Replace Your Old Fan: A Modern Alternative With A Cool Look From Home Depot

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If you're someone who loves industrial design decor, then you likely know all about the central design elements your home needs to have to produce the style's aesthetic. In fact, you probably picked your current abode precisely because it boasts features like exposed brick walls, miles of pipes, and trails of conduit wires that snake around the walls and ceiling. The strong visual elements associated with this style provide an easy roadmap to enhance your home with accent pieces, like ceiling fans, that work with your decor. The Modern Habitat Spinning 20-Inch Indoor Black Ceiling Fan at Home Depot is one unique piece that would fit right in with an industrial aesthetic.

This fan uses the same kinds of raw materials you'll find in an industrial design decor home, including the exposed wires and light bulbs. That's a big reason why it blends so easily with this decor motif. However, the fandelier's design isn't just cool — it's also quite practical. For example, the four exposed LED-powered light bulbs are equally spaced around the fan's base to provide good light coverage. And a plain wire cage protects the exposed bulbs and keeps the blades of the fan safely housed, to protect against dings and damage.

Industrial-inspired home decor lands on the moody side, thanks to a color palette featuring greens, burgundies, browns, and blacks and the dramatic lighting design that goes along with the aesthetic. This is especially the case if the visual elements of film noir or steam punk are influencing your industrial design choices. The walnut hue of the Modern Habitat fan's blades and the black wiring of the cage are a natural fit for an industrial color palette.

And at nearly 2 feet across, the fan is large enough and striking enough to be a real focal point in a room that features these design motifs. You'll augment that effect if you place it near architectural features that are typically associated with industrial design decor. The fan would look great hanging on the ceiling beams of a kitchen with stainless-steel appliances or near an all-brick fireplace in the living room. The sum becomes more than the individual parts when you bring all of these visual elements together.

Because the piece is being sold primarily as a fan, it's easy to lose sight of how it'll fit into a room's lighting scheme, too. This Modern Habitat fandelier is an overhead light, which means it'll serve the room's ambient lighting requirements. You'll also need to choose some light fixtures that address the room's task and accent lighting needs. And while there's much that could be said about choosing the perfect lights for these functions, we'll limit the suggestions here to just the visual design elements of those lights and how they fit in with the Modern Habitat fan light.

The short of it is, these smaller accent pieces should not clash nor compete for prominence in relation to the ceiling fan. Rather, they need to augment its visual appeal. For example, if the room features steampunk decor, you could choose accent lights shaped like the gears of a giant clock. (Gears are a common motif in this style.) Or you could opt for a table lamp with an exposed bulb and wireworks as parts of its design, just as the Modern Habitat fan does.

Here's why either choice would work with this. The large gears create a visual contrast to the fan's wiry design, while the table lamp's pieces (the exposed bulbs and wires) visually repeat the materials that make up the fan. Contrast and repetition are important elements in good home design. More importantly, employing them here means your cool fan light will never get any shade from onlookers.