Do-it-yourself drywall constructions

If you make repairs in the apartment using drywall, perhaps you have a question: how else can you use this versatile and easy-to-use material? With its help it is easy to realize a variety of design ideas and make a note of originality in the interior. From GKL sheets and even from their scraps you can make interesting cabinets, shelves, a coffee table, niches, window and door slopes, ducts for pipes. Columns made of drywall can become an exclusive decoration of your bedroom, and a dressing room made of this material can functionally complement it.

How to make a dressing room in the bedroom

A wardrobe made of drywall, which can be placed in the bedroom, will help not only create a harmonious design design, but also save space and time, since all items of clothing will be located in easily accessible places. And if it is done with your own hands, money will also be saved.

As wardrobe - This is more than just a closet, it will take at least 3 square meters. meter. From this it follows that the project must be decided if the bedroom is medium or large, and the bed does not occupy a large area. If you use sheets of drywall with a size of 150 by 60 cm, you can make a dressing room with your own hands, using a minimum of outside help.

First of all, you need to decide what form the dressing room will have and where it will be placed. When choosing a corner dressing room project, you will need a minimum of material.

A finished drawing with dimensions can be found on the Internet. But if you want to buy ready-made shelves, a pipe for hangers, doors, you will have to adjust the drawing to their sizes.

You can also think about how to make a false ceiling from drywall with your own hands inside the dressing room. If you want to have natural light in this isolated part of the bedroom, make sure that the walls have openings.

Necessary materials and tools

The flexibility of the GCR allows you to give them a different shape with your own hands, after it they are securely fixed on a durable frame assembled from profiles. Drywall structures are based on a kind of skeleton of interconnected guides and rack profiles. In addition to them, you will need:

• single-level connectors ("crabs");
• direct suspensions (for fixing the rack profile at the required distance from the surface);
• special self-tapping screws ("bugs");
• self-tapping screws for mounting sheets.

You may also need dowels (if you will install the profile on concrete substrates). Tools required:

• screwdriver;
• scissors for metal to cut the profile;
• plumb line;
• roulette;
• pencil;
• level.

Work sequence

During installation, you must follow a certain sequence of actions:

• Marking the places of joining profiles to surfaces. You can start it from the ceiling, where the guide profile will be installed. Then, using a plumb line, you need to transfer the marking to the floor, where the lower guide profile will be located.
• Mounting guide profiles to the floor and ceiling. If the surface is concrete - use dowels (6 to 48 mm).
• Installation of rack profiles. They should be located at a distance of 60 cm from each other. Rack profiles during installation are attached to the walls and ceiling by means of direct suspensions. In the place where the doorway will be located, you need to fix a horizontal profile, the length of which will be 10 cm more than the width of the opening.
• Beam reinforcement made of wood profiles that carry a heavy load. For example, these are profiles bordering the dressing room door and those that are adjacent to the wall.
• Transverse elements complete the “skeleton” of profiles. These short horizontal lines are set every 60 cm.

To equip the lighting in the dressing room before plating the structure of drywall, you need to take care of the supply of electricity.

• GKL sheet cutting desired configuration. At the same time, follow the wise dictum: “Measure seven times, cut one”, to avoid wasting money.
• Mounting the prepared sheets to the metal frame using self-tapping screws.
• Puttying corners, holes with screws and joints of sheets.
• Primer surface.
• Finishing From the inside, the dressing room can be wallpapered or painted; on the outside, you can use material that will be in harmony with the decor of the room.

The best option for doors for the dressing room is a sliding design.

Plasterboard columns

You can make columns of various configurations and sizes with your own hands from drywall, which will not only become the highlight of the bedroom interior, but will also be able to perform many useful functions:

• divide the room into zones;
• mask risers, pipes;
• serve as a stand for the necessary items and a source of additional lighting.

Columns of various configurations and sizes can be made by hand. They can be either rectangular, with niches, or round, semicircular or multifaceted.

The principle of work when creating structures from drywall of this kind will be the same as for the dressing room, starting with marking and ending with GKL sheathing and puttying. However, you need to consider several nuances:

• If a rectangular column is installed in the middle of the room, 4 vertical racks will be required, if it is 2 against the wall.
• Align the corners of the columns using a special perforated corner.
• Drywall constructions can be decorated with decorative plaster, paint, wallpaper, decorative stone, mosaics.
• To give the column a complete look along its perimeter, plinths are installed above and below.

• To create a round or semicircular column drywall dry or wet bending.
• The guide profiles for the round column can be bent by making cuts every 7-10 cm. Vertical profiles are often installed in accordance with the radius of the guides.

• The width of the drywall part for the round column should be equal to the circumference, the length to the height of the structure.
• If the column will hide pipes inside, it is advisable to take care of sound insulation. To do this, you can use mineral wool.