Vinyl artificial leather upholstery for beauty

Vinyl artificial leather is an affordable, modern and quite popular material for decorating doors. By its quality and technical characteristics, it can compete with some types of more expensive upholstery materials.

Vinyl-leather upholstery doors are used to repair them, to improve the heat and noise resistance in the room.

Material structure

The basis of manufacturing material is the principle of a sandwich consisting of three layers:

• Lower. He might be:

1. knitwear;
2. non-woven natural or artificial fibrous material, such as polyester.

To increase the density and strength, often the layer is impregnated with liquid polymers.

The type of material used in the formation of the lower layer of the fabric depends on such material properties as:

1. stretching;
2. drapirovka;
3. tear resistance

• Of the main. This is a very hard layer of PVC. To increase elasticity and resistance to light, special plasticizers and stabilizers are introduced into it.
• Upper. This polyurethane coating - PU, which is an additive for vinyl leather, which makes the material difficult to distinguish in appearance and properties from natural leather.

Advantages and disadvantages

To imagine what vinyl leather is, you need to get acquainted with its features, which are presented in the table:

Material selection

Tip: In order to properly address the issue of door trimming, you should first familiarize yourself with the criteria for choosing a material.

To finish the doors you need to consider:

• Upholstery color.

For the inside of the upholstery is better to choose the color:

1. sex;
2. available interior doors;
3. furniture installed in the hallway.

For the outside, the color is usually chosen dark - non-dirty and practical:

1. chocolate:
2. dark brown;
3. wenge.

Tip: In a private country house or in the country, you should choose the color of the trim for the window frames, the elements of the porch or the roof.

• Upholstery style. It may be:

1. leather upholstery;

1. smooth vinyl imitation leather;

1. eco-leather with lightweight embossed, imitating natural calf leather;
2. artificial textured leather.

Variants of plating ordinary nails covered with leather, can be very different, as seen in the photo.

• The strength of the material. For a street door, it is better to use the dummy Economy series (see Doorskin upholstery for doors: how to update an old canvas), which has high resistance to low temperatures and does not tear by itself. To increase fire resistance, a non-flammable vinyl artificial leather made in France is better suited.

The type of material chosen, depends on its price. When purchasing door upholstery, you should adhere to the listed recommendations and take into account your material capabilities.

Door upholstery

Instructions for self-trimming the front door offers to purchase:

• Viniliskožu.

Usually it is a cut, whose width is 110 - 140 centimeters. For a standard metal door, enough cloth 15 centimeters larger than the size of the door.

For a wooden structure, it is necessary to take into account that for the trimming of the main door leaf, the manufacture of rollers will be needed, from strips of this material about 15 centimeters wide. It will take three parts the length of the door.

• Lining.

It can be foam rubber up to 20 millimeters thick. For enhanced thermal insulation and noise protection, it is better to use izolon.

• Decorative nails.

Usually these are special nails for furniture with a wide hat, in different colors, under:

1. gold;
2. bronze;
3. silver;
4. copper.

Better color nails pick the color of locks and handles. In this case, the door looks quite harmonious. You can use nails with caps, tangled vinyl leather, which are selected in accordance with the texture and color of the selected material, or contrast to it.

• Glue. It is required for an iron door that does not have holes for nails. It can be “Universal Moment” glue.

• Instruments:

1. construction stapler and staples to it with a leg length of 10 mm;
2. bench hammer;
3. scissors;
4. stationery knife;
5. set of screwdrivers;
6. passages;
7. brush, for applying glue to the metal door.

After preparing the above items, you can proceed directly to the upholstery of the front door with your own hands. To do this, remove all locks, peephole, removed the old trim. To better present the entire process of performing work, it is worth watching the pre-video in this article.

Wooden door upholstery

For example, taken a door that opens into the apartment. It is better to begin work with the manufacture of a roller, visually closing the gap between the door and the door frame, ensuring that the blade fits snugly to the box itself, which depends on the profile of the door strips and the door design.

Work order:

• One strip of dermantine is nailed to the surface of the door with a stapler so that it will walk about 3 cm on the door. If the locks are all mortise, door trim should start from the top corner, on the hinge side.
• After upholstering the entire perimeter of the door with leatherette strips, foam rubber is laid. Pre-material is cut into strips 10 cm wide.

• The foam rubber stapler is mounted on the door leaf, turning and nailing the material so that the roller protrudes from 10 to 30 mm, it depends on the relative position of the door and the trim.

• The distance obtained between the inner edges of the beaten roller is measured, foam rubber is cut, two centimeters less than this value.
• Stapler mounted on the door leaf.
• The main surface of the wooden door is upholstered. For this:

1. a piece of dermantine is taken around the corner;
2. tuck its edges 5 cm;
3. It is laid in the corner of the door, so that the material slightly goes on the roller;
4. decorative nail is nailed from the edges, approximately, at a distance of 5-7 mm;
5. the second upper corner of the canvas is taken, turned in the same way, slightly stretched, the second carnation is clogged.

• The location of the leatherette relative to the surface of the door leaf is controlled. To do this, in the center of the canvas, slightly pressing, you need to hold your hand from the top of the door to the very bottom. Then, holding the fabric with one hand, with the second, its lower corners are applied to the edges of the door, gently smoothing the material from the center. On both sides, the distance to the edges of the vinyl leather should be the same.
• The top edge is nailed, with a step of nails of 12 cm.
• The same is done with the sides. At the same time, the material is tilted to the same distance for the entire length, and slightly stretched.

Tip: You must ensure that the material was not overtightened, otherwise you can get folds on the surface. It will be rather difficult to repair defects, it will be necessary to tear out the hammered nails, and thus there is a probability of accidental damage to the upholstery material.

• Fixed bottom edge of the upholstery.
• Installed locks and eye.

Wood door exterior trim

The outer side of the door with vinyl imitation leather is upholstered in a slightly different way.

For this:

• The door closes tightly.
• The pencil draws a projection of the door frame on the door leaf itself.
• The contour of the future trimming was obtained, and the resulting indent will be needed for the “quarter” of the door.
• When properly installed door leaf and locks, it will fit snugly to the box. In this case, if during the door trimming, the dermantin is wound up behind the line, it simply will not close.
• The lower part of the insulation roller is nailed so that in the closed position of the door it fits snugly to its threshold.
• Lining material is fastened, departing from the line of 10 mm.
• Similarly to the previous one, the main piece of vinyl leather is nailed.
• The warming roller is made at the top, right and left. In this case, it is mounted on the door frame, almost similar to the inner one, but it is better to fill it with foam rubber.
• On the hinge side, the roller is flush with the joint.
• At the top and from the side of the lock, it extends approximately 3-5 mm, which depends on the size of the slots that exist between the door leaf and the box.
• If the roller is too large, the door will close heavily with great effort.
• The small dimensions of the roller will not allow you to create a seal opening.
• Nailed the bottom edge of the trim.
• The peephole, handle and locks are installed.

Metal door trim

When trimming a metal door nails replace glue.

The order of work includes:

• Glue with a brush smears the entire perimeter of the door.
• A sheet of foam rubber is applied.

• Gently pressing on the material, the sheet is glued.
• With a stationery knife the foam rubber is precisely cut along the perimeter of the metal sheet.
• Glue is applied on the upper end of the blade for the inner side, or on the back of the splat, located above, for the outer side.
• Vinyl artificial leather is glued and its uniformity over the entire plane of the door is checked.
• The leatherette is glued on the hinge side.
• It is fixed on the installation side of the locks, pulling the material with the right hand with a little effort, and with the left one removing excess canvas.
• Glued bottom edge.
• After gluing the fabric from four sides, the excess material is neatly trimmed with a sharp stationery knife.
• A peephole (see Peephole door with a video camera and a motion sensor, with recording and photographing), handles and locks are installed.

Finishing of doors vinyl artificial leather allows to make an entrance to the apartment with the best operational characteristics for the small sum. Such material is easily restored in case of accidental damage, which significantly reduces the cost of repairing the coating, and you can do it yourself if you wish.