How to make a niche of drywall in the living room do it yourself

As the time passes, the fashion for the situation in apartments changes beyond recognition. Today, no one will come to the head to install a bulky wall in the living room with glass shelves for a crystal or collection of works of various authors. All these values \u200b\u200bof Soviet times have long been not the signs of wealth and good taste, so there is no need to demonstrate them, forcing all the free space by showcases.

Currently, in fashion, lightness, beauty, simplicity and lack of a heavier piece of furniture. Consuming these parameters can room equipped with various options for niches from drywall, which is easy to make it yourself.

Varieties of niches from drywall

Depending on its purpose, a niche of drywall, the photos of which are given in this article are divided into functional and decorative:

• Functional are those niches that were conceived to embed any technique or the object of the situation, such as niche under the TV. From drywall, you can also make a niche under the aquarium, etc. The owners of modern houses love to build a niche for bar racks, which are as if the continuation of the rack itself. Sometimes they are equipped with doors and can be used as a wardrobe.

• Decorative are niches that do not perform any role, but just adorn the interior. They usually bounce vases with dryers, frames with photos, decorative plates. With the help of them, you can add the situation, arrange accents, etc. There are also floor niches playing the role of decor. In them, the floral pots are most often placed, tree figurines and so on. Usually their height is within 80 cm. Best of all, floor niches are combined with horizontal wall recesses or ceiling consisting of several levels.

How to decide on the form of a niche that will approach your room?

Before starting to mount a niches from drywall in the wall, you need to think about several important points:

• In the same place you want to post them. Depending on where the niche will be located, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe window, on the partition between the rooms or elsewhere, its parameters will be determined.

• How much niche you want to see in your room. If a few, then you need to think about their design so that they are combined with each other and with the overall decoration of the room, and at the same time it did not look overloaded.

• Designer solution. Niche needs to be placed and equipped to focus on the merits of the room and at the same time distract attention from flaws, as well as visually change its proportions if necessary. By the way, when the living rooms are cleaned, niches are considered the most appropriate, in which all sorts of decor objects can be arranged, such as vases with dryers, decorative shells, figurines, etc.

• Functional efficiency. When building a construction, you need to think about it. Niches are often used to install video equipment or televisions.

Plasterboard Niche Design

The living room, which is adorned with decorative niches made of plasterboard - it is a modern fashionable trend, which does not leave anyone indifferent. Working on the creation of a handwritten draft furnish the living room, you can dream up and create your pleasure, embodying the unrealized talent designer. Using the full range of existing materials and the latest technology home decoration, you can create exclusive interiors with a firmly established identity.

Flight of fancy should not be limited by anything, but still observe some general rules still need to:

• Shades used for the decoration of the niche must be combined with a color palette in which the entire room is maintained. It should not be too much to paint a niche in dark colors, it can create the appearance of a hole in the wall.

• At a small depth of the niche, drawing on the wallpaper can be large and, on the contrary, at great depth - look beautiful small patterns.

• As decorative elements in niches often placed pictures, mirrors, lighting, etc.

• With the help of well-designed lighting can draw attention to the decorative niche content, as well as soft and gently illuminate the room.

• Nishi can be positioned horizontally and vertically. Horizontal wall visually make longer, so it is best to do them in the short walls. Just beautiful, they look next to the long, squat furnishings. But the niche is located on a vertical will look harmoniously in the area of \u200b\u200ba window or next to the wardrobe.

Tools and materials required for the manufacture of niche plasterboard with their hands

1. One or several sheets of plasterboard (the number of sheets depending on the number and size of the recesses).
2. Metal profiles, and lateral guides.
3. Brackets.
4. Dowels, screws, metal, screws Drywall.
5. A little putty.
6. Self-adhesive tape for reinforcing joints in drywall construction - serpyanka.
7. Corners of aluminum or plastic material with perforations.
8. Drill with paddle "screwdriver".
9. Roulette.
10. Building level.
11. Plummet.
12. Tools for cutting metal.

How to make a niche of drywall?

• Marking. It is necessary to make marking on which all components of the framework will be performed. It is starting to draw it from the floor, gradually moving to the ceiling, while using a plumb. On the ceiling marks the places of the reference points and spend between them, which is the contour of the finish. For greater convenience, drawing markup can be used guide profile. If the design you have conceived has creative cuts, it is better to use the pattern. It is applied to the reference points and rub the pencil.

• Installation of guides. The guides are installed around the perimeter of the structure and then the transverse profiles are installed on it as the basis. Mounted them by fastening the dowels through the base. So the design becomes more rigid. The number of dowels can be any, but minimum that should be used is 3 pieces per profile. If it is necessary to create a figure element at the edges of the guide profile, cuts and bend it.

• Mounting the transverse profile. This profile connects the structures from the guides at the top and bottom and will make the common outline. Jumpers will also be made from it. They are necessary to make 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.

• Electrician. In the event that you have conceived to build a niche of a highlighted drywall, the next step must be wiring the wires. The basis for the power supply system is a transformer, designed to work for 10,000 hours having a 12 volt output voltage and a power of 120 W. It is fixed on an ebony stand, which is located between the wall and the transformer. The wiring system is not complicated, all the 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 the tangle inside the design. It is better to fix them with couples using a tape. Twisting wires together need to make a contact layer at least 1.5 cm with each other, covering the place of contact with the tape.

• Installation of plasterboard. Mounting work on the cover of plasterboard is desirable to start with the inner planes of the niche. For the facing of semicircular elements, the corresponding parts are cut from drywall sheets. If with the cladding to use a solid sheet, and not its fragments, then the design will be more rigid. This will slightly increase the amount of material, but it will be less junctions, which means the serpeaches, putty and fasteners will leave less. After the inner side is fully lined with you can go to the external one. Everything is done similarly here. The curved elements are easiest to be tinted with 3-4 centimeter strips of the material blended on the frame. If the surface of the curved element has a sufficient area in size, then this option is not suitable, the sheet of plasterboard will have to be deformed. It is better to purchase a thin sheet designed for ceilings, because It is much better than the one designed for the walls and having a fair thickness. Low thickness plasterboard (1 cm) can be used for roundabouts with a large radius. At the same time, it bends perfectly and does not need advance preparation. Moisturize sheets should not be because At the same time, their fragility increases significantly.

• Putty. All the seams, the corners and joints of the sheets can be sealed and treated with "Fouganeger" glue. Next, you should install corners with perforation. They are strengthened with the help of putty and the same glue on the joints. It is strictly forbidden to use selflessness and other fasteners - only the use of putty provides the smoother arc when mounting arched corners with perforation (if used) to curved structural elements. After everything is well frown, the surface must be fully covered with finishing putty. If, due to the lack of sufficient experience of such work, you allow any errors, they can always be adjusted with a grinding machine and an abrasive grid. It will be the most suitable field for further decoration.

Decorative design of ready-made niches

To separate a niche of drywall in the living room, you can use a variety of materials, here are some of them:

• coatings of artificial and natural stone;

• multicolored glasses;

• wallpaper of various shades and textures;

• decorative plaster and others.

All these means make it possible to create a beautiful relief on the surface of the niche surface. Usually in terms of color solutions, wall recesses are decorated in two ways:

• the principle of color scheme is similar to the general design of the room. Those. If it is painted in pastel colors, then the recesses are painted, observing the same tonality and shades;

• the principle of contrast. Those. In color, niche can be much brighter or dark compared to the tint of the walls themselves, and also have just another color. But still you should not paint the niches on the background of light walls, too dark colors, otherwise they will look ugly.

It is advantageous to beat the wall recession can not only with the help of decorative materials, but also by highlighting. It can be located at the top or on the sides, transforming the entire design of the drywall niches. The living room in this case will look mysterious and cozy.

Niches of different forms, configurations and locations can also be a separate sculpture composition and have an individual finish.

The deepening in the wall can have one of the surfaces in the form of a mosaic depicting a beautiful landscape and equipped with backlight. This design creates the visibility of the window, followed by the sun on a year round.

If the wall is located in a number of 2-3 small niches, it is better to decorate them, applying the same tint palette as when the walls are cleaned, it is best to do a little lighter. To the corners look more neat to strengthen wooden or plastic rails on them. They are best of all the best decorative elements, such as photo frames, various souvenirs, decorative candles and shells.

If the structure of the niche provides for a few shelves, it can be beaten with an unusual frame frame, in this case it will look very unusual.

Aquarium embedded in the wall looks like a unique art of art, especially if it is competently highlighted. His inhabitants do not rush to the plants between the water curling around the water, creating a constantly changing picture, inspiring peace and pacification.

Also very beautiful and richly looks niche inner surface, which is tightened by an expensive tapestry or carpet made by hand. But when choosing this option, the backlight is required without fail, otherwise the view may be slightly gloomy.