Ceiling and wall decoration: options and possibilities
Long gone are the days when the interior decoration of a house or apartment was carried out in the same style. Smooth white ceilings, and walls covered with floral paper wallpapers - that’s all that the inhabitants ’imagination lacked.
Nobody has canceled these materials now. Over time, the technology of their manufacture has changed, due to which the assortment has incredibly increased and the quality has improved.
The decoration of ceilings and walls today is a combination of several types of materials, making the room unlike any other. We will consider several options for this design with you and give useful tips on decorating walls and ceilings.
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Plasterboard constructions in the interior
To create a beautiful interior, plasterboard is most actively used today. GKL gained such popularity due to the fact that with its help it is possible to create various configurations, and not only on the ceiling.
So:
- Giprock is used for dry alignment of walls, their insulation, zoning of rooms. Today, a fashionable trend is the installation of decorative partitions and niches.
Thus, in any room with standard geometry, you can change the configuration, gaining additional opportunities for design. - And there are many possibilities, because the surface of drywall can not only be painted and decorate, but also perform manual painting, use stucco moldings, lights, built-in stained-glass windows.
- Plasterboard sheets are mounted on a wooden crate or a metal profile frame. The internal space of this design is used for laying insulation, various communications, spot lighting devices.
For those who want to try to do something like this with their own hands, there is an article on our website that provides comprehensive instructions on GKL installation technology. And we will talk about its finish.
Drywall Finish
So, you built a partition or made a two-level ceiling, or maybe both. How walls and ceilings should be finished to get a harmonious and original interior?
So:
- Whatever finishing method you choose, the surface of the drywall should be prepared for it. The key point of such preparation is the careful sealing of the joints between the sheets and their attachment points, in order to mask the heads of the screws.
How this is done, watch the video and read the material on this topic. - Such a finish is quite enough if your choice fell on dense vinyl wallpaper or a variant with a deep relief for painting. In the event that you will directly paint the surface of drywall or glue thin light wallpaper, the entire surface of the ceiling or wall will need to be putty.
- For this, ready-made gypsum-based putties or universal dry mixes diluted with water to the desired consistency are used. After the putty dries, the surface is sanded with an abrasive mesh and covered with a primer.
Only after that, GKL can be considered ready for the finish. - And here you can let your fantasies run wild or just borrow the idea from professional designers. We look at the photo below and see that the drywall wall is not made over the entire height of the room, but only from the middle.This made it possible to arrange an internal backlight in it.
- For the decoration of drywall applied manual painting technique. Maybe you yourself draw well?
Then it will not be difficult for you to design a room in this style yourself. Otherwise, you can contact the specialists who will decorate according to your sketch or offer their own versions.
- Wall niches designed in this way look incredibly beautiful. Niche decor can be not only painting, but also panels, applications, photo wallpaper - Yes, anything.
For example, a decorative plasterboard partition with colored stained glass.
- Wall decoration and ceilings should be a single whole, only then the interior of the room will be harmonious. There should not be too many decorative ideas.
If the emphasis is on the ceiling, for example, using stucco molding and a chic chandelier, the walls should look neutral. And vice versa: in the presence of nicely decorated niches and partitions, a multi-level ceiling will be inappropriate.
- With the help of a drywall construction, it is possible to solve the problem of visually changing the parameters of a room. Mostly, ceilings are used for this, since their height is not always comfortable.
In typical apartments, problems of lack of height more often arise. And in mansions and country houses, it may be necessary to fill in the extra space.
Let's look at an example of a designer solving such a problem.
- Ceiling: the suspended construction of drywall is not made around the perimeter of the room, but only in the central part. Thus, the first level is the base ceiling, and the second is the suspended ceiling, which visually brings it closer.
- Walls: have different finishes. One wall is dark, contrasting the entire room.
On the other wall used wallpaper with 3D image, which creates the effect of filling the volume of the room with a minimum of furniture.
As you can see, through the competent use and combination of finishing materials, any effect can be achieved. It is a pity that in one article it is impossible to tell about everything.
Texture finish
This section of our article is intended for those who are looking for finishes for walls and ceilings (seeCeiling options: traditional and new) aligned in the traditional way. They can create a chic relief using the plaster itself, special techniques for applying paint, structural wallpaper.
Wall decoration with ceiling tiles, linkcrust, voluminous eco panels can also help in creating the relief - everything that takes us away from the standards of the past.
Decorative painting
Decorative painting of walls differs from manual painting by the technique of execution, as well as by the tools used for this purpose. Moreover, the paint can be used the most common.
So:
- One of the ways to create a texture look of the surface is to use a sponge (sponge, napkin). The wall is first painted in the base color, and then, dipping a sponge into the paint of a different color, press it against the wall.
At the same time, they move in one direction, creating a harmonious relief.
- With the same success they use a rag twisted into a bundle, or a special rag roller. The first layer of paint will be the base, and the second - decorative.
The same paint is taken, but slightly diluted with pearl or, for example, silver. The resulting glaze is applied in a second layer, and then, until the paint has dried, a roller is rolled on the wall, removing part of the paint, and thereby creating a relief. - There are also special textured paints, which include various fillers and pigments.They are usually added in the process - the paint itself is a thick white mass.
As an additional decor, a drawing can be applied to the finish surface. - Filler, such as sawdust, and nylon fibers, and quartz powder can serve as a filler. A good specialist is able to create a real masterpiece on the wall with the help of textured paint.
- Such work costs a lot, but those who want the price of decoration not to go beyond the budget can use stencils or decals for decoration. The process of sticking pictures is simple.
Usually it consists of several parts, and contains plant themes: climbing plants, creepers, vineyards.
- Each part of the decal is fixed with masking tape slightly below the future location of the picture. Then part of it is carefully transferred from the paper substrate to the wall.
In order not to spoil the general appearance of the picture, its next part must be docked as accurately as possible. If done correctly, the wall will look like it was painted by hand. - The texture surface can also be obtained using decorative plaster. For this, both ready-made colored plasters and structural ones are used, the fillers of which, as in the paint, are added in the course of the work.
- You cannot create such a picture on the wall as in the picture above. To do this, you need to contact specialists with skills in working with microcement and Venetian plasters.
This work is painstaking, at least five to six thin layers are applied to the surface. Even the master who completed it will not be able to repeat the finished drawing exactly. Therefore, this design of the room is always individual.
Wallpaper in the design of the walls
In continuation of the previous topic, we draw your attention to the relief wallpaper designed for painting. There are purely ceiling or wall options, and there are those that can be used on the ceiling and on the walls.
So:
- Textured wallpapers are not only white, but also colored, which do not need to be painted, but can be repainted after a while. Such wallpapers can be of very different quality: ordinary paper, non-woven, fiberglass.
You can create a design using textured wallpaper by alternating between different reliefs. - Wallpaper decoration has long been a classic, and it seems that it is not going to take its positions. Manufacturers tirelessly come up with new colors and textures, and designers - ways to use them and combinations.
- Take at least the now fashionable method of using two or even three types of wallpaper in the decoration of one wall. They can be with the same pattern, but of a different color, or they can be identical in color, but contain a different pattern, as in our example.
- The strip on the wallpaper today has become very fashionable. Such a picture makes it possible to visually adjust the size of the room.
In this regard, the sheet with the sticker may not necessarily be located vertically, but horizontally, if you need to make the room visually wider.
- Wallpaper perfectly combines with other types of finishes: painting, various panels and wall coverings. The border between different materials is decorated with frieze or moldings.
- Floral wallpaper can make any room elegant and comfortable. Especially if the interior is well thought out and home textiles match the pattern on the walls.
Finishing, for example, in the Provence style, almost does not do without such a design. And here you have a good example.
- An unprecedented surge of interest has arisen, in recent times, for photo wallpaper.Usually they paste over one wall, but there are also options that are designed for a large area, and can occupy two walls.
One of the varieties of photowall-paper is wallpaper with 3D volumetric pattern.
As you can see, there are a thousand and one ways to decorate walls. Almost all of these methods can be relevant for ceilings.
We didn’t tell about all the materials used and decoration techniques, but this is quite enough to give you an idea for a good design. But there is an idea - half the battle, consider it done!
