DIY kitchen decoration: installation procedure
A kitchen is a place where the whole family gathers three times a day to eat and discuss current affairs. Therefore, if the decision to repair the kitchen is made, then it’s too late to retreat.
Of course, if this is an easy cosmetic repair, then you should not worry: a day or two - and now you are already drinking tea in the updated kitchen. However, if finishing your kitchen with your own hands has turned into a major overhaul, then be prepared for a lengthy process.
Therefore, you should think about how to finish the kitchen with your own hands, today.
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How to decorate the kitchen with your own hands
Before starting a major overhaul, it would be nice to make a design project or draw a layout diagram of furniture and sanitary ware on a piece of paper. The latter option will help you determine the number of outlets and switches.
Repair and decoration of the kitchen should include some points.
If you still started major repairs yourself, then you have a lot of very different jobs:
- unscrewing old outlets and installing new ones,
- ceiling painting
- putty of walls,
- laying flooring.
Tip. The kitchen is perhaps the only room in the house for which you must first select furniture, and then begin repairs. This is done in order to accurately calculate the location of outlets and communications.
Kitchen repair instructions
The next step will be to decide what kind of repair you want to do: major, cosmetic? Overhaul is a long, laborious repair.
Kitchen redecoration and decoration are done to slightly change the usual, dull atmosphere in the room.
Then it is planned what the layout and design will be.
Here you must consider all the parameters:
- kitchen area
- pipe arrangement
- risers
- range hoods
- cranes
- columns.
When designing, you will have to get around many furniture and repair shops, but do not be lazy if you want to make a beautiful kitchen. You can certainly use the services of a professional designer.
Tip. Also, when developing a design, several factors should be taken into account, for example, do not put the refrigerator close to the heating battery, otherwise the refrigerator will deteriorate, the working area should be well consecrated and so on.
Before you finish the kitchen with your own hands, you need to decide on the materials. It is important to calculate the amount of material and price.
Be aware that the price of materials can vary significantly in different stores.
For the decoration of the kitchen may be suitable:
- PVC panels, inexpensive material and easy to install.
- Tiled finish on all walls or work area.
- Wallpaper freeselin.
- Drywall.
- Mosaic.
- Wooden lining.
- Decorative rock
- Combined finish.
The next step will be preparation for the repair itself: take out the old furniture, remove the old wallpaper.
When you removed the furniture, removed the old wallpaper, then the “rough kitchen repair” will follow. This repair includes the installation of electrical wiring and sewer pipes, aligning the walls, if necessary, floors and ceilings.
Tip. It is best to start with the installation of electrical wiring, as there will be a lot of dust and dirt.
Next, proceed to align the walls and floor.. Small cracks on the wall will be enough to putty, but large cracks need to be repaired with a mortar.
You can also align the walls with drywall, but this is if your walls are completely uneven. To level the floor, screeds will be enough.
Installation of windows and doors
Before installing a PVC window, watch the video instruction on how to do it correctly.
To install the window, you must:
- Measure the window, its overall dimensions and the size of the arch.
- Preparing the window for installation.
- Remove the old window.
- Clear the debris opening after the old window.
- Remove the protective film from the new window.
- Glue insulating tape.
- Place the window frame in the opening.
- Place the frame mount (side).
- Lower frame fixing in the opening.
- Sealing the window in the opening.
- Insulation of the window in the doorway.
- Install double-glazed windows.
- Set the sash and low tide.
- Prepare, install, and then fix the windowsill.
- P-profile mount.
- Set slopes and end platbands.
- Suture and joint processing.
Ceiling and wall decoration
After installing the doors and windows, finishing is done. It is necessary to start from the ceiling, then the walls and then the floor.
The ceiling in the kitchen can:
- To color.
- Wallpapering.
- Decorate with PVC panels.
- Install a drywall construction.
- Mount the rack ceiling.
- A suspended ceiling is the best option for the kitchen, but it will be difficult to install it yourself.
For walls, the kitchen is best suited for tiles, since the kitchen is the place where there is a lot of moisture, in any case, the working area.
How to lay a tile
First you need:
- Prepare the surface. You can use a hammer and chisel.
- Prepare the adhesive.
- Start laying tiles from bottom to top, that is, from floor to ceiling.
- If you decide to lay the tiles on the floor, then you need to start from the far corner to the door.
Tip. You can put ceramic tiles, it is not expensive and practical.
Floor finish
The floor should be tackled after the walls and the ceiling, on the floor in the kitchen you can put ceramic tiles or lay linoleum. The most inexpensive and optimal option that you can perform yourself, linoleum is suitable.
To lay linoleum you need:
- Clean the entire room.
- If the old flooring is also linoleum, then you can lay new material on top of the old.
- Measure area.
- Then comes the laying of linoleum. Roll the linoleum on the floor, cut off the excess pieces and leave the linoleum for a few days if possible, so that it becomes smooth.
Then we cut off the excess pieces again, and most importantly leave a couple of millimeters to install the baseboard. This is so that after installing the baseboard, linoleum does not go in waves. - Glue linoleum using special glue for this material.
Tip. However, if your kitchen is less than twenty squares, then you can completely do without glue. You can simply press linoleum with a plinth; for reliability, you can glue linoleum in the vicinity of the threshold.
- Install the skirting board.
Plumbing installation. Instruction manual
After you should do the installation of plumbing and equipment. This stage includes: installation of a sink, cooker, hood, connection of mixers.
To install the mixers you need:
- The first step is to turn off the water supply to the mixer.
- Unscrew hoses from mixer.
- Loosen the fixing screws.
- Unscrew the fixing mechanism of the mixer to the sink.
- Then remove the mixer.
- To clean a seat on a sink or a sink.
- Install gaskets to the mixer.
- Install the mixer in the sink.
- Secure this mixer with the fastening mechanism.
- Connect the hoses to the mixer.
- Turn on the water supply.
It is also necessary to mount switches and sockets.
Tip. Wiring in the kitchen should be strictly horizontally indented from the ceiling / floor 15-20 cm. And to all outlets and switches, the wires should run vertically from the main line.
For some devices, an outlet is not required, but only a wire outlet.
Advice
If you have a small kitchenette - it doesn’t matter.And you can think of something for her.
For example, you can visually expand the kitchen using soft pastel colors in the color palette - they will add some weightlessness to the room. Such a kitchen should have a minimum of furniture.
Instead of a table, it is better to use either a sliding part of the working surface, or install a bar counter near the window sill.
Some users do not like all kinds of smells coming from the kitchen, but here they have to tolerate, because there will be no doors at all. Instead, the doorway will be designed as an arch.
In this case, close attention should be paid to the walls of such a kitchen. Indeed, shelves can hang on the walls, and they significantly save work space.
Household appliances here need a minimum amount. Well, if absolutely nothing at all, then you have to fork out into the kitchen with built-in appliances.
