Upholstery wooden doors, upholstery materials

Upholstery wooden door allows you to solve two problems at once - to update the old door, giving it a new look, and to warm it. If you are interested in how to do it yourself, read this article.

It is believed that the upholstery dermantin is the last century. Modern people prefer to put metal doors, reliable, insulated not inside, but inside.

But if you read the reviews of their owners, it turns out that no complaints about the insulation does not arise only to really high-quality, proprietary, and therefore very expensive. Such not everyone can afford. So, wooden upholstery can still be a topic of interest to our fellow citizens.

Upholstery materials

As a decorative facing material (see How to upholster the front door), today you can choose not only leatherette, but also artificial or natural leather, as well as polyvinyl chloride film. The choice of textures and shades is so huge that it will be easy to find what you like.

Tip! So that the door does not look old-fashioned, abandon the decoration in the past years with decorative studs with a wide hat, which, as it were, quilted the canvas. Although this technique is used not so much for beauty as for the insulation to crawl down and keep well in place.

As for the insulation itself (see Insulation for doors: types and parameters), the most common and cheap is ordinary foam rubber. But he has a significant drawback: over time, he begins to "crumble." Therefore, experts recommend upholstered izolona - this material is more durable, has better thermal insulation and sound insulation properties. But it costs much more than foam rubber.

To keep the insulation well on the door and not crawling, glue it to the door leaf before starting upholstery for glue. This simple method will also allow you not to remove the door from the hinges, as it is usually advised to do.

In order not to be confused, in the instructions below we will call the material leatherette, and the warming material - just a heater.

How to upholster the door

Entrance doors usually open to the outside. The upholstery can be either external or internal, or bilateral. Let's start with the outside.

Exterior door trim

So:

1. First, around the perimeter you need to make rollers that will overlap the cracks, always between it and the vestibule. To do this, cut out of insulation strips of 8 centimeters wide - two doors along the length and two along the width. Strips of the same length, but larger width cut out of leatherette.
2. Upholstery leatherette begins with fixing these strips with a stapler around the perimeter so that the leatherette comes in 3-4 cm. The front side of the material should be facing the door.

Note! If your door is a consignment lock, then cut strips of leatherette and insulation in two parts and begin to secure them from the lock in both directions.

1. In the same way, fasten insulating strips over the dermatin, and then form rollers from them, having turned inside, and finally fix them with brackets or studs on the canvas. Ensure that the rollers extend beyond the web, closing all gaps.

1. Cut a piece of insulation that matches the width and length of the distance between the rollers on the door, and fasten it by nailing, gluing or shooting with staples.
2. Now begins dermatin upholstery. First tuck its edges in one of the upper corners, attach it to the canvas, put a few millimeters on the angle formed by rollers, and nail it with a decorative nail.

1. Stretch the fabric and in the same way beat the opposite upper corner. Make sure that the hem be even from all sides, and the fabric is not warped.
2. Punch leatherette evenly over the entire upper edge of the blade, after calculating the distance between the nails.
3. Secure the upholstery on the vertical sides, slightly pulling it. Here the help of the second person will be very appropriate. The bottom edge of the upholstery is fastened last.

Attention! The upholstery will look beautiful if you choose studs with hats to match the upholstery. Or do not be lazy, and obtyanut caps leatherette.

Interior upholstery

Interior upholstery with dermantine is made somewhat differently, since the edge entering the porch should be free. If you need to insulate the entire perimeter, make a roller and attach it to the box close.

So:

1. Draw the outline of the future upholstery on the closed canvas, pressing the pencil against the box.
2. Insulate the insulation so that it does not reach the drawn contour by 1 cm from all sides. Fasten it
3. Upholstery leatherette from the inside is the same as described above.