As time passes, the fashion for the situation in the apartments changes beyond recognition. Today it would not occur to anyone to install a bulky wall with glass shelves for crystal or collected works of various authors in the living room. All these values \u200b\u200bof the Soviet times have long been not signs of wealth and good taste, so there is no need to demonstrate them, forcing all free space by display cases.
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At the moment, lightness, beauty, simplicity and lack of pile of heavy furniture are in fashion. A room equipped with various options for drywall, which is easy to make with your own hands can correspond to these parameters.
Varieties of niches from drywall
Depending on their purpose, the niches of drywall, the photos of which are given in this article, are divided into functional and decorative:
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Functional are those niches that were conceived in order to embed any equipment or subject of the situation, such as a niche under the TV. From drywall, you can also make a niche under the aquarium and others. The owners of modern houses are very fond of constructing niches for bar racks, which are a continuation of the rack itself. Sometimes they are equipped with doors and can also be used as a cabinet.
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The niches that do not play any role are decorative, but simply decorate the interior. In them, vases with dried flowers, frames with photos, decorative plates usually flaunt them. With the help of them, you can supplement the atmosphere, place accents, etc. There are also floor niches playing the role of decor. They most often place flower pots, wooden figurines and so on. Typically, their height is in the range of 80 cm. The floor niches are best combined with horizontal wall recesses or a ceiling consisting of several levels.
How to decide on the shape of a niche that will be suitable for your room?
Before starting to mount niches from drywall in the wall, it is necessary to think over a few important points:
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In what place do you want to place them. Depending on where the niche will be located, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe window, on the partition between the rooms or in another place, its parameters will be determined.
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How many niches do you want to see in your room. If several, then it is necessary to think through their design so that they are combined with each other and with the general decoration of the room, and at the same time it did not look overloaded.
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Design solution. Niches need to be placed and equipped so as to focus on the merits of the room and at the same time distract attention from the shortcomings, as well as visually change its proportions, if necessary. By the way, when designing living rooms, niches are considered the most appropriate in which you can arrange all sorts of decor items, such as vases with dried flowers, decorative shells, figurines, etc.
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Functional efficiency. When constructing the structure, you need to think about its strengthening because Niches are often used to install video equipment or TVs.
Drycardon's niche design
The living room, which is decorated with decorative niches made of drywall, is a modern fashion trend that leaves no one indifferent. Working on the creation of a project of your own hand, the living room can be fantasized and created for pleasure, realizing the unrealized talent of the designer. Using the entire spectrum of existing materials and the latest technologies for decorating rooms, you can create exclusive interiors with a clearly visible personality.
The flight of fantasy should not be limited to anything, but nevertheless it is still necessary to observe some general rules: it is still necessary:
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Shades used for designing a niche should be combined with a color palette in which the whole room is designed. In this case, the niche should not be painted in too dark colors, this can create the appearance of the hole in the wall.
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With a small depth of the niche, the drawing on the wallpaper can be large and, conversely, at a great depth - a small pattern looks more beautiful.
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As decorative elements, paintings, mirrors, lamps, etc. are often placed in niches.
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With the help of well -designed backlight, you can draw attention to the decorative contents of the niche, as well as gently and unobtrusively highlight the room.
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Niches can be placed horizontally and vertically. Horizontal make the wall visually longer, so it is best to make them in short walls. The most beautiful of all they look next to the long, squat dumplings. But the niche, located vertically, will look harmonious in the window area or next to the cabinet.
Tools and materials required for the manufacture of gypsum plasters with your own hands
- One or more sheets of drywall (the number of sheets depends on the number and size of the niches).
- Metal profiles, transverse and guides.
- Brackets.
- Dowels, metal screws, plasterboard screws.
- A little putty.
- A self -adhesive tape for reinforcing joints on a plasterboard structure is Serpyanka.
- Corners made of aluminum or plastic with perforation.
- Drill with a nozzle "Scurrypoint".
- Roulette.
- Construction level.
- Plumb.
- Metal cutting tool.
How to make a niche from drywall?
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Marking. It is necessary to make the markings on which all components of the frame will be performed. They begin to draw it from the floor, gradually moving to the ceiling, using the plumb line. On the ceiling, places of the reference points are marked and a line is drawn between them, which is the contour of the finish. For greater convenience, drawing the markings can be used by the guide profile. If the design you plan has creative cuts, it is better to use the pattern. It is applied to the reference points and bypassed with a pencil.
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Installation of guides. The guides are installed around the perimeter of the structure and then transverse profiles are installed on it as the basis. Mount them, fixing them with dowels through the base. So the design becomes stiffer. The number of dowels can be any, but the minimum that should be used is 3 pieces per profile. If it is necessary to create a figured element, cuts are made at the edges of the guide profile and bend it.
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Mounting transverse profile. This profile will connect the designs from the guides at the top and below and make the overall contour visible. Rumors will also be made from it. They are necessary to give the construction of greater stiffness and in order to subsequently build shelves on them. In this regard, they must be cut and installed, as shown in a sketch drawn in advance.
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Electrician. In the event that you are planning to build a niche from drywall with backlight, then the next step must be done by wiring. The basis for the power supply system is a transformer designed to work for 10,000 hours, having an output voltage of 12 volts and a power of 120 watts. It is fixed on an ebonite stand, which is located between the wall and the transformer. The wiring system is not complicated, all light bulbs are attached in accordance with the principle of parallel connection with the current source. We must not forget that the wires should not hang with a confused ball inside the structure. It is better to fix them in pairs with island. Twisting wires together you need to make a contact layer at least 1.5 cm with each other, closing the place of contact with the insulation.
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Installation of drywall. It is advisable to start installation work on lining with drywall with drywall with the inner planes of the niche. For cladding semicircular elements, the corresponding parts are cut out of drywall sheets. If you use a whole sheet when facing, and not its fragments, then the design will be more rigid. This will slightly increase the amount of the required material, but at the same time it will turn out to be less than the joints, which means Serpi, putty and fasteners will take less. After the inner side is completely lined with the external. Everything is done here in the same way. The curved elements are most easily faced with 3-4 centimeter stripes of the material glued to the frame. If the surface of the curved element has a sufficient area of \u200b\u200bthe area, then this option is not suitable, the drywall sheet will have to be deformed. It is better to purchase a thin sheet designed for ceilings, because It bends much better than designed for walls and having a fair amount of thickness. Gypsumwarton of small thickness (1 cm) can be used for rounding with a large radius. At the same time, he bends perfectly and does not need in advance preparation. Moisturize the sheets should not be In this case, their fragility increases significantly.
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Putty. All seams, corners and joints of sheets can be sealing with a sickle and treated with fugenflieuger glue. Next, you should install corners with perforation. They are strengthened by putty and the same glue at the joints. Self -tapping screws and other fasteners are strictly forbidden - only the use of putty ensures the evenness of the arc in the installation of arched angles with perforation (if used) on curved structural elements. After everything dries well, the surface must be completely covered with finish putty. If, due to the lack of sufficient experience of such work, you will allow any errors, then they can always be corrected by a grinding machine and an abrasive net. This will be the most suitable field for further decoration.
Decorative design of ready -made niches
To finish the niches from drywall in the living room, you can use a variety of materials, here are some of them:
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coatings made of artificial and natural stone;
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multi -colored glass;
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wallpaper of various shades and textures;
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decorative plaster, etc.
All these means make it possible to create a beautiful relief on the surface of the niche. Usually, in terms of color scheme, wall recesses are designed in two ways:
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the principle of color scheme similar to the overall design of the room. Those. If it is painted in pastel colors, then the recesses are painted, observing the same tonality and shades;
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the principle of contrast. Those. By color, a niche can be much lighter or dark in comparison with a shade of the walls themselves, and also have just a different color. But still, you should not color the niches located against the backdrop of light walls, too dark flowers, otherwise they will look ugly.
It is profitable to beat a wall recess not only with the help of decorative materials, but also with the help of lighting. It can be located at the top or on the sides, transforming the entire design of the niche from drywall. The living room in this case will look mysterious and cozy.
Niches of various forms, configurations and locations can also be a separate sculptural composition and have an individual decoration.
The recess in the wall can have one of the surfaces in the form of a mosaic depicting a beautiful landscape and equipped backlight. This design creates the appearance of a window behind which the sun shines all year round.
If 2-3 small niches are located in the wall in the wall, it is better to decorate them, using the same palette of shades as when decorating walls, it is best a little lighter. To make the corners look more accurately strengthening wooden or plastic rails on them. In them, small decorative elements, such as photo frames, various souvenirs, decorative candles and shells, will look best in them.
If the structure of the niche involves the presence of several shelves, then it can be beaten with an unusual frame for paintings, in which case it will look very unusual.
The aquarium built into the wall looks like a unique work of art, especially if it is correctly illuminated. Its inhabitants slowly maneuver between plants curly on water, creating a constantly changing picture, inspiring peace and peace.
The inner surface, which is covered with expensive tapestry or a carpet made by hand, looks very beautiful and richly very beautiful and rich. But when choosing this option, the backlight is required without fail, otherwise the view can be slightly gloomy.
