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If you have some free time and some money, and life has become too monotonous, you can do your own kitchen renovation. This will not only save money, but also acquire useful skills and even improve health, because physical activity has not harmed anyone yet.
The chances of getting a result in which you are not afraid to invite people to your kitchen after your own repair will increase significantly if you use the advice of a specialist.
When deciding how to make repairs in the kitchen, it is necessary first of all to consider the finishing materials, taking into account the costs of their acquisition and the possibility of self-assembly.
So that the kitchen does not stand out much from the rest of the rooms, it is advisable to do everything in the same style.
When determining where to start renovating a kitchen, first of all, they choose a style. There are more than a dozen of them for kitchen decoration, the most famous: classic, high-tech, modern, minimalism, baroque - the implementation of many requires a lot of money.
In the classics, expensive natural materials are used - a wooden kitchen set, parquet on the floor. High-tech and modern require the presence of expensive plastic and glass materials and are more suitable for modern young people, baroque with carved furniture looks better in living rooms and bedrooms.
For established people, one of the options that are simple and affordable is to decorate the kitchen in the Provence style on their own, which allows you to create a beautiful, cozy interior, characterized by comfort and grace.
Recently, Provence has been quite popular, it assumes the presence of light pastel colors in the decoration of the room and the furniture itself (finishing under natural light wood), the presence of plants and decorative elements. Provence excludes the presence of bulky interior items (heavy curtains, massive chandeliers), the kitchen should be light and a little romantic.
Provence will add coziness and warmth to your kitchen, as it looks organic
Making repairs in the kitchen with your own hands with a small budget in the Provence style is not difficult, it does not require a lot of construction experience and special expensive tools.
Most often in the kitchen, plasterboard ceilings are used, stretch, painted or pasted over with wallpaper. You can also use a ceiling finish made of expanded polystyrene or foam ceiling tiles or PVC panels - do-it-yourself repairs are easy, although in the latter case, you will need to arrange a wooden or metal frame to fix the PVC panels.
It is not difficult to paint the ceiling, it is enough to have a roller with a long handle
Usually the ceilings in the kitchen are painted with waterproof paints - acrylic latex, water-based. If the ceiling is flat enough and has been painted with waterproof paint, it will not be difficult to repaint it with a roller.
This must be done at least twice, the first time the staining occurs perpendicular to the direction of light from the window, the second time - along.
In some cases, it may be necessary to level the ceiling - for this it is necessary to rinse it very well and clean it up to the floor slab, prime and apply a putty, and after it dries, wipe it with sandpaper.
Wallpaper on the ceiling looks unusual, but it is advisable to buy a waterproof version
Gluing thick waterproof wallpapers to the ceiling will eliminate the need to level it and give it a more interesting aesthetic appearance than in the case of staining.
The choice of wallpaper for the ceiling is a budget option, besides, pasting the ceiling is a fairly simple job that even housewives can handle. It is advisable to prime the ceiling before wallpapering, the stripes should be glued in the direction of the light.
Do-it-yourself Provence-style decoration requires a light wooden floor. Naturally, in a kitchen with high humidity, natural wood is expensive and impractical, it can be replaced with such common flooring materials as ceramic tiles, laminate or linoleum - all of them come with a natural light wood finish.
Ceramic tiles are durable materials with water resistance properties, but require careful handling of heavy objects
Not the most suitable option for decorating the kitchen with your own hands; for laying tiles on the kitchen floor, you will need a special tool (tile cutter, grinder) and the skills of a qualified tiler.
In almost all kitchens, because the tile floor is rather cold, it is laid on an electric heating mat in the form of a wire about 5 mm thick. on the grid. This further complicates the task of laying tiles and requires the connection of the heater control unit with a knockout to install it, a hole in the wall and a strobe for the electric wire.
Considering that finishing a Provence style kitchen on your own will require the involvement of specialists for laying tiles, and the work will be quite expensive, this option can be abandoned.
It is advisable to choose a waterproof laminate, since the kitchen is quite humid and there is a high likelihood of frequent splashing of water on the floor.
Ordinary laminate is not a very suitable material for the kitchen due to its low water resistance, so you should use more expensive moisture resistant types with special surface treatment and locking joints. It is quite easy to repair the kitchen with your own hands, laying the laminate on a substrate, subject to a simple work technology.
Moisture-resistant types of laminate can withstand exposure to water for about 6 hours without consequences, while waterproof ones are not afraid of its effects. Waterproof laminate is also made in the form of panels of various thicknesses or glued to the floor, its only drawback is the very high price.
If linoleum breaks in one place, you will have to replace it throughout the room.
A budget option for laying on the kitchen floor, modern types have the widest range of colors and patterns, commercial brands are highly durable and durable.
The disadvantages of linoleum when laying in the kitchen include its small thickness, which leads to different levels of the floor if laminate is laid in the corridor. That is why many people prefer to lay out the floor in the kitchen from impractical ceramic tiles.
This problem has a simple solution - the floor in the kitchen is filled with a leveling self-leveling mixture to the required thickness (3 - 10 mm) - this allows not only to raise the level, but also to level the floor.
You can do the filling work yourself if you have a special toothed roller and a mixer for mixing the solution (self-leveling is sold in bags as a dry mixture).
Before laying linoleum, it is necessary to make a perfectly flat floor so that there are no differences in height.
A construction mixer can be replaced with a household drill by purchasing an inexpensive whisk for mixing the solution, a roller - with a metal comb with teeth (this option is very risky to use, liquid self-leveling may not spread well on the floor and it will be damaged).
You can repair the floor by laying linoleum on KS or PVA building glue yourself, this is not too difficult construction work.
Kitchen walls should also be practical and easy to clean.
Renovation of a Provence style kitchen implies light colors; for wall decoration, MDF or PVC panels, ceramic tiles, painting, wallpapering are most often used, and the types of finishes are often combined.
Nowadays, rarely anyone decorates the entire kitchen with ceramic tiles, even to the middle of the walls, it is too expensive and out of fashion, the working area is mainly laid out with tiles.
There are 2 types of MDF, fiberboard or PVC panels: from a solid sheet (average size 1.2 m by 3 m) or type-setting, which are mounted on a wooden or metal frame.
In the latter case, the use of type-setting panels is impractical, since this significantly reduces the free space of the kitchen by the thickness of the frame and panel. In kitchens, it is better to use MDF panels covered with moisture-resistant PVC film or one of the types of fiberboard - laminated hardboard. The sheet panels have a thickness of about 3 mm. They are attached to the walls with glue.
Choose only waterproof paint that will not lose its appearance after washing
For painting the walls, preparation is necessary by leveling with puttying and rubbing, otherwise the light falling from the windows will highlight all the irregularities. The work is quite difficult for a layman and will require additional financial costs, and a monochromatic painting of the walls looks rather boring and is unlikely to become an interior decoration.
It is common knowledge that waterproof acrylic paints can be washed, but this statement is not entirely true. In the area of the working area, drops of food with fat often fall on the wall, which are absorbed into the porous surface of the paint and is practically not washed off.
3D wallpaper has an unusual texture that will help to hide irregularities
The most budgetary option is wallpapering the walls; the most practical way is to do it with paintable or vinyl glass wallpaper.The latter, due to their thickness, will hide irregularities on the walls, and all types of dirt, including grease, are perfectly removed from their smooth water-repellent surface.
For finishing the working area of the kitchen, you can use the same moisture-resistant materials as for finishing the walls. It is not difficult to install PVC panels or laminated MDF and fiberboard on the wall by gluing.
When decorating a work area, it is very important to apply the coating to a flat wall. In this case, the top of the countertop will fit snugly against the wall, and the thin panels will adhere well in all places.
The currently popular tempered glass panels with a bright pattern are not quite suitable for the Provence style, the use of frosted glass will fit more.
This is a rather expensive option, and although the glass can be installed independently, it makes no sense to save on this if the cost of the material itself is much more than the installation work that takes little time (1 - 2 hours).
Glass panels look sophisticated and suitable for expensive kitchen options
Laying tiles on flat walls is easy to do with your own hands if you have the simplest tool (hydraulic level, glass cutter), the only difficulty arises when cutting out holes for sockets - you need a grinder.
Conventional wall tiles, unlike floor tiles, have a rather soft base. Therefore, it is easy to cut it in a straight line using a conventional glass cutter, drawing a line on the glaze and breaking along the notch line at a hard corner.
In order to avoid misunderstandings, it is advisable to make repairs in the kitchen according to a design project - this will allow you to select and purchase materials suitable for the interior in advance, avoiding their shortage. The sequence of repairs in the kitchen is as follows:
Freeing the room from the kitchen set and all accessories (removing the chandelier, baguette).
Dismantling of old ceiling, wall and floor coverings.
Garbage removal.
Plaster or putty, followed by cleaning the ceiling and walls.
Work on leveling the floor in the kitchen (screed, self-leveling).
Shtroblenie walls and floors in the apartment, followed by the wiring and installation of boxes for sockets and switches, the output of lighting wires. Sometimes you may need grooves for plumbing pipes, followed by the output of plumbing fittings pipes to the walls.
Ceiling decoration.
Non-experts recommend doing kitchen repairs with your own hands from top to bottom: ceiling, walls, floor, which in practice is not entirely true. For example, painted walls and ceilings at the beginning of renovation work when installing screeds, self-leveling in the kitchen, laying tiles on the floor can be heavily soiled, so it is correct to do the most dirty work first (plastering walls, screed, laying tiles on the floor and walls).
Wall decoration.
Laying the floor covering.
If the flooring is linoleum or laminate, the installation of which does without dirt and dust, and the material itself is poorly wiped off the paint, paint work should be carried out first. In the case of wallpapering, it is more practical to put the floor at the beginning, and then proceed to decorate the ceiling and walls.
It is not very difficult to make repairs in the kitchen with your own hands using the cheapest materials (wallpaper, linoleum) in the Provence style if the work is carried out in stages. The working area can be independently decorated with laminated MDF, PVC, fiberboard or tiles, in many cases it is supplied with a custom-made kitchen set.
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After moving to a "new apartment", they decided to do repairs in the kitchen first of all, waited for the New Year holidays and away we go. Hands have been itching to work for a long time.
one wall - washable wallpaper;
the rest - for plaster, putty and painting;
floors - laminate;
ceiling - mdf panels with built-in lamps;
And a fascinating process began, as in this case they say - to break, not to build.
About 13 potato sacks of garbage came out, dead cockroaches were swept out of all the cracks - I really believed the phrase “cockroaches left the city”. They will not be in the photo, otherwise suddenly someone looks at the report and eats at the computer.
Then there was the day of the ax - he beat the walls with an ax, beat off the paint, the paint was soldered into the wall and did not give in to other means of cleaning. He freed the walls from paint in order to smooth out the curves, skewed walls with a layer of plaster. The lesson is very gemorny, now I would not bother so much, but applied plaster directly to the paint, well, or at least to the notches (as in the previous photo).
Strobes for two sockets and for an exhaust hood, initially there was only one outlet, in the most unfortunate place - where there is a table.
We charge everything and everyone, in order to exclude the cold and passages for cockroaches, in general, we paid considerable attention to sealing the kitchen from cockroaches.
I began to weave a web of future wiring, I really liked the expensive clip-on terminals for 3,5,7 connections.
I put the cable down, checked it, and close the strobe.
I level the wall as far as I can, apply a level, look where it is not end-to-end. In some places, the discrepancy at the 1.5 meter level reached 2 cm.
The most difficult thing for us in the renovation was the installation of the door.
Plastering, not difficult, but a lot. You constantly knead and smear, smear, smear, level and again. A little worn out in hard-to-reach places. Here the principle is, the smoother it is now, the easier it is in the next stages - putty, tiles, wallpaper. In general, it is better to plaster in two stages: the main one is the drops, holes and rough irregularities, and then the finishing one - the purpose of which is to level it into a plane, but I tried to do it in one layer, because the time for the plaster to dry can take two days or more.
It was plastered and almost dried up, while we were doing the ceiling and ceiling wiring, they removed the Sovdep chandelier. Profile by level, we attach it to the mustache, or whatever these fasteners are called.
View from the floor to the ceiling: MDF panel with lamps, a fairly simple stage of work. They did not take PVC, it looks like it is cheap, and I don’t like plastic, but this is just my subjective opinion. In the second picture, this is what is left behind the scenes, i.e. between the panel and the ceiling.
The first results of labor are visible, here I said - "but life is getting better", tk. there was no end in sight for a week of hopeless devastation.
And outside the window the kids are playing hockey, and the kids are just poking around on the ice.
Next, the filling stage took me exactly one day. Puttying I will characterize as the most creative process, because it requires experience, endurance and even walls, if you don't have to try too hard to glue the wallpaper, and if it's the finishing one, you will have to sweat. On the zone - a sink, a stove, applied an apron made of ceramic tiles, then a ceiling plinth.
I want to note that I devoted quite a lot of time to the ceiling plinth - it would seem ..
We lay the laminate, here is a relatively quick and easy job, it is important not to be mistaken in the dimensions and it is even more important not to confuse which side to saw off, otherwise you can cut it down so that the locks will not fit later. He took the substrate not rolled, but in sheets of 6 mm, he decides to have a flat floor so that later the laminate does not swing, it rocked with us, we had to disassemble half of the floor, pour the screed - not a very good moment at the finishing stage. The wallpaper on the spattered wall laid down for a sweet soul.
The furniture was returned old, with the old, of course the view is not the same, but all according to the possibilities.
The lighting was divided into two zones, the entrance group and the remote group, each of which includes four lamps, for a total of eight. I use the remote in the morning, when I am going to work, so that direct light does not shine on the door, because the door immediately goes into the room and can wake up the household. Initially, I planned five energy-saving lamps (7W = 25W written on the lamp) at the rate of 25W * 5W = 125W, more than enough for 6 squares, but practically this turned out to be not enough, as a result I drilled more holes and eight were quite enough.
At this, the repair can be considered complete.
1. The metal profile of the suspended ceiling must be grounded.
2. Electric cable for ceiling lighting, where they pass near the metal profile of the false ceiling must be dressed in an insulating corrugation
THANKS A LOT . Thanks to your photos of the finished design, I realized that such a design is not mine! And the kitchen we have with you is the same and the wallpaper in the coffee cup I looked the same. But no. A folding table is suitable for our kitchens, or even better, a rotary table that can be removed under the windowsill. And in place of your table, a sofa with lower drawers for storage fits perfectly. And in the niche for “potatoes” a washing machine fits perfectly. Above the radiator, an open narrow shelf-rack from Ikea with illumination fits perfectly into the entire wall! And the crystal there looks just magical in the evening and you don't need to turn on any additional lighting and you can read on the sofa or rock your baby :).
We are very glad that our cuisine has inspired you. I would like to see your version
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There are simply no words, what a GOOD MAN YOU are. All by yourself and with your own hands, from floor to ceiling! Super!
I liked the kitchen, I can imagine the amount of effort spent on everything because I myself just do about the same. But with an electrician. With an electrician, to be honest, you missed a little. Yes, I understand that it is easier to work with a stranded wire, it is easier to lay, but it is not intended for stationary wiring. And Vago these Vago. There are appliances in the kitchen that create a decent load on the network, it is better to do a single core with a crimp sleeve or PPE.
The whole must be pulled into the corrugation behind the ceiling, as well as in the walls. About grounding. That's what you need, but where can you get it in the old house. And in fact, it is rather grounded to the fittings. When installing the ceiling, a bunch of fasteners are driven in, and most likely it comes into contact with the reinforcement somewhere.
Sooner or later, but the moment comes when the owners of the apartment begin to think closely about major repairs, alterations, modernization of their kitchen. Someone just got tired of old dilapidated walls, ceiling, worn out furniture. Someone is not satisfied with too little, in his opinion, the functionality of the room. Someone wants to optimize tight spaces to the maximum. In any case, the renovation of a good kitchen results in a fairly large-scale and expensive event.
DIY kitchen repair
In addition to the fact that you will have to purchase a lot of good quality building materials, select new furniture and kitchen appliances, carry out or update communications, a very significant part of the costs should be planned for the remuneration of specialists. Is it possible to save money on this by making a kitchen renovation with your own hands?
To make such a bold decision, you need to be very clear about the amount of work that you have to face. The purpose of this article is to give the reader an idea about the specifics of repairs in the kitchen, about the nuances of arranging this room, in such a way that you can really assess your strengths and capabilities before starting work.
The kitchen almost always has a special "status" in comparison with other areas of the apartment, and special requirements are imposed on its equipment and decoration.
Housewives spend a very significant part of their lives in the kitchen. This means that it is necessary to create the most comfortable conditions for this. It should be warm, good lighting required, and drafts should be prevented.
Food preparation should be carried out as clean as possible. This means that it is necessary to make sure that the room meets the accepted sanitary standards. The kitchen is cleaned almost after every use and should therefore not be overly difficult.
Cleaning your kitchen regularly shouldn't be a problem.
All the necessary communications must be laid in the kitchen - plumbing, with cold and hot water, sewerage, gas main (if the house is gasified), electrical wiring of the required power.
The products used for cooking often leave oily, greasy traces, and can be quite chemically aggressive. At the same time, the danger lies not only in the direct hit of such substances on the floor surface and walls adjacent to the working areas - one cannot but take into account the abundant fumes that are inevitable during thermal cooking. This means that even the ceiling is not completely insured from such an impact. Materials for finishing all surfaces of the room and kitchen furniture must be selected so that they are not afraid of such influences and can be easily washed.
All surfaces in the kitchen should be easily washed from grease.
At the same time, the kitchen is a room with high humidity - this must also be taken into account when choosing finishing materials. Whatever one may say, no one in the kitchen can be insured against liquid spills on the floor - hence the increased requirements for waterproofing.
To minimize the negative effects of vapors and maintain a comfortable atmosphere in the kitchen, it is necessary to do without an exhaust ventilation system and / or autonomous air purification.
An essential element of the kitchen is effective ventilation.
The modern kitchen is full of technology, without which many housewives can no longer imagine their life. A thoughtful placement of devices and their correct connection is required, taking into account the safety rules of operation.
The very room of the kitchen and the placement of all the necessary elements in it should be thought out to the smallest detail - it should be as convenient for the owners to use it for its intended purpose as possible.
Another important point is that in the vast majority of families, the kitchen is by no means just a cooking room. Usually this is a kind of "family club" where a lot of topical internal issues are resolved and where "get-togethers" are held with the closest relatives and friends. And this means that, if possible, a cozy corner should be provided where you can comfortably sit. Yes, and the entire decoration of the kitchen should be such that it is pleasing to the eye, and so that it would not be ashamed to receive guests there.
In the end, the kitchen should be just beautiful and cozy.
And all this, as mentioned above, needs to be organized, most often, in conditions of a very limited area of \ u200b \ u200bthe premises, where you will not particularly "run away". So the task is very difficult.
Actually, the kitchen renovation itself can be divided into many stages, each of which is important in its own way, but more often it is mandatory, with one or another variation. It is enough just to list these stages to make it clear how ambitious the overall task is. So, "on the way to the finish line" is the following:
Freeing the premises - usually it is required to be carried out in full, otherwise it is difficult to carry out measurements and planning.
Checking the condition of walls, ceilings, floors, windows and doors, communications, etc.
Carrying out careful measurements.
Planning the placement of large-sized stationary kitchen and household appliances.
Preliminary selection of kitchen furniture - both in size and functionality. Drawing up a project for its placement.
Thorough cleaning of all surfaces of the room.
Repair (renewal) of the base floor surface.
A similar operation - revision of the condition and basic repair of the ceiling.
Repair of communications or laying new ones, corresponding to the drawn up project.
Checking the condition of the ventilation, possibly making changes to its design.
Replacement or thorough restoration of windows and doors.
Finishing work, from top to bottom: ceiling, walls and finishing flooring with the installation of skirting boards.
Installation and suspension of stationary equipment, furniture, lighting fixtures.
Connecting and checking the performance of all systems.
Now it makes sense to consider these stages in more detail. However, not everything will receive the same great attention: some of them are simple and intuitive, do not require special explanations, others are related to technological processes, which are described in great detail and intelligibly in special publications of our portal (the corresponding links will be offered to the reader). But certain specific points require a really close look.
It is impossible to plan the repair correctly without conducting a thorough audit of the condition of the room - walls, floor, ceiling, communications. And it will be possible to carry out such a deep check only after the kitchen is completely freed from furniture and equipment, since in most cases it will be necessary to remove the old floor covering. Ideally, renovations are best done when the family is temporarily living elsewhere. If this is not possible, you will have to somehow get out of the situation - temporarily leave the old stove in place, there is water in the bathroom, and even a small work table can be moved wherever you need it.
After the kitchen is vacated, a completely unsightly picture often opens.
After that, you can quickly assess the state of the room - is there any point in leaving something in its original state, or is it still required a more radical approach. It is necessary to tap all walls to identify weak, unstable spots. It has already been mentioned about flooring - in 99 cases out of 100, dismantling will be required. The condition of windows and doors is assessed - is it worth repairing and restoring them or is it easier to install new ones. The same applies to the heating radiator - perhaps the old battery will not fit into the conceived concept of the kitchen interior.
Most often, the flooring needs to be replaced.
It is necessary to assess the condition of water mains and sewerage systems - whether they need replacement, transfer to another place, complete alteration in connection with the planned installation, for example, a column or a boiler.
The location of the outlets and their condition should be assessed. True, if repairs are carried out with the installation of new kitchen appliances, then, most likely, the wiring of the power supply will have to be redone for a corresponding increasing load.
After the room has been vacated, it will not be difficult to carry out thorough measurements of all the parameters of the kitchen - to the smallest detail. This is a prerequisite for further planning.
It is necessary to draw at least an approximate plan of the kitchen on a sheet of paper so that you can transfer the results to it directly during the measurements. Subsequently, the plan can (and even should) be "cultivated".
What parameters are subject to mandatory measurements:
The length and width of the room. The distance between the opposite walls is measured, preferably not only along the wall perpendicular to them, but at several points. Do not be too lazy to measure the diagonals to compare them - this will help you to find out exactly whether the correct rectangle lies at the base. If the room has a complicated shape - with a niche or part of a corridor, this is also transferred to the plan with all dimensions
Height from floor to stream.
The location of windows and doors - their distance from the walls, length and width, the direction of opening the sashes, for a window - the height of the window sill.
The location of the heater (battery) with reference to the wall on which it is located, the passage of the heating riser and the pipes to which the radiator is connected.
The specific position of the gas riser, the meter (if any) and the mounted branch pipe with a tap for connecting a gas stove.
The location of the input of water pipes and sewerage. If a transfer is planned, then on the diagram it will be possible to mark their desired position.
The size and position of the vent.
The exact location of power outlets, general lighting switch in the kitchen.
If there are other stationary elements in the kitchen (for example, mezzanines on the door, etc.), then they are also applied to the diagram.
For convenience, the reader is offered an approximate graphical diagram of the required measurements:
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The kitchen should be cozy, comfortable and beautiful. The creation of a stylish interior usually requires significant financial costs. To save on wages for the designer and builders, repairs should be carried out on their own. A description of do-it-yourself kitchen repair with photos of each stage will help you cope without the involvement of professionals.
DIY kitchen repair
How to make a stylish renovation in the kitchen, as in the photo, with your own hands? To do this, you need to take courage, discuss with the household the features of the interior they want, present the final result of the repair and get down to work.
Preparatory work for the renovation of the kitchen
Before starting any repair work, you should draw up a design project for the renovated kitchen area. This requires:
Measure the dimensions of the kitchen, taking into account protrusions, niches, columns, door and window openings;
Decide on the layout of the room, the amount of furniture, the color scheme of decoration, style, placement of lighting devices;
Draw a volumetric drawing of the arrangement of furniture on paper or in a special application on a personal computer;
Determine the scope of the budget, choose the right finishing materials, order furniture from the necessary materials and the right sizes;
Create a list of required materials: paint, putty, wallpaper, glue, tiles, etc. and purchase them.
An example of a drawing for the placement of kitchen furniture
After creating the project, they begin preparatory work, which includes:
Cleaning the space from furniture and household appliances;
Dismantling of wall, floor and ceiling decoration. Removing the door frame and window frame.
Photos of the kitchen before and after DIY repair are presented below.
Photos of the kitchen before and after renovation
Kitchen renovation - before and after
For cosmetic repairs, this step can be skipped.But if the old water supply and sewerage pipes are in poor condition, then they must be replaced. One of the following materials is selected for pipes:
Polypropylene has an affordable price, resistance to corrosion and a low level of heat conductivity, does not require additional components, is installed by welding;
Metalloplast has a rigid structure, low heat transfer, corrosion resistance, is not easy to install, requires installation of gaskets and cuffs;
Copper is an expensive, but the most practical material, it is characterized by wear resistance, durability, is not afraid of the influence of high and low temperatures, has antibacterial properties and resistance to deformation.
It is recommended that a professional electrician replace the wiring. It is important to provide for the installation of sockets at the electronics connection points.
Replacing the wiring in the kitchen with your own hands
Above the location of the stove, it is necessary to install a powerful hood, which, during cooking, will draw smoke and steam into the ventilation shaft.
Advice! The hood should be installed 60-70 cm above the hob.
Do-it-yourself installation of a hood in the kitchen
With a quick cosmetic repair and when the condition of the window frames and doors can be called satisfactory, this stage is skipped.
DIY window repair in the kitchen
Wooden windows can be restored or simply cleaned of old paint from the frames and repainted.
When replacing old windows with new ones, you must select the desired material:
Wood is a beautiful, environmentally friendly and expensive material;
Plastic is a cheap and practical material. It provides a high level of heat and sound insulation.
Preparing a doorway for installing kitchen doors
When choosing a door, you should give preference to a plastic model. It is more practical than wood. It all depends on the style of interior decoration and the financial capabilities of the apartment owners.
When choosing materials for decoration, it is worth considering their practicality, since the kitchen is characterized by a temperature drop, as well as particles of food and drinks that may end up on the walls, floor or even the ceiling.
DIY window painting
For finishing the ceiling in the kitchen, you can use:
Tension structure. Installation of a stretch ceiling is carried out only after finishing the walls. This finishing option is durable, attractive in appearance, but expensive and requires professional installation.
A paint that is not afraid of water. Before painting, it is required to level the ceiling surface with a putty. Only after the putty has completely dried is paint applied. This is a simple and inexpensive finish.
Suspended structure. It is made of plastic or drywall. Requires the creation of a crate, which is then sheathed with plastic or plasterboard panels.
DIY plasterboard ceiling installation
Before starting work on the decoration of the walls, their surface can be leveled with a putty and a primer or isogypsum. The following materials are used to decorate the walls in the kitchen:
Wallpaper is a budget option. They are inexpensive, easy to stick. It is necessary to choose wallpaper for the kitchen among washable models: vinyl, non-woven. Wallpaper for painting and fiberglass is very popular.
Applying washable wallpaper in the kitchen
Green painted walls in the kitchen
Decorative textured plaster in the kitchen
DIY ceramic tile apron
Advice! Not all walls can be tiled, but only the apron above the work surface.
Below in the photo you can see the design of a simple kitchen renovation option.
Renovated kitchen in a classic interior
As a floor covering in the kitchen, you can use:
Linoleum is a cheap and practical option. It is durable, easy to fit on your own, unpretentious in maintenance, has many color options.
DIY linoleum laying in the kitchen
DIY cork floor in the kitchen
Environmentally friendly kitchen floor material - wood
Laying moisture-resistant laminate in the kitchen with your own hands
Porcelain stoneware tiles on the kitchen floor
The furniture is installed in accordance with the previously drawn drawing. Its quantity and dimensions depend on the area of the room.
Linear kitchen set
A must-have piece of furniture in any kitchen is a set. It can be straight or angular, occupy one, two or three walls of the room. If the kitchen is small and will be used only for cooking, then the kitchen set and household appliances can occupy almost the entire room. In this case, the dining area will be located in another room.
Small corner kitchen interior
If the kitchen combines both the cooking area and the dining room, then a table and chairs or a couch are installed in it. The dining area is usually placed opposite the headset.
Placing the dining area against the wall, opposite the working area
To make the furniture fit perfectly into the space allotted for it, it is recommended to make it to order. Do not forget that the appearance of the furniture should match the style of the kitchen design.
Corner kitchen with wooden facades
After familiarizing yourself with the photographs of the repair work, you can safely take on the repair of the kitchen with your own hands. It is necessary to carry out the entire range of work in stages. The most important step is planning. Without a well-thought-out plan and accurately carried out calculations, it will not work to create a harmonious interior.
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