In modern apartments, often a balcony is used as a living room, it is insulated, glazed, decorated. The balcony is decorated with various materials, with their advantages and disadvantages of design options.
Various options for decoration of the balcony
The atmosphere of the countryside veranda allows you to create a balcony finish with a lining - the tree has a high-quality flat surface, aesthetic appearance, it looks cozy. Elements are fastened with a groove system and do not form any slits. On the back side of the lining, there are grooves for removing condensate. For the material, there are two options for processing the edges - straight and rounded, each of them looks beautiful in its own way. The lining can be installed horizontally or vertically. Wooden finishing requires warming and waterproofing, impregnation of materials with water-repellent and bactericidal compositions.
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Finishing the balcony with plastic is suitable for an unheated room. The material is resistant to temperature changes, exposure to cold and moisture. Such a product has a wide palette of colors, allows you to create an interior of different styles. A variety of accessories allows you to aesthetically decorate the window and doorways, joints in the panels are barely visible. The balcony can be finished with PVC panels with a matt or attractive glossy surface. The fragility of plastic is considered its main drawback, it can not withstand impacts with a sharp object.
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Finishing the balcony MDF involves the use of panels of dried wood fibers, treated with a protective film. The texture of the coating has many colors and textures for wood or stone, this material looks very aesthetically. To finish the balcony is better to use moisture-resistant panels. MDF is more durable than natural wood, and is valued by an order of magnitude cheaper.
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Decorative finish of the balcony
There are especially beautiful solutions for the decoration of the walls of the balcony.
The balcony can be finished with a stone, natural or artificial . They differ in weight and price, both options look spectacular and presentable. Technical characteristics of materials allow using it even on the open surface of walls. However, a natural stone can only be covered with a loggia, not a balcony because of its considerable weight.
Artificial decorative stone is made in the form of panels or tiles. It can mimic the natural unevenness and texture of any wild stone with protrusions, chips, irregularities. Often copied the structure of quartz, granite, untreated marble, sandstone or limestone. Popular decorative rubble stone - boulders or pebbles. There are perfectly flat tiles, for example, under a brick, such imitation masonry looks very neat. Artificial stone has a high resistance to wear and well resists mechanical stress and temperature changes. Stone decoration of the balcony allows you to realize the most daring design solutions.
The stone is perfectly combined with different finishes - with wallpaper, plaster, wood, even plastic. Usually with its help a part of the wall is made out. There are angles or openings, insets on the surface. Harmoniously it looks like a stone corner with green plants.
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A beautifully finished balcony will play the role of a small room. Modern materials will protect it from the negative impact of the environment and help create a cozy corner in which it will be nice to be to get some fresh air.