7 Rustic Wood Designs | Building Materials Online

So you’ve heard this word thrown around during conversations relating to interior design or architects for buildings?

What does rustic means in the sense of architecture and interior design?

It means visual elements relating to countryside or rural areas and bears these characteristics ; plain, simple, homely, unsophisticated, rough, crude and perhaps even a sense of coziness for some individuals.

The most common building material utilised for these rustic design themes are probably wood, where metal closing in second (known for its rusty beauty)

This is mostly due to these 2 materials, embodies a vintage feeling in such a battered and worn out form, and such ambience, sometimes brings back memories for certain individuals, especially the elderly.

Here are 3 types of commonly used rustic wood patterns.

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These rustic wood materials, can either come naturally i.e. directly processed from raw timber or produced and manufactured by artificially inducing and adding rustic patterns on any normal wooden plank / blocks.

Either way, they could (most of the times) appear cheaper than other materials utilised in building or interior design work.

In Malaysia, the adoption of such design is still rare.

Most of the individuals that went for rustic designs are either nature lovers or renovating their lifestyle cafe making it stand out from normal brick and mortar shops.

In any case here are a few samples we picked to showcase the beauty of this theme.

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However its also worth to note these materials come with several issues.

One of the most obvious is growth of fungus and parasites and it typically attracts insects to breed and build colonies within it, since most of it is basically cut timber in its natural unprocessed or semi-processed form.

The other issue being such materials are prone to cracks, splits and breaking down as mentioned earlier, they are mostly battered.

Alright so you have it! Rustic wooden designs. Like it or hate it as such extreme themes’ public appeal is really specific and subjective. There is almost no middle-grounds.

So does these old wood bring back memories to you?