The modern apartment is cosiness, beauty and correctly picked up interior, especially in the hall. Unlike other rooms of the apartment, it is peculiar business card as initial impressions of guests are formed exactly here.
In spite of the fact that each designer will offer the option of registration of the hall, practice of application of artificial stone is widespread today. The fact is that the finishing by decorative stone executed by the hands will give more pleasures by results of the performed works and will cost considerably cheaper.
Pluses of application of artificial decorative stone
The decorative stone is modern facing material which is suitable for laying on various types of basic surfaces. Its use in interior design causes grandiose quantity of supervaluable pluses, basic of which consist in the following:
- Because the hall is the most passable room of the apartment/house, and on its floor, walls unlimited loading is necessary, relevant requirements are imposed to the choice of finishing materials. Speaking differently, the covering has to unite in itself the increased durability, reliability and constancy of resistance to mechanical damages. These three major characteristics just have found reflection in decorative stone which besides is also very effective in the esthetic plan.
- When finishing the hall of the room and, however, as well as when facing any other, the user wishes that mounting was simple and not labor-consuming – it with ease can provide decorative stone: it has the easy volume weight, stability of dimensional and geometrical indicators.
- Sheathing material in "person" of artificial stone which combines brilliant decorative properties is ecologically safe because does not contain and does not emit the poisoning, toxic substances and connections. In completion of everything, it is not subject to rotting and on its surface neither the raid, nor microscopic mushrooms appear.
- This type of finishing can be provided in any design and is painted in absolutely different colors which, in the turn, can not only be similar to natural tones of natural stone, but also to differ in "courage" and identity (indigo color, Bordeaux, etc.).
Recommendations of designers about finishing of the hall artificial stone
It is possible to carry opportunity to the techniques of decoration of halls and halls of rooms used in practice:
- full finishing of wall surfaces;
- partial finishing (when registration of door opening, arch or part of wall takes place).
Finishing by decorative stone the hands is very simple and artless process which actions are clear, obvious and available. Anyway, but uncommon design decisions on use of artificial sheathing material come down to its combination with other types of facing.
Let's provide the most successful and visually effective types of combinational combinations:
- – zlatolit the decorative tile stylized under elite natural stone, to combine extremely appropriate with modern stretch ceilings with the built-in LEDs. Dot devices of lighting in total with stylish multistage ceiling design it is delightful supplement "stone" finishing and it literally "comes to life" in the eyes;
- if desired visually to move apart narrow corridor aperture, quite often resort to use of "union" from light facing materials with relief and smooth surface which thanks to numerous streaks, cracks and other "highlights" of texture, is imitation of natural stone;
- fans of magnificent and unusual finishing are enraptured, looking through numerous master classes where the qualified designers combine "not real" beige shell rock having the smallest impregnations of terracotta shade, and decorative tile of brick tone with cream stains at registration of halls;
- the next effective decision is "friendship" of decorative stone with finishing from metal and organic glass. These, the so-called, friendly relations of sheathing materials only become stronger and become even more reliable if in addition to use green plants (the Chinese hibiscus, spathiphyllum, nefrolepsis, etc.).
Mounting of decorative stone in the hall
In view of the fact that the laying of "stone" tile is elementary in the execution, finishing by decorative stone the hands without invitation of experienced assemblers is quite feasible.
The procedure of facing of the hall or hall of the room should be provided step by step:
- First of all all old coverings (wall-paper, tile, etc.) and which have become noticeable to eye of crack are removed and various defects are eliminated by finish by the special leveling solutions. Only those sites of the reasons which differences on height more than 50 mm on 1 sq.m have are subject to plaster, at the same time hard putty and primer process one and all walls.
- That the tile imitating natural stone of natural origin was exactly laid, it makes sense to use indicators (in a special way the established stones) from which carry out counting of laying. Optimum location of beacon-type elements – the lowermost number of finishing tile. To define horizontal position of the line of row, costs from one corner of the room to another to pull cord (here too it will be required to involve construction level). Mounting of decorative stone is carried out from corner, from below up.
- Before laying of sheathing products, they are recommended to be spread out on floor surface, in advance having sorted by "dimensional" and "shaded" signs.
- Gluing of tiled copies needs to be made by means of the special glue mix differing in the improved adhesion (liquid nails are suitable for easier and small products) – mix on the basis of cement which is applied toothed with spatula for formation of wave.
- When laying it will be necessary to carry out surely adjustment by the size as integral "stone" tiles "will hardly "get" into continuous row – all defects of edges can be corrected easily, having applied hacksaw.
- After finishing by decorative stone has been ended by the hands, it is required to wait about 24 hours for full drying of tile, and further to issue seams special zatirochny mix.