Modern repair is difficult to imagine without original solutions in terms of space expansion and visual correction of premises. Quite often today, use an arched opening in the wall, since with its help you can combine rooms and abandon traditional doors , and it's also a great way to make the interior of the room unusual and add a twist.
Types of arched openings
There are different classifications, depending on the materials used, shapes and design options. First, let's look at the shape of arched interior openings.
- Classics are considered to be interroom arched openings with the correct radius. The word "correct" should be taken to mean half the height of the opening itself: if it is approximately 90 cm, then for an arch choose exactly 45 cm. Typically, similar versions of the archway are made of MDF, plasterboard, plastic.
- There are so-called ellipsoidal types of archway in the wall. In this case, the arch is an oval. This option is usually used for interiors with a modern style.
- There is another type of arches called Modern. The design of this type assumes the upper part in the form of a sector of a circle whose radius is greater than the radius of the opening.
If we start from the materials used, we can distinguish several more points here. Arched openings made of bricks are usually used with a width of the opening of two meters. Work directly on the formwork using the circlip. For such arches, a special bricks with different widths are often used.
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Wooden arched openings are one of the simplest design options for a room. All elements for the construction of simple and more complex forms can be found in almost any construction supermarket. Very stylish look curtains for the archway is in combination with the tree .
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Perhaps the most popular option for today is the arched gypsum cardboard doorway. This material is very convenient to work with, you can safely create the most complex and intricate forms, and finish the finished arched openings can be any.
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Arch design
Ready-made construction is rarely left without decoration, because it is for adding raisins to the interior of the premises that they build an archway. The most durable and popular option is masonry.
If this is an archway for a kitchen or a bedroom, it can be decorated with textiles. The plus of this type of decor is the ability to constantly change the curtains and make innovations in the design of the room, and in terms of installation is the simplest method. A more effective and expensive way, as you can decorate the arched opening, is in the glass stained glass. Usually it is chosen for gypsum plaster structures, where one of the halves of the arch is completely replaced by a glass with a pattern.