Despite the unprecedented variety of eaves for curtains, which can be attached to the walls, ceiling, or be a strained string, many want to make them invisible. Fashionable design solution - curtains, as if flowing straight from the ceiling - allows you to carry out a niche of plasterboard for curtains.
In general, today the plasterboard has become a very popular finishing material, but its relatively low strength sometimes makes us break your head over how to hang a TV, a bookshelf or a picture lined with a wall. How to fix the cornice to plasterboard so that he does not fall off under the weight of the curtains.
Niche for curtains
We will try to answer such questions and try to answer this article.
Manufacture of a niche of plasterboard
Niche, in the depths of which the curtain eaves will be attached, may be the most different shape. Most often it is done simultaneously with the mounted plasterboard ceiling, without bringing it to the wall with the window.
But in most apartments of the Old Foundation, the ceilings are so low that there is no place to lower them. In this case, you can make an independent cornice for the curtains of drywall in the form of a box along one wall, as on the first photo, or throughout the perimeter of the room.
Ceiling box with backlit and niche over the window
Before starting the mounting of the rice carcaste, it is necessary to make simple measurements and determine the depth, width and shape of the niche.
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Definition of parameters
In order for the result to be done with your own hands, you pleased you, think about what the curtains will be in the room and what kind of curtains are needed - single, two- or three-row. The width of the future niche depends on this.
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- Using a plumb, find the ceiling line of the subsidence or heating radiator.
- Return from this line to a couple of centimeters deep into the room and spend the second line parallel to the first. She will indicate you the position of the first row of the curtains.
- Attach curtain to the ceiling so as to combine the nearby wall with a planted line.
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Sketchy image
- Back from the outer edge of the curtains for another 1-2 cm. The distance from the found point to the wall is the desired niche width.
The depth of the niche is chosen at your discretion and, depending on whether lamps or other equipment will be integrated into the drywall box.
For reference. The backlight can be placed in the niche itself, by gluing the LED tape to the ceiling or the end part of the box.
Thus, you will be able to hide curtain under drywall and draw attention to the beautiful curtains.
Niche with backlit
Niche device
Instructions for the manufacture of this design is very simple.
- Along the control line, retreating from it on the thickness of the plasterboard, screw the guide profile to the ceiling.
- In parallel, he is at a distance equal to the desired width of the box, lock the second same profile. Fastening is made on a dowel for drywall.
- From the racking profile, cut the segments of the length equal to the depth of the niche, and screw them to the guides in a step of 40 cm.
Metal Framework
- To the free ends of short vertical segments, screw two other guide profiles. Their ends will need to lock on the walls.
- Cut the plasterboard to the stripes of the desired width and lick them the metal structure.
Further work is similar to what is carried out with the cladding sheets of GLC walls or ceiling. This is reinforcement and putty of seams and corners, finishing putty and painting or other decorative finish.
Note. If you need a niche under the garardine from the drywall, as in the picture below, then skip p.2 outlined above instructions, and insert the sections of the racking profile to each other so that the frame for fastening the GCL on both sides of the frame.
Narrow decorative box
As you can see, nothing complicated. If you used to deal with drywall, you will not have any problems with how to make a neat niche, in which the ceiling eaves for curtains hide.
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How to hang curtains if the walls and the ceiling of GLK
If you did not think about the niche in advance or simply do not want to do it, but the walls and the ceiling in your apartment are lined with GLK, then you will definitely be a task how to mount eaves to plasterboard.Rather, two options are possible: when the surfaces are already sewn by this sheet material and decorated, and when such a finish is only planned. Consider both.
Option first
Plasterboard is a rather fragile material that is not able to withstand a long exposure to a serious load. Therefore, it is desirable to produce the carnis drywall at those points where the frameworks are passing. You can find them using a magnet.
However, in the right places it may not be, then you can use one of the following ways:
- Secure the cornice with the help of special plastic butterfly dowels. They are inserted into the drilled hole, and when screwing the "Wings" screws on the reverse side of the drywall are disclosed, thereby increasing the area to which the load is distributed.
Other fasteners are working on the same principle: a dowel-umbrella, a dowel-self-tapping screw of Driva.
View of a dowel-butterfly from the inside in the working position
Attention!
Such a fastening of the cornice to plasterboard can withstand the load not more than 7-8 kg, so it can only be used for light curtains.
- The only way to hang curtains for heavy curtains, if the wall or ceiling is lined with GLC, it is to use long anchor bolts.
They will pass through drywall, the gap between it and the base and deepen in the base itself for 4-5 cm. To find out the desired length of the anchor, you will have to drill the trim and through the hole made to measure the distance to the ceiling or the wall - depending on what the eaves will be mounted.
Option two
If you are just going to make repairs with alignment of walls and ceiling with drywall sheets, about where and how to hang the cornice to drywall you need to think right away.
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Regardless of which type of cornice you have chosen - wall-mounted or ceiling - at the place of its future mounting it is necessary to skip the additional profile.
Even better - leave the mortgage in the form of a wooden bar. It is for them through drywall will subsequently be attached Gardin. How it is done, you can look at the video right with us on the portal.
Brous mortgage for wall cornice
The main minus of this method is the need to think through the whole future interior to the smallest detail in advance, because in addition to the eaves, you will have to hang on the walls of lockers and shelves, and on the ceiling - lamps, projectors, etc.
Mounting karnisa
It remains to tell how to attach eaves to plasterboard or bearing base if it will be in a niche.
Mounting openings have already been made in the rush cornices. You need to attach a cornice to the desired place and through these holes with a pencil outline the attachment points. Then a perforator or drill to drill holes for dowels and insert them.
Ceiling drilling
It will only be left to raise the eaves again, combine the holes and fasten it with a self-drawing by screwing them into a dowel.
The curtains on the brackets are attached in the same way: we get through the holes in them, drilling, krepim.
Conclusion
No wonder many repairs use the services of designers who are calculated in advance and draw the whole interior in detail. The price of designer repair, of course, above, but after its completion, it does not have to solve complex puzzles, thinking how to hang a chandelier on the stretch ceiling or heavy curtains on the wall of plasterboard. But, as you can see, if you wish, the output can be found from any situation.