Arch to the kitchen instead of plasterboard doors with their hands

Make your home cozy and stylish today quite easily. The best part is that design changes do not even have to buy something new, sometimes just enough to get rid of the old one. And in the kitchen of the first in line for a "surgical intervention" should the door - it will successfully replace the arch made of plasterboard, which can be set independently.

effective solution

In the kitchen, the arch of the sheets of drywall, installed instead of the door, has one drawback - the plaster is not too "Friendly" with the wet areas, so it will need water-resistant variety, painted in green color. The rest of the replacement door opening elegant - very good and unusual decision. The original design can be developed to choose the appropriate or in photo gallery.

Divided into zones of a large area of ​​the studio or make it more spacious and functional one-room apartment will arch with a breakfast bar separating the kitchen from the living quarters.

In the second case, before making an arch with their hands, you need to break the internal partition and place a fairly wide opening. But to install a large portal will be as easy as a standard instead of the door width.

Realize interesting design and at the same time to increase the functionality of the premises will be able fantasy arch with side shelves or niches. They can draw a contrast trim, fill souvenirs or just keep them beautiful and useful things in the kitchen.

Make sure to match

Before you make an arch made of plasterboard is to determine its basic parameters. Choose the right size you need, not just relying on your taste.

The height of the passage should be sufficient -. At least 2.10 m If the old kitchen doors were lower, it is desirable to increase the opening partially dismantling the upper crosspiece.

In a small kitchen, a huge portal in the wall would be inappropriate, and in narrow aisles small arch is "capricious" and does not fit into the overall design, if you leave it the classical form. It is better to look a quarter of a circle instead of a door.

The most important - should create a sense of comfort. Without it, the house will become just a nice flat image from the photo gallery.

The choice of material

• For plating arch of plasterboard sheets take a thickness of 9.5 or 12.5 mm when the wall lining sufficiently large and require additional stiffness.
• For the rounded part of the crates can buy a special segmented profile - it is well bent and forms a curved track. Instead, it will suit and the usual U-shaped rack, if you make a lateral incision through every 15-20 cm on it, to make it easier to bend.
• The required amount for the guide frame determines the design of the door opening, but in any case, the total length should be not less than two arch perimeters, plus a margin of 50 cm.

Wooden crate for drywall should only be used on wooden walls, and for the brick and concrete slabs instead of the bars is better to take the factory galvanized profile.

Two ways to bend drywall

To bend the GCR, without damaging it, on the future of the convex side of the "patterns" a knife to gently make a cross incision. In this case the cuts are applied over a layer of cardboard and gypsum board on them gently breaking. It remains intact only the "face" the paper layer, so working with a workpiece to be very careful not to tear. This method is used for narrow intervals not wider than 20 cm, or when expressed rounding opening.

Another option is to make an arch made of plasterboard, require more thorough preparation. It will take hard pattern exactly follows the curve of the opening. The strip of the desired width GCR spiked roller inside out and moistened with water. When the plaster layer soften, punctures the segment is laid down on the template duct tape and fixed in this position. After about 12 hours completely withered upper arch acquires the desired shape, and it can be fixed to the crate.

For plating curved surfaces better to take sheets of drywall lesser thickness - they are easier to bend and keep their shape well.

The order of execution of works

Arch made of plasterboard with their hands will be cheaper than the clearance of the opening in the kitchen forces a guest team. Consumables need a little, and it will be easy to install and most, if patience and detailed instructions:

Make drawing in natural size

With it will be easier to calculate the amount of materials for the arch of the drywall and run the correct cutting sheet. The drawing can be applied immediately to the GCR and correct it as necessary.

Run crate

The frame of the carrier rails must be mounted rigidly in the opening of the wall, but with an offset in depth to the thickness of the sheet to drywall ideally docked with the wall in the same plane. In brick or concrete house will need to pre-drill the landing slots for the dowels. Reiki attached on both sides of the aisle, forming a double frame. For stiffening the crate, they bind to each other via crosspieces, perpendicular segments.

cutting GCR

Jigsaw to cut out the front cover of road marking and examples to the finished frame. On it as a template, cut out the second part. Measuring the resulting length of curved notch cut out from a sheet of plasterboard strip, which will subsequently be necessary to issue arch bending.

Screw lengths of drywall to profile

We must start from the top of the front bridge. When both sides of the opening arch conceived acquires the form, it is necessary to further enhance the contour using the prepared arch profile.

strengthen the arch

One end of the segmented rack fix softwood on the frame. Gradually curving profile of the opening pattern, to fasten thereto plasterboard lining at several points and secure a second end.

install arc

It must be attached to the crate in the middle on both sides. After that screws are screwed along the bend from the middle to the corners of the steps of 10-15 cm.

Prepare arch to putty

Before finishing finished corners of the opening you need to strengthen the special corner profile or taped-serpyanku, making pre-cuts that appeared on the band does not fold. With reinforcing mesh which is strengthened and the joints between plasterboard lining and main wall.

It looks very impressive in the interior of the arch between the kitchen and living room with built-in lighting. To do this in a box crates will still need to trim to lay wiring and cut holes for spotlights in the sheets GCR.

Caulking is applied on the primed surface with a spatula into a rectangular thin layer 2-3 with subsequent grinding. After its drying arch can be painted, papered or instead use other suitable finish.