DIY cottage decoration

The construction of a cottage is always a comprehensive process, divided into several stages. And the final is the finish of the cottage inside and outside. It is at this stage that the ideas of designers, architects regarding the external and interior decoration of the house, its style and atmosphere are embodied. Observing work from the side, the finish of the cottage may seem like a simple task. In fact, the skills and skills of several construction professions may be required. Of course, the finish of the cottage with your own hands is a very real and feasible task. The main thing is to understand what and how to do.

1. Options for finishing cottages
2. Interior finish of cottages
3. External finishing of cottages

Options for finishing cottages

The way the cottage will look like, what materials will be used is worked out at the stage of designing the house. What kind of style will be created, whether it will be modern finishing the cottage or under the old days depends on the wishes of the owners. The main point that needs to be taken into account is from what materials the cottage itself is built. It is this factor that will become decisive in choosing the interior style and facade of the house, and will also affect the materials used for decoration. Today, houses are being built from various natural and artificial materials. But, in fact, all houses can be divided into two types: wooden and stone.

Wood house decoration It has a number of characteristic features and restrictions in the materials used. The fact is that the wood itself is very beautiful building material. In addition, over time, it is seated and plaster or tiles will not hold on its surface for a long time. The options for finishing cottages from a log or beam include wall covering with special protective equipment and their further varnishing in order to maintain a natural wood color. Painting with lime, water -based paints, simple whitewashing is also possible. To preserve the natural beauty of such cottages and the general style, they are sheathed with lining. Separately, it is worth highlighting the sheathing of the walls of the timber house with sheets of drywall or OSP. This method of decoration allows more to significantly realize the entire potential of modern finishing materials and design solutions. But this leads to the transformation of an environmentally friendly and beautiful wooden house into an ordinary city apartment. Of course, any rule has its own exceptions. So, the internal cladding of drywall is appropriate in the case of an old house with darkened wood or in the premises of the kitchen, bathroom and bathroom for tiles or plaster. Paul in a wooden house also requires a special approach. In such houses, wooden floors are created on the lags, and laying over heavy flooring is extremely not desirable. It can be a parquet, laminate, linoleum or a simple massive board. As for the ceiling, there are no special restrictions. The main thing is that his view fits into the overall style of the interior.

Options for the exterior decoration of the walls of a wooden cottage are similar to internal. The difference is to finish the basement and the method of wall lining. So from the outside of the wall you can equip the ventilated facade, sheathe lining, siding or block house. But preserving the natural appearance of a tree is still preferable. The base can be plastered, painted, applied with a decorative stone or brick.

Unlike wooden houses and cottages stonedo not have such strict restrictions in the materials used. When decorating, both natural and artificial materials can be used. In any case, with the internal and external decoration of the stone cottage, the style of its interior and architecture will be taken into account. Most often, the interior decoration of the cottage walls involves their plaster and further painting. But in order to create a really cozy atmosphere in a country house, you will have to use various interior options for each individual room. So, for example, the hallway and the living room can be sheathed with lining, and the bedrooms should be plastered and poured with wallpaper. The walls of the kitchen, bathroom and bathroom are overlaid with tiles. Today, plasterboard sheets are especially popular, they can sheathe walls, hiding the communications and additionally insulation of the room. The surface of the drywall can be covered with wallpaper, painted, plastered, tileed with tiles.

The flooring in such cottages can be very diverse. It all depends on their original design. If this is the floor on the lags, then you will have to limit yourself to light flooring. And if it is a monolithic concrete floor, then you can equip warm floors, put floor tiles or make a modern bulk floor.

When planning and choosing different options for finishing the cottage, sooner or later you are faced with the question and how much does the boat finish cost? There is no definite answer. It all depends on the design of the designer, the materials used and the complexity of the work. If you do not go into a detailed transfer of all possible materials used with their prices, then for decorating the cottage the cost of only materials can be an average of 6 10 thousand cu. This amount is enough for a full -fledged high -quality decoration of three rooms, kitchen, bathroom, bathroom, living room and hallway, as well as the facade of the house and its base. It is worth noting that two -thirds from this amount is the cost of the interior decoration of the cottage. Such a big difference is due to a large number of various materials used for interior decoration. Although in some cases the difference will not be so significant. If you hire experienced builders, then it should be noted that prices depend primarily on the complexity of the work performed in the decoration of cottages, and total expenses can double.

Interior finish of cottages

Having decided on the interior design and finishing the construction of the walls and roofs of the house, you can start the interior decoration of the cottage. The finish of the cottage inside is divided into several stages:

• wiring;
• work with the ceiling;
• wall decoration;
• paul and flooring.

Interior finish of cottages photo

This sequence is practical and natural. At the first stage, all wires are laid so as to hide them in the future. In this case, certain rules and requirements must be observed. Otherwise, when commissioning a house, it may simply not be accepted. If such work is performed for the first time, then you should invite a specialist who will help with installation. After completing work with the wiring, you can proceed to the ceiling. The first thing to do is prepare the surface.

If this wooden cottage, that is, three options for its decoration. The first: pulling the surface of the tree, soak with special compounds and cover it with varnish. So you can maintain the natural beauty of wood. Second: after grinding and impregnation, the ceiling can paint or to whitewash. For example, the combination of dark brown beams and white ceiling looks very attractive. The third decoration option implies ceiling sheathing with drywall sheets, lining or veneered panels. This method will allow you to hide the wiring and additionally insulate the room.

If cottage made of stone, then the difference in the options for finishing the ceiling is not particularly large. So instead of grinding and coating with special compounds, the ceiling in the cottage made of stone is putty and covered with special primers. The result of such actions will be a flat and strong surface on which the finish coating can be applied. The ceiling is possible color, to whitewash, make a multi -level ceiling from GKL Or equip stretch ceiling. What exactly to choose will depend on the overall idea in interior design.

Upon completion of work with the ceiling, you can start wall decoration. Their decoration will be somewhat simpler, unlike the ceiling, since all work is performed on a vertical surface. At the same time, the volume of work itself may be many times larger. When performing wall decoration, one simple rule must be observed: the vapor permeability of each subsequent layer of finishing should be larger than the previous one in the direction of the street. Simply put, excess moisture from the premises should freely go out into the street. If moisture will settle from the inside of the walls or inside the insulation, then the room will always be damp, cold, and a fungus with mold will appear.

When performing wall decorationa wooden cottage rule is especially important. The thing is that wood has one of the lowest thermal conductivity coefficients, and the vapor permeability of the tree is quite high. Therefore, the most optimal solution will be to finish, which will allow the walls to breathe. The most popular method in this case is the decoration is grinding wooden walls and impregnation with special protective compositions. For these purposes, a special tool is used and several types of sandpaper with grain from large to small. Grinding work requires a certain dexterity, and if there is no experience in this, it will be better to practice at the Churban first and only after that start further work. During the grinding, there will be a lot of wood dust, so you need to worry in advance about protecting the eyes and respiratory tract. After grinding the wall, we impregnate the protective composition and let them dry. As an option, the surface of the polished walls is possible cover varnish, paint with lime paint or whitewash.

If the wooden house is old, the tree was darkened, and there is no way to polish the surface, then you can sheathe them with drywall sheets or OSP. The first thing to do is create a frame from a metal profile or wooden bars, and then fix the sheets to it. The sheets themselves should be in a checkerboard pattern, thereby increasing the strength of such a finish. This option is good because it allows you to hide the wiring and other communications inside the structure, and also makes it possible to decorate the walls for every taste.

When decorating walls made of brick, concrete or foam blocks, it is also important to observe the vapor permeability rule. But unlike the tree, their vapor permeability is much lower. This makes it possible to use various finishing materials and additionally insulate the walls. The finishing work itself begins after wiring. The surface of the walls must be leveled and only then proceed to applying the finish coating. For these purposes, the walls are treated with a primer, plasterand again processed by a primer. After that, the surface can paste the wallpaper or paint. In the case when it is originally planned facing tiles, leveling the walls is optional. All irregularities will hide the solution. But this approach is suitable when using cement-sand mortar. If glue for tiles is used, it is advisable to align the walls. Previously, the walls were sheathed with lining, today it is popular to sheathe walls with drywall. There are a lot of advantages in this version of the decoration. The sheathing is in two approaches. First, a frame of a metal profile is created, then drywall sheets are attached to it. The resulting surface is putty, after which you can apply the finish.

At the end of the wall decoration, we proceed to creating flooringThe last stage of internal finishing work. The creation of the floor in a wooden and stone cottage has one important difference. It consists in the fact that for stone houses you can equip both wooden floors on the lags and concrete floors, but for wooden houses it is advisable to create only a wooden floor on the lags. The rest of the floor design and the creation of flooring are identical in both cases.

On wooden floors, it is preferable to equip light flooring. Such coatings include parquet, linoleum, laminate, as well as paul from a massive dodgy board. For floors with a base of concrete, you can create any floor covering, as well as equip warm and bulk floors.

Consider the creation of a floor from a massive dodgy board. Such floors are the best suited for a country cottage. To create a gender from a massive dodgy board on the lags, you need to do the following:

• the moisture -resistant plywood is fixed to the lower edge of the lag, treated with products from fungi and decay;
• a layer of waterproofing is laid into the space between the lags. Thermal insulation material is laid on top of waterproofing;
• now a black floor is being created. For this, raw boards are laid on top of the lag and fixed with self -tapping screws to the lags;
• next, take a massive board and cut the spike. If necessary, shorten the board herself so that after laying along its edges from the walls there is a gap of 5 10 mm;
• we lay the first board cut into the wall. We put three or four wooden inserts between the wall and the first board;
• with the help of kiyanka, we adjust the board close to the wall and fix it in this position with wedges. Then we finally fix the self -tapping screws that we screw into the groove;
• having taken out the wedges, we lay the next board with a spike in the previous groove. We finish off with clay, burst with wedges and fix with self -tapping screws;
• we repeat the entire algorithm for the rest of the boards. At the end, we take out the struts near the walls.

Unlike wooden floors, the creation of a floor covering on a concrete base is possible only after the concrete is completely solidified, i.e. After 28 30 days. But the further operation and reliability of the concrete foundation is much greater.

External finishing of cottages

The way your neighbors will perceive your cottage largely depends on the exterior decoration. In comparison with internal work, the finish of the house outside is divided into only two stages:

• facade decoration;
• basket finish.

External finish of cottages photo

For wooden cottages, the facade decoration can be performed in two ways. The first tree grinding with subsequent processing with protective equipment. Second creating a hinged structure with further siding, panels, lining or block house. This method of finishing allows you to additionally insulate a wooden house, although this is not necessary. In addition, the sheathing of a wooden cottage is advisable only in case of darkening of the tree and the inability to restore its pristine color.

For lining the house, first you will have to make a frame, to which finishing material will subsequently be fixed. The frame will consist of vertical racks and horizontal jumpers. The step of vertical racks is selected from the calculation of the convenience of attaching panels or strips to it. Usually it is 50,60 cm. The horizontal jumpers are fixed with a step of 75 100 cm, starting from the basement. The strips themselves are attached to the walls of the house using self -tapping screws. Further, if desired, you can insulate the house. But at the same time, it is necessary to leave a ventilation gap and protect the insulation from water. After that, you can start stuffing the lining planks. Fastening the strips is performed using self -tapping screws or nails.

For houses made of stone decoration options are slightly larger. These are the methods described above with lining, siding or ventilated facades. But the most popular are plaster with various decorative compositions, clamping with clinker tiles or decorative brick. Of these, the easiest and most affordable option for decorating the facade is decorative plaster. It can be done without even having special skills.

Basket finishthe cottage is the last stage of work. This part of the house is a concrete wall, and its decoration is similar to the decoration of the facade of the stone house. The base can be covered with clinker tiles, decorative stone, plastered or even painted. Today, decorative stone decoration is especially popular. All work is similar to masonry of ordinary tiles. The difference is the ability to choose the sides of the stone so that the seams are minimal. Regardless of the material for cladding, the solution must be made with adhesive additives and plasticizers. This will make it possible to make a monolithic surface, resistant to water, which one way or another will drain to the surface.

There are a lot of options for decorating the cottage with your own hands, and which one will be implemented depends on the designer’s idea and the wishes of the owner. In order to realize some decoration options, special knowledge and experience may not be required, there are no others. In any case, in order to start serious finishing work, it is necessary to prepare in advance and invite an experienced master so that he can coordinate actions and help at a difficult moment.