In an effort to equip his house with an original and tasteful, each owner tries to apply not only imagination, but also designer makings. Construction materials come to the aid of skilled handles, which today there are a great many. It will not be difficult to find a workshop on repair or decor of the house on the Internet, but it is much more difficult to find complete information about the correct design, for example, the doorway. There are a lot of decor options, and in this article we will dwell in detail on each of them.
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The secrets of the decor of the doorway
If during repair work in your house you adhere to a certain stylistic concept, then the question always arises of decorating interior doors or their complete dismantling, leaving an open opening.
In modern apartments and houses, you can most often see interior doors in traditional design. Visually, this element plays the role of the demarrier of the room and, as a rule, the doorway is a painted beam made of wood, without additional piles. But when there is no particular need at the door, the opening can be arranged in the form of an arch, plastic or drywall platbands, as well as with stone or tiles. In the world of design technology for decoration of doorways, special attention is assigned, as it has its own rules and standards. And since this element of the room is often subjected to impacts and other mechanical damage, before you arrange a doorway, it is necessary to think about what is best used for finishing. You should choose strong and shock -resistant materials.
The original design of the doorway will allow you not only to bring a note of style to the general entourage, but also to save space, for example, in a small apartment.
The most optimal option that does not require an interior door is a passage from the kitchen to the living room, or from the living room to the guests reception room. The same options are acceptable for the transition from the office to the library, from the kitchen to the dining room. The most popular ideas for placing and designing doorways can be seen in the photo.
The advantages of the design
Three factors determining the need for open opening:
- Giving the building stiffness. In terms of technical characteristics, very often doorways are located in the supporting walls, so residents have to equip the passage using additional racks or cabinets.
- Unification of space. Entring their creative plans, some designers try to make a doorway in the wall, or expand it in order to combine the living room and kitchen, hall and office, and so on.
- Separation of the room. The construction of an additional wall with an open opening in the room does not require special approvals with housing, in addition, thanks to this design, you can zone the room and get two compact ones from one large room.
The advantages of the design:
- reducing the cost of acquiring a door leaf. No matter how you try to decorate this passage opening in the wall, and no matter what materials are used for this, it will be more expensive to purchase a whole door;
- door design requires minimal care, unlike a high -quality door;
- refusal to install an interior door is a significant visual expansion of the space of the room.
Forms of doorways
Door openings are of different forms:
- Rectangle. An unchanged component of this design is a casual and a door leaf. The rectangular shape of the doorway allows him to separate the space among himself, and to be a stylish element of any design. If for some reason the door must be removed, then it is better to think about the design of the doorway immediately in order to decorate the emptiness that has formed, and in the future it did not attract attention and eyes.
- One of the popular options for the doorway is the arch. It is very simple to make it, but the main thing here is that the premises that are connected by such a design are decorated in the same stylistic direction. It should not “weigh” the room, and its dimensions depend not only on the wishes of the owners, but also on the materials used to create an arch. In turn, the arched structure is rounded, in the form of an ellipse, trapezoidal and asymmetric with slopes.
- The concept of "imitation of the arch" means the use of semicircular segments on a rectangular structure. Special overlays are attached in the corners on both sides of the niche, forming pretty rounded shapes. You can distinguish and concentrate on the doorway by applying various color solutions, lamps, curtains and other accessories.
Nuances in preparation for work
In order to start facing the doorway, you must in advance the availability of such building tools as:
- hammer and electric jigsaw;
- manual saw and strong knife;
- pencil for segments;
- construction level;
- chisel;
- bit.
In addition, you will need putty to prepare the surface. The design of the doorway without a door should be started by cleaning its surface from various kinds of pollution. Then you need to leve and put the visible irregularities.
After everything is dry, you can start installing the decor elements, but before that, make their correct marking and pruning. There are no restrictions on the use of certain materials for decoration, it all depends on consumer preferences.
Types of doorway decoration
Today, you can stylishly design the doorway in different ways and materials. Modern interior design offers the following types of decoration:
- decoration of doorways with plastic panels;
- gypsum or polyurethane stucco molding;
- paving the opening with a decorative stone;
- design of the doorway with clinker tiles;
- creation of arched structure;
- traditional rectangular painted opening.
Having the necessary tools, materials and practical experience in your arsenal, you can arrange an interior opening with your own hands:
- Plastic.
Plastic panels are the most popular type of design of rectangular openings, as they have a number of undeniable advantages, such as:
- ease of operation and installation;
- simplicity of care;
- low plastic price;
- resistance to damage.
Depending on the preferences, you can purchase panels of any color, as well as with imitation of wood. Using only mounting glue or liquid nails, you can easily and quickly fix the plastic in the opening.
- Polyurethane or gypsum.
The most common polyurethane or gypsum stucco molding in houses with a design of a certain topic, for example, in the Byzantine style.
With intentions to work with these materials, the following points should be taken into account:
- the decoration is quite capable of making it independently in the presence of ready -made parts;
- you need to understand that such a decorative pattern will be inappropriate in the room with different styles;
- in the conditions of a small room, fine stucco molding is best suited, it does not weight the opening;
- polyurethane can be painted in any desired color.
- Stone finish.
The most stylish and expensive type of decor of the opening without a door. If there is a masonry experience, all work can be done with your own hands.
The main advantages of the doorway finish by decorative stone are the presentable appearance of the structure, strength and compatibility with other materials. In addition, the stone is durable and easy to care.
For decoration in the apartment of the apartment, you need to select a medium -sized stone. It is attached to special tile glue, liquid nails or putty.
- Clinker.
As an internal decoration, clinker tiles decorated under a brick is often used. This decor option looks very spectacular both inside and outside the room. Today, the tile decoration of the doorway is combined with window openings from the same materials, so that the room acquires its own style.
- Tree.
Wooden panels for the decor of interior openings are horizontal and vertical. Visually, they can be decorated with carved ornaments.
- Textile.
To hide the small flaws of the opening, or to stylishly design the door structure, textile disguise will help.
As an option, for decoration you can use:
- curtains or curtains on the doorway. Depending on the style of the room, they can be made longer or shorter.
For these purposes, window curtains are perfect in classical design and with special pickups. Decorative curtains can be made of wood, beads, shells, clay, candies and dried fruits. The flight of fantasy when creating them should have any boundaries, the more unusual - the better.
Bamboo curtains on the doorway is a completely acceptable and environmentally friendly option. It looks great in any interior, easy to care and resistant to ultraviolet light;
- lambrequins are an original framing of the interior opening without a door, in addition, they perfectly complement the curtains;
- the blinds on the doorway are used quite often, especially when there is a need to distinguish space.
At any moment they easily rise and fall. Such an interior partition can be practiced both in the conditions of the office and in the apartment. The blinds as an opening are sliding, glass, mobile and veneered. Japanese rope blinds bring special chic and sophistication to the interior design.
