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27+ Inspiring Minimalist Apartment Designs to Inspire (and You Need to Build This Year)

When we talk about minimalism in interior design, including a minimalist apartment, we should dive back to the early 20 century, when the minimalism got its first foothold.

In the early 1920s, the sumptuous and intricate designs of earlier eras (the Edwardian or Victorian, for examples) were gradually substituted by the newer designs which were simpler and straightforward –and functional. The birth of modern minimalism.

After the WWII, minimalism got its firmer ground with the International movement (hence the cubical tall minimalistic buildings all around the world) and the Midcentury designs which it influences still can be seen up to this day’s home interior.

The term minimalism itself is relatively new, coined in the 60s. Now we see minimalism as a style which loves simple and functional lines. In term of home interiors, it loves black-white color schemes and the use of industrial materials. Like to find minimalist apartment ideas? Here are some of the coolest.

1. White minimalist apartment in grunge atmosphere

Sometimes you just don’t want to follow rules for your own apartment. You don’t want it to conform to any other interior styles, let alone the mainstream one.

As you want it to be as comfortable as you want it to be, as a kind of lair. So, if it looks a little messy, that’s part of your personal statements, like this homey grungy small apartment.

At first, this white apartment might look messy, but after a while, you find it simple and effective (and even visually enchanting) to be a home, a simple home –not a pretentious apartment.

2. An Efficient Apartment should have effective room layouts

Having an apartment means that you need to be able to organize it, so you won’t have to feel cramped. For the reasons, many apartment interiors have open layouts.

The layouts enable you to have unhindered view of the overall apartment interior spaces. As for the room separation, you could use tables or rugs (just to name some) as the marker.

In this example, the kitchen areas are separated by dining table and the huge TV stand. So, from the living room area you won’t see the stove, sinks, fridges or any other kitchen stuff.

3. Modern minimalist apartment in 50s touches

Just like any landed homes, you always can have your apartment be done in certain styles or themes, from the most sumptuous classic themes up to the most refreshing contemporary minimalist styles.

Now we bring you to a corner of Italy, to one of the finest apartment in Carrara. This apartment should work well for you, if you love the modern minimalist themes.

Along with the modern tones, this apartment is also full of 50s’ iconic furniture, like the big sofa with their tapered legs, and the Eames’ Eifel dining chairs.

4. A Cozy minimalist small apartment

Having a small apartment doesn’t mean that you should live in a cramped and miserable life. To avoid the disaster, the key is finding the right interior layout.

Minimalist theme is a reasonable approach for your problem. If you want to have it snug and cozy, pick the Scandinavian variant.

The result is this compact and comfortable minimalist apartment. You have all the apartment features in a limited spaces, but you still can breathe as the apartment looks spacious, neat and organized.

5. Green apartment accessories: potted plants

Having an apartment in minimalist styles might, sometimes, gives you a cold and ‘detached’ feelings. You just cannot in tune with the rigid lines often accompanying the minimalism in the house interior.

To reduce or even get rid of the feelings you can balance them with something natural. For this, you might need the indoor plants.

Not only as accessories, these indoor plants also help to maintain the air quality of the indoor area. It also helps to inject characters into the room.

6. Simple and functional room partition with shelves

You might want a little privacy which an open layout apartment won’t give you enough of it. Considering the reasons, you need to install room partitions, whether it’ll be a portable or fixed one.

If you don’t want to have a fixed partition (such as brick wall partition or the like), you should find the portable one, so that you can remove it easily in case you don’t want it anymore.

In this example, the living room and bedroom is divided by a partition which also serves as book shelves. It doesn’t look heavy and even add minimalist atmosphere into the living room.

7. Warm wooden floor for your Scandinavian apartment

If you want something minimalist wrapped in natural properties, then you need to try Scandinavian styles.

That’s the main difference between a minimalist style and the Scandinavian. The first often uses glasses, metals and any other man-made materials. Meanwhile, the latter loves to use natural materials.

This apartment is a good example of a Scandinavian apartment. It warms with natural materials, from the floor up to the beams. Resulting an inviting and pleasant living space.

8. A luxurious minimalist apartment design

You should go into a sumptuous and heavy interior setup to have a luxurious apartment interior. A luxurious look also doesn’t depend on furniture with exorbitant prices.

It’s all about organizing your apartment interior into an efficient way, and fill it with quality materials, things that durable and timeless both in value or aesthetic.

For example, take a look at this apartment’s design. Seeing this apartment setup, now you might have had new insight that you even can have classy and luxurious apartment even with only a handful furniture. The key is quality materials and an exceptional room design.

9. Room separation with countertops

For the reason of space, contemporary apartments often have no wall partitions. In place of them, you might find the alternative in the form of portable room dividers or certain features in the apartments.

A common feature you often see as the divider are the countertops. They’re common features in apartments, you can find them on top of kitchen tables or kitchen islands.

Kitchen Island and their countertops are often used as marking area to separate the kitchens and living room areas. They give seamless transition from one to another places –and won’t make a small apartment look cramped.

10. Black-themed minimalist Small apartment

Neutral colors, mainly white, might be handy to make the interior of small apartment look bigger. But, there always exceptions.

You can always have black-themed apartment, whether it’s big or small one. All you need to do is a good color balancing in mind.

Use a lightest colors as the background color (white in this example), then layer it with shades of blacks and make the stuff with bold black colors as the centerpiece, the showstoppers. Add natural colors to balance them all (wood colors in the example). And your setup is completed.

11. Floor options for your apartments

One of the most often neglected spots in the apartments, floors are actually are assets to make the whole apartments look impressive. They infuse part of the apartments’ soul.

Now you have many choices of floorings. You can have the natural floorings like woods, marble, or granite. But also can find the more affordable choices like tiles.

Modern tile-making technologies now can replicate the natural patterns easily. But, still, if you want to have the warmth of the nature inside your minimalist apartment, natural-sourced materials are still the best –like this wooden floor.

12. Minimalist fresh and colorful apartment

Cheer up the apartment with pops of color. Yes, neutral colors are safe ways to make your apartments feel cozy. But if you want something energizing, try to add a splash of color into it.

Some of you might feel how bland this white is if this apartment has only white in it. Then goes the black, just a bit of it, as a balance.

Next, the natural color comes, the wooden floor. And then you may experiment with vibrant colors with the furniture: red, blue, soft pink or else. The result is a most refreshing apartment.

13. The feel of farmhouse atmosphere in your apartments

Some styles are so cute you want to replicate them in your apartments. Take the farmhouse style for an example. This style is so popular among the urban folks, probably from its pleasant nostalgic vibes it generates.

Though small, this kitchen apartment is able to put farmhouse aura into it –And you already can feel the cozy air in it.

The most iconic feature, the farmhouse sink’s so stand out it bring your memory back into pleasant days in your country homes years ago.

14. Minimalist vintage apartment to escape from hectic life

Don’t want to replicate only parts of the old sweet themes you love most? This apartment shows you how to go back in time but still enable you to retain the modern conveniences.

Seeing this apartment you might feel the vintage touches all over the place, from the color themes, lamp fixtures, up to furniture. They’re all bring the vintage atmosphere back into the contemporary living area.

But here you still can retain the clean modern minimalist lines, so you won’t lost track of time –which you still live here at the present.

15. Snug wooden apartment to inspire

Here again, the advantage of wooden structures are highlighted to the utmost. This small apartment, wood materials dominate the room layout –from the beams, walls, down to the floors.

If you want to find a peaceful haven, this apartment theme might worth to consider. Wood materials are the best in giving you natural warmth needed in facing the daily often cold world.

To balance the woods domination, put colors into it. In this apartment you put a plush blue couch and classic rug side by side with the dining table.

16. A minimalist apartment, pleasant and inviting

Talking on an apartment accessories, you have several options of them. In fact, as the meaning of accessories are so fluid, you may find them in surprising number –depend on how you view a thing or things as accessories or not.

In short, you may find apartment features which also serve as accessories. But you also find an accessory which only can be used as an accessory, like wall tapestry.

This apartments has several functional accessories, like lamp fixtures, indoor plants, the ottomans, and the rug. The painting is an example of purely interior accessory.

17. A shelf to add small apartment living room’s dynamic

You don’t want your apartments look flat, so you need to add features for a more dynamic look. Installing a shelf helps you fill the needs.

In a small apartment living room like this illustration, a shelf is a handy additional storage area where you put any of your favorite and presentable items.

To highlight the minimalism of the room and to keep the room tidy, the floating type of shelf is worth to try. And here’s the stunning result.

18. Fluffy minimalist Parisian apartment

This time we’ll take you to a wander around into a Parisian apartment. After several list of lean and simple-lined apartment interior designs, now we’d like to introduce you this fluffy minimalism.

The rigid lines of minimalism here has been counterbalanced by several fluidly-designed furniture, by the chic and classy fluffy couches and the table.

To add the warmth atmosphere, neutral rug are spread on the floor. The minimalist fireplace hood complete the setup.

19. A Simple efficient bachelor apartment design

As a single, you probably only want basic features in your apartments. Though so, you need to keep it from being a messy place.

This minimalist apartment design might inspire you, if you happen to have a messy bachelor apartment. This small apartment has all the basic stuff for a single –and it looks neat and organized.

The key here is the effective room’s arrangement which maximize the use of shelving structure and minimalist style.

20. Unique countertops for your chic apartment

A kitchen island as a room statement? If you go into regular islands, you end up to have conventional room partition often seen in the interior design webs or magazines.

This example wants to take you further than just having a regular kitchen islands. You need to update it with a more unique one.

Unlike the other kitchen islands, this island only consisted of a slab of roughly-finished countertop, supported by a side boards and a big support structure. It looks awesome in its rough look, and even suitable to be your room’ statement.

21. Black and white minimalist luxurious apartment

Black and white is a timeless theme. You may find it in every fabric of life. In the interior designs, you might have known well the chequered patterns of the floor.

This time we’d like you to meet this luxurious minimalist black-white apartment. You might remember to Nordic styles, as they also are well-known with black-white theme.

But this apartment is purely minimalist, with all the industrial materials fused into the room, like the charcoal black panels, metal lamp fixtures and the like. All are lending their qualities for all the luxury look in this apartment.

22. Transitional tiles for the room’s partition

You might need a more natural and fluid ways to un-obstructively dividing the floor areas of your apartment, so here we bring one of the solution for you.

It includes two different type of floorings. The first will be the main supporting floorings; while the second will be the ‘dividing’ floorings.

In this example, the main flooring is the wood floor. To separate the kitchen areas and living room, hexagonal tiles used with the bordering area are scattered randomly, to make uneven but artistic dividing area.

23. White Nordic industrial apartment

We have briefly talked about Nordic style, now we move in and take a little tour into this chic minimalistic apartment.

Just like the regular Nordic style, this apartment use black and white color themes, imbued with other neutral colors from natural sources, the wood colors.

Here the piece-de-resistance is the brown modern Womb chair, supported with tapered wooden legs. It infuses warmth into the room along with the green leafy plants.

24. Cute minimalist kitchen for a studio apartment

This kitchen setup is so compact you need it for your updated studio apartment.

In general, there’re three kitchen types (according the layout respective to the wall next to it): the wall kitchen, the L-shaped kitchen, and the U-shaped kitchen.

This kitchen is a wall kitchen, as it hugs the wall –both the sink and cooking areas. You usually meet this kitchen in small apartment or studio apartment like this. It’s easy to maintain and won’t eat your spaces.

25. Small minimalist green apartment

Is it possible to go green in a small apartment? Of course. Going green isn’t about room sizes, it’s about your personal intentions.

This small minimalist apartment, for example, can use any available space in it for greenery and still look spacious and elegant.

You have dozen of indoor plants to picks, just find one or two which suit well for your needs. As for the media, you might need planter boxes, plant containers, or even hanging plant pots.

26. A cool minimalist hipster apartment

This idea should meet your high standard of uniqueness of things, including your living spaces. Here you meet a hipster apartment.

Just like the name implied, this hipster apartment is so unique it different from the regular apartment floor plans listed here.

The metallic cubical at the center of this apartment isn’t empty structure, it hold the bathroom. The bedroom itself is hidden above on kitchen area. In short, if you want a quirky apartment this kind of hipster apartment is yours.

27. Minimalist contemporary apartment

Still looking for another unique apartment? If so, this apartment with puzzle wall should be yours.

Instead covering the wall with paints or wallpapers, this apartment use awesome puzzle-like boards. The combination of yellow and neutral colors of the boards make this apartment look fresh and playful.

Splashes of yellow color here offer cute balance to the white-gray tone of the apartment. The clear white floor and ceiling helps to keep the overall look calm, not overwhelmed by the vibrant yellow color.

28. Minimalist apartment with indoor plants

Here again, you have a small apartment full of indoor plants. Yes, if you want to stay in touch with the nature, you need to have one or two plants in your apartment.

Still don’t have the plant options? If you want the easy one, you might need to find simple and low maintenance plants like succulents or cacti.

The other plants might offer you lush and leafy greenness like pothos, jade or rubber plants. Like the flower plants? Try geranium, begonia, or poinsettia. The choices are wide.

Read More: 25++ Exceptional pool deck ideas to have this summer

There’re so many minimalist apartment designs out there that unfortunately cannot listed here. But, we hope, all the carefully picked designs here may represent all the themes you’d like to find so far –whether it’s about the color or accessories.

Here we also listed small apartment ideas with all the features, from its floor, shelf, and even to the countertops. That’s it. Have a nice day.

25++ Exceptional Pool Deck Ideas to Have This Summer (that Make Your Neighbors Envy)

Along with the pools, then you also have the decks. Without a deck, your pool is still ok. You still can dive in or swimming on it. But, adding a deck around or on one of its sides, make the pool look perfect. Hence, we offer you some awesome pool deck ideas here.

Depend on your preferences, there’re several materials available for the pool decks. Woods and its derivative products are the most popular materials. They look neat and warm. If you love contemporary-looking decks, woods are also suitable.

Then if you want the more rugged materials, concrete, tiles, or stones are available for you. All the materials have their own unique characters and they’re all have the flexibilities for any of your beloved deck designs.

Enough said, the following are some of awesome pool deck ideas to inspire you.

1. Above ground pool deck ideas

If you want to update the pool, this time you need to remove that above ground industrial tank-like pool and install this new pool.
Now you have a chic wooden above ground pool. No more circular or octagonal regular above ground pool, now this cottage style pool is yours.

It feel warm with the wooden structure. Add fluffy seating pads along the side, parasol and sun loungers on the deck –and now your new little haven is ready.

2. Minimalist small deck with glass railing

As pool decks, woods lend natural and warm look to your pool. But you need to bear in mind that the type of decking materials needs your careful attention.

Though you’ve chosen good quality woods, the chance of rotting or fading are still haunting you. It means that you need to do regular attention into the decking materials.

Fortunately, now you have other options like composite materials, where you can have any patterns (including woods) yet still retain the durability of industrial products. You won’t have to worry about rain or snow or regular maintenance, lie this small deck with the glass railing.

3. Deck for on a budget pool

Along with the affordable standard-looking portable pool kits you often seen on the neighborhood gardens, you also might find one (still affordable) which a chic enough pool to you impress your friends.

One of the on a budget pool you should have probably is this container pool –along with the deck, of course. Just be sure to pick the right sizes for your garden (ranging from 6m up to 12m/around 9-18ft).

As the container works well for above ground pool, you also need to be wise in picking the deck. For an example, this pool container uses combination of wood and metal deck.

4. Wood composite deck for a round pool

When’ve briefly talked about composite woods. These type of materials are usually more expensive than the real woods. But, as we said before, these materials can save you tons of maintenance money.

With the composite woods, you don’t need to worry about restraining, wood splinters, rotting, or any other woods’ natural problems.
You also don’t have to worry about the feel of the composite materials, as they can replicate the woods’ feels, including the anti-slip characters.

5. Type of woods for above ground pools’ decks

Though you have the more durable and low maintenance materials’ options, you probably still want to have real woods –for affordability reasons.

Then you might need to know types of woods usually found as decks. The most affordable is pines. You can always pick this multifunction woods as handy pool deck materials.

For the more elegant pool deck ideas with woods, you might need to try other woods types like cedar, teak, ipe, or mahogany.

6. A fluid decking design for a natural-looking swimming pool

To match the contour of a terrain, say a hillside, you might want to have a pool with natural design. You want it free of sharp corners or straight lines.

So you might need this pool design for an idea. Overlooking a charming canyon, this pool looks gorgeous with its fluid natural designs.
The wooden deck wrap around the pool, follows it contour in an elegant ways –making a seamless transition from the pool area to the natural surroundings.

7. Rustic deck for inground pools

To further highlight the scenic surrounding and to wrap the industrial-looking of the for inground pools’ kits, you can install rustic decks around them.

Here you have a neat composite wood deck to try. The design itself is so simple, a regular square deck surrounding a round pool.
The efficient layout enable you to have larger deck area, where you may put lounge chairs or a parasol on one of its corners. Sweet.

8. Oval gorgeous pool for your back garden

Among the popular pool’ shapes, there’s an oval pool you need to consider in time. If you like the playful round pool and still want to play water volleyball, then this oval pool is the right choice.

As you can see here, an oval pool combines the round square pool’s shapes, making it possible to be your exercise pool or play pool simultaneously.

With a right wood decking, this oval pool looks minimalist and luxurious, suitable for your cool place to enjoy the day.

9. Luxurious inground irregular pool deck ideas with natural stones

To complement the traditional tone of your country homes, integrate an irregular pool into them. These pools add water element to them.
For the decking, you can experiment with various decking materials. This time try to install natural stones’ decking for the pool.

This pool uses slab stones as its deck. The irregular patterns of the stones works well with the natural surroundings. They also match with the tone of the country home.

10. Concrete decking, simple and durable choice

So far, wood decks dominate the list. Though so, woods are not only available materials around for pools’ decking.

For this pool deck idea, we offer you the more durable decking materials: concrete. Modern pools also use concrete extensively, as it’s affordable (one of the most economical) and durable for decking purposes (getting stronger over time). It’s also flexible enough for any pool designs.

Along with the basic benefits, you can be sure that this material can free you of the often burdensome deck maintenance costs.

11. Stamped or broom-finished concrete pool decks?

Still with concrete pool deck, you might need to have certain finished for the concrete deck, so that they give additional characters to the pools.

For the purposes, you have at least two finishes alternatives: the broom-finished and stamped-finishes concrete.

If you want to keep the real concrete look, use the broom finishing. Meanwhile, if you want the decks to have the look of slab stones, bricks, or tiles, the use the stamped finishing.

12. A cute above ground pool

The good things about an above ground pool is that it’s flexible enough to be put on any parts of your garden.

This pool’s type also allow you to cut time in planning or doing the earth-removing processes. As, unlike the inground pool, the pool won’t need any digging works.

This simple and refreshing pool is an example of an above ground pool. You might often found round pools in your neighborhood, but this time it’s an oval one.

13. Small deck, wood-tiles deck combination

Not only with a type of material, you can combine several materials for your pools’ decks. This theme works well if you want to add certain characteristics into the pool areas.

This pool deck idea, for instance, uses two decks types. On the further sides you have tiles deck to give the solid and classic touches.

On the foreground you find wooden deck to balance the classic vibes with the more contemporary one. The woods also give you the warmth atmosphere.

14. An affordable pool deck ideas

All the way down here you see that all the pools on the list has decks surround them. But that’s not always the cases.

There ‘a certain pools that even won’t need decks, mainly if you don’t want a permanent pools on your gardens.

Some other pools might only use side decks, not the all the way round the decks. These on a budget approaches won’t eat much of your saving account –though not much cheaper that connecting the above pools to the existing decks on your homes.

15. A minimalist deck for a small concrete round pool

Here we’ve picked you a small round pool with a cute minimalist deck. Just like the previous version, this pool also use simple approaches for the deck.

It won’t surround the pool, only sit and jutting a bit on it. This connect the deck and the pool in a cute way.

The pool, set amid green and hilly area, blend nicely with its surroundings –with the deck amplify its simple shape with its unobtrusive design.

16. Japanese style deck for above ground pools

As the decks, woods are superb at giving warm and natural tones to the pools. But you need to pay more attention when you have these materials as the deck.

They need regular maintenance, so they stay in shape and colors. As you might well aware, these materials are prone to rot or splinter if nor cared for properly. It also need regular restraining to retain its colors.

Fortunately, now you have the more durable and long-lasting alternatives, like wood composite materials. They’re durable and even fade-proof –and, of course, they have far more low maintenance levels.

17. A rustic deck for luxurious swimming pool

Complete your pool with the right decking materials. They help to add dynamics to the pool and help it to blend in to the surrounding elements.

This luxurious infinity swimming pool, for example, uses the same approaches. To soften its minimalist lines, it couples with rustic-looking deck.

The wooden materials of the deck helps to give natural transition from the contemporary pool designs to the natural surroundings.

18. Seamless deck combination for inground pools

No matter big or small, infinity pools are better in giving visual impact to your gardens. In the right spots, they also often gives you the most charming way to enjoy nature.

Just see this small infinity pool. Overlooking vast and gorgeous valley, the pool should be one of your most precious feature in your property.

It also offer one of the coolest pool deck idea, different decking materials supporting each other to make seamless transition from the round pools to the scenic surroundings.

19. Small pool connected to the backyard’s deck

We’ve briefly mentioned about on a budget decks previously –up above in the list. Here’s an example of it.
In this oval pool deck idea, you find that the pool deck structure is the same structure of the backyard’s pool.

By blending the function of backyard deck and pool deck, you’ve saved substantial money. As you can use just a deck for two purposes, that’s for your backyard deck and for your simple-practical oval pool.

20. A contemporary pool with back garden deck

This is another option for blending the backyard deck with the pools. But this time it’s for a modern minimalist pool and in a far more contemporary atmosphere.

This small pool is connected to the elegant wooden deck by tile deck. The levelled theme of the decks offer visual depth and dynamic look.

In short, it makes the pool looks cute –a place where you might wish to spend all your weekend lounging in this spot.

21. Modern pool decking with concrete

One of the great inventions, concrete helps to get us off the agricultural civilization into the industrial and modern society –that’s what the historian said.

In pool’s decking terms, the invention also enable you to have flexible pool deck designs. It, of course, also offer you the toughness as the longer it cures, the stronger it’ll be.

The concrete also proves room for improvement, you can always layer the surface with any other materials to get different look or touch.

22. Wrap the pool kits with decks

Having a pool kit, like Intex’s, gives you several benefits. First, it gives you the freedom to put the kit in your garden –as it often movable or inflatable.

Secondly, you have the freedom to install or uninstall the kit’ in any occasions, without having to mess up the garden.

Though you can enjoy the day with the basic kit, you also may put deck around it to look more elegant, just like this example.

23. Small decks for a luxurious swimming pool

Like to have something different for your gorgeous minimalist home? This for minimalist yet luxurious pool should satisfy your needs.

In line with the overall home’s theme, which is dominated with concrete and glass structures, the pools also comes along with the concrete and glass for its main features.

As an addition for this impressive above ground pool, along with the back garden deck which also serves as the pool’s deck, you also have a small wooden deck to lounge under the three shade.

24. Cute pool with small deck

You might thing that having a small pool would make the garden feel empty and, if it’s of an above ground pool, feels awkward.

You shouldn’t feel that way. As, big or small, it’s all about how you layout the pool against your garden plot. If you do it right, you’d have the cutest small pool in your neighborhood.

If it’s a pool kits, wrap it with the right walling materials. Then you might need a deck, not that big and wrap-around deck, but a small and neat one –like this one in this example.

25. Stone deck for natural-themed pool

To get closer to the nature you need to use stones as your deck’s materials. This time you don’t have to get the shapely stones you often meet on any walls or floors.

Here you use stone boulders for the deck. Along with its natural shapes, they also blend well with the surrounding elements.

Stone boulders is particularly well for pool in natural theme like this following illustration. This pool is so gorgeous it reminds you of a natural spring in the woods.

26. Round Intex pool with scenic a landscaping

One of the often forgotten step after having the pool kit installed is the landscaping. Without the step, your pool is all right. You still can enjoy the clear water fully.

But if you like to have the whole package, not only having the pool alone, then you need to do some landscaping around the pool. It helps to make the garden prettier and fresher.

You can imagine how bland this garden is with only the Intex pool in it. But, with the right landscaping, it does feel different. Your garden now lives with greenery. It’s fun.

27. Decking for above ground pool on the hill

When you already have an awesome cottage on a hill with commanding view, it’s only a matter of time when you want to add it with a small pool on one of its corners.

For example, you can find inspiration from this following example. This cottage has an above ground almost under it, a little down the hill.

This pool deck idea includes two levels of decks, following the sloping of the land. The lower deck and upper deck (which serves as the home’s deck) is connected with two stairs.

Read more: 25++ Awesome Rustic Kitchen Island Ideas to Try This 2022

There’re so many options of pool deck ideas, whether for above ground pools or for inground pools –big or small. You also have several materials for the decking, from the woods to the concrete.

Here we picked you some of the most impressive pool’s decking ideas. We hope some of them can inspire you.

25++ Inspiring Rustic Kitchen Island

If you want a kitchen island that goes well with almost any kitchen themes, you probably should install a rustic kitchen island.

A modern kitchen wouldn’t complete with a kitchen island. Once it’s a transition place where you put your kitchen stuff before storing them into the pantry or kitchen cabinet (or the fridges).

Once it also a handy place for meal preparation or a quick breakfast. But now we also consider a kitchen island as important point of interest in the kitchen.

It has become an attention grabber which would impress anyone in the kitchen. For the reason, now you have almost limitless kitchen island themes, from the most classic up to the most contemporary one.

Back to the rustic kitchen island, this style is one of the most versatile styles. You always can match it with any kitchen styles in your homes. Now if you want to find ideas of the kitchen island style, we’ve picked some for you.

1. Rustic Kitchen Island from Reclaimed Wood

An open beams, stained metal structure, distressed paints are only a fraction of iconic rustic theme characters. Yet the bare and over-used look is the strength of the rustic look –it looks cute from the simple and raw appearances.

If you have broken furniture or tables, you even can use the salvaged woods for a rustic kitchen island.

The old and distressed look of the looks should enhance your kitchen island look. Add antique lighting fixtures to complete your rustic setup.

2. Classic Small Kitchen Island idea with Wooden Countertop

Still with the unused woods, along with the kitchen island itself, you can turn the woods into the countertop as well.

With the available aged and distressed wood, you should not worry if the result won’t look rustic. It’ll look rustic all around, from the materials, patterns or colors.

For this countertop, we sure you can make it yourself in your free time. As the design is simple and won’t need any fancy tools to do this project.

3. A Rustic Island in Color – With seating

Having a rustic kitchen island doesn’t mean that your kitchen should lack of colors. Your rustic island should not only have neutral or wood colors.

In fact, a rustic island has the potential to be your impressing kitchen’s point of interests. That’s if you add a dab of color on it.

Here the open kitchen island’s body has old distressed blue color. It works perfectly with the wood colors and deep green colors of the cabinets. The dark chairs and rusty lamp fixtures balance the setup.

4. Small Rustic Island in a Modern Farmhouse Kitchen

As we said in the introduction, a rustic kitchen island is one of the most versatile theme that it works well with any other styles.

In this example, a small rustic island is set amid a modern farmhouse kitchen. And you can see right away that it works perfectly well with the farmhouse kitchen.

You even don’t need to paint the island to match the color with the white-dominated kitchen, as the natural color of the wood itself is enough to make it perfect pint of interest of the room.

5. Rustic Industrial Island with Marble Countertop

Along with now popular styles in interior designs is the industrial style. It has a minimalist and utilitarian approach. It also present raw beauty which makes urban people find the style attractive.

This kitchen island is an example of an industrial style. It made of rugged metal plates. For movability, it has wheels on each corner.

For the top, to match with the modern-traditional Spanish kitchen, you need to find the right materials. You might install wood slabs of your DIY project or, if you want something fancy, finding a slab of marble like this following example.

6. A Rustic Island Bar with Stools

In modern home, a kitchen is not regarded as the additional feature anymore. It has become a new center of family activities.

For this reason, along with its function as a preps table, a kitchen island also serves as a bar counter where the members of the family hang around.

To complete the setup, industrial stools are added. Put a pair of Goodman hanging lamps and farmhouse sink above and on the island as the finishing, and you have a most impressing rustic kitchen.

7. A Rustic Kitchen Island for Wood Cabin

When you want to temporary out of modern living style, the woods is one of the most cherished alternative. In this case, having a wood cabin might be worth your hard working days.

A peaceful wood cabin is a thing, completed it with all the amenities and modern comfort is a joy. A wood cabin with fully functional kitchen is your ultimate getaway.

For the island, find the most functional dan durable stuff. An ex metal pushcart like this following example can serve as your island. Top it with wood slab as the countertop.

8. Shiplap Kitchen Island in a Rustic Kitchen

As a rustic material, you should not forget shiplaps from this list. Shiplaps guarantees you for a rustic look, for your island or else.

Once shiplap always present in any outdoor cladding of homes, barns, or sheds. This cladding system is simple and efficient to have, mainly in the area plenty of woods.

Shiplap constructions always inspire warmth vibes in its simplicity. That’s why now some minimalist lovers love to blend their theme with this cladding systems, including in this kitchen island. You only need to add the lighting systems to make it looks the more awesome.

9. A Cool Rustic and Modern Island Idea

In its original purposes, a kitchen island helps you to preps your food stuff before cooking. It also a place where you sort out your food stuff before storing them into each respective storage places.

A complete island has built-in cabinet as well, so you have additional storage spaces for the foods. You might install the island as a temporal or a fixed feature of the kitchen.

In this setup, you meet a rustic island in classic modern farmhouse kitchen. If you want a warm and pleasant kitchen, you might consider this rustic kitchen theme.

10. Simple DIY Rustic Island with Brick Supports

If you have an ample free time and you want to update the kitchen island, then probably you need to install this kitchen idea for your next DIY project.

One on the most daunting task to do the project maybe in building the supports, as the regular island requires you to have ample carpentry skills. But most of your project won’t have anything to do with building a regular island.

For this project, you next only to build the supports, which are made of brick constructions. As for the countertop, you may out on it a slab of prefabricated concrete or just a slab of wood like this one in the example.

11. Small Rustic Island in Distressed Look

This island kitchen will be your other kitchen DIY project. Not like the previous version, it’s even easier to do. You don’t even need mortar or bricks. This time you need several wood boards.

If you want a strong rustic character, then you need to use reclaimed woods. They’ll look rustic effortlessly, without any distressing processes on the finishing stages.

As shown in this small island example, you don’t have to make neat cuts on the boards, as coarse edges and distressed or chipped paints are signature of a rustic style.

12. Mini Rustic Kitchen Island on Wheels

Now if you don’t want a fixed island in the kitchen, this mini island should sit well with your needs. This island also works well for a small kitchen.

If you remember the metal island up in this list, this mini island also works in the same line, only this time you have a small sturdy wooden island.

Though small and you can move it easily, this island is also equipped with wheels. So that you also can use it as a kind of practical push cart around the house, not only the kitchen.

13. Eclectic Kitchen Island with Eastern Vibes

A kitchen island took off as a popular kitchen feature in 1950s, after the new entertainment and news media took hold the US attention, the TV programs. Several early TV celebrities introduced the island via their cooking programs.

From then on, kitchen island, slowly but surely, got the US people’s attention. Now you may pick any island you like and match it with your kitchen’s theme.

This bar kitchen island also one of the choices, mainly if you like an eclectic theme. It’s made of reclaimed Eastern window covers, still in its original exotic colors.

14. Modern Kitchen in Rustic Vibes with Naked Wooden Structures

You don’t have to rebuild the kitchen from scratch to get the rustic in your home. You only need to add the essential characters of the rustic styles.

For your purposes, you can experiment with rustic materials. And if you want to find the easiest and quickest way to get the rustic look, then try the wood materials.

This modern kitchen uses the similar trick, where several naked wood materials are inserted into the kitchen areas. The result is a kitchen with rustic theme, from the rustic elements on the kitchen cabinets, beams, floor, and the countertops.

15. The Right Light Fixtures for Your Rustic Island

Finding the right lighting for a rustic kitchen shouldn’t present problems for you, even if you don’t have any experiences on this matter before.

For rule of thumb, you only need to follow the overall theme of the features under the lamps. So, for example, if you want to bring matching lighting systems to your new rustic kitchen island, you need to find the lamp fixtures with the similar vibes.

The most common lamps fixture to use in a rustic setting are of minimalist and industrial styles, such as the fixtures in this example.

16. Rustic Island with Reclaimed Woods and Corrugated Metals

There’re a variety of materials for a rustic island. If you want it easy and affordable, reclaimed woods and corrugated metal sheets are two ‘ingredients’ you should consider.

With reclaimed woods, you even don’t have to make the materials look aged and distressed (two characters of rustic theme) as they’re already that way.

This example shows you how easy it is to build a simple island that even you might want to try it in a DIY project. For accent and support, combine the structure with corrugated metal sheets. The chicken wire lighting fixtures are unique rustic addition.

17. Rustic Big Wooden for Island with Seating

A kitchen island shouldn’t have to look like regular kitchen island you often see on a flashy interior magazine or sites. If you don’t want a regular covered island, for example, you may switch to the open kitchen island like this example.

As about the lower parts, you may choose the open table, means that you use a regular table for the island; or choosing an open island with shelves under it.

If you prefer the latter type, here’s an example of it. Just like any other rustic island in this list, the raw appearance works well with the modern kitchen theme around it. Complete the island setup with seating.

18. Types of Rustic Kitchen Island?

So far you’ve meet several types of rustic kitchen. To summarize, you have at least six types of kitchen island.

They are small kitchen island, Kitchen table, rolling kitchen island, cabinet kitchen island, full kitchen island, and tiered island.

The one in this illustration is an example of kitchen table island. The designs has no differences from regular tables, only now you use it on the kitchen as an island. If you’re into rustic style, having an old table on the kitchen may inject the rustic vibes.

19. A Gorgeous Two-Tiered Rustic Kitchen Island

As the kitchen is your new social hub in the family, it would be even more comfortable if you install a two-tiered kitchen island with seating, in bar style.

You may choose a set of two-tiered island, where the tiered structures are integral parts of the island. Or you may find a regular island and add the tier later with other structures.

If you like the latter, this is an example of it. You have here a two-tiered island with the higher part being made of stone structures, topped with wood slab countertop, and lined with rustic rattan chairs.

20. Rustic Island with beadboard

A rustic theme isn’t about all-naked and distressed wood themes. You may find the characteristics in any vintage features.

So, how about installing beadboard? As one of the most iconic characters, the beadboard offers an affordable and quick way to make your kitchen island rustic.

For the rustic look, line the existing kitchen island with beadboard. Now you have rustic island in the kitchen –quick and easy.

21. Wood-dominated Modern Kitchen with Rustic Natural Stone Kitchen Island

All the way up this list you’ve met kitchen island made of bricks structures. Now when you want to have another island form natural sources, here’s an example for you.

This rustic kitchen island is made of materials’ combination of natural stones and old reclaimed woods.

The stones inject pleasant accent to the all-wood kitchen, just like the black kitchen hood above the modern stove.

22. Modern Lighting for Modern Kitchen with Rustic Kitchen Island

You might want to add warmth to your modern kitchen. And if you choose woods to inject the kitchen with rustic air, you’re right.

Surround your kitchen island with wood boards to match with the ceiling, the floor, and the door. The big windows allow sunlight to flood the kitchen, adding the warmth.

As for the lighting , you have this beautiful minimalist modern balloon lamp fixtures.

23. A Rustic Kitchen Island Idea with Old Dining Table

If you still remember the types of kitchen island, this following photo is an illustration of a table kitchen island.

If you don’t want a bulky fixed regular island in the kitchen, then use this simple kitchen island table. A big old dining table will do well for your purposes, mainly if you want a rustic style.

This old table works equally well for a classic traditional kitchen or your modern kitchen.

24. Industrial Kitchen Island in Steampunk Vibes

Talking about rustic won’t complete without mentioning the steampunk style. Now the full steampunk in its elaborate patterns, but only a fraction of the style –that’s enough.

For this modern kitchen setup, you only need a slightly steampunk-ed kitchen table for the kitchen island. Find the one with the nicest Victorian legs and paint them black like all iron works of the era.

As for the countertop, you need to soften the iron legs e bit with soft white marble slab. It gives luxurious look and feel to the kitchen.

25. Rustic Toscana Dining Table for Rustic Kitchen Island

For this idea, you’ll have a big Toscana dining table for kitchen island. Yes, if you want the pleasant and warmth air of old Italian kitchen style, try this Toscana dining table.

The table also works well as your rustic kitchen island setup. For this table you don’t need to add anything to make it rustic.

The 19 century style of the table itself is already giving you the rustic look for your kitchen, a lot of it.

26. Butcher-block Countertop for a Rustic Island

As you’ve already know, the most expensive of a kitchen island is the top, its countertop. If you choose a premium natural material like marble, the price even is exorbitant.

Now if you want something more affordable but also dependable, then you need to resort to butcher-block as the countertop.

As its name implied, butcher-block, once it’s used as the butcher’s meat cutting board. But now butcher blocks also serve as a rustic top of an island table.

27. Contemporary Minimalist Rustic Kitchen Island with a Cool Lamp Fixture

Again, you have a proof that a rustic styles blends well with any other styles. This time, a rustic island looks impressive in a contemporary kitchen.

This time an industrial Toscana dining table try to match up with the contemporary all-white kitchen –and it makes it.

A unique industrial lamp fixture works as balancer for the table, and it also makes it. Overall, you always can count on a rustic style when you want to add accent to your contemporary kitchens.

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That’s all our picks of Rustic Kitchen Island ideas. Some come with seating and unique lighting. Meanwhile the others offer you modern bar ideas.

Some ideas even are so simple you can make it yourself in a DIY project. But, above of all, those kitchen island ideas listed here work well with any of your existing kitchens.

25++ Most Impressive Steampunk Bathroom Ideas (You Can’t Life Without)

Want something different in the house? Updating the old bathroom into a steampunk bathroom might worth considering. With several other contemporary popular interior designs, this steampunk style is also much loved, particularly for the lover of retro stuff.

As an interior style, this steampunk is relatively a new comer. The term itself came out in 1987, coined by the novelist K.W. Jeter in response to the other popular term, cyberpunk.

In term of interior design, a steampunk design refers to the retro-looking designs; but here you have the much retro style, you dive back into the 19 century retro, where the steam technology and elaborate stylings were still in rage.

The steampunk, in short, is a combination of modern aesthetic vibes with the Steam Age elaborate visual elements. Now if you’re looking to update the bathroom into this steampunk style, we picked you some of the most awesome.

1. Copper Bath for an Elegant Steampunk Bathroom

Copper is a handy materials when you want to go steampunk. You almost always meet this material in any retro or vintage ideas, including in your steampunk bathroom.

The rust-free character of the material, the elegant looking appearance, and the malleability, making copper a source steampunk material for bathroom features like sinks, mirrors, faucets, showers, taps and more.

Here you have another use of copper: as a bathtub. And this’s no ordinary bathtub. For your steampunk bathroom, the best choice is this hand-hammered copper bathtub.

2. Bathroom Accessories: Steampunk Victorian Mirror

Among the most used materials for steampunk decor, you’ve met one –the copper. The other materials are wood, glass, iron, and brass. For the steampunk, they’re processed into passive or working mechanical machinery items or accessories.

A mirror in the bathroom is a must, and so in your steampunk-themed bathroom. For the purposes, find a frameless mirror. It’ll be better if you can find the beveled one, as the type looks elegant and classic on the wall.

To complete the setup, add some brass or copper taps under it. A pair of lamp fixtures of similar materials flanking the mirrors is also a better idea.

3. Edison Lamps for Steampunk-themed Bathroom

For your steampunk-styled bathroom, you also need to consider the choice of its lighting. You need to match the theme with its lighting style.

As it’s a steampunk-themed bathroom, then you should put aside your contemporary LED or neon lighting. Instead, try to find and fix Edison lamps and their antiquated industrial fixture accessories.

The yellowish light of the vintage Edison light bulbs reminds you to the gas or kerosene lamps of the bygone eras, which is irreplaceable by any of modern lighting systems. Just try Edison lamps for your steampunk rooms or bathrooms. They’re awesome.

4. Vintage Steampunk Vanity for Your bathroom

You have had the mirror, now you need to complete the steampunk bathroom setup with its sink and vanity.

A vanity hold your bathroom sink, that’s its main purpose. Sometimes you can add drawers into the structure, for additional storage system.

But here you find an awesome marble vanity with steampunk supports to charm your bathroom. The raw industrial supports gives stark but contrast to the elegant surroundings. Here you also find that the retro industrial style also works well with classic modern design.

5. A Gorgeous Steampunk Sink for Your Bathroom

You’ve had the mirror and the vanity, not its time to find the right sink. The steampunk often offers you ceramic or copper sink for the purpose.

For the model of installation, you may have it as they are, on the countertop; or you may have it as undermount sink. Either way, they’ll look great for your bathroom.

In this example you have a ceramic sink sits on an industrial platform metal, surrounded by wooden structures and masculine mirror. It inspires a cool Spartan look.

6. Steampunk-styled Bathroom, Edwardian Style

You have several sources for a steampunk inspirations, but most of them came from the Victorian days. The era lasted almost a century long, with the long-aged Queen Victoria.

The era is abundant with steampunk ideas, but you also can the ideas in the succession era, the Edwardian era. Though short, only a fraction of early 20 century, the era also is a great source for your love of steampunk items.

The following example is a typical Edwardian bathroom. You can see how the room is full of steampunk accessories. For example, see the elegant lamp fixtures, brass pipes, and the antic wood closet tank cover.

7. Cool Nautical Steampunk Bathroom with Gauges

Steampunk style might remind you of Jules Verne’s story 20.000 Leagues under the Sea, captain Nemo sails with his advanced Victorian submarine.

The submarine alone will spark your imagination with myriad of steampunk ideas just like what you might have seen on the movie.

The old school nautical items of an old submarine indeed is a good place to start, if you want to find other sources other than Victorian or Edwardian era, when you want to have the coolest steampunk items.

8. Repurposed Pipes as Steampunk Accessories in Your Bathroom

You’ve had several sources to find some cool steampunk ideas. Here you have another source: unused items.

Old grandpa clocks, unused workshop benches, old machineries, are only a fraction of stuff you might want to turn into steampunk ideas. Even item as simple as unused metal pipes also provides you rooms for your steampunk experiments.

Here you see metal pipes, metal pipes, are repurposes as cable conduits and for lamp stands. Couple the pipes with industrial taps, joints, and Edison lamps. Your bathroom will looks cool in its old school steampunk industrial flair.

9. Solid Wood Vanity for Your Minimalist Steampunk Sink

You might often see steampunk themes in complex and elaborate layouts. But, just like any other interior themes, you still can see the minimalist sides of the style.

In the steampunk case, you can see the sides in its industrial layouts. Due to the efficiency and safety, industrial designs are always in minimalist –whether it’s in modern or Victorian styles.

Here an example of steampunk industrial vanity that might inspire you: a solid wood vanity with repurposed metal pipes as the stands. The slab of woods matches perfectly with its Victorian black stands.

10. Steampunk Tap for the Steampunk Sink

When you’re in need of a steampunk decor for the bathroom, a right tap/faucet is worth your consideration.

For the materials, you have copper, iron, bronze, or brass. All the materials has their own characteristic. Aside of being utilitarian features, the taps also works nicely as your bathroom decor.

For example, vintage copper taps works well with ceramic sinks on a solid wood vanity. Bronze looks fabulous if you want a real vintage steampunk. If you want to show a masculine factor of the bathroom, all the tap materials are more than enough.

11. Modern Minimalist Bathroom Sink in Steampunk Vibes

An easy way to have a steampunk point of interest in the bathroom is by redoing the sink area. You update the mirror, sink, lighting fixtures, or the sink itself.

As a steampunk style always wants you to have a vintage look with the modern flair, you always find the style combines old (often Victorian) style with the convenience of modern style.

This sink isn’t an exception. Here you have a floating sink with modern lines, coupled with all the steampunk decor like the water piping system and its tap.

12. Round Mirror for Elegant Steampunk-themed Bathroom

Back to the mirror in your bathroom, there’re no rigid rules about hoe the mirror should look like. It has fluid definition about its form factors.

But you should notice that a steampunk style wants you to look at the peak of old steam technologies from the modern perspective. For the reason, you might need to be careful on choosing the materials and the era where you want to draw your inspiration.

For a general rule, the Victorian era always is a better era to start with. Then you might want to move ahead to Edwardian or early modern themes.

13. Elegant Copper Bathtub steampunk bathroom

A copper bathtub is a good feature in a bathroom with steampunk theme, whether it’s an industrial bathtub or a hand-made bathtub.

With the hand-made bathtub you’ll have the exclusivity of an elegant high class vintage bathroom. If you want the modern touches, but still in great Victorian atmosphere, then you may combine an industrial bathroom with brass steampunk taps.

Here you have an example of the setup. A highly polished copper bathtub, coated in classic Victorian black, works elegantly with the also shining brass tap and small shower.

14. Submarine Steampunk-styled Bathroom

Among the highest tech advancement in 19 century, the submarine technology probably is the most intriguing. It’s still unachievable yet, but the people have given strong hints of the undersea adventure, at least on their novels.

The submarine depictions were full mechanical stuff, a complex array of gears, levers, gauges, steam engines, and portholes windows. The pictures stuck to our imaginations up till now and we use the themes to charm our bathroom.

This bathroom tries to emulate the nautical themes of the old era, though not in its full swing. It only wants to get the rusty wall colors and in using porthole as the mirror theme. But those are more than enough to make your bathroom steampunk enough.

15. Copper Pipes and Shower for Your Steampunk-themed Bathroom

A lover of steampunk stuff won’t leave copper pipes alone. Copper pipes, along with other items with copper finishes are staple of steampunk styles.

Aside of its classic look, copper also has anti-bacterial property. It means that if you use as copper as water pipes or water showers, it’ll protect you from the harmful bacteria.

In this steampunk-themed bathroom, copper pipes are used extensively as water pipes for your shower head. It looks cool on the dark wall.

16. Steampunk Towel Rack for Easy Bathroom Update

Finding steampunk accessories for the bathroom is easier than you think, mainly if you have fertile mind full of old techs imagination.

For a towel rack, as an example, you always can depend on the metal pipes. If metal pipes are available, try to use PVC pipes and paint them black or copper finishes to have the old steampunk look.

Setting up a steampunk towel rack also an affordable and easy way to update your bathroom. Like to try this easy setup? You even can do it in a DIY project on your free time.

17. Steampunk Copper Basin and Vanity for Bathroom Décor

Again, this steampunk bathroom idea offers you simple wash basin and vanity setup. The basin-vanity setup is an easy way to grab anyone attention when they come into a bathroom. That’s why we often repeat the idea here.

Some of them are of intricate designs and setups. Some with premium materials, the other setups even with repurposes materials.

Here is an idea of how to add steampunk vibes into your classic bathroom just with a copper wash basin, copper pipes and tap, plus a slab of granite for vanity. The simple setups goes well with the elegant classic surrounding.

18. Steampunk Mason Jars Lamp Fixtures for a Cool Bathroom

After the invention of electrical lighting systems at the end of 19 century, the industrial sectors snapped the new tech into their benefits. The new lighting systems proved to be so efficient and dependable.

From then on, you find lots lamp fixtures to accommodate almost limitless purposes of the world industries, though all have the similar characteristics: simple, rugged, utilitarian –and looked different that the steampunk lovers of today find them awesome.

Here you have an example of DIY steampunk lamp fixtures. They’re made of iron pipes and mason jars. Plug in some Edison lamps and your steampunk lighting system for the bathroom mirror is ready.

19. Steampunk Victorian Rib Shower as Point Of Interest and for Your Healthy Body

Victorian era was full of middle class people. In fact, this era saw the first rise of the generation –thanks to the first industrial boom in England.

In other words, you’ll see the rise of new rich generations. Previously only the privilege of the noble elite and bug merchants, now almost all people has the chance to get rich.

With the phenomenon, then came all new techs to make living more convenience, including this rib shower with its therapeutic benefits for the owners. Now you can have this cage shower idea to get the updated look of your bathroom.

20. Victorian Curtained Shower Steampunk Bathroom

The increasing awareness of physical hygiene in the 19 century had risen the need to hygienic products. This led to the boom of soap, shampoo, and even toothbrushes. Napoleon said to have the habit to brush his teeth with a horse hair toothbrush.

Along with the personal hygienic products, update also happen in the bathroom. Shower were introduced, though firstly only to the top elite of the society.

For a steampunk inspiration, the 19 century curtained Victorian bathroom is worth considering like this one in the example.

21. A Unique Steampunk Washbasin Idea

As we’ve said before, you always can play with the mirror and sinks or wash basins to get cool steampunk look in your bathroom.

As there’re no standard rules as to how a mirror or wash basin should look in a steampunk-themed bathroom, you can freely make an experiment on that parts.

Here you have a unique wash basin coupled with antique tap and mirror. To optimize to steampunk effect, the wall and doors are colored in the same tones.

22. Toilet paper holder for Steampunk-styled Bathroom

An important yet mostly unknown modern revolution happened in 1871 when an American named Seth Wheeler inventing rolled toilet paper. From then on, the business of relieving oneself will be much easier than before.

From then on, you also witnessed bathroom accessories called toilet paper holders. Once they looks heavy with elaborative patterns and engravings, no they look minimalist and utilitarian.

If you want to add a steampunk vibes for the bathroom, try this steampunk bathroom toilet holder. It looks tough and masculine, a good balance for a roll of soft toilet paper.

23. Old Steampunk Cabinets for Bathroom Decor

Having an old vintage furniture can be a benefit for you in a steampunk setup of the bathroom. All you need to do is to match the furniture with other steampunk-styled bathroom features.

The old furniture, such as this one, coupled with golden theme of the bathtub, offers a peaceful atmosphere to the bathroom.

The feeling further enhanced by the overall bathroom setup which is dominated by solid wood panels. Awesome.

24. Steampunk Wallpaper for an Awesome Bathroom

Hanging a steampunk-themed wallpaper on your bathroom walls is another simple and affordable way to revamp your bathroom.

The Victorian offer a store of iconic images for your purposes, from the natural themes up to the techy stuff.

In this example, you have a classic old map being used as bathroom wallpaper. The result is an awesome bathroom with an impressive steampunk-ish vibes. Old maps are only a fraction of great wallpaper inspiration from the Victorian era, but they are the most iconic theme.

25. Elegant Bathtub Stand for Steampunk Bathroom

Finding steampunk accessories for the bathroom sometimes present challenge for some of us. The problem is not about the lack of the choices, but finding the right one for your own taste.

Some people probably want to have the most intricate bathroom accessories available, but the other people like the simple but elegant one.

If you’re of the latter types, you might love this bathtub stand. The metal stand has elegant curvy patterns which should satisfy your simple classic taste.

26. Futuristic Steampunk-themed Bathroom

Being a fusion style, a steampunk theme always able to accommodate any room for experiments. Not only you can have fun with steam tech features in a modern setting, you even can go beyond it.

You even may turn the old tech into a futuristic theme: a Victorian styles but in the Star Wars liveries.

Like to try? Here’s an example for a start. Instead of black, white and light grey colors dominate the room, making it look futuristic.

27. Insect-themed Wallpaper for a Cool Steampunk Bathroom

For the last list of this listicle, we’d like to offer you again the wallpaper them that we hope can spark a steampunk inspiration in your mind.

If previously you have a Victorian map for the wallpaper, here we offer you the other iconic theme of Victorian era: insect images.

The prolific insect hunters are prevalent in Victorian era and had brought us the most comprehensive insect lists in biology history –complete with the hand drawn illustrations. Some went to the natural science, the other became inspiration for steampunk decor like the following example.

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That’s it. That’s all the steampunk bathroom ideas we picked for you, and now we hope you have the clue as to the steampunk features you love to include in your updated bathroom.

Whether it’ll be the decor, accessories, or vanities features, we sure the end result of your bathroom will be astonishing and uniquely different.

25++ Inspiring Small Deck Ideas to Update your Backyards

If you want to expand the home without having to build conventional additional structure, then you need these small deck ideas. Yes, this time we try to offer you some deck ideas for limited space areas, as not every one of us need large decks for our homes.

A deck is a perfect place to enjoy your time outdoors. Any outdoor activities like family gathering, barbequing, family dinner, would be wonderful if you held them on the deck on a clear day.

As alternative, you might install an open deck or the covered deck. If you want sheltered outdoor activities, then the covered porch is yours. In the other hand, an open porch offers you a more direct experience with the natural surroundings.

Now if you need a little more inspiration on small decks, here we have 25+ inspiring small deck ideas to start with.

1. A pair of Chairs for a Simple Tropical Small Deck Idea

As an additional structure to a house, a deck is worth considering. If, for example, you need weeks to build additional home structures with conventional materials, you only need a fraction of the time to install the deck.

If you’re in an on a budget mode, this deck also is far more affordable. You also can count on deck if you don’t want an intrusive structure around the house.

Once set, don’t forget to add other features to make it cozy and comfortable. A pair of modern rattan chairs might worth your consideration of you love tropical theme, like this one.

2. A Rustic Industrial Deck for Small Backyard

Having a new deck means that you have a new useful area for your family members or friends to enjoy their time outside. They have a focused area close to the house and at the same time they can enjoy the view of your garden.

A small deck won’t eat much of your garden, but it gives awesome effects into it. It frees your garden to be as it used to be by replacing it as your outdoor point of activities.

This industrial deck for small backyard is an example of the case. It serves well as your point of activities.

3. Simple Cottage Style Small Deck with Pergola

A small space often presents a more challenging plan when you want to install a deck. You have to have an efficient deck layout or your home will look terrible.

With the right plan and design, your home will look charming with the new deck, which neither too big nor too small for it.

In this photo, you find an example of it. Here you have a small cottage style wooden deck with pergola on it. It looks comfortable you always want to sit on the chairs.

4. A Classic Small Deck with Wooden Lattice Fence

Decorating processes should not a problem if you know the basic style of the deck you’d love to have. One you grasp the idea, the decoration processes should an easy task.

If, for an example, you have minimalist small deck idea, then for the decoration you should find stuff, color, materials which match with your basic style, the minimalist.

In this example you have a deck with classic theme. So, for the decoration you might want to put classic lattice fence around it for the more enchanting classic vibes.

5. Small Deck with Minimalist Railing

You your deck is set higher above the ground, you should consider the safety system for it. You need to include railings around the deck.

As for the materials, now you have several materials for it –depends on your deck main theme. So you might choose woods, metals, stones, concrete, or combination of the materials.

This picture shows you an example of railings for a minimalist deck. It made of metal and wood. The iconic minimalist color, black and wood colors, emphasis your overall minimalist theme.

6. An Inviting Deck with Swing

The often overlooked benefit of a deck is that it also increase the curb value of your houses. As the curb value increases, so the overall value of your houses.

For the reason, you plan to sell the house, adding a deck won’t hurt your home, instead it’ll make your account thicker when you have the suitable buyer.

Not only the layout of the deck itself adding a value to your home, the features on it also have visual impact to your prospective buyers. To add a wow factors, try to add a unique swing bench on it. It’s easy to set and surely impressed anyone who see.

7. A DIY Small Deck Idea with Wood Benches

There’s no reason for you to not having a deck in your home if you have a fertile mind and crafty hands. You always can use any unused materials around the house for it.

If you’re on a budget and wood pallets are abundant around you, then you can turn them into a gorgeous small deck like the following idea.

As about the designs, it’s up to you. For example, the following image shows you simple pallet wood deck which should easy to follow if you want to have one for your homes.

8. A Cozy Boho Small Deck

Though small, a deck is always a sweet spot to have a tea or enjoying leisure time in a pleasant morning or evening.
For the utmost enjoinment, try to find additional features for the deck. You might need to find the right chairs, benches, or else.

In this example, you meet one of the most enjoyable deck so far. It’s in the Bohemian theme, complete with the typical colorful curtains, roofing, and pillows –all the ingredient of cozy atmosphere. Don’t forget to hang string lights to complete the setup of this deck for small backyard.

9. A Pleasant Backyard Deck for a Minimalist Wood Cabin

As we’ve said before, a deck helps to increase you home value. The trick works well whether you have it in a big or smaller houses.

If you happen to have a log wood cabin and want a more pleasant spot to enjoy the nature, you also need to consider a deck.

This small deck idea gives you a glimpse of a backyard deck of a pleasant wood cabin. The minimalist designs blend well with the overall cabin designs. Surrounded with railings, the deck looks seamlessly integrated to the cabin.

10. A Comfortable Deck with Tropical vibes

No matter how simple and small your deck is, if it always becomes one of your hangout place, your deck has served one of its purposes: as a cozy place for outdoor activities.

Along with the aesthetic aspects of a deck, the deck’s comfortability also need your attention. It includes on giving the right features on it, mainly if you want it to be your unofficial living room.

For the purposes, you need to find the right chairs, pillows, coffee table, and the ottoman. Greenery also need to come along to freshen the atmosphere. For an idea, here a photo for you.

11. A Low Open Deck for Small Home

There’re no rules on how tall a deck from the ground. You might have a deck from a second floor of a home, or you might have it close to the ground. All are great for your homes.

The taller deck might need railings, while the ground-huggers need no fence or railing whatsoever. If you prefer unhindered view to the garden, you’ll probably love to have the latter type as well.

In this picture you have a small low deck for a small home. You don’t need any railings. Instead, you may put wood benches on its place. They become a handy place to sit when you want to enjoy the weather outside.

12. A Small Deck Idea with Glass Wind Breaker

A good pleasant evening is a thing, but it would probably end up in a messy situation if then the wind get involves and joining your evening time.

To protect you from the wind, you have alternatives like lining the deck with potted greenery, installing lattice fences, wooden boards, up to setting up a deck railings.

If you don’t want your view get obstructed by railing materials, you may install glass wind breaker like this unique glass railings. The transparent materials still enable you to enjoy the garden without you having to worry about the naughty wind.

13. A Light and Pleasant Small Deck with Polycarbonate Cover

Once, up above in this article, we’ve outlined two types of deck: the open decks and the covered decks. For the covered decks you have various types of its coverings, including the pergola or gazebo.

The difference of both type of roofing is the covering materials. A pergola is consisted only with beams (for vines to grow), meanwhile a gazebo has the roof materials along with the beams.

If you’re on a budget but still want to have your deck covered, you may choose polycarbonate for the roof materials. It’s light and easy to install. It’s also one of the most affordable roofing materials in the market.

14. Cool Modern Minimalist Deck for Small Backyard, with Pergola

A way to enjoy the sun but still have the protected feelings is by installing a pergola on the deck. Along with its original function as vines supports and sun shade, a pergola also is effective to give dimension to your deck.

A deck and pergola are also perfect combination when you want a minimalist theme. The following picture is a perfect example for you.

The simple deck, splashed with dark minimalist color, looks cool and in line with the whole house theme. As the accents, bright red lamp fixtures and dining chairs are added. The warm wood color of the furniture and its rugs complete the scene.

15. Color Play with the Deck Features

What should I do to make my deck looks vibrant and colorful? With a deck alone in the backyard you might feel it a little drab and boring.

An easy way to ‘color’ the deck is by adding colorful features the deck. There are several features you might use as the sources.

In this small deck idea, you have colorful chairs under a similarly colorful wall accents. On the couches you also see pillows with various patterns. On the roof support you find a unique blue lamp fixtures.

16. Tiered Double Small Deck for Dynamic View Experience

When a long narrow backyard deck seems unimposing to you, why not divide it into two smaller decks?

Two tiered small decks that sits next to each other will looks more dynamic than the existing long-narrow deck. Add small stairs to bridge the decks.

This example also shows you that you have an open deck and fenced upper deck. The open lower deck also serves a transition area between the garden and the upper deck.

17. A Picture of Simple Modern Backyard View Deck

Living on a mountain gives you an incomparable benefit: you have a superb view of mountain and valleys all the time.

If you happen to have a backyard with that awesome advantages, it would even nicer if you install a deck on it.

Not the fancy and intricately designed deck, but the minimalist no-frill deck like the following photo. Add several tropical chairs on it and enjoy your summer time to the utmost.

18. A Green Touch to the Deck with Potted Plants

If you love nature and want to enjoy a touch it, then add the greenery to the deck. Find your favorite potted plants and set them all around the deck.

Don’t like the mosquitos and bugs buzzing around during your time on the deck? You have several beautiful plants which also are efficient in repelling them.

Plants like citronella, catnip, basil, lavender, lemon balm, or marigolds are several plants you should consider when you want to stay out on deck without having to worry about mosquitos and insects.

19. Small Deck Idea with Deck Lighting System

Having a pleasant deck a one thing, but get slipped because you missed the deck stairs is not a pleasant experience. Hence, the deck lighting system are invented.

The systems are mainly for deck with multi steps. They’re usually embedded on the vertical side of the steps. Led lights now are the main choices, as the lights are highly efficient and dependable for the outdoor uses.

Though only has two steps, this deck also uses deck lighting systems. Alongside with the safety reasons, the lighting systems also gives ambient light when night comes.

20. Small Concrete Deck with Tub and Firepit

Almost all the decks presented are of wooden materials. In fact, you have several other choices than woods for decks. For example, you can use concrete for the deck.

A sense of brutalism presents with this kind of deck. But, though looks rugged, this deck also offers you certain strong characters, balancing the vast soft feminine green landscape before it.

To warm the chilly brutalism atmosphere, the designers add warm bathtub and firepits. A pair of modern chairs with the fluffy pillows complete the warmth ambience.

21. A Deck with Tiled Floors

Just a while ago we talked about concrete decks as alternative of wooden decks. Now you also have another alternative of wooden decks. Here you have a tiled deck.

Like quality woods, the tiles are also dependable and weather-proof enough to withstand any trouble from the elements.

Tiles also offers you a much more varied colors and patterns, so you won’t be afraid of lacking any themes for your decks. This photo shows you how a modern tile patterns works well with this classic home.

22. A Small Deck Idea with Small Swimming Pool

Not only for a lovely flower or vegetable gardens, a small backyard also has a potential to be your most refreshing swimming pool.

A combination of small wooden deck with (also) small swimming like this example would make your garden look impressive.

The minimalist wooden decks with bean bags and dining table on it is awesome, beyond the glass fence, is an also minimalist swimming pool promising you some refreshing moments in summer time. For the lovely night time, string lights decorating one of its corner.

23. Glass-enclosed Small Deck for a More Private Outdoor Time

Sometimes a roof is not enough to shield you from the elements. Sometimes the rain water still splash your sitting area. If so, then you need a more protective cover like a structure which could enclose the deck.

Yes, you need the cover, but also don’t want it to obstruct your view of the garden area. In this case, you need a glass cover for the purposes.

This picture an example you might want to know if you want an enclosed deck. The furniture on it is surrounded by wood-glass structures, guaranteeing you from any naughty wind, rain, or snow.

24. A Painted Deck Floor. Why Not?

So far in this list you have limited alternative when it comes to the wood floor finishes of the deck. It’s either natural finishes or with neutral colors like brown, white, or the other neutral colors.

But what about a painted floor? The one with patterns, like unique decorative or geometric patterns? Surely you can do it.

For example, this deck has it wood floor painted with colorful patterns. It injects a cheerful atmosphere into the house –and giving utmost joy to the kids.

25. A Shabby Chic Small Deck Idea

If still need inspiration for deck with painted floor, here we have another idea of it. This mainly is for you who think that the previous idea looks too vibrant and want the more calming one.

Here you meet a deck in shabby chic liveries. As you’ve known, a shabby chic always wants you to relax with its calm, soft, and pleasant vibes it builds.

The theme offers you a snug area to sits enjoying the moments. This theme also works well for an ‘on a budget’ deck. The floor here is painted in the similar color with the overall soft color of the railings. It’s so calming and soothing.

26. Another Lighting System for Small Backyard Decks

Once up above in the list you’ve meet a unique lighting system for the deck stairs. Now you have the other types, they won’t light the stairs now.

This lighting system lights up the edge of your decks. They’re not only illuminate your deck, but also gives a romantic ambience for your night time outside.

The unique design of these LED light systems enable you to just put them on any spot you like on the edge of the deck. They’re solar powered and so you don’t have to worry about its wiring.

27. Tropical Small Deck Idea with an Infinity Pool

This last list will takes you to the tropical backyard, complete with the wood deck, infinity pool, and tropical greenery.
It won’t eat much of your backyard. All you need to do is designing the planning carefully, so you might have deck and pool like this cool example.

A polycarbonate roof shades the deck to protect you from the direct sunlight after a dip in the infinity pool right in front of it. It’s a perfect spot to enjoy the summer day.

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So far you’ve met some 25+ small deck ideas, and so far we hope you happy with all the inspiration sparked here.

Not only works well for small backyards, those unique photos of the decks also work well for an ‘on a budget’ projects for your homes. Lastly, have a nice day.