Door arches - lightness and grace

The arch is a curvilinear structure located between two supports in the doorway and having its own overlap. To withstand heavy loads design allows bending of its top, which does not depend on the material of manufacture.

Such a frame of the door arch makes the doorway very popular. Types and features of devices, manufacturing technology prompts article.

Interior decoration

Interior door arches expand the space of the room, give the design a sophisticated and sophisticated look.

These are unique elements of the decor, allowing to decorate a variety of styles of rooms - from modern to classic:

• Classic.

These are standard door arches. The designs harmoniously fit into any interior (see Arches in the interior, as a profitable design move). Their vault is made in the form of a semicircle, the radius of rounding is equal to half the width of the door opening. This arch looks good with a large width of the opening.

• Romance.

The vaults of the structure have a rectangular shape, the corners of which are rounded. Used for openings between rooms of large width.

• Trapeze.

In such devices, the vault has the shape of a trapezoid, which especially emphasizes the design of the room.

• Portal.

In this case, the arch is made with a rectangular vault. It is easy to mount, no special work is required when making corners. Proper arch trim makes the design very functional and practical. In the doorway on the sides, you can arrange spotlights and mirrors that will be beautiful and beneficial for small rooms, in spacious dwellings emphasize the severity of its interior.

• Modern.

This is the average option between the "classic" and "portal". In such arches, the radii of curvature may be different, but not less than half the width of the door opening.

They look best in low-ceilinged rooms. The constructions are perfectly combined with low relief ceilings and plasterboard walls. Door arches are made of wood. Used for doorways at the entrance to the bedroom, kitchen or study.

• Ellipse.

The arc of the vault is in the form of a half ellipse, having a large radius of curvature of the corners. These are elegant and very beautiful designs, but their price is rather high.

• Half-bar.

This is an example of asymmetric construction. At the same time, one of its parts repeats the “portal” arch, the other has the shape of “modern” or “classic”, any radius is chosen.

Half-bar прекрасно вписывается в интерьер с многоуровневыми потолками и рельефными стенами. Лучший материал для ее изготовления — гипсокартон (см. Изготовление арки из гипсокартона-подробная инструкция).

The advantages and disadvantages of arches are presented in the table:

Benefits

disadvantages

The bending moment in all sections of the arch is always less, in the same section of the beam. This, together with the longitudinal compressive forces acting in the arch, reduces or eliminates tensile stresses in the construction sections, which is especially important for concrete and stone buildings that can withstand high compressive stresses, but hardly working in tension. Great aesthetic design. Interior door arches fit perfectly in large and small rooms.

Beam structures are more manufacturable in the manufacture, transportation and installation than arched. Due to significant horizontal loads on the supports of structures, they must have sufficient strength to absorb these efforts and then transfer them to the base. Great installation cost.

Materials for the manufacture of arches

Vaulted structures can be made from:

• Drywall as pictured.

These are the cheapest and most popular versions. Such a door arch doesn’t require a great deal of professionalism in carrying out construction work when installing; it is enough that the instructions for assembling the door arch are followed.

Its vaults made of plasterboard are used in any premises, and their installation lasts no more than a week.

• Foam plastic.

Such material is used for light decorative elements.

Tip: You should not use foam to design the structure in the doorway, because of its low strength.

• Brick

These are the most expensive arches, which require a lot of time and effort to build. Each brick of a laying keeps within on a marking, and quality of a door arch is checked on level. Usually brick arches are made in private houses or act as an additional support of the overlying floor of the house. In the apartments, brick arches create a large load on the ceiling.

• Tree

This is a very beautiful and rather expensive view of the arches in the apartment.

• Making the door arch stone is one of the most popular when decorating slopes, doorways, entrance doors.

This lining option allows you to create a special atmosphere of comfort and warmth. The masonry is played up in a classic and modern style.

• Door arch of fiberboard. Such material may be very different. But the traditional plate does not look very attractive, which requires its decoration with wallpaper, putty and paint.

Tip: When choosing a material for the arch, you must consider the features of the place of its installation. For example, drywall vaults cannot be made outside.

Universal material for such structures is wood. Ready-made interior arches for external arches are made from it.

The radius is cryptic

The radius of the ascent of the arch can be of three types:

• Pointy - used in the construction of houses in the Gothic style.

• Mauritania - built in Islamic architecture. In form, such arches resemble a horseshoe.

• Полуциркульные. Often used in the construction of Orthodox churches, are used in the design of apartment interiors.

To facilitate the choice of what kind of door arch with your own hands, best fit into the interior, you should watch the video.

The construction of the arch in the doorway

Tip: Ideally, this design looks in rooms where high ceilings. At low constructions, the construction visually reduces the opening.

Before you insert the door arch, you must determine its size, which depends on the architecture of the room. The width of the opening is chosen at its discretion, and the height is limited by the ceiling overlap. For a room height of 2.5 or 3.2 meters, the optimum height of the arch is 2.2 or 2.6 meters, respectively.

In addition to this, the size of the area and the specificity of the room affect the size of the arches.

Creating arches is done in one of the ways:

• The wall is hollowed out for the arched opening on the previously made marking. This method is best used for rooms not too high.
• With a normal ceiling height, the upper part of the doorways is sealed with plasterboard or plywood, which makes it possible to give them an arched shape.

To chisel the wall you need:

• Remove existing decorative trim along with the door frame.
• From the floor, on both sides of the opening, a vertical line is marked to the height of the future structure.
• The width of the marked opening is measured, the resulting value is divided in half - this will be the radius of the arch.
• The center of the arch is marked on the upper horizontal line. At this point a screw, screw or ordinary nail is attached.
• A strong thread is tied to the screw, on the other end of which a pencil is attached. Excess threads are wound on a pencil to a length equal to the radius of the arch.
• On the vertical line from the top of the center of the arc down, a mark is made at a distance of the radius.
• Outlines the semicircle of the arch.
• The markings are repeated on the other side of the wall.

Using a perforator, electric drill, or other tool that depends on the material used to make the wall, you can begin chiseling.

Tip: To facilitate the process of chiselling, it is necessary to drill the maximum number of holes along the outlined contour on the wall.

In the wall of wood, the doorway is cut out with a jigsaw or hacksaw using a narrow blade. After that, the edges of the resulting opening are processed, and the design is made with prepared materials. Details how to install the door arch, shows the video.

Installation of the door arch with high ceilings

The manufacturing sequence of the door arch in high ceilings includes:

• In the doorway is going to frame the future design.
• Gypsum board or other material is marked out, from which rectangles should be cut with a width equal to the radius of the arch, and a length across the width of the opening. A large compass or thread with a pencil draws the upper arc of the arch.
• Along the lines, the elements are cut with a jigsaw.
• The blanks are fixed on the frame with self-tapping screws, the caps of which are recessed into the drywall by about 0.5 millimeter.
• The end face of the opening is sealed with fiberboard or a strip of plasterboard with a thickness of 8 millimeters. The strip is rolled several times with a needle roller and sprayed with water. Punctures are performed at a depth equal to half the thickness of the gypsum board.
• In the absence of a needle roller, you can make the punctures with an ordinary awl in increments of one centimeter, from the bend side of the part. After an hour or one and a half, the plaster will soften and the strip bends fairly easily along a pattern of wood or plasterboard. After drying, the element will become hard again.
• Plasterboard putty and made the necessary design. In the same way made and shaped door arches.

Ways to decorate

Arched openings can be supplemented with various decorative elements. Before we refine the door arch, it is necessary to determine the function of decoration.

She may be:

• Decorative. In this case, the design enhances the effect of the chosen style of the entire interior.
• Technical. When using decorative elements, you can somewhat change the dimensions of the opening, its width and height.
• Masquerade. This allows the decor elements to hide some of the defects that occur when installing an arched opening.

The video in this article will tell you which option is best to choose.

For decorative details include:

• Curtains for the door arch. They allow you to make a distinction between the space of different rooms, hide ugly elements, give an interior completeness.
• Eaves. Used in the design of arches such as classic, modern and romantic, made of wood. They are fastened, most often, at the junction of straight and arcuate parts. Perform decorative and "camouflage" role.
• Squares. Designs allow you to adjust the overall dimensions of the arched structures:

1. increase the width of the arches, while fastening them at the top of the device;
2. height, when placed at the junction of the vertical components.

They perform the function and decorative elements.

• Banquettes. Mounted at the base of the arches, serve for the technical and decorative role. With their help, you can achieve the desired height, give the design more grace.
• Butt boards. Used to mask the joints between the components of the arches.

Lovers of simple, concise interiors rather pay special attention to the choice of the dimensions of the arches for doorways and carefully install them. And minor bugs can be fixed with putty.

The apartment, in which the door arches are built in the interior, gets an original and attractive look. You can make the design in any interior style.