Finishing the ceilings in the apartment: we select the material

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Oriental-style waterproof wallpaper ceiling

What is interesting about the ceiling? Various options for finishing ceilings in the apartment represent the ability to search, view photos and choose a surface design to your liking.
It is fascinating to trace the evolution of finishing materials and their qualitative dynamics. The recent past of whitewashed ceilings is replaced by paper wallpaper and painting, and the construction market is replenished with many other materials and ceiling structures.
Oval, horizontal, stepped, snow-white with a perfectly flat surface, suspended, suspended ceilings, the list goes on and on.

What to choose

Apartment Repair and its modern decoration is a laborious, complex process that requires time and financial resources. To cooperate and squeeze your capabilities is provided in case of breakdown of the repair stages into not very complex operations and rather laborious.
What works include ceiling decoration, is it possible to do these works with your own hands or start looking for specialists? Ceiling decoration begins with the concept of the general concept of the design of the room as a whole, the ceiling, and all other parts of the room, must be in harmony with each other.
Creating a design project is not the last touch in these works, video materials and the opinion of experts who know all the intricacies of the profession will help in choosing the style and interior of the room. It only remains to remember that the designer does not suggest, the choice is the customer, and the methods of decorating the ceilings in the apartment will form the basis of your preferences and future repairs.

Criterias of choice

Three selection criteria form the basis and support of the chosen option - the beauty, the practicality of the result and the economy of the project:

• Painting and gluing of ceilings has been used for a long time. The technology of their application has been worked out to the smallest detail.
  To say that this type of decoration has become obsolete and has sunk into the summer, is premature. According to experts, this type of decoration refers to cheap and simple actions, but requiring a special, sincere approach.
• Preparation of the ceiling space begins with the study and identification of flaws and defects that are mercilessly eliminated.
• Plaster mixes, polyurethane foam, putty mortars are used to seal cracks, chips, dredging.

Attention: If the surface of the ceiling is leveled to the maximum level of evenness, then before applying the putty, a primer is applied with a special solution that deeply adheres to the base of the ceiling.

• The smooth surface of the ceiling is achieved with fine-grain sandpaper, the ceiling is dried, primed and waiting for the finish.
• Painting is carried out with water-based paint, simple ceiling finishes the apartment is performed with simple tricks.
• The corners are initially painted with brushes, and then the entire surface of the ceiling is covered with a roller with a fleece coat.
• Foam rubber is not used in this operation, the paint is applied in different directions, check the perpendicular arrangement of the last layer to the wall where the window is.
• The use of water-based paint does not require time to dry each layer, the price is affordable for the poor, and instructions for using dry mixes and paints are presented on the packages.
• Wallpapering on the ceiling began a few decades ago.Then there were ordinary, paper rolls, and if the technology for ceiling pasting is no different from pasting walls, it is very problematic to carry out this process alone.

Visual scheme for wallpapering the ceiling

• Hands get tired quickly, the neck becomes numb, there is irritation and a desire to drop everything, it’s good if you have the wisdom not to start pouring all the negativity onto each other, so it’s better to trust the masters, they will do everything from the wallpaper chosen by you.
• No need to organize relatives, to think that the craftsmen apply glue to the ceiling and to the wallpaper to increase the fastening of surfaces.
• Strips are cut with an allowance of 10 cm, which must be cut off after installation.
• The strips are rolled with a clean roller to remove excess glue and air, then excess glue is removed with a clean cloth, while the patterns and pattern are aligned. Do you need this?
• Novelty - room ceilings with liquid wallpaper finishes, surpassing previous options in price, quality and appearance.
• This material itself serves for leveling and small differences do not harm it. An important point for their use is a clean, dust-free surface, pre-treated with a deep penetration primer.
• Liquid wallpaper they are stretched with a trowel, but not rubbed, the trowel comes complete with wallpaper. This finish is still exclusive, it allows you to create great effects, different original texture and special color schemes.

Suspended structures

Ceiling in the living room of two levels

Finishing room ceilings with practical and functional frame structures, of which there are a large number of types using various finishing materials, is almost put forward in the first place.
So:

• Plasterboard products that can be painted or wallpapered.
• Plastic panels, accumulating in one name many options.
• Slatted ceiling and lining made of natural wood.
• Mirror panels, a novelty in the construction market.
• Textured plywood, a relatively inexpensive but practical material.
• Decorative boards of various compositions, ranging from particle board to modified.
• Foam styrene boards are also represented by more than one product.
• The basis of suspended ceilings is a frame made of wooden battens, plastic or metal profiles.
• The frame is fastened to the walls and ceiling, which allows you to create a reliable and durable structure.
• Finishing elements are fixed on the frame, fasteners, as a rule, cuts themselves, but glue and other fasteners are rarely used.

Tensile structures

So:

• The ceiling in the apartment continues with stretch ceilings.
• They are considered prestigious, hence the most expensive.
• Consumers can enjoy discounts during a certain period, and if you disassemble the options, a variety of color schemes and designs is noted.
• Today, installation teams of suspended ceilings offer multi-level options, their arsenal has replenished with the format of arched type structures, wavy, in the form of a cone or tent.
• Particularly popular models with photo printing, so they are so loved by designers.
• Installation of suspended ceilings is performed only by professionals who are trained in these processes, having special tools, and who are able to handle it.

Attention: The only drawback of suspended ceilings is their fear of sharp and cutting products, so care must be taken during operation.

Design advantages of ceilings:

• Ceiling space is used to mask ventilation, electrical networks.
• Finishing the ceiling in the apartment with various tiers allows you to achieve a luxurious design not only of a single space, but of the entire room as a whole.
• Properly installed fixtures, especially in small apartments, where redevelopment was made to increase the space, visually divide and zone the room.
• The air cushion between the ceilings is an excellent protection against noise from above, that is, such ceilings have a high level of sound insulation.
• Modules of false ceilings are functional simplicity and practicality. Wash and clean with the usual detergents available in every home.
• The combined approach and the use of various finishing modules allow you to create exclusive, original, individual ceilings.
• The advantages of suspended ceilings include the speed of their installation without dust and dirt.
• If the ceiling decoration of an apartment with a stretch ceiling is treated with an anti-dust compound, the surface does not collect dust.
• The small thickness of the material (only 0.2 mm) withstands the load per square meter of 100 liters. Is this not an excellent indicator.
• There are analogues of frost-resistant materials that can withstand up to -50 ° C.
• Unlimited dismantling and re-installation of stretch ceilings.

Types of ceiling finishes in the apartment are great opportunities. The basis of the selection is based on the estimated cost of the work performed.
If the costly part is not limited by the budget, then the question of how to finish the ceiling in the room is not even raised. You can choose an elegant option for your premises and make the apartment fashionable, functional and practical.