Wood trim interiors, the use of wood
At the moment, wood is often used in interior decoration. It has excellent characteristics.
In addition, wood trim interiors creates a cozy and warm atmosphere in the room and has original designs.
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Where is wood trim used?
The range of use of this material is too large. It is applied to bedroom finishes and living rooms, corridors and hallways, that is, there are practically no restrictions.
Features of wood finishing:
- The interior wood trim can be done completely, or a separate part can simply be decorated.
- For example, quite often, with the help of wood, the headboard or part of the wall in the living room where the fireplace is located is formed.
- In this case, it all depends on the designer's idea and what exactly he wants to use the material for. As for the interior styling, it can be any.
Very often, houses are executed in a rustic style or in hunting.
In such works, only natural material is used:
- Timber.
- Felling.
- Bark.
- Treated and no wood planks.
Where does the tree apply:
- They cover not only wall surfaces, but also the floor and ceiling.
- There are materials that are also made of wood, only have a more noble beautiful aesthetic appearance.
- In the classical style, wood is rarely used. They perform the walls or floor.
The ceiling is decorated with other material. The wood blends very well with natural and decorative stone, with plaster.
Note. Often on the surface of the wall you can see a wooden finish in the form of a solid canvas, which is framed by a decorative frame. It looks very interesting and unusual.
What types of tree species are most often used in decoration
For decoration, only noble varieties of wood are used.
Most often found in the decoration of a room:
- Pine.
- Spruce.
- Larch.
- Fir.
- Ash.
- Oak.
- Alder.
- Birch tree.
Softwoods in the interior:
- They can be used both in-kind or made of finishing materials.
- Wood interior decoration using coniferous trees is used to design fireplace rooms and living rooms, see photo. Also widely used in saunas for lounges and other things.
Tip. Coniferous trees should not be used in rooms where there is always an elevated air temperature, because for this reason they begin to release tar and natural glue, which will ruin the appearance of the finish.
All other breeds can be used without restriction, it is only worthwhile to pre-protect the surface of the material with varnish, which will increase the life of the finish.
Technical properties and characteristics of wood
No one will argue that the tree is environmentally friendly. For this reason, its price is several times higher than ordinary finishing materials.
It is strong and reliable, as it can withstand significant loads.
A tree has the following properties:
- Practicality.
- Durability, since with the proper operation of the wooden finish can last a very long time.
- It has a diverse interior design.
- It goes well with a variety of modern materials.
Negative sides:
- The only thing to consider is the moisture resistance of the wood, which is quite low. With direct and constant contact with moisture on the surface of the material, the structure begins to damp and, as a result, deforms.
- If direct sunlight or an increase in temperature is added to moisture, then cracks may appear on the material.
All this will render the appearance of the decoration unusable.
Materials used for decoration
Today, the construction market offers many materials that are made of wood material.
Wooden interior decoration can be performed:
- Saws.
- Bark.
- Laminate flooring.
- Boards (peeled and not bark).
- Block house.
- Wooden clapboard.
- Wooden decorative panels with carvings.
Note.
By their properties, all these materials are similar, as they are made from similar raw materials. There are only soft rocks, which are the most plastic and susceptible to damage, and there are hard ones that withstand different loads.
Finishing the room with cuts
Finishing with wooden saws began to be used relatively recently. What is she like?
These are thin layers of wood that are subject to high-quality drying and processing. As a rule, the bark of the rock is not removed for the manufacture of such an unusual material.
Features:
- They can be made floor and walls.
Of course, you should not cut the entire wall with saw cuts, since the finish will look a little rough. But here any part can be issued. - Modern manufacturers began to produce this material with finished canvases. That is, the saw cuts of the tree are bonded to each other initially with screws and glue.
They have different sizes and shapes of the cuts themselves. They are made from any tree species.
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Such a material has a special advantage - to make it with your own hands will not be difficult. Especially if there is a supply of wood, for example, in a suburban area.
The process of manufacturing cuts as a finishing material yourself
If there is an opportunity and time to do everything yourself, then the price of finishing will significantly decrease.
For manufacturing you will need:
- Trunks of sawn trees, thick branches and other similar material.
- Jigsaw or saw.
- Wood screws.
- Sandpaper or sander for home use.
- A ruler or tape measure to measure the right size of cuts.
Work Stages:
- Trunks of sawn trees are divided into several parts. If they have a large volume, then with the help of an ax they are cut into four parts and form peculiar triangles, which can also look original in the decoration.
- If the trunks are small, then the necessary thickness of the saw cut is measured on them and cut off with a jigsaw. Such work can be done with a saw, only the cut plane will be uneven and with many defects.
Such de actions are done with the barrel or its parts. - The cuts are ready and it remains only to choose their way of decoration in decoration. They can be fastened in one cloth with the help of PVA glue or self-tapping screws, and can also be separate finishing elements.
Tip. Be sure to complete the finishing work the surface of the saw cuts should be varnished. It is also worth considering that for greater originality, bark from a tree should not be removed.
It is the same as the surface of the saw itself is varnished.
Bark in the decoration of the room
Wooden interior decoration with bark is not as popular as the previous method of decoration.It is used for decoration in summer cottages or summer houses.
The bark of coniferous trees and larch is used.
Processing and manufacturing process:
- Raw materials are pre-harvested and dried well. Here you can use both the natural and mechanical method of drying.
After such a process, the surface on both sides should be treated with antiseptic agents, since it is in the cortex that in most cases insects begin to wind up. - Then the bark is treated with fire fighting agents and substances to give greater strength.
- This material is mounted quite simply using building glue or wood screws. Nails can also be used.
The choice of the latter attachment methods is more dependent on the fragility of the bark.
Tip. The surface of the cortex must also be well protected from moisture and temperature. For this, varnish is used.
Laminate Flooring
Wood finish The interior can be done with any modern materials. Laminate has become the most popular recently in the decoration of rooms.
Material Feature:
- If earlier it could be used to design floor surfaces, then today they began to decorate the walls of the room and various interior items.
- There are different surface finishes for this material. There are also several types of laminate, which differ in the number of layers and their size, as well as the thickness and strength of the laminate panel itself.
- Laminate is wear-resistant and has a high rate of abrasion. It is durable and quite flexible at the same time. It can only be mounted on a flat surface using a special substrate.
Laminate installation
The smooth surface on which the laminate will be mounted is ensured by the use of plaster or drywall. The most popular and very fast way to level the surface is to use drywall.
You will have to tinker with the plaster.
Stages:
Tip. If the surface is flat, then it must necessarily be cleaned of dust. Then she needs time in order to dry out if the cleansing was using wet rags.
- After that, you need to attach a special substrate to the surface, which serves as the basis for the finish and creates a pillow for the laminate. If you need to decorate the wall using material, then the substrates are fixed to the surface with glue or staples.
- Since there are special locks (spike-in-grooves) at the ends of the laminate strips, it is not difficult to fasten the individual elements of the material together. As a rule, there is always an installation instruction on the packaging of the laminate. According to her, all actions are performed.
- How to make the material stay on the surface? Here you can not do without small metal or liquid nails.
With their help, material is attached to the surface through each strip. - To avoid questions, you can watch the video, which shows some of the nuances of installing the laminate on the wall surface.
Finishing wood interiors using a laminate can have a variety of colors. It is best to perform this material often on a wall surface to add a twist to the decoration of the room.
