Beautiful decoration of doorways with decorative stone

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

A lot of stone does not happen

The modern interior of houses and apartments is hard to imagine without arches. A special place when choosing a finishing material for such openings is a natural or artificial decorative stone.
The facade of the houses, which are more like the name of the castle, is decorated with the same stone. The spirit of antiquity of European buildings and at the same time the individuality of the construction, which is given to the building by facing with decorative stone, many homeowners liked.

Properties of artificial stone that made it popular

The architectural method of using stones not only in construction, but also in the decoration of external and internal surfaces is convenient, practical and very beautiful.
So:

• Facing with natural or artificial stone does not require a perfectly flat surface.
• The simplicity of the work allows you to perform the styling process with your own hands, guided only by the advice of the wizard on the watched video.
• Ice and fire, stone and wood are the perfect combination and complement of two opposites.
• Decorating with decorative stone doorways creates a piece of the grotto, cave or palace made of marble in the house or apartment.
• Excellent imitation of the texture of natural stone and brick with significantly less weight.
• Attractive appearance and variety of textures.
• The ability to create various architectural forms and reliefs when decorating arches, doorways, corners of hallways, balconies, fireplaces and stoves (seeStone furnaces for stoves and fireplaces: make a choice) A lot of material on this topic is presented in photo galleries and arranged in selections in conveniently viewed blocks.
• Light weight allows lining of light and thin partitions.
• Good thermal insulation properties, it does not burn and fireproof.
• The modified gypsum of fine grinding, which underlies the artificial stone in the manufacture, belongs to the "breathing" material and allows you to create a favorable microclimate in the house.
• Artificial decorative stone does not absorb dust and dirt, is easy to clean and use in rooms with special health standards.

Caution: Gypsum can be destroyed by frost, so the use of artificial stone is limited when decorating exterior surfaces.

• Environmentally friendly material, safe for humans, which is an important factor when choosing a finishing material.

Designer secrets of using decorative stone for decoration

Modest but tasteful

To fit neatly doorway trim decorative stone in the general interior and did not violate the harmony of the room, there are developments of specialists.
So:

• The decorative decoration of the rectangular-shaped doors at the bottom is made a little wider or rather, which visually creates the illusion of naturalness. This technique allows you to make the transition to another finishing material, which is used to decorate the walls of the room, invisible.
• Finishing the arched opening of the upper part of the arch is carried out strictly according to the template corresponding to the curvature of the structure. This focuses on the perfect rounded shape and allows you to highlight the arch element against the background of the wall.
• The doorway, without installed doors, is laid out with decorative stone on both sides, including the facing of the slopes, to ensure a smooth transition from stone to another material during decoration.
• If the decoration of doors with decorative stone takes up a minimum of space, in order to preserve the harmony of the room, you can limit yourself to framing a mirror or a shelf with a decorative stone. This technique performs the function of supporting a design decision.
• The uneven edge of the decoration with decorative stone gives a natural look and some carelessness.

Tackle the light work of finishing the stone as if it were difficult, and everything will turn out

In the interior decoration of the room, natural stone made of granite, marble, onyx is rarely used. This is due to the weight that creates problems with transportation and installation, and besides, not every wall can withstand such a cladding.
High price, requiring significant financial investment. He was well pressed in the construction market by light and cheap decorative stone.
In order for the stone decoration to please not only you, but also your grandchildren for many years, laying must be performed in compliance with all requirements.

Preparatory work

An excellent combination of such material with wood, provided its application in the decoration of doorways, window and door slopes.
The technology for laying decorative stone and ceramic tiles on the wall of the premises is very similar:

• Finishing the front door with decorative stone begins with the preparation of the surface.
• Removing old finishes, wallpapers, paints and smoothing out bumps.
• For better adhesion, a professional primer with a brush in two layers is applied to a clean, dry, prepared surface.
• It is sold ready to eat, you just need to mix it well.
• It is required to wait until the treated surface has completely dried.
• Before starting the facing work, the stone must be laid out on a horizontal surface and picked up by color. Some textures of the stone, to make them similar to natural materials, are specially painted with color transitions.
  It is necessary to pay the closest attention to avoid sharp differences in shades. Several boxes of source material are taken, and gradually pulling out and selecting them by color, a picture is drawn up where there are no sharp color transitions or individual spots.
• If the decorative stone trim the front door is done in a certain pattern, try to avoid long horizontal and vertical seams in the resulting picture. Why, when laying out the stone from the boxes, they are deployed, swapped, displace individual elements.

Attention: The stone is cut with the electric tool to the required size, the edges of the cut are sanded if necessary.

Glue preparation

The best adhesion to the surface provides the roughness of the back of the decorative stone and a properly prepared adhesive mixture:

• With a special mixing nozzle, the mixture is mixed until smooth.
• 200 ml of water is taken per 1 kilogram of dry mix and kneaded for at least 6 minutes.
• The resulting solution should be used within 10 minutes, so it is prepared in small portions for quick production.
• Detailed instructions for preparing the adhesive mixture and the size of the area for a given amount of dry mixture are indicated on the label of each bag.

Stitching artificial stone

Experts advise not to wet the decorative stone before laying. Neither stone nor a primed wall pulls excess moisture from the glue, but excess moisture from the wetted surface of the stone can significantly impair the quality of the adhesive.
So:

• The decorative finish of doorways begins with the application of a glue mixture with a comb spatula on the wall surface.
• The stone is applied and pressed against the wall in the lower corner, from where the masonry always starts.
• The difficulty of stone facing lies in two things - corners and seams.
• An angle is formed in two ways. The first involves laying the stone using the principle of dressing the corners for masonry.
  The second method is performed by trimming at an angle of 45 ° end of each side element. The first method is easier, but it has an unattractive look.
  Preference is given to a really high-quality, lined surface - forming an angle with a decorative stone according to the second method.
• If a hinged door is not provided in the opening and, in order not to later engage in leveling the mixture of angles of the door slope, these places should be overlapped with decorative stone.
• If there is a door, the decoration of the slopes of the entrance door with a decorative stone is performed taking into account the use of other finishing materials.
• From the edge of the slope, it recedes and leaves a distance equal to the width of the clypeus, which is fixed somewhat later.
• The stones, in accordance with the laid out pattern, are glued to the surface.
• The recommended size of the joint seam, for each type of texture, can vary from 3 to 8 mm.
• The gaps between the stones should be even, pieces of plastic serve as helpers and support, which holds the stone in place and prevents it from moving.
• The seams between the stones are filled with a joint to seal the surface and give a harmonious appearance to the integrity of the object.
• The joint composition is prepared according to the recommendations on the bag, with the same mixer nozzle by mixing until a homogeneous composition is obtained.
  Before use, it settles for 15 minutes. You can change the color of the embroidery using toner.
• It has long been known that a stone laid with contrasting stitching or made to match the tone of the stone looks completely different.
• A dark stone with white embroidery looks fresh and solemn, but the same stone with gray embroidery or in the color of the stone carries thoughts into the distant past.

Attention: The embroidery composition is placed in a regular plastic bag with a cut-off corner, and all indentations are filled evenly.

• With a special tool, the embroidery is compacted and leveled, excess is removed with a soft brush.
• To give a rougher texture to the embroidery composition, a short-haired brush is used.
• The work done is left until the glue is completely dry, then the stone is brushed to remove particles of solution and dust.

Laying decorative stone in a seamless way

Filigree work in obtaining a monolithic surface

A seamless way of laying stone is a quick, but painstaking procedure, because the placement of the stone is done with maximum density to each other, to obtain a monolithic surface.
So:

• If the decorative door stone is finished in a seamless way, then glue or “liquid nails” are applied directly to the stone.
• It is important to remove excess adhesive in time and prevent it from getting on the front of the stone.
• The adhesive mixture is prepared in an amount that is produced in 20-25 minutes.
• Before starting masonry, installation under the level of the limiting profile is recommended.
• When laying a stone from bottom to top, it becomes a reliable basis for decoration, if from top to bottom it helps to get an even border with clear lines.
• The decorative finish of door openings starts from the corner of the wall and is notable for its speed. Elements according to the structure of the edges are selected during the production of artificial stone and do not require additional time for the selection and adjustment of the stone to each other.
• During installation, it is necessary to observe the verticality of the masonry, and if materials of the correct form are used, then the horizontality of the rows.
• The final step is to coat the surface with a special impregnation, which increases the strength of the coating, improves water-repellent properties and protects the surface from exposure to various substances.

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