Plaster panel: ideas for interior decoration

Gypsum panel - a simple and unpretentious way to decorate the empty walls of a living space in an apartment, private house, in the country. This decor looks most elegant and delightful in modern interiors, where a certain design style was used. From inexpensive material, you can create relief images of people, animals, plants, or attractive abstraction.

Sometimes, after a major overhaul, a persistent feeling of incompleteness arises, when the owners of the apartment visually observe that something seems to be missing in the design style.

The desire to achieve improved originality, aesthetics in the living room, hallway, and is caused by the frequent use of gypsum panels.

Small bas-relief images on a different theme decorate not only the walls, the ceiling in the apartments of panel, multi-storey buildings or large mansions where wealthy, famous personalities live. Such a spectacular attribute is often used to enhance the style of restaurants, front doors, halls, and exhibition halls. Such widespread use is no coincidence. Decorative panels successfully fulfill several key functions:

• bring a bit of originality, decorativeness to the interior;
• together with other objects form iconic accents in the living space;
• mask areas of open electrical wiring, wall defects, ceiling slabs;
• emphasize the financial well-being of the owner of the living space.

With the help of an unpretentious accessory, you can beautifully decorate any room. If you decide to use a plaster panel to improve the style of your living space, you need to consider the purchase option. And in this matter, there are three common ways to solve the problem, how to achieve bright originality in the interior:

• buy a small but beautiful bas-relief;
• order an element of contemporary art from a master;
• make a plaster accessory with your own hands.

For many, the first option looks the most attractive. It will eliminate the need to search for an experienced artisan, as well as other difficulties that will surely arise if you try to make a panel with your own hands. But if you create a plaster accessory without outside help, such a step carries a lot of wonderful advantages:

• the opportunity to learn useful and interesting work;
• make decor with exact observance of the required dimensions;
• put your own, unique artistic meaning;
• to achieve iconic originality in the manufacture of a bas-relief.

If you decide to do this, you should pay attention to one important concept - panel theme... It is necessary that it be in harmony with the main design concept in the living room, hallway, nursery. Also, do not forget that such elegant bas-reliefs are best combined with the classical style and similar directions, but where there are no bright tendencies of futurism, minimalism, functionalism.

If it is decided to hang the plaster panel in the child's room, the subject of the image should be appropriate - cartoons, fairy-tale characters, flowers, cars, etc.

When the theoretical part has been carefully mastered, prepare:

• plasticine or paste for modeling purposes;
• rectangular shape (can be taken from a baking set);
• gypsum solution;
• plants (dried or fresh);
• acrylic paints;
• wooden rolling pin;
• special boards for the frame;
• board so as not to stain the surface of the table.

If such a work is unfamiliar, it is advisable to create the first blank with the participation of the master, so that he controls the creative process and points out mistakes.

In principle, it is not difficult to create a beautiful plaster panel... It is necessary to carefully study the presented master class and perform the work in stages.

• Roll out a pancake 1.5-2 cm thick from soft plasticine or paste. In diameter, it should go beyond the edges of the form. It is necessary to achieve a certain plasticity so that prepared plants can easily enter the material.

• Create a slight resemblance of shape imprints on the surface of the pancake and spread the flora representatives inside. Instead of flowers, leaves, stalks, you can use other objects - imagination to help.

• Take the prepared rolling pin and roll the pattern along the plane of the pancake.

• Remove plants from the surface, finalize the resulting prints, fold flat edges.

• Mix the plaster solution until a liquid consistency is formed and pour into the prepared mold. Until the mass has had time to harden, knock on the edges so that the gypsum penetrates into every millimeter of the print, and leave for a day. Many add PVA glue for better strength of the gypsum solution.

• As soon as the gypsum composition dries securely, the mold of plasticine or paste must be removed. Carefully clean the edges of the resulting base with sandpaper or a file.

• Prepare acrylic paint, take a brush and paint the front side of the decorative item. Here, the user can also get creative with how to apply paint to the workpiece.

• Take the prepared slats and make a frame so that the decor can be hung on the wall. What color to paint the back side is up to the student performing the work.

• Glue the plaster base to the finished frame using a reliable adhesive. You can use Kristall glue or another with similar properties.

• Create eyelets for mounting on a wall or stand so that the decor can be placed on the table.

This completes the process of making plaster crafts with your own hands.

Illuminated decorative bas-reliefs can be divided into two categories regarding the implementation of the conceived idea.

1. Tonal light - the use of neon lights (hidden lighting).
2. Installation of stylish, small lamps on the front side.

If the use of the backlight attracts attention, here it is better to think about making large panels... The most common example in living space is the installation of gypsum panels. They can also be made without assistance.

It is worth emphasizing that gypsum has unique properties. Among the main qualities:

• excellent aesthetics;

• fire safety;
• environmental Safety;
• hypoallergenic;
• plastic;
• moisture exchange;
• soundproofing;
• thermal insulation;
• restoration of work in a few minutes;
• long service life.

The listed and other advantages are the key motivating factors that stimulate the use of the material to create original panels and place them in the living space. In addition to small bas-reliefs, gypsum can be easily made modillons, pilasters, columns, brackets, baseboards. When the gypsum panels are ready, the question arises about beautiful display of handicrafts in the living space. This can be solved in the following ways:

• place on a chest of drawers, work table, trellis;
• hang on the wall in the hallway, kitchen, living room;
• get creative and glue the products to the ceiling.

In principle, even a bathroom can be decorated with decorative bas-reliefs, because gypsum tolerates high humidity very persistently.

It makes sense to list several basic conditions for the successful placement of gypsum panels.

1. A harmonious combination of the shade of the craft with the colors of the rest of the items.
2. Unified concept of bas-relief drawing and design style in the room.
3. Parameters, product shapes and the amount of decor in relation to the space of the room.
4. Choosing a place for comfortable visual perception.

Useful recommendations should be supplemented with one more rule - the panel should not stand out much against the background of other interior accessories.

There are a lot of successful installations of compact plaster bas-reliefs. It makes sense to look at some delightful examples.

• On the kitchen... A small plaster accessory made with your own hands looks quite attractive and justified. Due to the property of incombustibility, such a craft can be safely placed next to a gas stove.

• In the bedroom. The plaster bas-relief at the head of the bed, with characteristic thematic images, looks very elegant and noble. Such an element perfectly decorates the interior space, does not violate the style.

• In the living room. If the area of ​​the hall allows, it makes sense to arrange several gypsum panels - vertically or horizontally, or to make a large product, choosing a theme - nature, animals, and other topics.

• In the nursery... In order for the kid to enjoy the creativity of the parents, in this case, crafts with bright landscapes, kind animals, fish, superheroes are better suited.

Decorative bas-reliefs look very impressive and lively. Wall, table panels made of plasterhand-made, inspire a sense of pride in their work and adorn even a banal interior wonderfully.

In the next video, you will learn how to make a plaster panel for the kitchen interior with your own hands.