The decoration of the room can be done in the most different options. One of the best ways diversify the interior - use niches made of plasterboard. But it is important to use this material as correctly as possible in order to achieve the highest efficiency of this stylish design.

Peculiarities

Drywall can be considered one of the best building materials. Rare repairs can be carried out without using its sheets. Great quantity available options its applications – ceilings with one and several levels, slopes, smooth walls, partitions and screens. Among these and many other options for using drywall, the niche is not the least important.

The advantages of gypsum boards are quite obvious:

lack of toxic properties;

strictly standardized sizes;

Possibility of use in a variety of conditions;

ease of decoration.

The plasterboard slab is always 120 cm wide and the length is either 250 or 300 cm. The material used for the walls is 1.25 mm thick.

A thinner gypsum board (0.95 cm) is used for ceilings, and for arches an even thinner option (0.65 cm) is needed.

Plasterboard niches are much better than the usual exquisite furniture, because they allow you to get rid of bulky hanging shelves and whatnots, and stands original form. Such designs are not very practical, are not suitable for every interior and often serve only as dust concentrators. With the help of recesses, it is easy to place the most important and pleasant things for people on the walls, give them a new meaning and radically change the atmosphere in the room. In addition, remake appearance premises can be built very quickly and at minimal cost.

Species

Using niches you can place, for example, a curtain rod for hanging curtains. A hidden version of such a device cannot be noticed from the outside; the observer only detects canvases descending from somewhere above. No distractions!

The portal is most often formed on the basis of galvanized profiles, the wall is prepared in advance and sheathed with the original gypsum board layer. To create niches, it is recommended to use sheets 1.5 cm thick, because individual elements of such recesses can be large and are designed to withstand hanging televisions and other structures weighing up to 10 kg.

It makes sense to illuminate niches for refrigerators from the inside by placing a strip of built-in LEDs under the very edge of the ceiling. As with other lighting options, the wiring location should be made as close as possible to the existing electrical network.

You can also hide in niches:

corner wall;

wardrobe;

curtains and battery.

Design

The functions of niches and partitions can be reduced to four main areas:

elegant design element;

comfortable, practical location for items;

dividing space into sections;

saving on furniture.

Decorating a blank wall with plasterboard niches allows you to place televisions and decorative fireplaces in them. In these recesses there is room for ornamental plants, large furniture and book collections. Spectacular LED lighting helps complete the formation of a beautiful space.

If you add a cozy sofa to the area and add textiles, you can achieve a very stylish appearance.

An attractive design move - dividing the territory with partitions(for example, separation of working and recreational parts in a children's room or in a home office). By combining the creation of a barrier with niches, it will be possible to lighten it and reduce the load on load-bearing elements. It is easy to place a flowerpot, children's toys and other not very significant objects in the recesses. Decorative niches allow you to install a dressing room or closet in the most different rooms- the same bedrooms, children's rooms, in the halls and corridors. To complete the creation of a full-fledged storage area, you will only need to install outward-opening or sliding doors.

A niche in the apartment, combined with a decorative screen, does a good job of masking the most unsightly heating radiators. But they may also have another task, which is successfully solved by a niche in the shelf format. Such products easily fit in the kitchen and living room, bathroom, hallway and balcony. They allow you to arrange a variety of objects and set a clear accent for the entire interior of the room. The preservation of an attractive appearance can be improved by using a moisture-resistant type of gypsum plasterboard.

For finishing drywall, especially those installed in the bathroom or kitchen, it is recommended to use acrylic facade paints, which effectively resist moisture and mechanical destruction. Sometimes the walls are lined tiles, mosaic tiles are preferable for bathrooms. Most design developments are complemented by lamps, among which the most valued led lamps. The reason is not only their cost-effectiveness, but also increased safety compared to other options.

Large shelves where many items are displayed are best placed behind the door. Then the apparent chaos will not confuse those who come to such a living room, and it will not annoy the household members themselves.

How to do it yourself?

Step-by-step instructions for making a plasterboard niche always begin with preparation and collection of the necessary material part.

Home DIYers will need:

several guides (made of wood or metal);

plasterboard sheets;

construction level;

screwdriver and drill;

dowels and screws;

putty;

The installation of the frame must comply with the drawings; The guides are fastened to the walls using dowels; they can be tightened together with self-tapping screws. However, structures included in a metal profile can also be connected with a riveter. This option allows you to avoid cracking of the drywall or not fitting it tightly enough to the guides.

The sheets placed on the frame are covered with plasterboard and puttied. The options for subsequent finishing are quite varied. This includes painting, wallpapering, the use of decorative stone, and cladding with ceramic tiles. Shelves installed in addition to niches can be wooden or glass. The decision must be made in accordance with the dominant style in the room. All that remains is to place the desired interior items there and enjoy the result.

Preparing a niche for installing a TV with your own hands is quite possible. For work you will need aluminum profiles (ceiling-wall, guides and flexible). You will definitely need a number of hangers, connecting components, angles and extensions. The gypsum board and profile are secured with self-tapping screws, sometimes dowels are used. In most cases, you can get by with standard sheets of drywall, but there may be situations where arched material is required.

The gypsum board will need to be puttyed and primed, and all seams and joints will be sealed using serpyanka tape.

Before the production of a plasterboard niche begins, it is necessary to clearly determine whether it will protrude outward or recessed inward. The second method will require covering a significant part of the wall with sheets of material, but such a solution makes the space more expressive.

It is equally important to select the configuration of the element being created:

rectangular (horizontally or vertically);

• curved shape;

  original design.

The principles are well known to everyone - if the line is extended upward, it will help raise the ceiling, and if directed horizontally, it will expand too narrow walls. Atypical geometry is justified only if the room itself has a shape different from the standard one. But with the usual straight walls, various experiments are not always compatible, and if they can be carried out, then only on the instructions of an experienced designer.

To improve the area around the TV, you can make a number of shelves for sound equipment and decorative elements. Often they create racks or cabinets that, together with a niche, form an integral ensemble. Important: always leave 50-70 mm from the back wall of the TV to the niche so that you can safely place cables and provide ventilation. Free space should also be left around the perimeter of the screen.

When installing guide profiles, dowels can be placed a maximum of 0.4 m apart from each other. Then comes the turn of the vertical parts (ceiling and floor). The frame is covered with plasterboard gradually, and first of all they work with the most complex elements. The screws are placed at a distance of 25-30 cm.

In addition to primer, putty and serpyanka, you need to use a metal corner with perforation (they cover the outer edges).

How to position?

The ideal placement of a plasterboard niche in a hall requires familiarization with basic design principles. Most often, such structures occupy the center of the room, although they can be made on the longest or accent wall. If there is an empty corner or other unused space in the room, this is where you should install the recess. In the bedroom, a spacious niche with shelves becomes a replacement for a wardrobe and it needs to be placed in the same place where it stood before.

• in the bathroom, it is advisable to place a niche either at the far wall, or deepen it into the side plane (so as not to absorb space);

• in the hallway it is worth placing this structure opposite front door a few steps away from her to make it easier to put and take things;
• in the kitchen optimal location the recess turns out to be the place where the TV will be located, since it is for it that the recess is mainly prepared;
• in the bedroom, it would be a good idea to install a structure in which the bed will be completely or partially hidden;
• in corridors where there is an unused corner, there is no need to additionally look for a place to work with plasterboard sheets.

Installing plasterboard niches is possible in any room, but in order to avoid mistakes, you should pay attention to the type of material. The standard coating is marked as gypsum board gray with blue markings. Red markings indicate increased fire resistance (GKLO), and a green plate with red marks is both moisture-resistant and flame-resistant.

IN one-room apartment a niche will allow you to hide certain objects or certain parts of the space; this approach is used very often.

It is recommended to complement plasterboard niches with elegant things, including antique ones. If it is not possible to purchase new interior items, you can rearrange existing ones, sometimes the effect is very attractive. By placing a TV in a niche in the living room and adding several armchairs to it, you can feel yourself in a non-standard environment.

Using the recess, you can change the impression of the bedrooms and adjust the placement of furniture in them. In kitchens, such a design element can add space, which is very important in small apartments.

Modern interiors are often done using plasterboard, which is becoming very common. This is explained by the fact that such facing material has a low cost. Often, with the help of gypsum boards, they not only align ceilings with walls, but also create original niches from plasterboard in the wall, which visually increase the space of the premises.

Using drywall, you can not only level ceilings and floors, but also create original niches in the walls.

In some cases, sheets of finishing material make it possible to expand the usable space of residential premises that have a specific purpose, including bathrooms. This is possible using sheets of waterproof plasterboard.

Tools and materials for creating a niche

Knowing how to make a niche from plasterboard in the wall of a room, you should prepare the appropriate tools with materials, the list of which includes:

1. Special safety glasses.
2. Hacksaw.
3. Construction level.
4. Side cutters.
5. Roulette.
6. Pliers.
7. Metal scissors.
8. Hammer.
9. Knife with replaceable blade.
10. Hammer.
11. Putty.
12. Fastening element (dowel-nails).
13. Screwdriver.
14. Bulgarian.
15. Drywall sheets.

Tools for installing drywall

Any craftsman, even a beginner, can make niches in a plasterboard wall. The design of the structure is pre-developed, and all dimensions are transferred to the drawing. The master must have an accurate idea not only of how to make a niche from plasterboard, but also of how it will look in the interior of the room.

All this will allow you to make an accurate calculation required quantity material to purchase it without extra costs. At the same time, the use of additional building and finishing materials depends on the design of the niche, for example:

1. Glue.
2. Paint.
3. Dry type construction mixture.
4. Electric tool.
5. Needle roller, etc.

The easiest option seems to be to install one niche in a gypsum board wall, but it is possible to install two or more niches in one structure. When planning the placement of a niche in the wall, the cladding of the structure is moved back to a certain distance, which is equal to the size of its depth. The width of the entire structure may not be very large, for example, 15 cm. Installation of a plasterboard niche should begin when the wall is marked according to the diagram. Then the metal profile is installed, taking into account the entire perimeter of the future niche.

How to make a niche from gypsum board with your own hands?

Scheme of fastening a metal frame under drywall.

It is convenient to cut a metal profile using a grinder or metal scissors. It is important to set it correctly. For this purpose, a tape measure with a building level is used. You can strengthen the profile using mounting umbrellas (dowel-nails). When making a niche that is not very wide, you can use a guide profile (NP) or use a rack profile (SP).

Then they move on to assembling the frame. It is more convenient to set the guide profile from the floor of the room. All work is performed using a tape measure, which can be used to measure the required size. Measurements are taken from the surface of the base wall using a tape measure, taking into account the thickness of the plasterboard.

Traditional dimensions of drywall are 2500x1200x12.5 mm. When all the marks are made, they are connected by drawing special lines. It is required to transfer all marks for the ceiling NP (guide profile) using a plumb line. When assembling the frame, the installation of rack profiles of the required size is carried out vertically. The installation of the upper and lower guide profiles is also carried out.

The standard length of the profile is 3 m, so it should be cut. The profile height is measured separately, since it differs by 1-1.5 cm in different areas premises. This is due to the presence of errors allowed during the construction of any premises. Using a level, you should ensure that the racks are positioned strictly vertically.

Scheme of a niche with hidden lighting.

Only after this the frame elements are secured using dowel-nails. If necessary, assemble the frame using only the guide profile. When making the transition to the floor from the wall, it is enough to make a cut with scissors to bend the profile at an angle of 90 degrees.

Having placed the profile, it is fixed to the wall, after which vertical posts with horizontal jumpers between them are installed, taking into account the size of the niche.

Then you should install jumpers from the racks towards the wall. When installing these niches along the entire surface of the wall, it is necessary to create a fairly reliable frame. You cannot do without additional profiles with jumpers alone.

How are wide plasterboard niches for a bed created?

Before creating a niche from plasterboard, you should develop a design so that the metal profile is combined with the gypsum board. For example, furniture walls - slides, which are multi-level, are considered well known. They can be made independently from sheets of drywall.

Select a profile that has the greatest strength. Large niches can be made if you use a profile with a back width of 75 mm. For example, the German manufacturer Knauf produces reliable products using the thickest metal.

Diagram of the correct joining of drywall sheets.

To create a frame for the shelves, you can use a piece of profile that is solid. To do this, a frame in the shape of a rectangle is bent from this material, secured to the wall with dowels and nails. In the required place for bending, you can only cut the side of the profile. After this, the adjacent sidewalls are fastened using self-tapping screws or a cutter.

If the frame is of sufficient length, then it should be strengthened with the help of transverse jumpers, which are spaced from each other at a distance of no more than 400 mm. Using two frames, you can make a frame for a wall cabinet if you fasten them with jumpers. By securing the frames to the floor using profiles, you can obtain a base for creating a niche in the wall. If these types of structures are combined, you can make them yourself various types built-in furniture with niches with shelves.

To create original designs use a flexible profile, for example, produced by Flext. All its sections include two halves shaped like the letter “L”. They have special locks at the ends. As a result of installation, a profile of the required length is created, which makes it possible to produce a structure with a closed or arbitrary shape. By combining the Flext profile and regular type profile, they are used to create a frame for gypsum plasterboard walls with round or round niches oval shape etc.

How to use tools correctly when working with plasterboard?

Before working with plasterboard, be sure to wear safety glasses. Cutting is carried out using a stationery knife and electric jigsaw. You can sand and level the sheet using a hacksaw and a plane.

It is better to use two people to cut the drywall into strips the length of which is equal to the length of the sheet. Then mark the required size on the front side of the plasterboard, apply the profile to the marks to make an incision using a knife. It is enough to hit the back side of the sheet with your hand so that it breaks at the place of the cut. Then the knife is drawn along back side leaf.

The cut sheet consists of separate parts that have the appropriate dimensions. These parts are elements of the niche design, made strictly according to the drawing. Each joint should be treated with putty. After this apply thin layer, pressing a special mesh into it to reinforce the structure. An additional layer of putty is applied on top, but paper tapes can also be used; they are dipped in water and laid evenly so that there are no wrinkles.

All self-tapping screw heads are puttied. When the entire structure is dry, apply finishing putty. To obtain a bent arc of drywall, it should be sprayed with water and rolled using a needle roller. When lining a niche, drywall is attached using special glue, cutting out pieces of plasterboard of the required shape.

Niches made of plasterboard are another clear proof of the versatility of the material, with the help of which you can now create not only walls and partitions, arches or wall cladding, but also wonderful shelves and niches for decorating household electronic equipment.

Judge for yourself, it is much more convenient to place decorative lighting, plasma TV, stereo speakers in nice niches, rather than just driving a couple of dowels on top of the wall. And, if you have a desire to decorate your home with such beauty, we will describe the process in detail now.

Decorative and functional niches in the walls make the geometry of the room interesting and help implement different design ideas. You can build a niche with your own hands even in a wall where there was none before. Moreover, this solution does not hide the space, but even visually expands it. The functional load of such structures is multivariate - a niche for a TV, a shelf for books, a place for an aquarium, a mirror or a picture. Such a recess looks especially advantageous in the hallway or bedroom interior, where the design provides for a minimum of decor and furniture.

Before you make beautiful niches with your own hands, you need to clarify the dimensions and depth. When choosing a place for a recess, you need to take into account the location of the furniture - it should not block the opening.

The niche design can be arranged vertically or horizontally; there are also floor options where a built-in decorative fireplace, large vases with flowers, other decorative details, the height of which does not exceed 80 cm.

A beautiful niche, especially in the hallway or for the bedroom, can be closed or open. In the first option, the recess is installed sliding doors according to the principle of a wardrobe. The design of the niches is complemented by mirrors, lighting, polystyrene foam baguettes and other materials. Before installing the backlight, you need to plan in advance the placement of the liner with switches. Decorative lighting is provided by spotlights or decorative lamps and an electric fireplace. In the latter version, the niche is designed in the form fireplace portal, finishing - stone or wood.

Selecting tiles, wood or other finishing material, we must take into account that without effective lighting a niche can give the impression of a dark hole, especially if its color is darker than the walls. Mirror niches or finishing with glossy ceramic tiles visually expand the space.

Another touch - the design of a niche in the walls is ideally combined not only with the complex geometry of the walls, but also with suspended multi-level ceilings.

DIY ideas for beautiful niches (video)

What is needed

First of all, we take measurements, draw a design, purchase materials and begin creating a niche.

Don’t forget about the finishing materials, which need to be thought out and purchased in advance, even with the plasterboard itself, profiles and fasteners.

Start of the process

So, let's start creating a niche, let it be for a plasma TV, which needs to be placed on the wall in front of the sofa and armchairs. How to do this correctly?

Initially, you sketch out a simple plan, just for yourself, to make it easier to work in the future. Afterwards, make markings on the prepared wall, where you apply all the dimensions of the TV, niche, its decor, and finishing. Don’t forget that you need to immediately install power into the niche, a satellite or regular cable, audio wires, and so on, and secure it all inside the future niche.

When preparatory work finished, let's move on to preparing and cutting materials.

Remember that here you will need to take into account not only the markings on the wall, but also the depth of the niche.

Installation of metal frame

Installing the frame and sewing it up is quite simple, since we have already learned this several times, but we will repeat the most basic points. Immediately attach the profile to the walls, strictly according to the level, on correct fastening, thereby creating a frame for a plasterboard niche. Next, having established the required depth of the niche, increase the frame with a profile as much as necessary (this will make your work much easier). After the frame is installed, we proceed to covering it with plasterboard, which should already be cut strictly to size.

Sheathing

Any person who has at least once encountered plasterboard work or visited our website can sheathe a plasterboard niche with his own hands. Everything is very simple here - you apply ready-made pieces of gypsum board to the metal frame and, using a screwdriver and metal screws, sheathe the niche.

Do not forget that you need to make your work easier from the beginning, and to do this, be sure to insert the fastener caps flush into the pieces of gypsum board.

putty

Now that the plasterboard covering of the niche is finished, you need to move on to the next stage - primer and putty. First, prime in two layers, allowing each of them to dry thoroughly, and then apply putty to the material. There are quite a lot of angles in our design, and therefore, we recommend that you definitely use auxiliary elements - perforated angles and serpyanka.

These elements are attached to starting putty, and after careful leveling and drying, they are finished with finishing putty.

Finishing

The final stage is finishing the gypsum plasterboard niche, which can be done using a lot of materials, but since we worked hard on puttying and sealing joints and corners, we’ll probably paint the niche water-based paint. You can also always cover some of its parts with wood. decorative panels, laminated chipboard, special decor, everything here is just your choice, but it’s better not to paint the internal parts right away, since mirrors can be placed there.

Assembly steps

Step-by-step instructions for assembling niches with your own hands include important stages, each of which may raise questions or difficulties. Advice from experienced specialists will help you do the job better at all stages.

• The construction of a niche begins with choosing a location, then thinking through the shape and dimensions, taking into account the thickness of the frame and gypsum board.
• The detailed drawing must take into account cable and lighting connections.
• The structure is marked on the wall using a tape measure, ruler and pencil, indicating where the frame will be attached. Measure the depth of the niche from the wall, add the thickness of the plasterboard (13mm) and mark the line for attaching the profile.
• Using a plumb line, transfer the markings to the ceiling.

• A frame of metal profiles and guides is secured to it with small screws. The guides must coincide with the intended lines. For rigid fixation, the vertical sections of the profile are placed opposite the horizontal ones.
• The vertical sections are connected with jumpers made of metal profiles. They control the process at any construction level.
• Strips of drywall on the frame are secured with self-tapping screws, sequentially sewing up the entire niche: first the side parts, then everything else
• Finishing a niche with your own hands begins with securing the joints with reinforcing tape, then sealing the seams and treating the corners, applying several layers of putty.
• After drying, treat the surface with sanding paper.
• Prime and decorate the surface. Finishing - wallpaper, tiles, wood, moldings and paint.

How to make a niche from plasterboard (video)

In the hallway

Niches are used to decorate any room. If there is a dead end in the hallway, it can be fenced off without problems in order to rationally manage this area. An open or closed niche in this part can be equipped as a hanger or dressing room.

In the kitchen

In the kitchen, every centimeter of space is taken into account, so the niche design here is not just shelves - you can install them in kitchen appliances(washing or dishwasher, refrigerator, etc.).

If a niche in the kitchen is intended for appliances, additional space must be taken into account for air access to electrical appliances and communications.

To work in the kitchen, you need to select gypsum boards of a greenish color that can withstand well high humidity and temperature difference.

By the window

If the niche is in the kitchen or utility room made for a gas boiler, meters or heating radiator, the opening can be covered with finishing in the form of a perforated grille.

For niches near utility windows, fire-resistant or water-resistant plasterboard is used.

GCR is fixed to a metal frame or with glue, depending on the load.

Corner niches

Even in a small apartment, you can always sacrifice a corner for a niche in the kitchen or bedroom. This dead zone usable area eats a minimum, but looks ergonomic dressing room or a decorative fireplace is very impressive.

Bedroom design

In a bedroom interior, a niche can serve as both a decorative element, where you can place a collection or flowers, and a functional element, for example, a shelf for a TV, where it is convenient to hide all the cords.

If you make the niche for the TV closed, you can lock it, controlling the time that children spend in front of the TV.

To make a niche by the window, in the hallway or for the bedroom with your own hands, you do not need to be a qualified builder. It is enough to stock up on plasterboard sheets, self-tapping screws, metal profiles, an angle grinder, a drill, a tape measure, a plumb line, reinforcing tape, a spatula, putty, a building level, and most importantly, imagination and the desire to update the interior design without special costs or major repairs.

Contents of the article:

A niche in the wall is a special cavity that can have different shapes and purposes. IN small spaces it creates additional space, and in spacious rooms it decorates the interior as a decorative element. Setting up a niche is not a complicated process when its creation is envisaged at the design stage of the house. If the room is already in use, then all problems with the manufacture of such a structure will be associated with the material that was used in the construction of the walls.

The main types of niches in the wall

Niches can be vertical and horizontal, functional and decorative. Their shape and purpose depends directly on the solution that a given wall element must fulfill.

Horizontal niches are constructed in rooms where low, elongated furniture, such as a bed, is located. If the wall of the room is short, making a horizontal niche on it will visually increase the length of the structure.

When planning the location of a niche nearby bulky furniture, windows or doors, it is better to make it vertical. In this case, such a wall element will visually increase the height of the room.

In functional terms, installing a niche in the wall helps to mask the shortcomings of the room layout associated with the placement engineering communications: heating radiators, pipes, metering devices, etc. In a room, a niche can serve as a shelving unit, a closet, and become a place to store various things. Recesses in the wall are used to place furniture, equipment and household appliances. Quite often there is a bar in a niche.

Decorative niches can completely transform a room, standing out against the background of the wall. color scheme and drawing attention to yourself using the built-in lighting system. Such recesses are used to store beautiful vases, photographs, figurines and various souvenirs. If the dimensions of the niche allow, you can place an aquarium or small flower pots in it. Decorative niches visually increase the size of a room, giving it a modern or gothic aesthetic.

Technology for installing a niche in the wall

Most often, niches are made in brick walls and plasterboard structures. Making recesses in main walls is very problematic, since this requires special permission from the technical supervision services of buildings. Usually it is extremely difficult to obtain, since such an event violates the load-bearing capacity of the wall. But to construct a niche, you can use another brick wall located along the floor slabs that have a lower load. However, it is much easier to make a recess of any size in a plasterboard wall or in a structure frame cladding. Permission is not required for this, but the necessary calculations will have to be made. Let's consider both options for making a niche.

Niche in a plasterboard wall

Before you make a niche in the wall with your own hands, you need to display the future structure on the drawing and calculate its dimensions, taking into account the electrical wiring and all technological gaps. Depending on the humidity of the room and the shape of the future niche, you need to determine the type of drywall. Wall gypsum board has a thickness of 12.5 mm, arched - 6.5 mm, and ceiling - 9.5 mm. Moisture-resistant sheets are always green, the rest are gray.

To work you will need consumables and tools: galvanized metal profiles, GKL and perforated corners, screws, primer and gypsum putty, construction level, metal scissors and knife, screwdriver, dowels and hammer drill.

From the drawing to the wall, according to dimensions, it is necessary to transfer the plan of the entire structure, taking into account the niche and indicating the location of its shelves, figured elements and lamps. The wall must be smooth and clean. If necessary, it can be plastered.

First, the frame of the future structure is made. The profile guides must be secured along the marking lines using dowels and a hammer drill. The fastening pitch is no more than 400 mm. On curved sections of the frame, profiles must be cut along their flanges and bent to the required radii before fastening.

After fixing the guide profiles of the future structure, you need to add volume. To do this, you should step back from the wall to the depth of the niche, and then secure it in accordance with it horizontal profiles on the floor and ceiling. After this, they should be connected by vertical posts.

To form the contour of a niche in the frame, it is necessary to cut pieces of the profile of the required sizes, bend their ends at an angle of 90 degrees and secure them to the racks and the wall. The profiles are fastened to each other using small self-tapping screws using a screwdriver.

Care should be taken to illuminate a niche in a plasterboard wall at the stage of making the frame. Electrical wiring to it must be laid in special plastic boxes. They look quite decent, so cutting out a cable groove in the wall is not required.

The front part of the resulting frame and its attachment to the wall should be reinforced with stiffeners. Their fastening must be done from the racks at equal distances along the length.

Covering the niche frame with plasterboard sheets should begin with its curved elements, if any. After cutting the sheets, they must immediately be tried on at the installation sites. It is advisable to cover the slopes of the niche and its front part with solid sheets of plasterboard, if the dimensions of the structure allow. In this case, it will have greater rigidity. Docking gypsum boards near the corners of a niche should not be allowed. Fastening plasterboard sheets casing to metal frame performed with 25 mm self-tapping screws using a screwdriver. The screw heads should be slightly recessed into the thickness of the material.

After completing the cladding external corners niches should be fixed with a perforated profile, coat the joints of the plasterboard sheets with putty and stick reinforcing sickle tape on them. Then apply over the tape and perforated corner gypsum mortar and level it with a spatula. The recesses from the fastening caps of the sheets must also be sealed with putty. After the solution has dried, the treated surfaces must be sanded with fine sandpaper. Now the niche is completely ready for finishing.

Important! All installation operations of frame profiles must be controlled with a building level and a square. Only in this case can you get a niche of the correct geometric shape.

Niche in a brick wall

A brick niche can be rectangular or arched. In the second case, to mark it on the wall, a kind of “compass” is used, consisting of a thread with a pencil attached. When planning work, you should increase the size of the planned excavation by 3-5%, leaving room for decorative finishing. The thickness of the brick wall for arranging a niche should not be less than 400 mm.

Before making a niche in a brick wall, you need to prepare grinder with a stone disc, hammer drill, hammer and chisel. In addition, you need to have protective equipment: gloves, special glasses and a respirator. This is important, since dismantling masonry is always accompanied by an abundance of dust and flying fragments.

Niche arrangement in brick wall you should start by making a recess for the upper lintel, which will hold the top of the wall while dismantling the masonry of its lower part. The length of the lintel will be greater than the width of the niche, so the upper horizontal recess must be made with a margin of 300 mm relative to the transverse size of the lower planned cavity.

In the selected location of the wall, mark the contour of the niche and knock down the plaster at the location of the lintel. When the rows of masonry become visible, you need to adjust the height of the contour taking into account the upper support beam. The top row of masonry to be removed should consist of bricks arranged in a spoon. If this is not the case according to the markings, the line of the upper notch for the jumper must be lowered a row lower.

After this, using a perforator hammer and a chisel, you should prepare a groove for the jumper. Is the masonry removed horizontally to a depth? brick and height 150 mm. Shards of bricks from the excavation must be removed after finishing work.

After this, you should prepare a mixture of cement, sand and crushed stone in a ratio of 1:1:2 and install the formwork on the made excavation.

It will require a couple of boards. One of them needs to close half of the groove in height and nail it to the wall. Now you will need five reinforcing bars with a diameter of 10 mm. They must be laid on a centimeter layer of concrete, previously poured into the formwork after attaching the boards. The second board should be placed higher than the first, leaving a gap between them to fill the space with concrete. After a week, the concrete will gain strength, after which you can continue working.

It is convenient to make the main recess for a niche in the wall using a “grinder” with a circle on the stone. The side lines of the outlined contour must be cut to a depth of 120 mm, and then the bricks must be removed from the masonry in rows from top to bottom using a hammer and chisel.

At the end of this process, the verticality of the walls of the niche must be checked with a level, leveled with putty and its surface sanded, and then proceed to finishing.

Features of the design of niches in the wall

The design of a niche largely depends on its purpose, but artistic taste in this matter is also important. This interior element can be finished various materials. These include:

• Artificial or natural stone. An excellent option for decorating niches located in kitchens or living rooms. The convenience of this design is ease of cleaning. To keep it simple, horizontal planes It is better to line niches with stone with a less “torn” surface than its walls.
• Laminate. It is more suitable for wall niches in sleeping areas. This material is used to cover the slopes and shelves of the niche located at the head of the bed. Its advantage is that the lighting, which is an invariable attribute of such a niche, will not highlight flaws made when leveling the surfaces. In addition, installing laminated boards on walls is not at all difficult, and anyone can handle it.
• Draping with fabric. This design of a niche will bring comfort and coziness to the room. Fabric drapery is also good for decorating the head of a bed.
• 3D panels or tiles. This material is truly universal, as it can be made from plaster, metal, leather and even carved wood. With its help, niches are created in rooms for absolutely any purpose. There can be only one limitation in the use of 3D panels - the size of the recesses in the wall. If the niches are small, such finishing will become somewhat problematic.
• Painting finishing. It is also universal and consists of puttying a niche and then painting it. When decorating a recess in this way, you must choose moisture-resistant paint. This will make the niche easier to use and clean.
• Decorative plaster. With its help, any structure and relief can be formed on the surface of a niche. The material has a huge number of varieties and is suitable for designing a niche in the wall of a room for any purpose.

Today, wall niches are not just a cavity, but an unusual space that should fit harmoniously into style decision interior Therefore, when making such a recess, it is recommended to adhere to some rules:

1. Niches are usually used as a corrective functional or decorative element in rooms that have technical shortcomings and design flaws that require camouflage.
2. It is important to maintain reasonable proportions of the size of the niches in relation to the dimensions of the rooms.
3. The color of the inside of the niche should be lighter than its background, otherwise it may feel like there is a hole in the wall. The arches of the recess can be made a tone darker in relation to the main one.
4. If the coatings when decorating a niche have different textures, you need to take into account their compatibility.
5. Mirrors help visually expand the internal space of the recess.

Very important element The design of a decorative niche in the wall is to illuminate it. Most often it happens on the side, top and is implemented using spotlights or LED strip, which fits into pre-prepared recesses. They create not only additional soft lighting for the room, but also allow you to transform its space, giving the room a special mystery.

For example, a narrow corridor can be visually expanded if low, horizontally extended niches with rear mirror walls and an upper LED backlight. The effect will be stunning.

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A niche is a built-in recess or ledge; it is intended for organizing storage areas, zoning, and as a design object. Drywall is often used on walls and ceilings. Since this is an easy-to-process material, it lends itself well to cutting, and a special arched one can even bend. The designs are light in weight and visually. You can make them in the bedroom or living room with your own hands, without the help of professionals, using a detailed drawing.

• Replacement of cabinet furniture. Recesses in the walls are suitable for use as a cabinet, shelving or shelves in the living room, nursery or bathroom.
• Hides unwanted elements (beams, pipes, heating radiators, curtain rods).
• Divide the room into zones. A niche with shelves instead of a blank wall is suitable for demarcating a studio apartment or a nursery for several children, as well as a bedroom combined with a workplace.
• They complement the interior or become its main accent.
• Correct the geometry of the rooms. Horizontal ones add visual volume, vertical ones raise the ceiling.

Suitable for any premises: residential and non-residential, heated and not. To finish a bath or balcony you will need moisture resistant drywall. Pay attention to the thickness of the sheet; it ranges from 0.65 to 1.25 cm. The thinnest is for arches and decorative niches, which will not carry any functional load. GCR 0.9 cm thick is used for multi-level ceilings and recesses in the walls for light objects. The thicker one is used when installing shelves for heavy objects - aquariums, flowers, large figurines. The frame can be assembled from both wooden blocks and metal profiles. The latter option is preferable, as it is faster and easier to work with.

There are two types of plasterboard niches:

• Open. Used as decorative element, a place to store collections, photos, books, and place a TV. Most appropriate in the living room, children's room, bedroom.
• Closed. Suitable for clothing, household appliances and other things that need to be hidden from prying eyes.

GCR can be painted, covered with wallpaper, and decorated with decorative stone. Will help complement the finish spot lighting or an LED strip around the perimeter, they will make the design even lighter and airier.

Making a niche for a TV with your own hands

One of the most popular ways is to place the TV in the living room or bedroom. This is justified not only by its aesthetic qualities, but also by the ability to install the device at a convenient height and hide sockets and wires. The screen will be visually built into the wall and will not protrude much above the surface.

The work consists of several stages:

• Preparation (measuring the dimensions of the structure, creating a drawing, calculating materials).
• Frame construction (marking work surface, electrical wiring installation, profile installation).
• Covering the niche with plasterboard sheets.
• Sealing seams.
• Decorative finishing.

It will only take a couple of days to assemble a simple built-in plasterboard niche with your own hands with several shelves for books and interior details.

1. Preparation.

When drawing up a diagram, it is necessary to measure the width, height and depth of the structure. When calculating the latter, take into account the dimensions of the objects that. If it is a TV, then you need to measure its width and add a small gap for sockets and ventilation. The screen should be recessed or flush with the outside.

Place three main measurements on a sheet of paper in frontal and lateral projection. Next, mark the location of the shelves. When calculating their dimensions, be sure to take into account that they must be larger in width and height than the objects placed inside. Otherwise, you won’t be able to secure and connect your TV or audio equipment, as your hand simply won’t fit.

Based on the resulting sketch, it is easy to make an approximate calculation of materials. But there must be a reserve, since the sheets and profile will have to be cut into many parts. For work you will also need:

• Fasteners. Metal self-tapping screws (black with a funnel-shaped head) for attaching gypsum boards to the frame, dowels for mounting guide profiles to the floor, ceiling and walls, short self-tapping screws with a drill for connecting the racks to each other.
• Rack and guide profiles, hangers, connectors, corners.
• Tools. Tape measure, level, pencil, screwdriver, metal scissors, construction knife, spatulas, sandpaper on the block, hammer drill.
• Materials for sealing seams. Primer, putty, sickle mesh.

If you decide to make a niche with lighting, then distribute the wires and install sockets in advance, and provide access to them. There is no need to trench the walls; the wiring will not be visible anyway.

2. Installation of the frame.

The work area must be cleared of furniture and the location of the niche on the floor and recesses on the walls must be marked.

Step by step instructions:

• Fix the guide profiles to the floor and ceiling using dowels with a fixation step of 30-40 cm.
• If the main plane is flat and will be visible through the niche, then the guides will need to be installed on the side walls, at the level of the shelves and in places where the slabs are perpendicular to the base surface. If the base has differences, use hangers and sew up the back wall of the plasterboard.
• Place the racks that will become the basis of the frame at least 40 cm apart, strictly level.
• Make horizontal jumpers from the rack profile, first in the places where there will be recesses, then the rest, which serve to strengthen the sheathing. Secure them with metal screws.

Additional jumpers should be installed where you plan to place heavy objects, for example, an aquarium or a living flower in a large pot.

3. Sheathing of the frame.

It starts with measuring and cutting suitable pieces. First, the vertical sheets of the front part of the structure are fixed, then the horizontal ones are the shelves, then the side and upper walls of the recesses. The gypsum board is mounted using metal self-tapping screws with a hidden head in increments of 15-20 cm. The fasteners should go deeper into the slab by no more than 1 mm.

At this stage, you need to make holes for the lamps and lay wiring to them according to the diagram. If the niche in the plasterboard wall is illuminated from the inside, then when installing the recess, you should provide a space from the base equal to the width of the box for the LED strip. Install lighting fixtures Not worth it yet.

4. Sealing seams.

Puttying is an important stage, since the appearance of the structure and its strength largely depend on the quality of this work.

Sealing Guide:

• Reinforce all outer corners of the niche with perforated corners;
• at the joints of plasterboard sheets on the plane, make a triangular groove and reinforce them with sickle mesh;
• before puttying, check with a spatula whether all screws are recessed;
• on finished design apply primer and dry;
• cover all joints: corner and plane - with gypsum putty;
• After drying, rub until smooth with sandpaper.

The next stage is finishing. If the work is done perfectly, then simply painting or wallpapering is enough. Helps disguise minor imperfections decorative stone, liquid wallpaper, tiles and other materials. One of the big advantages of gypsum board is that it is an ideal basis for many types of finishing. When the niche is completely ready, it’s time to start installing the lighting, the wiring has already been laid, all that remains is to secure the lamps and connect to the network.

Common Mistakes

Experts with experience will advise you on how to prevent serious violations:

• The thickness of the drywall and the grade of the profile must correspond to the load on the finished structure. Ceiling materials cannot be used in wall installations.
• For the first time, do not choose an option with complex elements, curvilinearity and small details.
• It's better not to make the niche too deep. It will look bulky.
• Do not neglect work that improves strength. Additional lintels and perforated corners will significantly increase the service life of the structure.
• It cannot be mounted on a curved base surface (with a difference of more than 2 cm) without covering the back wall.
• Don't skimp on lighting. Lighting is a great tool for creating a finished look.