Gypsum cardboard is a truly universal material with which you can create a variety of construction compositions. Most often, drywall is used to create walls with a special shape and attractive appearance. At the same time, using this material, you can create shelves and various niches. In this case, you can save a lot of space, and also replace large furniture with a plasterboard. It is quite simple to build niches from drywall with your own hands. It is only necessary to know about some features, as well as about difficulties, without which no construction process goes through.
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Features and main advantages of drywall niches
Niches from drywall are, first of all, a decorative element of the dwelling. When strengthening the structure, you can freely use them as a sideboard or small shelves. Often, drywall shelves are created to place television equipment on them.
As already mentioned, niches from drywall can easily replace furniture. The problem is that cabinets and shelves that can be found in stores do not always correspond to the necessary dimensions. Niches from drywall are created on the basis of the size that we need. This allows you to significantly save the space of already small apartments.
Most often, people prefer to create decorative niches from drywall. They can have an original shape, but under the influence of loads they can break.
Such construction work will not take a lot of time, and also will not force a lot of money, as it would be when buying furniture.
The beginning of work on the construction of a niche from drywall begins to create a frame of metal profiles.
Selection of materials and tools
For the process of creating niches, all the same materials and tools that are used for any work associated with drywall material will be required. Among them:
- several sheets of drywall;
- punch with a full set of drills;
- construction knife for cutting drywall;
- metal profiles;
- knife -haired carbon on metal;
- electric screwdriver;
- several types of screws and plastic dowels;
- spatula with a gear surface;
- adhesive composition for hypokarton;
- primer;
- construction mixer;
- construction level;
- maular roller;
- gypsum finish putty;
- roulette;
- tape (Serpyanka);
- dye;
- pencil;
- main brush.
The process of creating a niche from drywall
At the very beginning of the construction process, you need to decide what depth the niche will be and why it is needed. If we need a design to install a LED-TV, then it will take only a few centimeters of the depth. Just in case, you can significantly increase the thickness. In this case, a video player or other equipment can be placed behind the TV. In any case, the depth of the niche should be at least 5 cm more than the thickness of the TV. In this situation, the equipment cannot be hurt, passing by. Accordingly, the TV will not fall to the floor.
Next, marking the future metal structure is carried out. This will allow you to evaluate how the room will look after repair work. Also, the marking is useful during the main part of the process.
Using drywall, you can create niches of a wide variety of forms. To do this, you need to purchase special metal profiles, with which it will be possible to create curved surfaces. In addition, in this case it will be necessary to moisturize drywall, which will be bent to the desired forms.
The metal frame is attached to the wall with dowels. The preliminary will need to make holes in the wall. For this, a perforator is useful. It is necessary to check and make sure that the design is really reliably kept. Without even given the items that will be located on the structure, the frame should withstand the large weight of drywall. To control the evenness of vertical and horizontal lines, the construction level is used.
Now the main part of the process is coming, during which the niche with drywall occurs. First you need to cut the parts of the drywall to the dimensions of the niche. You can attach the material to the wall with glue, which must be prepared first. It is best to use ready -made mixtures that are sold in any construction store. In some cases, you can use the construction "bugs", which are small screws. It is important to note that before the decoration process on the sheets of drywall, you need to make holes for sockets.
The walls of the structure should have a decent thickness. This is especially true for the lower part of the niche, on which, for example, a TV will be located. To increase reliability, it is best to use two layers of drywall.
After the creation of the skin, you need to get rid of the curves of the joints between the sheets of the material. To do this, use putty. In addition, this procedure must be carried out in places where fasteners are placed, since they should not be visible. In order to get rid of small flaws and polish the surface of the structure, you can use sandpaper.
The end of the process of creating a niche from drywall
At the very end of the process, it will be necessary to stain the structure. If the niche is located in the bedroom, then it is better to use dark colors.
Only after all the above stages can the installation of electrical equipment can begin. The design made of drywall allows you to have wires under the building material. Accordingly, all wiring can be hidden from the eyes of the residents.
In addition, in some cases, various lamps can be installed on the niches. In the dark, this creates an excellent atmosphere and an excellent appearance of the room. The design and appearance of this element of the dwelling depends only on your imagination.
