In the field of modern design art, there are many possibilities and options for transforming premises of any scale and different layouts. One of these options is a ceiling niche, with which you can easily disguise even suspended curtains. If you are interested in such a popular decor element, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the instructions for creating a niche in the ceiling.
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The design of the ceiling with a niche
The design of the ceiling in a living room is an equally important process than the decoration of walls and floor, because the ceilings can sometimes be part of the common type of room and its main accent.
Time does not stand still, modern construction technologies are also being improved. Today it becomes a forgotten past, wallpaper glued the ceiling. Driving and tiles above the head also long lost their former popularity. New ideas are replaced by the old, creative design planes come true, and there are plenty of options with which you can make a beautiful ceiling. The most common and durable structures are rightfully considered stretch and drywall ceilings.
Flexible drywall in the work can take absolutely any form, while correctly selected backlight allows it to play with light and convert the space. Volumetric ceilings with carved niches in the photo look quite original, in addition, drywall allows you to create different geometric shapes that do not look boring even in the same color scheme.
Stretch ceilings with a built -in niche are complemented by lamps. This method is especially relevant in rooms with low ceilings: visually it makes the room higher.
Often the ceiling niche looks like a false flow, which is located at a certain distance from the ceiling. Since the niche is mainly designed to arrange a cornice in it or a curtain suspension system, they equip it opposite the wall with a window opening. You can plan a design of various sizes: its width is designed depending on the dimensions of the suspension under the niche. Thin string suspensions are successfully decorated with a shallow niche (3-4 cm), and massive fasteners for curtains require a niche with a width of 10 to 25 cm.
The original built -in backlight can radically transform the design of the room. When planning the lighting system, you need to think in a special shelf for LED tape in a niche. The lighting of the curtains should be equipped with a separate switch so that the light can control the light. Creating your original ceiling repair, you need to think over everything to the smallest detail so as not to spoil the aesthetics and appearance of the room. You need to take care of the creation of a niche under a stretch ceiling, because the cornice cannot be mounted on the covering of the canvas. A niche for curtains in a stretch ceiling is the most rational option that allows you to hide the cornice, to give the curtains lightness and weightlessness, and a beautiful look.
The niche in the ceiling will fit perfectly into any interior: office, restaurant and hotel. This simple design solution will emphasize the feature of the style of the room, and in combination with illumination will give an atmosphere of romance in the bedroom and provide comfort in the living room. This design is not only solid and worthy, but also allows the use of cornices with different fastening methods. A fashionable design experiment is suitable for people with good taste, who do not accept everyday life, and also see the beautiful in simple details.
DIY niche in the ceiling
A suspension ceiling made of drywall is the most optimal design for the installation of a ceiling niche. And the most acceptable option for arranging a niche is its creation in the process of fastening the ceiling frame.
Production technology:
- Before making a niche in the ceiling, you need to mark the markings. To do this, draw a line on the ceiling parallel to the wall with a pencil. The distance from the wall should be equal to the width of the fasteners for curtains. Experts advise even with narrow suspensions to make a niche at least 12 cm width, due to the fact that the curtains should be located freely in it. A narrow niche will create creases on fabric.
- By the available markup, proceed to the installation of guide profiles for the frame. It is most convenient to let one wide profile (10 cm) along the edge of the niche. If it is not there, then fasten the starting profile on the ceiling, and mount the racks from the main profile to it. Then attach another starting profile to them at the level of the lower ceiling plane.
- Using screws, connect the entire drywall structure.
- Close the inner slope of the niches with plasterboard, and treat the ends with a shirt. The width of the drywall strip should be equal to the depth of the niche.
- If you plan to do a niche for curtains with backlight, then the LED transformer can be hidden directly in the ceiling. The tape with lamps should be placed on the lower protruding shelf of the niche.
- The niche for the curtains in the ceiling is ready, now you need to put it and apply a layer of finishing. After complete drying, proceed to install the cornice for curtains.
Niche in a stretch ceiling with your own hands
In a stretch ceiling, it is difficult to make a lowernger yourself, but possible.
Production technology:
- Using dowels with plastic or metal sleeves to the ceiling ceiling, attach the cornice. It is better to do this before a stretch ceiling is installed. Only in this way can you roughly determine the size of the future niche.
- Having retreated from the cornice by 2 cm, attach a wood border to the ceiling, which will become a stretch for a stretch coating. Make sure that its lower edge is located at the same level with the coating.
- Clarify the tree along the entire wall so that it is located evenly. After that, begin to mount a stretch ceiling.
- Attach the metal profile to the internal side of the beam to the window and season the canvas into it so that it completely hides the beam.
- As a result, there should be a niche under the cornice in a stretch ceiling. It can be seen only near, and from afar it will seem that the curtains protrude directly from under the glossy canvas.
Niche in the ceiling made of drywall with backlight
Almost everyone who decides to work with drywall is wondering how to make a niche under the ceiling additionally illuminated by LEDs.
This option, made of drywall sheets, has several undeniable advantages:
- due to the fact that drywall, together with a metal profile, is resistant to heating, the plasterboard ceiling may not be limited to the number of lamps;
- since the frame structure itself is strong, the lamps can be mounted directly to the profile;
- the plasterboard ceiling hides not only wires and light bulbs, extracts, pipes, but also other minor disadvantages in the room.
Work technology:
At the initial stage of work with drywall for the ceiling on a sheet of paper, design the location of the backlight, current converters and the decay box. The eyeliner needs to be pulled to those places where transformers and lamps will be located only after mounting the frame made of metal profile. After that, you can proceed to the skin of plasterboard sheets.
- Mark the building level on the ceiling, according to which attach a metal profile for the frame.
- Start installation of the frame with a ceiling guide profile. It must be screwed to the wall with screws with a step of 30 cm.
- Further, according to the markup, horizontal segments of profiles and racks are attached.
- After the profiles are mounted, lay the wiring with a cross section of at least 1.5 square meters. All connections should be carried out using a terminal block.
- When the wires are laid, you can proceed to the lining of the frame with drywall using a screwdriver and self -tapping screws.
- Upon completion of the work, put all the seams, first pasting them with a paper tape or a reinforced net for the ceiling. It is better to putty irregularities 2 times, and after the second layer dries, emphasize it with sandpaper.
So, the niche is ready, it remains only to mount the backlight, which can be selected depending on individual preferences:
- if you made an open niche, then the LED tape can be used as lighting. She is inseparable, flexible and supple, and therefore easily takes the desired shape;
- in construction stores today you can also purchase special RGV ribbons of different colors. Their main disadvantage is an overstated price;
- for a room with high humidity, you can purchase a sealed LED tape. She is not afraid of wet cleaning and water;
- the intensity of the glow will help regulate dimmers that are classified by the number of LEDs on one meter of tape.
Since tapes with LEDs consume a voltage of 12 V, an ordinary 220-volt socket can melt the wiring. Thus, it is better to jointly use the pulse power supply.
If you equipped a closed niche in your apartment, then you can hide large and more powerful lamps in it. Naturally, they will shine too brighter.
Niche in the ceiling of polystyrene foam
In order to construct such a niche, you should use a construction knife, a gun with liquid nails, an electric jigsaw, level and roulette.
Having made the appropriate marking on the ceiling, it is necessary to glue the cornice at a distance of 10 cm from the ceiling, thereby hiding small irregularities on its surface. You can glue a light frame both to wallpaper and on the bare wall after priming.
The ceiling niche of polystyrene foam weighs much less and is easier to mount than a plasterboard frame. However, at the same time, such material has less strength and heat resistance, therefore it is suitable only for use with LED self -adhesive tapes. The power supply should also not be attached to the cornice itself, since due to heating it can melt polystyrene foam.
Installation of such a light design can be done on your own in just a couple of hours and you will not even need the help of a specialist, because everything is already extremely simple.
