Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Flight of fashion: the ceiling of your dreams

Lydia Vladimirov If you ask my grandmother what is the ceiling in the apartment, the old lady is likely to take an interest, not whether you get sick. Yes, mom and older than fifty years too surprised by this very strange question for them. Of course, smooth and white! And what else? In their time, just twelve years ago, it was hard to imagine something else on the ceiling. A fashion for moldings and ceiling paintings, it seemed gone forever. Were replaced by typical houses with crooked and bugrovatymi ceilings in living rooms - the fruits of industrial housing. Now, every ceiling orders to your taste and wallet capabilities. Just choose! Dull or elegant? Oddly enough, but it is in such terms is now called the white ceiling, but it must be perfectly smooth. Exquisitely stylish can be a ceiling, whitewashed in a delicate color, blending in with the walls of the room. On someone's taste and possible selection of contrasting colors: Ceiling - Wall - the door. There's also a different color segments of whitewashing the ceiling. Desktop overhead Many landlords prefer not to breed pobelkovuyu dirt, and hang the ceiling wallpaper instead of its whitewash. By the way, first and wallpaper were just pure white, imitating the whitewash. Now fashion has stepped forward. In shops and markets building materials offers a variety of color, texture and performance of wallpaper for bedroom, dining room, nursery, office, living room, kitchen and even bathroom with toilet. When choosing to think about the purpose of wallpaper, for example, kitchen and bathroom, they should be water-resistant. Do not recommend artists to get involved in finishing ceiling wallpaper "foamed vinyl", "silk screen", "embossed". The main thing - they should be bright and dim picture. From the wallpaper you can also make a mosaic on the ceiling. Finally, a very popular lately become "Venetian" plaster, "liquid" wallpaper. Fashion - This is a more expensive pendant perfectly flat ceiling made of plasterboard. Purchase and installation of the ceiling will cost no more than the cost of alignment. But remember: ceiling necessarily "steal" you have the height of the room. And at the unwillingness of the loss it is best to mount against the drywall uneven ceiling, then it will lower the height of the room only by the thickness of the sheet. It is 15-20 centimeters. Purchasing the drywall, you might want to create its miracle on the ceiling with a variety of curves, corners, ledges, and most importantly - in a few levels. If, for example, a room with a bay window, the drywall on the ceiling will repeat the shape of the room in two levels. And the intricate lighting set by playing with light, hiding them from view. Slab of drywall can be painted, too, under the style of the walls. Appeared drywall wood, stone and marble, as well as various rough surfaces and embossed. May be clear geometric designs, or "fantasy". There are ceiling fans in the bathroom mirror in the bathroom ceiling, for that matter, and in the bedroom. But the high humidity in the bathroom mirror zapoteet, so you need a strong ventilation. The cost of finishing the ceiling thus increase. Ceiling tiles for the bathroom should still be not only decorative, but also hygiene with antimicrobial coatings, moisture-proof, sound proof, so as not to think about when you can use the bathroom, but it's too late - the neighbors are asleep. Most ceiling tiles are designed for 75 percent humidity and no more. Dampness reduces their life and spoils the "face". Are moisture tinted plastic, tape and suspended ceilings. It is important to check one condition - suspended ceilings shall not contain asbestos, he was exiled from the harmful effects (in the literal sense) of the components of building materials. When you purchase a plastic ceiling pay attention to its fire safety and durability of the load on 1 square. meter. It should not be less than 4 kg. All the decorative plate made qualitatively, should have a warranty period. Such ceilings Stretch ceilings (different forms) the most expensive, from $ 30 per 1 sq. km. meter. What is this miracle of the century? Yes, only a special polymer film based on PVC. Number of texture and color options is growing as fast as mushrooms after rain. Specialists have counted more than a hundred: lacquer, matt, under cotton, satin, marble and leather. Humidity such ceilings makes them suitable for kitchens, bathrooms, toilets. But to buy a ceiling ready to be, you must order the firm to the size of your room. Mounting them is not complicated: the film attaches to the perimeter of the room to your existing prints. But can do it only to professionals. Suspended ceiling height of the room will reduce the total to four centimeters.

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