How to arrange a doorway?

Zoning a living space with a door is a familiar and necessary thing. A closed door helps to preserve privacy or noise.

But sometimes the room or corridor is so small that the door gets in the way, and in other cases the doorway is made so large that the door leaf will be cumbersome, and there is no need for it. In houses with thick walls, the door looks uninteresting because of the wide empty slopes.

In these cases, the question of the aesthetic appeal of such an arch arises, which means that you need to think about how to arrange the doorway.

In a typical apartment, very often walls between rooms, therefore, doorways are located under the joints of the ceiling ceilings. Such walls are called load-bearing walls. They cannot be moved or demolished. In this case, the opening must be carefully reinforced with beams.

The situation is simpler in a studio apartment. The load-bearing walls are either external walls or those that zone the bathroom. In the rest of the space, the partitions can be placed arbitrarily.

In a private house, during the construction, the necessary openings have already been determined. If the house is undergoing renovation, then their location will also depend on the ceiling tiles, beams and load-bearing walls.

• Thus, the first feature of the design of doorways will be adjustment to the supporting structures.
• The second feature is associated with the presence or absence of a door block in the opening.
• The third - with a desire to visually combine or divide adjacent rooms.
• The fourth feature is a wide variety of materials, geometric shapes in the design of a doorless space.
• The fifth is associated with the absence of the need to care for the door leaf in a doorless space.
• Sixth - saving money for the purchase and installation of a door block.

• However, not all doors can be removed. And this is the seventh feature - the need to preserve personal space, a closed bathroom with a stationary door.

In order to design the opening, various options for building and decorative materials are used. The former will give a new shape, ennoble the space, the latter will help to decorate it.

• Plaster. It is with her that the rough work begins when creating a new opening or repairing an existing one. It can be the basis for future cladding, or it can itself become a decorative design using textured plaster.

• Drywall is the foundation of future beauty. With its help, you can create any shape, hide flaws on walls and slopes. Drywall sheets can be bent in unexpected ways.

• Plastic panels - very convenient and practical material in a variety of colors. No specialists are needed for their installation. Veneering is quick and easy. And they require minimal care.

• Siding. It will not be difficult to establish such cashing, and in monetary terms it is a very economical option. It is convenient to decorate the entrance group with siding, since it is easy to care for it, it is moisture resistant and does not freeze.

• Wooden panels - no less beautiful, but more expensive. Planks can be arranged horizontally, vertically, diagonally, herringbone.For greater safety and beauty, the tree is covered with furniture varnish. Such a finish will look beautiful in a wooden house, where the tree itself is an element of decor.

• MDF panels are gaining more and more popularity due to their appearance, low cost, ease of installation. Facing with such material can be done independently.

• Painting. The most affordable way. The easiest way to work is with acrylic water-based paint. Nitro paint is applied with a spray gun (and this is inconvenient to do in a living room). Oil paint is used less and less. The enamel will add durability and shine to the opening.

• Polyurethane stucco molding represents a wide variety of moldings, columns and semi-columns, platbands for framing arches and doors. Light details and simple installation with glue make stucco molding very popular. It is produced in white, but easily dyed.

• Natural stucco - not cheap material. It will be much more difficult to work with it, since it is much heavier than polyurethane.

• Artificial or natural stone. In private houses in the south of Russia, where sandstone, shell rock, limestone practically lies underfoot, this material is in priority. But in the construction markets you can buy imitation stones (slate, porcelain stoneware, granite, marble, clinker tiles). The richest selection of decorative stone will help to decorate any walls.

• Wallpapers of various textures and colors - one of the easiest ways to design a doorway. Almost everyone can wallpaper the slopes and adjacent walls.

• Lamination film. The widest variety of colors and types will allow you to quickly and inexpensively decorate the opening. But the slopes must be smooth.

• Curtains - an excellent option for textile design of the opening. An infinitely large selection of fabrics, color range, price range will allow you to perform any design of the interior space with or without a door.

• Macrame or other weaving. It can be made in any color and quality of the thread. Such a frame can be made of the same length or in the form of a multi-level pattern.

• Kiseya or curtains-hanging, curtain - another option for the design of the opening. And this is a great way to demonstrate your skills, because you can make a muslin with your own hands. Such curtains can be made of bamboo, wood, plastic, beads, bugles, beads, shells and so on.

There are many ways to improve interior openings. The main thing is to choose the right shape.

There are several of them:

• rectangular,
• trapezoidal,
• arched,
• pseudo-arched,
• asymmetrical.

The easiest way is to make a rectangular entrance. If it is made in place of the old door, then the door block, together with the cashing and slopes, must be dismantled. An opening without a door can be finished with any material mentioned above. Openings in a wooden house are cut to securely fix the logs and plates.

Any cashing can also be used for the trapezoidal entry. After shaping the trapezoid, the opening will have more corners, and, therefore, it will take more time to install the slopes made of solid materials. And this is the only major difference.

There are different arches: classical, elliptical, gothic.

The choice of a specific form depends on the style and purpose of the room, the desired materials for decoration.

• The MDF arch can be bought ready-made. This will take about 3,000 rubles. Plus about 200 rubles. on polyurethane foam.
• The arch can be made not from a solid MDF canvas, but from extensions and platbands. This method allows you to design an opening of any width.In financial terms, this is a very profitable option. In addition, such a frame is easy to use on a brick and concrete wall, since foam is used for installation, and not dowels with screws.

• An arched structure made of plasterboard (GKL) is a blank for any further decoration. In this case, you do not have to align the wall in the opening: it will be hidden under the gypsum board.
• PVC - cladding is recommended to be applied, heated with a building or home hair dryer. This must be done quickly to keep the coating intact. If you have doubts about your own abilities, it is better to invite a professional.
• With the help of soft materials, it is much easier to refine the semicircular arched forms.

The pseudo-arch design is a rectangle with plasterboard rounded corners. Such an arch really looks more like a rectangle than a semicircle.

Entrance doorways require special design. They must be warm, non-marking, abrasion-resistant, safe. This is especially true for a metal door, as the coldest one.

MDF will perfectly cope with this task. Addons from this material will help you install your own cash. Telescopic cashing is considered the easiest way due to the ease of installation. It is made according to the lath-lining principle: on one side it is provided with a groove, and on the other - with a ridge. By inserting the comb into the groove, you can make a shield of any width.

Another design option is upholstery, for example, leatherette. First, you need to calculate well whether it will interfere with the movement of the door itself. In addition, creating a thick layer can significantly reduce the opening. Therefore, in narrow rooms, it is impractical to use this option.

But cashing with artificial brick or stone will make the opening beautiful and will not steal space. It is easy to stick it with your own hands.

Veneering is ideal for facing the entrance group, as the veneer is strong and durable.

Depending on the selected material, the types of fastening will be different. In modern construction, polyurethane foam is used not only as a sealant, but also as a fastener. Therefore, MDF panels, for example, are planted on foam. After complete drying, the residues are cut off with a sharp knife.

For cashing wooden openings, experts use finishing nails. Their convenience lies in the fact that after driving in, the caps are practically invisible on the material. For brick and concrete walls, it is convenient to use liquid nails. This glue is applied from the back of the solid material, after which it is fixed on the slope and pressed tightly against the wall.

The panels can also be mounted on self-tapping screws. In wooden openings, you first need to make small holes with a drill, and only then screw in a self-tapping screw. Otherwise, the tree may crack. Dowels will have to be driven into brick and concrete walls (after having drilled holes for them), and screws must be screwed into them.

The easiest way of fastening is with beak latches. It is by this principle that telescopic platbands are attached. The disadvantage of this method is the stratification of the casing itself with frequent dismantling. But the door is only installed once. And if the time has come to dismantle it, then it is not needed, just like the old platbands.

Having decided on the material and shape, you need to prepare the slope for decoration. If this is not so important for further decoration with various types of panels, then the surface should be ideal for wallpaper, painting, laminate.Leveling can be done with plaster or drywall.

You need to start by removing a layer of old plaster. The better this work is done, the less problems with the slope will be later. Next, you need to seal the potholes and cracks with cement mortar. Small cracks are rubbed with putty, and the distance between the door frame and the wall is filled with foam.

Slopes can be plastered with cement mortar (cement, water, sand) or plaster (cement, sand, lime mortar). In stores, a ready-made plaster solution is sold, as well as a cement composition, to which you only need to add water.

There are several ways to apply the solution to the wall, but with any of them, in order to make the surface even, you need to install vertical beacons. These can be slats that are attached to the slope with alabaster. After the beacons have dried, a solution is applied to the wall and leveled with a spatula. It is convenient to plaster vertical slopes in this way, with ceiling slopes it is more difficult to do it. After the plaster has completely dried, it is decorated in any way.

This material can be used to refine openings of any configuration. And this is the advantage of the GCR. Perhaps no other material can cope with an asymmetrical shape.

After choosing the shape of the structure, you need to create a scaled drawing on paper. On it, on a sheet of paperboard or other hard paper, a template of natural sizes is made, which is transferred to the wall drywall. The number of copies depends on whether the shape is symmetrical.

Next, a metal profile is installed in the doorway. To give the profile an arched shape, it must be trimmed with special scissors for metal every ten centimeters. The metal profile is attached to the opening. To create the arch of the arch, you will need a ceiling gypsum board - it is thinner, and it can be bent according to a template.

This is done with a special needle roller. The plasterboard blank is abundantly moistened with water and rolled with a roller. The workpiece is softened, given the desired shape and left to dry for ten hours.

After drying, all the elements of the arch are fixed with self-tapping screws to the frame of the metal profiles. Further, with the help of a serpyanka tape, the joints of the sheets are sealed, and the grooves from the self-tapping screws are rubbed with plaster putty. When this layer is dry, the entire structure is putty, and then sanded with sandpaper. At this stage, the preparatory stage of work is completed, then the structure will be finished.

When creating an asymmetric multi-component design, there can be more parts. And not every home craftsman can handle this kind of work. To get a high-quality and reliable design, it is better to entrust the work to professionals.

The most reliable measurement of the doorway in which the door will be installed is entrusted to a specialist. But due to circumstances or your own desire, sometimes you have to measure this space yourself.

How to do it right:

• Measure the width, that is, the distance between the walls. In this case, at the entrance opening, the width at the door will be less than on the inner side of the wall. In addition, due to a construction defect, the distance at different points may also differ. Finding the bottleneck is important.
• Measure the height, that is, the distance from the sill to the lowest point of the overhead opening.
• Measure the depth, that is, the thickness of the wall. This must be done at the bottom, in the middle and at the top of the opening.

GOST defines the typical dimensions of doors and openings. You can see them in the table below. This is done to simplify calculations when designing apartments. These sizes are not always used in private houses.But in this case, the project of the door block will be individual, which will significantly increase its cost.

Moving a doorway is perhaps the most difficult question. Especially when it comes to an apartment in an apartment building.

To avoid fatal errors, consider the following:

• what material the wall is made of;
• what is the layout of the housing;
• whether this wall is load-bearing;
• how the dimensions of the opening relate to the load-bearing wall;
• what is the state of the floors;
• what is the thickness and condition of the walls.

Having decided on the project, you need to carry out a technical examination, then agree in various committees. This is followed by obtaining technical specifications, permission to design and approval of the project itself. To solve all these issues, there are special organizations, or the owner decides on their own.

Possible options for moving the opening:

• Doorway with standard dimensions in the load-bearing wall. It can be pierced from scratch. Since there is a redistribution of the load on the ceilings and walls, it is important to decide the question: will the previous passage remain or will it be laid.
• A more time consuming option is an arch. If it is cut out in a concrete wall, then in a brick one a more complex technology is used, which only a professional can handle.
• A slight shift or widening of the opening in the same place is the safest option. The jumper is enlarged or displaced. The unnecessary part of the passage should be sheathed with plasterboard or bricked. On the other hand, a part of the wall of the required dimensions is cut out.

The value of this arch is in its functionality. This is not only an example of beautiful design, but also a combination with shelves that are never superfluous.

This design option is possible in a large room with high ceilings. An excellent example of space zoning using natural stucco molding.

The use of modern materials will preserve such an opening for a long time, and the built-in lighting will help with this.

The design of the entrance group and the corridor passage in the same style is an excellent solution for the hallway. The decorative stone will help preserve the look.

You can make such an arch made of wood yourself. She perfectly zones and highlights the space.

Thanks to the built-in illumination, this glass bead muslin made the passage unusually beautiful

Despite the unusual colors, such an asymmetrical arch looks great and hides the non-standard dimensions of the room.

The next video is about how to decorate a doorway with your own hands.