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The fashion runways are filled with it, interior designers are all talking about it, and home décor shop windows are crammed with it – vintage industrial style is HOT for 2016! This quirky style blends a mixture of vintage, rustic, and industrial elements. Designers are making over homes in muted tones, using vintage décor accessories and topping off the look with industrial furniture. To get this look, follow our lead:

Use Everything Vintage – But From an Industrial Setting

Industrial chic is one of the best ways to describe this emerging trend, and it is loaded with metal and wood furniture, stone flooring, and even brick walls. This is the perfect decorating style for a loft apartment, condo, or townhouse. The reason why it’s gaining popularity? Designers are encouraging people to experiment with vintage – it’s not all about shabby chic! Lighting, flooring, and industrial vintage furniture that once would have only been seen in an industrial setting are now being used in homes around the globe.

Copper Lighting, Lanterns, Glass…

Using the right type of lighting has always been pivotal in achieving the right look, and ambience in your home. When it comes to vintage industrial lighting, the options are endless and there are so many possibilities! What’s really popular now are 1930’s style factory lighting and old ship’s lanterns. How cool is that? Polished steel, glass or copper are perfect in providing an immediate industrial feel to your space. Not only are they on-trend, but also practical, functional, and easy-to-clean!

Worn and Weathered Flooring

If you are looking to achieve a weathered wood look with your flooring, old industrial flooring ticks all the right boxes!

The old wooden factory floors form the industrial era suffered extensive wear and tear during their time, and have now what we call a “weathered look”. If you are lucky enough to live in an old factory that has been transformed into a trendy industrial-style loft living space, you already know how warm and cozy this flooring is!

If you want to replicate this vintage industrial look in your own home, you will need to hunt around salvage yards, online sources and flea markets or even swap meets, to see if you can acquire some of this nostalgic wooden flooring and enjoy all that it has to offer.

Walls Covered in Bricks

Fired clay brick has been a mainstream building material for centuries now, and it makes a gorgeous focal wall to create a totally industrialized space.

If your building is old enough, it may well be that you already have this prized architectural gem hidden behind an existing drywall finish. If that is not the case, it is easy to purchase old bricks and replicate this historical look.

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Using the right lighting in your kitchen can make a huge difference and can actually make your space look much bigger or a lot smaller if not used correctly. Hanging pendant lighting in your kitchen is the perfect way to subtly illuminate every corner of your cooking space and avoid circles of harsh light. Here’s how to hang them the right way:

Choose the Right Sized Lights

The larger your space is that you want to light, the bigger your pendant lights should be. If you are looking for overall light in your kitchen, space your pendant lights evenly throughout your room to illuminate the whole space. If you are just looking to light up a small space over the sink or kitchen island, a small pendant light will work.

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Hang Them Right

When hanging your pendant lights make sure to hang them at the right height. If you have an 8 foot ceiling, your light should hang 12-20 inches from the ceiling. If you have a 9 foot ceiling, it should hang 15-30 inches below. For each additional foot of height, add 3 inches.

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Choose a Style

There are tons of different types of pendant lights on the market, so make sure to choose the right style that fits your home’s decor. If you are aiming towards a retro style kitchen, glass orbs will fit in perfectly. Lights made from glass and chrome look sleek and modern. Other types that have a shade around them look classic and traditional while vintage industrial lighting tends to be metallic and made of stainless steel or brass. Whatever type of pendant lighting you choose, make sure it blends well with your existing decor for a look thats both flawless and functional.

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Take a look at our >Kitchen Photo Gallery< for more decor ideas!

I’m so glad to be partnering with a fabulous online antique shop that just opened called Vintage Adirondack, a growing source for rustic furniture, cabin decor, and lakeside living. I LOVE encouraging new emerging businesses and since being obsessed with rustic, cabin-like decor in the last little while, I was super glad to be able to feature them!

Vintage Adirondack is a small family owned business that basically sells what they truly love and collect along their journey of living on the lake. The owners realized their love for this unique décor after buying a cabin on a small lake as a summer home. The cabin is Adirondack style and they search antique shops, and garage sales looking for primitive, rustic, one-of-a-kind finds!

Having grown up myself in a BIG city and experiencing the hustle and bustle of the busy urban lifestyle, it is especially important to find ways to wind down and enjoy the little things! Even though I may not have a little cabin on the lake, just including a few vintage finds in my home helps tone down things a LOT and completely change the mood of my home.

Distressed wooden furniture, mismatching patterns like floral and plaid, as well as including natural elements like stone, hides, and antlers are some of my favorite ways to bring the outdoors and wildlife in!

Here’s the perfect example how you can incorporate lakeside living with modern decor. This lovely home is situated in Upper Saranac Lake, NY.

Here are few things that I really liked from their store that caught my eye, the deer antler table lamp stole the show for me! How neat is that? Take a look:

This room snapshot is from my favorite source for decor trends: Architectural Digest. They really seem to have jumped on the rustic lake house trend!

Lake house décor includes a lot of weatherworn, and aged furniture that looks like it has been through a lot but still manages to look amazing – it’s part of the whole look! Try to focus on finding things that already look old, and have a charming appeal like a big wooden dining table with nicks, dents, and scratches. Even tufted leather Chesterfield sofas look amazing as well as worn-in leather Parsons chairs. Also use distressed wood flooring without a shine or stain and layer on rugs made from natural fibers like sisal or wool.

Visit Vintage Adirondack here to check out what’s in store!

KEEP CHECKING BACK – new things are always popping up!