If you like exposed brick walls, dangling pendant lights, and cold concrete floors as home design elements, you’ll probably love the industrial interior design style.
You won’t need a warehouse to achieve the industrial look for your own space. Start with the bedroom to work within a small area compared to the bigger living room, dining room, or home office.
Check out 25 industrial decor ideas below to get started on your industrial bedroom design.
Bedroom Ideas for an Industrial Interior Design Style
1. Let natural light in
With almost-to-ceiling windows that form a grid-like pattern using dark framing, you’ll never want for sunlight again. These industrial-style windows will bring the outdoors into your room.
2. Allow a sliver of sunlight
Although not much light comes in, this horizontal window adds an air of sophistication to any room. It borders the line between industrial and ultra modern, teetering to either side. This window fully embraces the industrial look if matched with dark neutral colours and concrete elements.
3. Add a matching but textured look
Exposed brick is another of the hallmarks of industrial interior design. It adds texture, character, and highlight to any bedroom. You can paint it white, or any colour that matches the bedroom paint palette, and it will give a uniform but textured look to a sleeping space.
4. Keep the natural brick appearance
Of course, you can always maintain the natural look of brick. It’s a classic design, and it gives your room a mesmerising piece of wall art. This look goes well with most modern interior design and home decor styles, aside from industrial style, such as minimalist, mid-century, boho, and rustic industrial.
5. Use the Balcony Space
If you’re fortunate enough to have a balcony outside your bedroom, you can add that to your styling. For example, having exposed brick or stone balustrades, a white brick wall, a metal-framed couch, and a rattan coffee table complete the industrial look of the room above, even if the room itself is not industrial style.
6. Find a Brick Wall to Face
If all else fails, and the only brick wall you can find is outside your home, if your bedroom faces that way, you already have an industrial style room. The look of brick outside your windows will make it seem the brick is part of your interior design.
7. Pattern with Grids
The industrial style loves grids. You can have grids on your windows, or grids in your staircase railings. If you have a brick wall, that’s another grid. Put in grids where you can for that classic industrial pattern.
8. Unfinished Is the New Finish
Aside from brick, the industrial style is also characterized by the unfinished look of bare concrete. You can have it as the wall, the floor, or the ceiling. It can dominate your master bedroom, or just like the one above, the concrete can be a simple but eye-catching pillar.
9. Fake Texture, Design, and Look
Other houses lack the concrete or brick walls needed for that classic industrial style, but you can still make your room look like it has those elements. Using stick-on wall decor or paint, you can make any wall look like concrete or sometimes even brick. Paired with cool artwork, the wall will be the highlight of your room.
10. Lay Wood Floors Instead
If concrete is not your thing, you can still go with wood. The natural colour and shine of timber lend to the industrial look of exposed brick and vintage lights. It’s where you’ll get that pop of colour you need for a neutral-looking space.
11. Show Those Large Wooden Beams
When you have a brick wall, you can play around with the rest of your room. You can install wall art, or you can have exposed wood beams span almost the entire room like the one above. The beam adds to the unfinished look of the brick and gives a natural pop of colour to any room.
12. Show the Ceiling Beams
If you really want an all-white room, mix the design up a little with exposed ceiling beams. The metallic look of the beams, even if painted white, will give flavor to an otherwise blank room.
13. Contrast Up from Down
Of course, you can also play with contrast. If you have white or grey coloured walls, use dark or black paint for your exposed beams. Contrast is always beneficial in achieving a clean, industrial look.
14. Go Dark or Go Home
Colour is also essential in achieving the great industrial look, so designers go with neutral colours and tones. As you see above, black is predominant, but you can also add personality through pops of colour through your bedroom furniture or an accent wall.
15. Use a Neutral Colour Palette
Some people prefer dark colours, while others prefer lighter colours. If you belong to the latter group, you can still achieve an industrial bedroom look by sticking to white and shades of grey. Match it with industrial furniture like the brass pipe-like bed frame above to complete the design.
16. Light Up with Vintage
If you’re fond of vintage or vintage-looking items, you’re in for a treat! You can place your favourite vintage as room decor. In particular, vintage lamps are all the way in for an industrial-looking bedroom, just like the wall-mounted pendant lights above. Vintage lamps add warmth to a bedroom not just with their lights but also with their classic aesthetic.
17. Make the Room as Sleek as Metal
If vintage isn’t what you prefer, you can never go wrong with metal or metallic decorations or furniture. The room in the image above made the sleeping area look sleek with the two metal lamps on the bedside tables. With metallic light fixtures, your bedroom will look a tad industrial even if it lacks brick, huge windows, or dark colours.
18. Sleep on Scaffolding
You can do so much with metal objects for your bedroom. You can also use scaffolding as a bed frame, like in the room above. Even with its rudimentary design, the poles make for a grand canopy bed that’s at home in a big bedroom.
19. Reuse Old Metal Piping
If you prefer something else than scaffolding, metal pipes always work. You can reuse actual old pipes to make a bed frame with more style. Paint it any way you want, or just go black.
20. Work with Pipe-Like Furniture
You can always go with pipe-like furniture instead of the actual ones. Pipe-like bed frames like above will give the appearance of actual piping already, giving your bedroom enough of an industrial style flair.
21. Try a Concrete Bed
However, if you like concrete, why not use it for everything? A concrete bed like this goes hard into industrial style, then you can add in different colours through furniture or art.
22. Support Your Bed with Pallets
Since the industrial style reuses old or vintage wood objects, a wood pallet as a bed base makes sense. It supports your mattress, keeps you low to the ground, and it gives off an industrial vibe to the room.
23. Include Wood Elements
Metal is a mainstay in industrial design, but wood can also be added in. Wooden side tables add warmth and nature to an otherwise highly urbanised bedroom. You can use metal framing for the wood furniture to maintain a strictly industrial look, just like the metal rod legs of the end table above.
24. Put a Fireplace in There
If you can find or install one, go ahead! A vintage fireplace, even if not used, will shine bright in your bedroom. One made out of metal and wood, matched with neutral colours, will be perfect for hitting that industrial style design.
25. Reclaim Vintage or Wood Furniture
Vintage furniture, like the bed frame above, or reclaimed wood is part of the industrial interior design style. You get to buy for cheap at flea markets or private sales if you find any vintage or reclaimed wood furniture. And they look fabulous too!
A Bedroom in an Industrial Interior Design Style
What is industrial style?
The industrial look came from repurposed Industrial Revolution-era factories that became houses and office spaces. The design incorporated the unfinished and exposed elements of warehouses into the minimalist and hygge interior styles.
What are the common materials used in industrial style?
It proudly uses architectural elements such as pipes, brick, concrete, and vintage or reclaimed wood furniture. It also highlights exposed ductwork, beams, and gridded windows.
What colours are best for an industrial style room?
The industrial style has a neutral colour palette, working with whites, greys, and blacks. This neutrality makes it easy to add in pops of colour in the room.
What is the best furniture and decor for an industrial style bedroom?
Furniture and decor can either complement or act as contrast to the industrial style.
To complement an industrial style bedroom, you can try the Ecosa Weighted Blanket or Bamboo Bedding. Both come in dark colours that will fit well into any industrial-inspired room. Plus, either of them provides comfort to sleepers in their own way. The weighted blanket puts gentle pressure on the body to induce serotonin-release and, consequently, a more restful sleep. Meanwhile, the bamboo bedding gives you a softer sleeping experience, all the while being eco-friendly.
To provide contrast, you can add in the Ecosa Zen Base or the Rio Sofa Bed. The Ash or Walnut coloured timber of the bed base gives an industrial room a natural element, as it holds your mattress up, creak-free. In turn, the Ocean Recycled Plastic fabric of the sofa bed adds variety of material and texture to an otherwise concrete, metal, or brick dominated room.