Finishing a doorway without a door can be a rather original solution when creating a single space in a residential building. Some owners of houses or apartments, for one reason or another, do not want or refuse to install interior doors, in which case finishing the opening without using a door leaf would be an ideal option.
This solution is suitable when combining the hallway and living room, loggia and hall, for example. However, when making such a choice, it is important to understand that the original and high-quality design of the doorway will require not only imagination, but also effort and money.
Currently, the building materials market offers a fairly wide range of various kinds of materials that will help design doorways for every taste and bring to life the most daring decisions. Therefore, there should be no problems when choosing them.
Some doorway finishes are not given much importance, but without the final design of the doorways, the whole interior will look unfinished.
There are enough options for finishing doorways without doors, they depend on the selected materials, which we will now consider. It is important to understand and take into account certain complexities and subtleties of working with certain types of building materials. Let's talk about them in more detail. Let's highlight the main types of materials:
In addition to the material that we choose to finish the doorways, the shape of the opening can also become part of the original image. It can vary: from standard and familiar "rectangles" to various complex geometric shapes.
It should be noted that with any of the listed materials, finishing the doorway is easy and simple to carry out on your own.
The option of finishing with clinker tiles is considered almost a traditional solution. This choice has recently become increasingly popular compared to other options for finishing doorways.
This is easily explained by the variety of colors of clinker tiles, as well as the convenience and ease of installation. The building materials market offers straight tiles and corner varieties that are perfect for facing the corners of doorways. They are also ideal for openings such as arches or semi-arches.
Quite often, such tiles are used for finishing external facades, although they are also suitable for facing and finishing residential premises and doorways. The main thing is to create a harmonious interior as a whole, so that the tile fits into it and looks like a visually pleasing addition.
In order to create a sufficiently original and beautiful interior of the room to be finished, it is recommended not only to finish the doorway, but also to clad the space near the window with clinker tiles. Such a solution will become very stylish and interesting.
In rare cases, it is possible to line the opening with clinker tiles in combination with plastered walls. If the tile pattern is planned to be disordered or chaotic, it is recommended that you first mark the plaster before installing the tile.
Often decisions are made to lay tiles in the form of teeth, steps, and offset is also applied.
Before the laying process, it is important to pre-treat the surface to be lined with primer, this step will achieve sufficient adhesion of the tile and the surface. The main thing - do not forget to let the primer dry well.
The tile itself is attached to the walls using a special tile adhesive or using the so-called "liquid" nails. Tile adhesives are recommended for use if the walls in the cladding area are of poor quality and have many flaws. "Liquid" nails will work if the wall is completely smooth and even.
When applying glue to tiles, you should carefully monitor the dosage, since when using mortars from cement or gypsum, the excess will appear ugly, and after drying it will be difficult to remove. It is also important to control the laying of tiles in a strictly horizontal position. For this purpose, you will need to prepare a building level.
To control the uniformity of the seams, experts recommend using specially prepared wooden or plastic slats of the same size. They are laid between rows of tiles for a while, and after laying the next row, the tiles are removed.
After the glue is completely dry, the seams are filled with grout, which will be in harmony with the finishing materials in color.
The use of artificial stone is also a fairly common option and at the same time quite stylish. And the choice of varieties is much larger than that of the previously considered tiles.
Artificial stone is made from natural materials, which are crushed, mixed with dyes and polymers.
This way to finish the doorway imitates natural stone quite reliably, especially its varieties like malachite, limestone, marble and other rocks. Most widespread is a variant called "wild stone".
Among the advantages of this finishing option, the following stand out:
As in the case of tiles, there are both standard rectangular panels and special corner panels for finishing the corners of openings.
There are a lot of options for finishing with the use of such material. Sometimes laying is carried out with observance of even boundaries, sometimes - using the "torn edge" technique. When choosing the latter, you will create a boring natural decor.
The installation and fastening of the stone imitation is carried out by analogy with the process of fastening the tiles considered earlier, although the process itself is quite laborious, because each element will have to be held by hand for some time during fastening to allow the mortar and element to seize.
Among other things, I would like to note that this finishing option is expensive, but it's worth it.
In fact, this option for finishing the doorway at the moment is a rather rare way of decorating the interior. But despite this, it remains the most interesting and original decor decoration.
Especially well stucco is suitable for rooms made in a classic style. Until recently, preference in choosing a stucco option was given to varieties of gypsum, natural limestone, but today there are also options from polyurethane components.
Gypsum stucco itself has a fairly large weight, hence the difficulty of attaching it to the walls. In addition, the hardened gypsum is fragile, which requires a rather careful attitude to the constituent elements of your future doorway.
Unlike gypsum, modern polyurethane has a number of advantages, such as lightness, high adhesion to any surface. In addition, the variety of polyurethane elements is very, very wide: from borders and pilasters with capitals to full-fledged columns.
Such a variety of forms allows you to satisfy even the most demanding and refined taste.
Installation of polyurethane stucco is quite simple and is carried out using easy-to-use polymer adhesives, "liquid" nails and other specialized adhesives.
It is important to understand that columns and pilasters are not very suitable for a small, modest room, because such elements of a home interior can simply overload an already small space.
The advantage of plastic panels is that they can already be purchased in the form of ready-made kits. In addition, the manufacturers made sure that the kits contained elements of various purposes and shapes: from rectangles to the arched shape of the components.
Most often, the finished kit includes:
Certain types of kits contain bending elements for the upper parts of openings in the form of arches and semi-arches. When buying such sets, it is recommended to check the flexibility of the element before purchasing.
The design of doorways with plastic kits is quite popular, as they are very affordable at their price and, among others, are distinguished by the following positive characteristics:
Wooden platbands are a traditional option for working with openings - both door and window.
Currently, the building materials market offers a huge selection of such platbands from the simplest to the most complex with various types of carvings and patterns, however, the latter will cost an order of magnitude more.
The obvious advantage of wooden architraves is that they can be easily and quickly repainted in the desired color. Therefore, when changing wallpaper or painting walls, you don’t have to think about changing the lining of the doorway. It is also important to understand that even the most modest and cheap wood, properly processed and impregnated with various paints and varnishes, can sometimes look more spectacular than its expensive counterparts.
Due to the indicated advantages, the tree will remain ahead of its counterparts for a long time and will not lose popularity for a long time.
We examined some of the most popular options for facing doorways without doors, got acquainted with the installation methods of certain options. When choosing certain materials, be sure to take into account their properties and the properties of the room being finished, do not forget about combinations.
Depending on the size and layout of the apartment, the doorway can be decorated with a door or an arch without a door leaf, which will look advantageous between the kitchen and the dining room, between the living room and the corridor. In any case, the passage between the rooms plays an important role in the interior, attracting attention and adding, in some cases, convenience and functionality.
Doorways without the usual doors surprisingly transform the room
If for a number of reasons you decide to leave the doorway open, you should understand the advantages and disadvantages of this method.
The pluses include the following:
The disadvantages include the lack of sufficient sound insulation in adjacent rooms and the free penetration of odors, which is especially important for the kitchen.
An opening without a door is a win-win solution for visually combining adjacent rooms: a living room and a hall, a corridor and a dining room, a kitchen and a living room
All doorways can be divided into several main types:
The design of doorways, depending on the purpose, has some features. In particular, bedrooms and children's rooms should provide peace and quiet, so it is not advisable to leave them without a tightly closing door leaf. Kitchens, libraries and living rooms, on the contrary, can be equipped with an open doorway - this will add convenience when moving, expand the space and allow sunlight to freely enter small rooms.
The light decor of the doorway will emphasize the beauty and complexity of the interior of the room.
A wide edging, on the contrary, will highlight the complex shape of the opening and make a visual accent on it.
In small apartments with low ceilings, arched openings will look best. This type will visually expand the space and add height to it. In this case, the arch should be gentle and have a large radius.
Popular design options:
For a bohemian style, curtains made of dense material in a rich color are suitable.
Vertical blinds as a decorative partition
Wood paneling is a good solution when you want to highlight the edging against the background of the walls.
Making a doorway in a classic style
Decorating the opening with stucco will make the room exquisite
The glass door will appeal to those who do not want to completely separate and isolate the space. You can use stained glass, frosted or tinted glass. Apply an ornament to it or leave it completely transparent.
A glass door is relevant when you do not need complete visual isolation, but you need to protect yourself from noise and smell
Compartment doors are suitable for owners of large-sized premises with the ability to equip a wide opening. Their convenience is multifunctionality. If you need to delimit the space - just close the doors.
Sliding doors can be matched to any style of interior
An excellent and convenient way to design doorways in small apartments will be an accordion door. Can be glass, plastic or wood. Absolutely does not take up space and does not require free space.
The accordion door folds compactly, so it is very appropriate in small rooms
Facing doorways with decorative stone will appeal to connoisseurs of natural materials. This type of decor is quite expensive and laborious. Picking up a stone is not difficult, because the palette of colors, shades, textures is very wide - from smooth gray, black to embossed elements of brick color. This material can be found in various sizes, shapes. With the help of artificial stone, you can imitate shell rock, malachite, sandstone or any other.
If you have chosen a natural stone finish, remember that the idea must be really worthwhile and backed up by similar details in the design of the room.
Facing the doorway with "torn edges"
Usually small elements are used, placing them along the edge of the opening, creating either smooth or torn edges. The stone can be used both in the same color scheme with the interior, and to highlight the finish, using contrasting shades. The stone is combined with both textiles and wood. A fairly durable, low-maintenance way to design a doorway. Since the decorative stone is heavy, it is important to attach it tightly to the wall. To do this, use specially designed glue-based compositions, liquid nails.
Often, instead of decorative stone, brick tiles are used. This material is moisture resistant and fireproof. Able to last several decades. Just as in the previous version, it is laid out scattered along the contour of the opening or even edges are formed. It goes well with both plaster and wallpaper.
The option of decorating the arch with tiles under the old brick
And here the doorway was overlaid with real brick
To prepare a section of the wall for laying tiles, you need to remove all previous finishing materials, degrease the surface. If the wall has rough irregularities, cracks, it is recommended to level it with putty or plaster. Mandatory stage - primer in two stages.
At the end of the drying process, proceed with the installation of the "clinker". To fix the tiles to the wall, tile adhesives, liquid nails are used. It is important to prevent the appearance of glue in the seams between the elements. In order for the joints to be perfectly even, it is recommended to use special crosses. You can find them at any hardware store. The last step will be the application of grout, which may be similar in shade or contrasting to the tile.
A quick and budget option for finishing a doorway. Its installation process is simple. You can do it yourself. Sufficiently durable, plastic and picky in care. Under the material, you can conduct wiring and make the backlight with small lamps. Attach the plastic with plastic glue.
Before sticking the panels, the planes should be leveled with putty and primed
Corner elements are used to seal gaps between panels and walls.
With the help of an open doorway, you can radically transform the room. It will add space, light and lightness. If the apartment is small, this option is simply indispensable, as it will save usable space. It will serve as a win-win option for combining a kitchen with a dining room, a bedroom with a loggia, a library with a living room, a hall with an entrance hall.
A wide range of finishing materials, a variety of shapes will allow you to choose the design of the doorway for any room - from country cottages and huge mansions to modern apartments in new residential complexes. If you are going to combine a sleeping space with a loggia, do not forget about various ways to block sunlight, such as curtains, drapes or blinds.
The arch of the original form in the bedroom
Doorway decoration with wooden columns
Whichever option you choose - finishing with decorative stone or wood, plastic, brickwork, wallpaper or drywall - it is important to strike a balance. All elements of the interior must be harmoniously combined with each other.
The original solution - built-in open shelves
Making an opening without a door implies several features. Not all materials are suitable for this type of finish, and the selected options will have to be handled quite carefully. Some designs can be created with your own hands, and the construction of the rest is best left to a professional.
The logical conclusion would be that a doorway without a door is made completely without a door frame. All decoration includes only the lining of the opening itself, which is performed using a variety of materials.
The design of a doorless opening allows you to choose from a variety of forms, including both classic and fantasy interesting options.
Far from every room, an opening without a door will look appropriate. There are some rooms that must have a door, and these include not only a toilet and a bathroom. Bedroom, kitchen, study must be equipped with a full door because in these rooms more than others there is a need for privacy and intimacy.
However, every rule can be circumvented. For additional decoration of such openings, curtains, muslin, screens are used. They allow you to create the illusion of dividing the room, while not completely replacing the door.
Upgrading an open doorway implies relying on the integrity of the entire home. As a rule, identical doorless openings are made in an apartment or house. This applies to both form and finish. They act as a connecting element, uniting all rooms into a single ensemble.
Speaking about the advantages that open openings have compared to classic doorways, one cannot fail to mention space saving. Each door occupies at least a square meter of usable area. When creating a doorless design, this problem disappears. From an aesthetic point of view, the opening allows you to visually expand the space or expand the functional area of \u200b\u200bthe room by combining it with a utility room. A good example is the recent combination of a balcony and a living room.
In some cases, a doorless space looks much more attractive than a door, especially when it is beautifully designed. For example, shelves are often placed along the contour of such an opening. Statuettes or other little things placed on them beautifully frame the gap, creating a unique atmosphere that cannot be repeated. Thus, sometimes an open opening looks even more intimate than a thick oak door.
Finally, another important advantage is creating adequate ventilation in the apartment. Air circulates better through open space, and for small apartments, for example, as in Khrushchev-built houses, this factor is important - it allows you to fight stuffiness.
Creating several openings can completely change the original layout of the apartment, but in reality it comes out much cheaper than a full redevelopment.
In addition, an opening is often allowed to be created even in a load-bearing wall, so there are much more options for a new apartment plan.
There are many different configurations of doorways without a door, which differ from each other not only in their shape, but also in the material with which they are created. Along with traditional raw materials, the latest developments in the field of design are also used.
The simplest design is ordinary rectangular span. Creating a rectangular opening is very simple: the door frame is completely dismantled, then the surface of the walls is leveled along the contour. In the future, the resulting gap is simply painted or lined with a suitable material. There are a great many ways to finish, from the simple installation of wooden doborniks to the creation of pompous stucco columns.
More popular building arched structures. To do this, it is not necessary to expand the opening in the wall; in recent years, the idea of creating false arches has been actively used. In this case, corner elements made of polyurethane or drywall with rounded sides are installed in a rectangular span, and the result is a full-fledged arch at a much lower cost and labor. However, this method is not suitable for all dwellings: it is necessary that the opening has sufficient height.
There are several types of arches:
More and more often people refuse to create ordinary classic openings in favor of fantasy asymmetric ones.
They can only be made in plasterboard partition walls. Asymmetric openings can have any shape, and can also be supplemented with all sorts of auxiliary details: shelves, niches, lighting. Such a design acts as a bright element and sets the tone for the entire appearance of the room. Eye-catching, an asymmetric opening helps to hide possible flaws when repairing a room.
It is possible to balance the proportions of the premises in the apartment with the help of doorways without doors. Depending on whether the opening is wide or narrow, high or low, the impression produced varies.
For rooms with low ceilings, it is strongly not recommended to mount narrow spans. Visually, they will make the room tiny and uncomfortable. It is better to choose a wide option that will visually expand the area of \u200b\u200bthe room, add air and light to it. This applies not only to arched openings, but also to rectangular ones.
The optimal height also depends on the original proportions of the room. If you want to combine two rooms with the help of a gap, it is recommended to make it almost as high as the ceiling. An ordinary span, which serves only as an alternative to a door, should be made much lower, but its height should not be less than 2 m. In the case of arches, this indicator grows by at least 30 cm. This is due not so much to aesthetic rules as to safety requirements: a person can hit hard on the upper narrow part of the arch in the dark.
When constructing asymmetric structures, the following rule should be followed: the more intricate the shape, the wider the opening should be. Too much concentration of monograms and other elements in a small space will overload the view, making the design unnecessarily pretentious and cumbersome. As a result, instead of a spectacular accent, you will get a tasteless option that you will soon get tired of.
Thus, the size of the doorway is more determined by the characteristics of the room itself, and not by the chosen shape.
Remember that very wide doorways are best designed using some kind of texture, such as embossed moldings. If you use an ordinary smooth cladding, the clearance will be “lost” against the general background of the room and, from an aesthetic point of view, will not look particularly harmonious.
In the vast majority of cases, the expediency of installing a doorless opening is obvious, however, sometimes refusing a door is highly undesirable. Among the rooms in which it is best to leave the door is the kitchen. This is especially true in small apartments, where a strong kitchen smell will be especially annoying. It is not always pleasant when aromas are felt in the living room or bedroom.
The old bored interior of the living room can be changed beyond recognition, at the same time competently expanding the usable area. If you refuse a separate balcony block and from the door to the balcony, it will turn out to make the living room brighter. The balcony will certainly need to be furnished in a style similar to the living room, since the rooms, united by a doorless skylight, should be perceived as a single whole.
You can often encounter cases when they refuse the door between the corridor and the dressing room. Since both of these rooms are quite small and cramped, such a move helps to hide this fact, allowing people to feel more free.
In small apartments, they refuse doors between the hallway and the living room, especially if the apartment is one-room. So the whole area is perceived as a single whole, as a result of which the dwelling seems larger.
In cases where such a small apartment has low ceilings, it is better not to choose an arched shape as an opening. It is much more logical to stop at the classic rectangular span.
Quite rarely they refuse the door to the bedroom, but they do not dare to completely leave the entrance “defenseless”. Come to the rescue thick curtains or screens, which perfectly protect the intimacy of the room. If necessary, they can be easily and quickly dismantled. An interesting solution is the use of curtains with tiebacks: they can be completely closed at night, and during the day they will serve as a beautiful frame for the opening.
Cashing the opening is made with different materials and in different techniques. You can decorate the interior span with your own hands, or you can turn to professionals who will create a complex and unique decor.
A good idea is to decorate the doorway with curtains.
A decorative curtain plays the same role as a door in psychological terms, but it takes up much less space. If desired, the curtains can be completely removed without any problems or replaced with others, while the design of the opening will not suffer (for example, if you just remove the door leaf, loops will remain on the span that do not look very attractive).
Another option on how to decorate a doorway without a door is to use additional design elements - various stucco panels. With their help, it will be possible to ennoble any gap, regardless of how smooth the walls are and in what colors the opening is made. Finishing is extremely simple and often done completely independently.
With the help of stucco molding, it is possible to decorate openings in various styles. For example, you can make a classic arch with columns and heavy curly elements. If you add gilding, you can completely recreate the spirit of baroque or classic. For modern interiors, it is more appropriate to use simple relief moldings with geometric patterns, such as embossed groove lines. If in the first case it was appropriate to opt for pilasters and capitals, then in the second case they should be avoided.
Stucco molding can be found quite rarely, it has practically fallen out of use in recent times. This is due to the relatively small dimensions of modern apartments, because intricate designs look ridiculous in small spaces. You should not completely abandon the stucco elements: some of them can help expand the room.
Also, for the design of doorways without doors, artificial stone masonry, clinker tiles or drywall are often used.
Facing a doorway without a door can be done using a variety of materials. The simplest solution is to paint the gap or paste over it with the same wallpaper as the walls. However, there is one “but”: only perfectly even walls are suitable for this, otherwise the whole structure will not look neat enough and made as if hastily.
Another option is to make a box of extensions and put it in the gap, or sheathe it with MDF panels. In both cases, you get a wooden gap that looks stylish and can be harmoniously integrated into almost any interior.
Framing the opening is best done with valuable wood or its imitation, since it is these solutions that look the best.
It is also possible to sheathe the clearance with drywall. Drywall is a truly unique material. With its help, it is possible to form a structure of almost any configuration, supplementing it with elements from other lightweight materials, such as polyurethane.
A simple plasterboard opening can be easily done on your own, and it will not take much time, but the effect will please.
Often the gaps are laid out with imitation stone or clinker tiles. Clinker tiles imitate brick, while it weighs several times less. They produce tiles of different shapes: there are classic elements, as well as special corner ones. There are a wide variety of sizes on the market, but medium-sized tiles are the most popular. The seams between the tiles are usually rubbed with a compound that exactly imitates the main wall covering.
Artificial stone looks more interesting than clinker tiles. There are imitations of various materials: limestone, marble, malachite and many others. This material has a lot of advantages: such a lining looks expensive, harmonizes perfectly with other finishing materials, has a long service life and wear resistance, and is also very easy to clean. The laying of such material can be carried out either in a geometrically well-thought-out order, or randomly - both options look equally successful.
Both tiles and stone are fixed either on tile adhesive (when the walls under them are not aligned well enough), or on liquid nails (if the walls have a perfectly flat surface).
For information on how to independently make a decorative arch lined with gypsum stone and bas-reliefs, see the following video.
A rather simple opening with a slightly curved edge adds pomposity and grandeur to the room. Its unusual structure is made in rather restrained proportions: straight lines are used, there is no complex decoration. The almost even square shape contributes to the visual preservation of the proportions of the room, without creating any visual illusions.
The use of natural materials is encouraged when creating the design of a doorless opening. Wood and raw stone harmonize well with each other, despite the fact that the tree was selected of valuable species, and the stone is the most ordinary. The play on contrasts deserves special attention: firstly, wood and stone contrasting in color are used, and secondly, the even edge of the wooden casing is adjacent to the torn edges of the masonry.
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The doorway is one of the main elements of the interior. Its design requires compliance with certain rules. The first concerns the proportionality of its dimensions. Due to the fact that the standard dimensions of the door block do not always fit the wall space, it often becomes necessary to adjust them up or down. Another rule determines whether the opening finish matches the overall style of the room. Moreover, it concerns both adjacent rooms, since the opening often serves as a unifying element that connects their interiors. There are a lot of interesting doorway design options. We will consider some of them today.
The design of the entrance opening largely depends on its shape. The choice here is small, there are only three of them:
In rooms with low ceilings, doorways are best arranged in the form of arches. At the same time, their rounding lines should be gentle. In this design, the arches look taller and visually raise the ceilings. When choosing a classic arch style, its radius should be half the width of the opening. This design looks great in a room with a high ceiling.
The doorway is quite often subjected to various mechanical stresses. Therefore, before its design, it is recommended to think about the choice of impact-resistant finishing materials.
The device of the entrance opening without doors has a lot of advantages:
Each style of decorating the entrance with the above materials has its admirers and different costs. If it is difficult to decide how to decorate the doorway, you can pick up a photo of ready-made options for its decor. Options can be combined if desired.
In the high room, the stucco molding made by the arch makes the interior elegant and aristocratic. It can be painted in any color that will be combined with the general background of the room.
When planning the design of the opening with polyurethane stucco molding, it should be taken into account that the relief elements, taken in large quantities, can visually load the space of the room and reduce its size. Therefore, for openings in small rooms, flat stucco molding should be chosen.
Then three parts are cut out of the panel according to the dimensions of the slopes: two of them are side and one is upper. After that, glue is applied to the slope and the cut-out part is pressed. You need to hold it until the glue sticks. Do the same with the other two parts.
To ensure that the panels are securely fixed, spacers can be used. The gaps formed between the panels and the wall are masked with a sticker of plastic corners. In this case, "liquid nails" are used. This job is easy to do on your own.
Plastic panels are very practical. They are easy to install and inexpensive. They are easy to care for: the lining is easy to clean with household products. The only drawback of this material is its low resistance to mechanical damage, which can manifest itself in the form of cracks or scratches that spoil the appearance of the decor.
Plastic panels allow you to imitate a wooden texture. It can be oak wood or other more valuable species. Dark panels create an impressive contrast with a light wall, pasted over with wallpaper or covered with paint, emphasizing the sophistication and rigor of the interior. This design method makes it possible to visually expand the space of the room and raise the ceiling.
A good solution when using plastic panels would be to decorate the doorways of a home library or study.
The classic arch has an arc of constant radius. An elliptical arch can be obtained by increasing the radius of the sector in a direction perpendicular to the opening. This shape of the arch fits well into a modern interior. Arches with a high junction point are suitable for the Gothic style, while a rectangular arch with rounded corners is more romantic.
When choosing a certain type of arch, you need to take into account the style of the room, the characteristics of the materials used for finishing and the specifics of the room.
After choosing the height, style and type of arch, you need to draw it to scale on paper, and then, based on the drawing, make a full-size template. Then it should be transferred to two halves of a drywall sheet, circled with a pencil and cut out the extra parts along the lines. Half of the plasterboard with a cut out semicircle will serve as the front part of the future arch. There should be two such parts - one for each side of the opening.
After that, you need to install a metal U-shaped profile in the opening. Its length and shape is selected according to the template. To bend the profile with an arc, its shelves should be cut with metal scissors every 10 cm.
When the arched profiles are fixed in the opening, you need to think about the lower part of the arch that forms the arch. It will require a thinner drywall ceiling that can be bent along the lines of the opening or template profiles. The bending of the gypsum board strip is carried out using a special spiked roller.
Before this procedure, the strip should be moistened with plenty of water and rolled with a spiked roller. After softening the part, it must be carefully bent and left to dry for 10 hours.
At the next stage of work, all three parts of the arch should be fixed with self-tapping screws on a frame made of metal profiles.
After the installation of the arch is completed, all the joints of the sheets and the recesses of the screws must be sealed with gypsum putty, actively using sickle tape to reinforce the seams. Then the entire structure should be puttied, and after the mixture has dried, sanded with sandpaper.
Now everything, the arch is ready for finishing. It can be faced, painted, applied with decorative plaster, covered with stucco, etc.
When decorating an arch, stones are laid along the arc of the upper part of the opening to highlight the geometric shape of the decoration, which makes it more noticeable against the general background of the wall.
When making an opening that does not have a door, the stone is laid on both sides of the opening. This decor option makes it possible to optimally fit it into the interior and combine two adjacent rooms into one common space. At the same time, the inner walls of the opening should also be in stone, so as not to go out of the general style and not create dissonance in the interior.
For the interior of a country-style room, when making an opening, you should use a large stone that can create the effect of entering a cave. This arch looks great in the hallway. For an opening that has solid dimensions, it is appropriate to use a chipped stone - it will give the room grandeur and a special sophistication.
In order to perform stone cladding, you first need to prepare piece products for it. The necessary trimming can be done with the help of a grinder. Then, a special mesh should be fixed on the surface of the walls of the opening and a solution should be applied to it. The thickness of its layer should not be more than 15 mm.
After that, the stone is laid. First, the corner elements are installed, and then all the main ones. At the end of the lining, the seams between the stones must be filled with cement mortar, and then they should be leveled. After the mixture dries, the joints should be cleaned and this finish the job. After 48 hours, the binder will completely harden and gain strength.
The shape of the curtains is chosen depending on the artistic taste of the owner of the home. They can be symmetrical on both sides, asymmetric or tacked from any edge. Most often, a rectangular entrance is made out with curtains.
Adherents of oriental style can recommend bamboo curtains. They perfectly hide the opening from prying eyes and emphasize the special charm of the room. Moving between adjacent rooms in this case will be absolutely free, since such curtains consist of many bamboo sticks strung on threads.
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