Repair the ceiling with your own hands in the apartments of a standard layout

Flaws in the decoration of the walls can be covered with furniture or paintings, but the ceiling is always in sight. If a few years have passed since the last repair, small cracks appeared on it, but the surface as a whole is flat, then it is not very difficult to independently tidy up the upper plane of the room. This can be done independently: expand them with a spatula and putty. Affairs are nothing.

Worse, if after the builders so nothing capital has been done. Repairing the ceiling with your own hands in the usual plaster-putty technology is a long, difficult and very dusty business. In addition, the most that the owner of an apartment can achieve in this case is a simple repetition, albeit in an improved form, of the simplest interior solution - an even plain ceiling. But you want something original ...

Repair of the ceiling in the kitchen is exactly what it is best to start an independent work in the genre of interior design. First, it is here that the surfaces are most quickly polluted by the evaporation that occurs during cooking, and when things are still relatively good in the rest of the apartment, the kitchen ceiling may not look very presentable. Secondly, the area of our kitchens, as a rule, is not very large, and it will be easier to manage with it than with the living room.

A complex configuration of a small protrusion with a curved line of contour in which it is possible to organize a cozy and at the same time effective lighting is what is needed.

To implement the idea, you need to formulate a design idea on paper, drawing a drawing. Then comes the turn of the markup. To apply it already on the ceiling you will need a string and a pencil - they draw arcs of bending.

Next - the frame. People who know how to hold a tool in their hands are usually accepted for repairing the ceiling, therefore, to assemble metal profiles and beams, the construction of the base for gypsum boards should not be a problem, as is its attachment to walls and ceiling. In a kitchen with a low ceiling, the depth of the ledge can not be large, but it should be enough to accommodate spotlights.

Drywall is cut easily, fitting lines to the frame is quite possible for every healthy man, taking It's for repairing the ceiling with our own hands. Have to tinker with a bent sidewall surface. Its best to perform from hardboard, this is such a kind of fiberboard, it is flexible enough to take the desired form. The main thing - do not forget to lay the wires for connecting the spotlights.

Joints should be carefully puttied, best of all with the laying of the mesh.

After setting the putty, it must be carefully sanded, after which you can start painting.

Repair of the ceiling with your hands involves refreshing the decor. To visually increase the space above your head, it is recommended to use a decorative glossy coating.

Repair of the ceiling in the bathroom by its technology practically does not differ from the one described above. The difference is only in the materials: they must be moisture resistant. This applies to both hardboard and gypsum board.