If you know how to make a gypsum boardboard niche yourself, you can create an original design in any room of your apartment at a bargain price.
Because it's easy to work with gypsum boards, and it's inexpensive - this material is optimal for finishing works.
There are many options for finishing plasterboard, and niches are one of the most popular.
Especially parts you can find a niche for a brick wall, which is the hardest to work with.
Niches are not only attractive, but also quite practical - they can be built, for example, shelves in the toilet for storage of hygiene items, or you can put a cabinet or other furniture there, depending on the size of the structure.
The manufacturing process is also not too complicated, so you can easily handle it yourself.
In the article you will receive instructions on how to make a niche from gypsum board, and you can realize it in your apartment.
Preparatory work and frame for the
niche The very process of working with plasterboard does not pose any problems, but you need to take a closer look at the preparation, and then you will not have a question: how to make a niche in the wall?
First of all, you need to decide on the design and arrangement of the niche, as well as its purpose.
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Decorative niches can often be found in the living room or bedroom - in such rooms you can install shelves, or simply paint the structure.
More functional shelves can be found in the bathroom or toilet - there you can place cleaning products and hygiene items.
Sometimes the niches in the wall are made for a wardrobe or a wardrobe - this design should be more impressive in size, and make it best in the corridor or on the balcony to save as much as possible living space.
There are also devices for windows, and decorative niches for curtains, which also act as an original decorative element.
After you have decided on the size and shape, you need to make a frame for the niche.
No matter what kind you choose: a niche under the closet, functional shelves in the toilet, a box for curtains or just a decorative element, a frame will be needed.
Correctly made frame will ensure the construction stability, reliability and attractive appearance.
For its production you will need the guide profiles, which are necessary to fix the structure at the walls and to give the product the necessary contour, and the profiles giving the structure rigidity, as well as the drywall itself.
To create a design suitable sheets with a size of 12.5 mm. You can buy both normal and moisture resistant material.
On the brick or other wall, to which the construction will fit, it is better to plot the contours of the future niche in order to work it was more convenient.
Draw all parts of the structure: shelves, if they are provided, additional elements under the closet, etc. Better not be lazy and do everything neatly, then installing the design yourself will be easier.
On the contours you need to set the guide profiles and fix them with dowels.
Where the sections are straight, it's easy to work, it will be more difficult if you make a curved frame - then you have to smoothly bend the metal profiles with an arc.
You can do this by cutting the material in 50 mm steps, or by purchasing the desired shape of the desired shape, if you do not want to work on it yourself.
The profile setting field needs to make the frame voluminous according to the size you selected for the depth of the niche.
On the ceiling and floor you need to fix the guide profiles so that their ends are exposed strictly vertically.
In addition to the volume, at the same time you need to do and the front of the niche, which must be completely flat.
The corners are made from twisted guide profiles. Shelves should be placed at angles of 90 degrees to each other.
The corner elements must be vertical and be connected to the top and bottom profiles and placed on the ceiling and on the floor.
You need to check how correctly they are installed, in two areas: the front and side surfaces.
After this, the profiles need to be fastened together with each other and with a corner stand using self-tapping screws.
Assembly of shelves, cladding, design
After you have made the frame volumetric and rigid, you need to make shelves.
The technology of manufacturing shelves in the wardrobe and decorative niche is the same and takes place in several steps: the first step is to set the plane of the shelf using the level and screws.
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After correct positioning, it is necessary to strengthen the shelf with the help of load-bearing profiles( this is especially true if you are doing a closet, where the load on the shelves will be somewhat higher).
Gypsum cardboard skins are made at the same time as it is manufactured - it is more convenient and faster to work with your own hands in this way.
Before starting the installation, the entire interior of the niche needs to be gypsum plasterboarded - it's easiest to make it one solid sheet than to trim the cut materials, keep this in mind.
In addition, the design, sheathed with solid plasterboard, will be more rigid.
The smaller in your joint frame, the easier it will be to coat it with plasterboard - this applies to all products made of this material: decorative niches, closet devices, curtains on the ceiling, etc.
Decorative niche, shelves in the toilet or even a wardrobe can be done with lighting - you need to do all the necessary communications during the installation of the skeleton.
If you want to make soundproofing, then in the emptiness of the frame you need to lay mineral wool.
The location of the luminaires may differ, depending on the type of construction: decorative niches are often lined around the perimeter, the shelf can be installed in the wardrobe, and the curtains can be trimmed with lights from above.
It is possible to reflect the lighting system in advance in the circuit, so that it is easier to mount it with your own hands.
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Noise isolation is an optional step, but if you do not do it, then you need to be prepared for the fact that the slightest contact with objects, drywall will produce a buzz - this is not too noticeable if it is decorative or for curtains.
However, if you do it, for example, under the shelves in the toilet or closet, noise insulation is still desirable.
The frame of the niche frame with gypsum plasterboard takes place in several stages: first you need to dock individual parts of drywall.
Where parts of the material are joined, you need to make additional stiffeners, which then screwed on a separate piece of drywall.
If this is not done, then eventually the material will crack, even if the seams are properly sealed. The absence of jointing also leads to cracks.
To avoid them, where the sheets of drywall join, you need to remove the chamfer. After that, you need to install self-tapping screws with a size of 150-200 mm.
The last stage - decoration and decoration. That the paint or other covering which you have chosen for furnish of a niche, well lay down, originally the surface needs to be processed putty.
From it you can refuse only if you are going to gypsum cardboard with a stone or tile. Often surface plastering is a more laborious step than assembling, erection and carcass plating.
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It is necessary to carefully handle the corners and joints, as well as to seal even the smallest roughness of plasterboard with putty.
You can make gypsum board almost any material. The most common option - just paint the surface in the color you want.
Niches for curtains can be made contrasting, and shelves in the toilet - on the contrary, under the color of the finish. The wardrobe is often painted under a tree, and inside you can cover a niche with wallpaper in the color of the room.
Often, gypsum board recesses are equipped around a brick wall - it can be in a corridor or a bedroom.
In this case, the wall can be left as is, especially if the room is designed in the style of a loft or the like, and paint a niche under the color of the wall, or paint with patterns.
Working with gypsum boards is not just about creating niches, but also in finishing the material, so making it yourself should not be a problem.
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With the help of gypsum cardboard you can give the apartment a unique design, creating niches for curtains, under windows, closets, shelves in the toilet or corridor, decorative niches for TV and other equipment, etc. in different rooms.
The possibilities of working with plasterboard mass, and its simplicity makes it an ideal material for creating designs with your own hands.
