Drywall shelves: DIY ideas

What if you have too many books, various home accessories, travel souvenirs, but no place for them? After all, the scale of an apartment or house does not always allow you to purchase large furniture, where it would be possible to place all household items. The way out of this situation is quite simple - plasterboard shelves. They are easy to make with your own hands. You can create products of any shape and size, depending on how many accessories need to be placed on them.

Drywall is an excellent material for assembling shelves, although many believe that it is not at all durable. GKL can be used in rooms with high levels of humidity and flammability. Drywall is perfect for children's rooms, it is one of the safest materials.

Shelves are a great alternative to oversized furniture, such as a wardrobe or shelving. In addition, they are roomy enough, you can put books, vases, dishes and even electronics on them. These shelves have many advantages:

• GKL has a very attractive price, which cannot be said, for example, about plywood sheets or wood.
• To work with this material, no special qualifications or special tools are required. It is easy to cut and drill. Any paint perfectly fits on it.
• GKL shelves are harmless to human health and pets.
• This material is quite lightweight and easy to process.

• Drywall is a designer's dream. This material allows you to bring to life the most extraordinary ideas. It can be used to build not only shelves, but also arches, various figures to decorate the ceiling and walls.
• These shelves are especially well suited for books and perfectly support their weight without deforming under stress.
• Luminaires can be built into plasterboard structures. This is a practical and beautiful solution that will visually make the room brighter and more spacious.
• In a drywall kitchen, you can build a bar counter with shelves built into it, on which you can place all the dishes and other kitchen utensils.

• Do-it-yourself drywall shelves will help you save on the purchase of large-sized furniture.
• Open-type gypsum plasterboard structures are an excellent solution for small-sized premises. They will not take up much space, but they will allow you to functionally place all things.
• Plasterboard shelves can be installed in a house or apartment, and even in utility rooms.
• They are versatile and comfortable. You can put almost any thing there to facilitate access to them.

Drywall is considered one of the most versatile materials for a reason. It can be used during renovation work, not only to create partitions and ceilings, but also to create an exclusive interior. Shelves for various purposes can be made of drywall. Thus, they will help to conveniently place any interior items.

There are many options for placing a TV in a room. You can buy a special bedside table for TV, hang it from the wall on brackets, or make a drywall shelf for it. The last option is called a niche. With its help, you can hide wires and sockets.The screen placed in this way will perfectly fit into the surrounding space and decorate the interior.

You can build a drywall niche with little or no cost, without any special skills.... Around the niche with the TV, you can make additional shelves to place a stereo system on them, various decorative accessories and books, photographs, paintings, decorating a hall or another room.

Plasterboard shelves for books are under the greatest stress. If you are worried about their strength, you can create a reinforced frame from a metal profile. In the future, it is also possible to add struts and buttresses for maximum reliability.

Plasterboard shelves for bathroom and kitchen sinks are popular nowadays. As a rule, in many apartments the bathrooms are rather small, but loaded with plumbing fixtures. Often, kitchens also have a small area, but they have a lot of furniture and equipment, there is also a sink. One of the best ways to take up space in these rooms is to make a shelf under the sink.

You will be able to use the free space under the sink wisely. If the sink is in the corner, then you can supplement it with plasterboard corner shelves. They will take up little space, such shelves are always practical.

If you want to make your room brighter and more comfortable, you can make a backlit drywall shelf. Moreover, it is not customary to install it near the window. With the help of such a backlight, you can make even the darkest corner of the room brighter. It can also be installed in a small bedroom and children's room.

Backlight can do a wide variety of tasks, for example, illuminate significant items placed on shelves, mirrors. It can also replace a night light and become an integral part of an interesting interior. As a backlight, you can use an LED cord or a tape with a transformer.

With the help of plasterboard shelves, you can easily diversify the design of the living room. Wall shelves and niches look especially modern and harmonious in such rooms. The niche can be decorated with special chrome pipes, which are pre-coated with paint. Such a design will be able to fit into any design and will definitely emphasize all its advantages. In addition, it can be pasted over with natural or artificial stone, decorated with plaster or unusual glass, which will attract attention in the interior.

Such solutions in the interior:

• depending on their shape and size, they can visually expand or lengthen the space;
• help to make the room truly unique and unrepeatable;
• perfectly replace larger pieces of furniture, for example, wardrobes or massive cabinets.

In the hallway and corridor, a rack with drywall shelves will look aesthetically pleasing. It can be made functional and still save a lot of space. The rack can be located opposite or near the front door. Decorative elements are placed there, because when they come to you, guests enter the hallway. The first impression of what you see, as a rule, forms an idea of ​​the interior of the apartment as a whole.

Having built a plasterboard wall, you can trim it with decorative stone, build in lighting, add various small shelves. The size of the wall must be selected based on the height of the ceiling and the width of the corridor, then the structure will look harmonious.It can become a unique art object, especially if it is painted with paints or decorated with fabric.

Plasterboard shelves for the kitchen can be used not only as a functional element for storing dishes and other kitchen utensils, but also become an excellent decorative addition to your design. Plasterboard shelves are combined with other materials such as wood or glass. The surface of these shelves can be covered with wallpaper.

You can also lay tiles or small decorative tiles on the surface of the shelves. These shelves will look good in a bathroom or toilet. But before applying these materials to drywall, it must be carefully primed, taking into account the level of humidity in these rooms. Otherwise, the tile may not fix properly.

Before making drywall shelves with your own hands, you need to take into account the step-by-step instructions. It is better to make the drawings of the future design yourself, so that it is easier to implement them when creating shelves. It is recommended to take into account all the nuances at the stage of creating a draft version so that you do not face any unpleasant moments during the final installation.

To make sure that you have chosen the right place for the shelf, the drawing can be transferred to a Whatman paper and attached to the place of further attachment. This is important when the shelf will be located next to the doors. So you can assure yourself that the structure will not interfere with the passage.

There are a few rules for making a good drawing.

• You should immediately choose the design of the shelf or niche. You need to think about whether there will be partitions inside the structure, calculate the number of all the necessary elements, decide what shape it will be: angular or semicircular.
• It is better to make a small sketch of the finished shelf. Thanks to the sketch, it will be much easier to determine the size and location of the future shelf.
• It is also important to choose in advance a place in the room for the future design, for this you need to take into account the interior of the room.
• It is necessary to project the dimensions of the room to scale on the drawing.
• All shelf dimensions must be specified: depth, width and height.
• If you want to make a backlit shelf, then you need to mark on the drawing in the places where it will be located.
• When creating a drawing, you need to take into account the thickness of the gypsum board and the metal frame.

If you have a rather small kitchen, then plasterboard niches will be an excellent design for it, which will help save space in the room and create an interesting design.

Plasterboard shelves are also great for a kitchen or dining room. They will replace massive hanging cabinets, you can place dishes on them or decorate them with decorative accessories.

An interesting and original option is the creation of shelves from gypsum plasterboard in the wall that separates the kitchen and dining room. There they look harmonious and therefore will be appropriate.

You can also fill the corner with shelves. This option looks especially good if there will be a corner sofa and a table. The shelf above them can be decorated with a lamp.

Low shelves are suitable for a children's room. So the child can easily reach any shelf. There you can place textbooks, school supplies. Shelves in nurseries are decorated with LED strip and soft toys. It is advisable to make a box for the tape, it will greatly simplify the installation and will not let it overheat.

Recently, it has been fashionable to combine columns and shelves from gypsum plasterboard. This design can serve as a kind of zoning method, for example, to separate the living room and dining room. On such shelves, you can place various items for the home or interesting decorative items for decoration.

In the living room, instead of a large TV stand, you can make a niche, which will noticeably increase the space in the room. A niche made of such a material, unlike a wooden one, does not require special care. In addition, it looks compact.

Drywall shelves and niches look interesting in the bathroom. They allow you to save the maximum amount of free space while it is limited in such premises. They can be placed both above the bathroom and above the sink, and even under these plumbing elements.

Plasterboard shelves in the bathroom can be decorated with bright mosaic tiles or adhesive tape. It will be possible to place towels, hygiene items and scented candles. This design looks beautiful and elegant.

It is now popular to use shelves in the bedroom instead of bedside tables. Such drywall shelves can be placed both above the bed and to the side of it. You can decorate them in different ways, focusing on the overall design of the room. Family photos, portraits, souvenirs, decorative vases and flowers will be appropriate here.

Niches and shelves in the hallway and corridor look beautiful and stylish. For example, if you integrate a backlight into a niche, this will help greatly increase the space. Due to the illumination, you can significantly expand a narrow corridor or a small hallway. In this case, the shelves are not too deep.

Thanks to the use of such a solution, you can revive the interior of any hallway and hallway. A plasterboard niche is thus able not only to help emphasize the decor of the room, but also to hide various defects in the corridor or hallway, for example, uneven walls. You can beautifully arrange plasterboard niches using simple paints to match the general color of the corridor or decorate them with decorative putty, artificial stone, decorative glass, artificial brick.

For information on how to make a drywall shelf, see the next video.