Immediately after the completion of repair work in the kitchen, a question arises regarding the filling of the room with functional and attractive furniture. Usually, two criteria is influenced by its choice - ergonomics and affordable cost. This room has a rather limited space, while it requires a relatively large number of household appliances and furniture items.
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Such a problem will partly be solved by acquiring quite expensive at the cost of the heads, which relate to the high class, but not every average family can afford the acquisition of such a plan. It is for this reason that the creation of furniture becomes more and more common option. This is the optimal opportunity for a relatively small amount to obtain satisfying all requirements and individual preferences layout. Recently, kitchens made of drywall are becoming increasingly popular for this purpose.
What can be performed from plasterboard?
Many who have decided to build objects of kitchen furniture from drywall do it yourself, are interested in the question that they are able to make with a minimum number of knowledge and necessary tools.
Important! No more or less important thing can be carried out without a minimal understanding of the essence of the process. For this reason, when deciding to make the kitchen from drywall, it is pre-familiar with the main features of the material itself, as well as the techniques of its high-quality processing.
The main question that concerns each master is the strength of such structures, that is, whether they can withstand the desired load, and whether the furniture will not fall asleep during its operation. It is necessary to know that plasterboard is a solid building material, despite its relative fragility. If you produce a competent installation, the design is able to withstand a serious load of 150 kg per meter and more.
With such a process, the following objects of furniture and design can be drawn with drywall and designs:
- niche;
- shelves;
- countertops;
- open stands;
- bar racks;
- special seating corners with the simultaneous presence of built-in niches that are designed to store kitchen utensils.
As can be seen from all the above, elements made of plasterboard can be replaced by almost all furniture objects in the kitchen. Of course, you will have to carry out relatively complex and volumetric work, but they quickly pay off with a large number of advantages. Among them, such factors can be distinguished as:
- It is possible to organically equip all free space, and make it most comfortable and functional as possible, without the simultaneous feeling that the kitchen room is lit.
- You can create a considerable number of places to store numerous kitchen utensils.
- The final cost will be an order of magnitude lower than when trying to produce all the same processes, but already with more expensive at the price of finished products.
Important! The main advantage of the kitchen arrangement objects from plasterboard is the ability to withstand a significant load. The shelves under the weight of the objects laid on them and the products will not break, not cracked under the weight of the established relatively small household appliances, the countertop even after long-term operation will not work under the hob and washing mounted in it.
Features of manufacturing countertops from plasterboard
Below will be considered in more detail an example of self-making such a design as a kitchen table top of a drywall. For the reason that according to its peculiarities, this is the most complex element of furniture, on the basis of the scheme it will be possible to perform any other design without any problems.
This product can be made in several models. Among them are the most common, linear, P-shaped and M-shaped are considered. The example will be considered the easiest option - a linear kitchen countertop.
To fulfill it, you will need to prepare the following tools and materials:
- profiles guides;
- sheets of plasterboard, the thickness of which is about 18 mm;
- fastening screws and drill, which is in every home;
- a small amount of ceramic tiles will be required;
- glue for securing it;
- spatulas and Special Grout;
- marker, ruler and level.
Important! Before collecting the design, it is required to determine the height of its location, as well as the width parameters of the overall working surface. This is recommended to be guided by the growth of the growth of people living in the apartment and their basic needs.
The process of manufacture of the table tops as follows:
- On the walls located opposite each other, four marks should be made. These are the corners and the extreme points of the location of the future design.
Important! It is necessary to constantly check the evenness of a special level.
- It is necessary to go down to about 10 cm below the marks and make four more stamps. These points will indicate the locations of the guide profile.
- Through the use of fasteners, it is necessary to fix the wall to the wall, where the countertop will be pressed, two profiles. One must be located slightly above the other. The step between self-draws is 17-20 cm.
- Two other elements must be secured by the ends to the wall, they will be the edge of the future furniture subject.
- Between the above and lower elements of approximately every 40 cm, it is necessary to install the support racks from the profile.
- Between the elements mounted at the top, which are adjacent to the surface of the wall and those set to the edge, should be consolidated by special transverse connections with a step of 40 cm.
- The surface of the resulting structure, as well as its side front side is trimmed with plasterboard.
- After that, all places are noted, where it is planned to mount the plate and sink, and then according to these marks, a suitable size of the opening is cut.
- The whole rest free surface is frozen by ceramic tiles.
- The seams between the elements of the tile are required to close with a special grout, the quality of which will allow to withstand a fairly frequent washing process.
In this method, you can make all the main furniture designs, and the kitchen with their own hands from the drywall will be performed quickly and efficiently.
Performing kitchen stellage
To make a plasterboard rack on their own, it is worth prepare the same list of tools that was indicated above. The only thing that will have to complement it are scissors designed to work with the metal.
Below will consider the example of the rack, which consists of shelves located on two racks along the entire height of the room at a simultaneous depth of 50 cm. This design can be equipped with doors, but it will already be a complicated option.
First of all, the markup is applied for racks:
- in the corner located between the floor and the wall put a mark, where the first rack will be;
- from this label, approximately 50 cm retreats, that is, the external edge;
- from the first marked point vertically, the line is drawn from the ceiling itself to the floor;
- from the line thus obtained should be departed deep into the half meter. This is a horizontal part of the future rack;
- from the contour of the rack, located on the right retreats 1.5 meters and all previous manipulations are repeated. As a result of these works, you can get the outline of the second rack.
After that, the profile is mounted at the installed marks and the drill is attached to the wall surface. Then the overall height of future racks is measured and the element is cut down, depending on this value - two elements of the carrier structural profile. Thus, external racks will be obtained. They are inserted parallel to the walls of the wall into special grooves and are connected. Following the results will be obtained two square-shaped frames, which are then trimmed with plasterboard.
Important! To ensure higher strength indicators, horizontal jumpers are located between the vertically racks. Install them better where the shelves will be.
In conclusion, it will be necessary to simply see the frame of plasterboard and you can deal with the final finish. If you wish to equip this design with doors, you will need to install wooden bars on certain places and mounted loops on them.
As can be seen from the foregoing, such a process and solution to the issue, how to make a kitchen from drywall, does not apply to the category of complex. If you have simple tools and have elementary skills, as well as follow the schemes outlined above, you can quickly create high-quality plasterboard furniture and equip the kitchen room.
