Arches in the interior, as a profitable design move

In developing a design project of an apartment or house, the main task that is set for implementation is to create an atmosphere of comfort and convenience for those who will live there. An interesting and convenient way to divide the rooms for you can be the arches in the interior.

Their use begins its history in the distant Middle Ages. In subsequent times, the arches were forgotten and now they are gaining their former popularity again.

1. The presence of the arch gives the impression of openness of space.
2. The premises smoothly transform into each other, thus, the uniform design concept of the apartment is preserved.
3. With the help of the arch you can avoid some sharp corners in the interior.
4. The scope for creativity in working with such an opening is much larger; the arch can be fitted into any interior.

Use of arches in different rooms

Getting into the apartment, first of all we meet a corridor or a hall.

If you want to bring this part of the house refinement and a certain sophistication, the arch will be more than appropriate. The door cuts a small corridor, and the arch creates a spatial illusion, improves the perspective.

If in the corridor with an arch correctly combine the mirror elements, as a result you can get a wide and long corridor, at least visually.

Few divide arches of the room. This option is good when creating a studio or planning an apartment with small rooms. The arched opening allows you to create a spacious effect.

When using such a trick in the positions of a room-room or room-kitchen, you need to carefully monitor the combination of styles and shades of the connected premises.

In order to connect a room with a loggia, to which the owners often resort, it is also necessary to use an arch, but very wide. This is the only way to achieve expansion of the room, because you can not tear down the wall between the room and the loggia.

Special arches

When connecting rooms, you can construct a wide arch under the ceiling. Support for her will be the column. Thus, the space will merge, but the boundary between the rooms will remain.

If you decide to combine the living room and kitchen, you can use the arch with a bar. This method of differentiation is very convenient and practical, the bar counter will be a continuation of the arch itself and will look very organic.

As already noted, the arch can not only become a room divider, but also decorate them, turn into a real highlight of your apartment. For decorative purposes, most often use arches of plasterboard in the interior (see Making an arch of plasterboard).

An interesting design move will be a drywall arch with through niches attached to it. Depending on the owner’s desire, these niches can turn into convenient shelves, they can be decorated with various materials, or simply left with windows in the wall.

Style features arches

For rooms in classic styles more suitable high arch to the ceiling.

There are several options for such arches:

1. The arch as part of the arch;
2. The arch-portal installed on the columns;
3. Actually wall arch.

Such designs are massive, decorate them preferably with light stone, marble. In the design of such arches (see. Design of arches - a modern look at the classics) often used stucco elements.

In country style, the decoration of arches is often wooden or stone, and their dimensions are slightly smaller than in the classics. The arches under the Art Nouveau have unusual ornate lines, clutter of elements. Such designs are made of drywall, and their contour and decorative plates of clay or wood.

Depending on the overall design concept, the arches can have completely fancy shapes. For example, you can construct a passage in the form of a trapezoid or ellipse. To build them is not particularly difficult, as long as such experiments fit organically into the general interior of the apartment.

If the rooms are very small and they need to be connected, but at the same time maintaining the division into zones, the semi-arch will be a good way out. This is an asymmetrical opening, most often it is made of a round shape. Recently, an arch fixture of lighting devices has become popular.

There are two options for such manipulations:

1. Lighting penetration into the arched panel.
2. Fastening of light outside, on the outer surface of the arch.

This gives the passage of originality, such an arch looks especially good if it connects the corridor and one of the rooms. If you plan to create such an arch option, then when designing it, you need to leave a niche for the wire so that the extra details are not visible.

Drywall arch project

As already noted earlier, for the construction of arches drywall is widely used. It is easy to work with this material, because there is no need for special knowledge in the field of construction if you decide to assemble a similar arch yourself.

The algorithm works as follows:

1. Calculate the desired dimensions of the arch and the radius of the upper rounding. Carefully knock out that part of the wall above the opening and on the sides, which interferes. Prepare the wall with a primer and level the inside contour of the opening.
2. Plasterboard cut two rectangles. Their width should correspond to the width of the opening, and the length - the height of the future arch.
3. On the prepared sheets should draw the boundaries of the arch and cut a semicircle on top, according to calculations.
4. After that, we make a frame: UD profiles are fitted on both sides of the opening at the ends and screwed in with special dowels. Then we attach the cut out rectangles to them.
5. In accordance with the radius of the proposed arch, two profiles are cut out, then they need to be given a suitable shape and attached to the drywall.

   This is important: the profile should not sag, you need to ensure that it is not below the contours of the arch!

6. Then you need to cut a strip of drywall width of the opening and the length corresponding to the radius of the upper rounding.
7. With the help of screws the strip is fixed on the frame.
8. After the plasterboard is covered with plasterboard, it needs to be plastered, so that the joints are leveled.
9. The final step will be painting and trimming the arch (see How to trim the arch).

Attention! To create an arch with a rounded top or other non-standard forms, you need to use special drywall, one that has the highest degree of flexibility. To the category of such material can be attributed CD-60.

A good way to decorate the room, add charm and originality to it will be an arch. Moreover, this is a good move for those who need to visually expand the space, while maintaining the division into zones.

The arch is used also by those who would like to connect two rooms, but cannot do this because of technological features, that is, in the case when wall demolition is impossible. The interior of the living room with an arch will look much richer, and if you add a kitchen in this way, the room will be partially retrained into the dining room.

Более того, самостоятельно построить арку не составит особой сложности, потому и стоимость её кусаться не будет. Как итог, можно утверждать, что arches in the interior квартиры были незаслуженно забыты.

Their use will only give the room a special atmosphere and clearly demonstrate the good taste of the owners.