Room of the Day: Thai Street Art and a Loft Look in L.A.’s Echo Park
An industrial-inspired master bedroom comes together with mixed graphics and graffiti
Interior designer Debby Adelman isn’t a cookie-cutter person, and neither is her client. Their fondness for weird things, graffiti and industrial design gave birth to a Los Angeles-area home whose loft-like interior combines tin, cork, cement and objects curated from the homeowner’s many travels.
It all comes together in this nontraditional bedroom, where the intent was to create an eclectic, warm industrial space.
It all comes together in this nontraditional bedroom, where the intent was to create an eclectic, warm industrial space.
BEFORE: The printer did a mock-up of the standard 10-foot-long doors, shown before installation here, so he could precut the vinyl into nine segments, which he then applied like wall decals, Adelman says. She has used this technique, which costs about $1,000, in other projects.
She installed lights inside the closet to make the graphic glow at night.
To give an industrial look to the space and complement the closet doors, Adelman went with a custom steel barn door, prefab steel lights and exposed brick on a chimney that runs up the wall.
She also added cork tiles to the wall behind the bed for interest and to muffle sound from the adjacent bathroom.
She also added cork tiles to the wall behind the bed for interest and to muffle sound from the adjacent bathroom.
BEFORE: To keep the room from turning institutional, she rounded the edges of the wall facing the room’s entrance, shown in its finished state in the first photo.
The walls are textured with American clay plaster tinted to give it an aged effect.
Adelman didn’t want the space to be cold, a challenge when doing industrial-inspired interiors. The mixed textiles help warm it up and make the room feel as though it had evolved over time. Although the rug, bedspread and pillows seem like divergent patterns, if you look closely, they feature similar shapes and neutral color tones.
She kept the walls, couch and curtains neutral to balance the other graphic elements. Mixing this many materials and patterns does take editing. “A bedroom can be fun,” Adelman says, “but at the end of the day, one needs to be able to relax and sleep well.”
Rug and bedspread: Anthropologie; bed: Restoration Hardware; sofa, coffee table: Restoration Hardware Teen; ceiling lighting: Lamps Plus
More: 12 Ways to Get the Industrial Look for Less
Adelman didn’t want the space to be cold, a challenge when doing industrial-inspired interiors. The mixed textiles help warm it up and make the room feel as though it had evolved over time. Although the rug, bedspread and pillows seem like divergent patterns, if you look closely, they feature similar shapes and neutral color tones.
She kept the walls, couch and curtains neutral to balance the other graphic elements. Mixing this many materials and patterns does take editing. “A bedroom can be fun,” Adelman says, “but at the end of the day, one needs to be able to relax and sleep well.”
Rug and bedspread: Anthropologie; bed: Restoration Hardware; sofa, coffee table: Restoration Hardware Teen; ceiling lighting: Lamps Plus
More: 12 Ways to Get the Industrial Look for Less
Who sleeps here: A single retiree
Location: Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles
Size: 260 square feet (24.2 square meters)
Designer: Debby Adelman of Creative Spaces Interior Design
The master bedroom was one room in a massive $550,000 overhaul, which included tearing down walls and giving an industrial look to the 2,000-square-foot home. To turn the home into a more loft-like space, Adelman worked with an architect and contractor to add raw beams, corrugated tin, exposed pipes, concrete and steel barn doors.
These custom closet doors are the ultimate complement to this aesthetic, Adelman says. The homeowner shot the image of graffiti in Bangkok. Adelman had the high-resolution image blown up and transferred onto clear adhesive white vinyl.
Designer tip: Never be afraid to take chances and use unusual materials. Just group wild graphics with solids and soft tones to ground your design, Adelman says.