Gypsum board niches

With a brick wall, concrete or natural stone, there were big problems before. But gypsum cardboard makes it possible to build the most complicated structure even on the ceiling, and even a simple person who does not have special skills can cope with this matter. Niches can now easily be created in any room. Let's look at the most common variants that are found in modern design. Maybe some ideas you like, and you want to implement them during the next repair.

Decorative and functional niches from plasterboard

  1. Partitions with gypsum board recesses. They are built very easily and have much less weight than structures made of bricks or other building blocks. There is no need for "wet" processes associated with a large mass of the solution. Hollow walls allow them to place all necessary communications and wiring.
  2. Niche under the curtains of plasterboard . Ceiling curtains like many housewives, but some do not fit, as the cornices look, they are trying to close something. Try using a strip of wallpaper, fabric or other material. Niches for the plasterboard eaves much better hide the suspension system. Curtains in this case as if descend from your ceiling and look much more effective.
  3. Niches from plasterboard in the living room with lighting. Modern lighting devices consume much less electricity than their old counterparts. They take up little space and are installed extremely easily. Even the most usual built-in decorative rectangular niches from gypsum board look much better, if you decorate them with LED or other lighting, especially if you place them in souvenirs or graceful figurines.
  4. A niche under a refrigerator or another household appliance made of plasterboard. Such excavations can be done at home by every master, and this does not require complicated engineering solutions and the consent of official bodies. But completely to hide in such a deepening a refrigerator or other device from which heat emanates is not recommended. It is desirable to arrange a few holes or leave gaps for air movement so that it does not overheat.
  5. Gypsum plasterboard niches in the bedroom . In this room you can make decorative grooves with built-in lighting devices that can create a romantic atmosphere. Also, grooves are able to perform in the bedroom and other functions - used in the role of original bedside tables, tables, they are installed TVs. Effectively looks a large shallow niche at the head of the bed, inside of which is a lamp illuminated picture.
  6. Niche on the ceiling of gypsum board . It was already a time when multilevel ceilings could afford only very wealthy people. Such designs adorn many apartments now. A square, a circle or a wavy line - now you can create on the ceiling all sorts of geometric figures of any complexity, decorating them with various lighting systems.
  7. Niches from plasterboard in the bathroom . Fashionable novelties are successfully used in this room. Once the walls were simply painted or tiled. But moisture-resistant plasterboard allows you to create here shelves for storing detergents, hide in the recess counter on water or another device. It is only desirable to have good ventilation in this room, so that excessive moisture does not accumulate here for long.

Finishing a niche from plasterboard is also not a difficult task. Suitable for this purpose are non-woven wallpaper, decorative stone , tiles, original stucco molding, painting. This building material is so universal that it allows using any method available to date. Now we can say with confidence that the popularity of niches in the interior has grown enormously, they seem to experience a real second birth. This is due to the fact that modern building materials allow them to be created extremely easily, without the high costs and the most diverse configuration.