. 5:19looked extremely odd, especially in
130. 5:21relation to the living room furniture
131. 5:24facing the TV wall. To resolve this
132. 5:27visual imbalance, we placed the TV and
133. 5:30TV console off-center from one another,
134. 5:33filling the dead space on the left with
135. 5:35a dangling light fixture, and filling
136. 5:37the dead space on the right with a floor
137. 5:40plant.
138. 5:41Let me see how confusing I I can make
139. 5:44this. We counterbalanced
140. 5:47imbalance through the use of more
141. 5:50imbalance resulting in balance.
142. 5:53There.
143. 5:54The working area is straightforward. We
144. 5:55only needed an area that a laptop could
145. 5:58be comfortably used, so there was no
146. 6:00need to get overly complicated with the
147. 6:03workstation. You've now seen a quick
148. 6:06overview of creating a dark and
149. 6:08distinguished industrial room without
150. 6:11being too invasive. If you like the
151. 6:13video, hit the thumbs up. If you feel
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