Niche in the wall is not only a beautiful designer element, but also has a practical value design. Harmoniously built-in deposits create a special decor and comfort in the interior of the rooms. They are laid, as a rule, at the stage of creating a repair project. But you can easily add a niche to the already decorated room, while not resorting to the help of specialists. Ready ideas lots of. The main thing is that the element fit well into the overall style of the room. Thanks to which it will be created original decorationintroducing the atmosphere of comfort.

Why can niche be used in the walls?

The deepening in the wall can perform a wide variety of functions. Here much depends on the fantasy. The main areas of use are:

• the main thing is as decor;
• like shelves;
• source of additional lighting.

Niche in the wall allows you to place various items:

• collections of coins and paintings;
• books, vases;
• flower pots;
• sleeping bed;
• embedded furniture;
• aquarium;
• mirrors;
• tV and audio equipment;
• decoration elements;
• microwave;
• clothes, linen, shoes.

This is not a complete list of things. Inside each room there are still many such items with which the deepening in the wall is successfully combined. An example of this is a photo below.

Niche has a number of advantages. They boil down to the following:

• economical use of space space;
• creation of space to accommodate various things;
• features set household appliances;
• saving money to buy furniture;
• masking defects of the surface of walls, communications (heating pipes, batteries);
• such a decor gives the exclusivity and style design of the rooms, emphasizes the personality of the owner of the housing.

The deepening in the wall allows you to expand the living space, which is particularly relevant for small apartments. Also, designs are replaced by furniture (dressers, racks, cabinets, stands). This is particularly welcomed by people negatively related to these elements of the interior.

The placement of individual items requires the creation of additional design elements, for example, a niche with a mirror additionally decorate the sconce. Often, glass or wooden shelves are inserted inside the recesses.

Gypsum cards create both classic (rectangular) decorated designs and arched. Despite the ease of installation, the accurate calculation is required to achieve symmetry of parts of the structure. It is also required to take into account the color, backlight, purpose of the room.

Regulations

Modern deepening in the wall is an area, harmoniously inscribed in the interior of the room. She closes flaws, decorates it. There are certain rules of how to arrange a niche, and rightly place everything. The main ones are:

• it is required to comply with the proportions of structural elements;
• if necessary, the geometry of the room is adjusted;
• the color of the in-depth place should be not darker of the surrounding walls (otherwise there will be an effect of the hole);
• with the help of mirrors inserted into cavities, the visually space of the room is expanding;
• boc Nish is permissible to color 1 shade darker than base;
• if a decor with different textures is used, then their compatibility should be taken into account;
• such designs are well suited, inside which there are deficiencies of layout and surfaces that require disguise;
• it should be pre-thinking out the design that it will be possible to immediately decide the issue of registration.

The backlight of the niche in the wall creates a special environment indoors. Especially when it is used for walls and curtains. But the exception is the well-lit rooms. In the wall in the kitchen, additional lighting will be superfluous because it smoothes the surrounding interior.

The darkened hallways is a great place to illuminate. It also needs cavities with installed TVs or audio engineering. The optimal combination of backlighting with the interior is represented in the photo.

For additional lighting, various decorative lamps are used, characterized by their shape and color range. This makes it possible to pick up as the level of illumination, the effect created by it. Electricity costs from it do not increase, because modern diode dotted lamps consume low power.

The design of the niche in the wall must be made taking into account the basic rules. This makes it possible to achieve a harmonious combination of colors and visual effects.

Niche in the interior of the rooms

The design of the niche in the wall depends on the purpose of the room. Recommendations for creating such a decor for different premises are presented to the following table.

For the hall will suit any design of openings. The main thing is to observe the overall style and the combination of interior elements. His original design Presented further in the photo. The harmonious decoration of the bedroom will create cozy alcove. In the kitchen create recesses in any zones, given the overall composition.

Installation of decorative deepening with your own hands

Creating an cavity inside the wall is an excellent alternative to furniture that allows you to decorate the rooms and close the existing defects. The game of colors allows you to give the interior harmony, the desired share of dynamism, to implement various designer ideas. Mounted constructions create visual changes in the parameters of the surrounding environment and space space.

How to make a niche in the wall with your own hands? The phased implementation of the process is reduced to the following operations:

• carry out the marking of the wall surface, determining the width, depth and height of the structure;
• fix at a short distance plate, which are the base for profiles;
• fix the frame on the intended circuit, getting a similarity shown below in the photo of the structure;
• constantly check the level of parts of the structure;
• cut the frame with plasterboard sheets: they are fixed with self-draws;
• the joints are expanded, ground and put off with the use of sickle (reinforcing ribbon);
• covered with a primer all the work area, weak up with several layers (3 - optimally);
• the surface is grinning;
• apply a facing coating.

Role finish finish can perform wallpaper decorative rock, tile, staining of surfaces.

Finishing a niche in the wall and installation of the entire design require to achieve a beautiful result of a clear compliance with proportions and proper design.

The deepening in the wall created by all the rules will give any room a unique, exquisite view. A beautifully created decor is used to align the works of art, household appliances, books and different little things. Inside the large openings are installed beds and aquariums.

Material ideas allow to decorate housing, hide existing finish defects, focus on any interior element. With the help of drywall, you can easily create such designs on your own.

A variety of design options for decorative recesses are presented on video.

As you can, you can mount a niche of the drywall in detail in detail the training rollers further.

The modern design is so diverse that new trends appear every year, which in the roots change the idea of \u200b\u200bthe interior. Now very popular among family designers use niches in the walls. You can look at the photo to make sure how organically they look in the room.

At first glance, create a similar deepening in the wall is difficult, but the result is worth it. Not surprisingly, many people ask how to make a niche in the wall? It all starts with a project or at least a common vision. You need to know exactly what you need. The project can be made both independently and contact the Designer Bureau.

By photo you can make sure that there are many ways to use niches in the wall. For example, it can be a great place to sleep. True, for this will have to work a lot. A peculiar shelves are considered much simpler options, which are put by books or decorative elements, which will serve as an excellent decoration.

Attention ! Ideally, the niche should be laid in an apartment or house at the design stage.

Very often, niches in the wall use in small apartments. This allows you to slightly increase the space and make the room more, as in the photo. Even 20 extra centimeters give a rather big win.

What can be placed in niche

Of course, it depends on the deepening parameters. In principle, it can be understood even by photo. In most cases, a similar element of the interior is used to post in it:

• vases
• statuettes
• furniture,
• household appliances,
• electronics
• bookshelves.

You can also recall a number of niches, which are elements of an apartment or home engineering infrastructure. A visual example in this context is a batch of battery, as evidenced by numerous photos of private interiors as residential buildings and apartments.

Very often installed shelves in the recesses. As a result, this decorative element can turn into a miniature exhibition of your achievements or a small library.

Separately, you need to talk about the larger recesses in the walls. They are also quite often can be seen in the photo. Their difference lies in the fact that they perform not so much a decorative role as functional.

In large deepends you can place the TV and other large-sized equipment. Similar accommodation can be easily seen on a variety of photos. In theory inside, you can accommodate almost any household appliances if dimensions are allowed.

Very often in the deepening of the wall put a small sofa and it can be easily seen in the photo. But only these possibilities are not limited. This can be installed chest of drawers, rack or wardrobe.

A wardrobe embedded in the wall will save you a huge number of space. Moreover, this option will be much cheaper than a separate design.

The trend of recent decades is the installation of a refrigerator into a wall recess. Recall the many photos on the stands that are unnecessary confirmation of this thesis.

Returning to the theme of small recesses, you can use them as a place for dishes. Such options can also be seen in the photo in the portfolio of companies engaged in the interior of the kitchens.

How to make a niche in the wall

Theoretically niche can be done in any wall. But to change the carrier wall to be needed to achieve engineering permission. After you get it, you will need to contact the appropriate instance to confirm the possibility of redevelopment. Only after that you can get a deepening in the wall as in the photo.

Two design options

There are two versions of the niche design in the wall. In the first version you are waiting for serious construction work, which will take a lot of time and make a lot of noise. Simply put, you will have to withdraw a part of the wall with the help of a construction drill and jackhamme.

In the second version, everything is much easier. Plasterboard is used to create a niche. Of course, in this case, you will not be able to get the addition of residential space as in the photo. Moreover, it will even become less. But if you have a large apartment or a house, then this option is more than acceptable.

When creating a niche, you will need to hold construction calculations. Without special tools make them correctly impossible. It is very important to make noise insulation of the rear wall. As a last resort in the next room, you can mirror the closet.

Design

Despite the ability to increase the area of \u200b\u200bfree space, most people prefer to use plasterboard. This is somewhat easier and cheaper. In addition, such a niche in the wall is obtained more than authentic. You can see this photo.

A special role in creating a niche in the wall plays interior decoration. It is she asks the whole tone of the composition that it can be easily traced on a numerous photo. Typically, such materials are used for this purpose:

• decorative plaster
• fake diamond,
• colored glass.

The color of the niche in the wall playing great importance. It can be performed in the same color gammaAs a wall or can be played in contrast. But in this case, the main thing is not to overdo it. It is best to choose a palette that is just a few tones lighter or darker, in principle, you can see it in the photo.

Attention ! When the niche is painted as in the photo it is better to refrain from the use of dark paints. Otherwise, the so-called hole effect may occur.

When creating a niche in the wall as in the photo, pay attention to lighting. It is able to give this element to the interior special tone. The most skilled designers combine the architectural composition and light. This allows you to achieve a stronger effect.

Of particular importance are the size of a niche in the wall. For example, if it is small, it is better to use the same color palette as on the walls. At the same time, it is advisable to make a few tones lighter.

Attention ! The size of decorating elements depends on the dimensions of the niche in the wall. What it is less, the smallest should be elements, in fact, as in the photo.

If it comes to small apartments, as in the photo, then a small sofa will be the best option for a niche. First, it will look very stylish, and secondly, it will give much more free space.

One of better options The design of the niche in the living room wall is aquarium. This element together with the correct backlight will make it possible to give the room mysterious and at the same time a pacifying atmosphere. It is perfectly visible in the photo. Also, this option is also possible in the bedroom. But in this case, the reservoir must be placed so that it is visible from the bed.

Ethnic concepts are perfectly suitable for creating a niche in the wall. For example, you can stylize everything under the Japanese grotto. Japanese pagoda will also look more than appropriate on the future photos of your interior. Of course, in this case, to create a complete illusion you will need a shrub that will be mastered the composition.

To stylize a niche in the wall under the Japanese Pagoda also does not prevent the use of suitable bouquets. Of course, under them need special vases that will help add the composition.

Niche in the wall can be done in the kitchen. On small shelves will easily fit kitchenware, or, for example, TV. If you make a big deepening, then it can accommodate a dishwasher.

Bath is also a great place for a niche in the wall. A similar interior not only looks great in the photo, but also allows you to use the space available with great convenience.

Tip! The shellf made in the bathroom can be installed both the means of personal hygiene and, for example, powders.

The vertex of design art in this context is considered to be the creation of a rotunda. Walls are faced with mosaic, and they are created decorative niches. They will best paint in white color. You can still add a niche under the bathroom in which an aquarium can fit. It will look great on any photo if you decide to sell an apartment or pass.

RESULTS

There are many options for creating niches in the wall. You can see for yourself, just looking at the photo. If we talk about the features of this element of the interior, then it can be done from drywall, or cut out with the help of construction tools.

In Soviet times, a niche in the wall was perceived by people as one big drawback. Its size was unnecessarily small for the construction of the room, so it was not used in any way. To date, Niche in the wall ceased to be perceived as a huge flaw, non-fulfillmentable changes. It beats themselves different ways, and plays both a decorative role and functional.

Strange angles and openings existing in many apartments are quite difficult to beat. The problem is significantly complicated if doorways, windows or stairs are located next to the niche. It is not worth a despair, since such a minor space can be applied by destination by giving it excessive practicality and functionality.

Niches found in the corridors can be divided into:

• Horizontal (they are longitudinal openings in the wall);
• Vertical.

It is also worth talking about the use of horizontal niches.

Options on the topic, how can I use a niche in the hallway a lot. The main thing is to comply with the rule: niche should not be overloaded with accessories and decor items.

Horizontal niches are similar to ordinary shelves and, often, they are not a defect planning an apartment. As a rule, they intentionally create designers, allowing them to play an exclusively decorative role in the interior of the corridor. A wide variety of decor elements are put on the surface of the niche: figurines, hourglass, photo frames, small lamps, aromatic candles.

Several methods of arrangement of vertical niches:

• A small dresser installed in the wall opening will help fill the empty space and can be used as the surface for storing keys, bags, hats or cosmetics. To give the hallway of the romantic atmosphere near the dresser, you can place the lamps. Puffy, a small sofa or chair will help fill the niche in the wall.
• A shoeband will make it possible to give small wall-made practicality and functionality.
• The console table on four legs with a mirror will serve a good service. It can be used, as a trumulous, or store the necessary perfumery objects on the surface.

Taking advantage of one of the ways, you can rationally use the unused space.

Corridor Wall Lighting

With the correct lighting, niche can become an excellent decor element in the corridor. In vertical wall openings, the most popular illumination are halogen lamps. If the niche is developed by the designer, then in the process of its design, the location of the lamps is placed. As a rule, they are located in paired planes. For example, it may be lamps located in the upper left and right corners.

Before the location of the lighting system, you need to take care of the presence of electrical parts, without resorting to the dismantling of the wall.

To illuminate horizontal niches in the hallway, the most relevant are lED ribbonsSince their functioning requires less electricity.

Besides point lamps and lED lampsThe diffused light is not less popular. It uses a powerful incandescent lamp. It is placed in the top of the niches and is closed with matted or colored glass.

Using a niche in the corridor

In Khrushchev and Brezhnev, wall openings are often empty, as it is quite difficult to find use. The corridor is not a kitchen, in the opening of which can be located household appliances. In the corridor, do not put flowers, because the lack sunlight Negatively will affect them.

In order for niche in the hallway to be functional and practical, it should be used as a place to store things.

The most rational solution for the corridor is accommodation in the vertical wall opening of a wardrobe. It will be profitable to look at the background of the hallway, rather than those who are bored with all.

The advantages of the cabinet built into a niche:

1. Before creating embedded furniture, the specialist carefully makes the vertical niche measurements. The wardrobe is completely adjacent to the walls and the ceiling without forming voids. Otherwise, the likelihood of accumulation appears in open places dirt and dust.
2. Built-in furniture looks solid and elegant in a wall opening, allowing you to keep warm winter things in it.
3. The cost of the cabinet is much cheaper than ordinary cabinet furniture. This is due to the fact that when it is installed, it completely disappears the need for some details: rear and side walls.
4. If a niche is equipped with a wardrobe, a magnificent opportunity appears to independently think about it filling: boxes for gloves and scarves, mesh for shoes, shelves for hats, shoulders for outerwear and trousers.
5. When adjusting the niches with a wardrobe, completely disappears the likelihood of its displacement or tipping during operation.
6. The wardrobe installed in the wall of the opening allows you to save free space.

Like any other furniture, the built-in wardrobe has several drawbacks. In the assembly process you will have to work pretty. It is not difficult for professionals to collect it enough. The wardrobe can not be transferred to another place, and the fastening fittings has the property of spoil the walls.

Installation of the door in a niche to the hallway with your own hands: Subtleties and possible nuances

The coupe doors are installed not only in the closet. They are successfully mounted in a deep vertical niche, preventing the ability to visually see what is from the inside. Such partitions allow the use of niche not only as a dressing room. For example, you can arrange the storeroom. Storeroom will be very comfortable in small apartments. It can store household appliances, ironing board, dryer and other things.

You can arrange a doorway with any way like:

• Installation of plasterboard as doors. Subsequently, the doors of the improvised pantry can be painted, caught with photographic windows, put the tile or as a decor to use a natural stone.
• Use valuable wood, chipboard or MDF as sliding doors. Natural tree in itself is original decorBut on the doors from chipboard or MDF, you can apply a photo printing or vegetable pattern.
• Plastic panels will become an excellent option for the storage room.

Sliding doors are convenient because there is no need to break her head over their creation on their own. It is necessary to make measurements of the opening, make an order and, wait for the whole product will come to their intended purpose.

I would like to note that the adjacent sliding doors come to the customer almost in the finished form, which makes the installation easy and convenient.

Door installation is made like this: installation of the upper and lower guides, installation of doors on the rails, adjusting the doors. As you can see, Niche in the corridor is not so much drawback. It can easily be played and decorated with various interior items.

Types of niche in the hallway: how to set out (video)

To issue a niche is able to any little bit of little, knowledgeable in construction work, so dare.

You will succeed!

Niche has long and tightly entered our lives. Of course, in Soviet times in small apartments, it was simply not possible to highlight a whole wall for such a luxury like a niche. IN modern design The interior of the niche occupy an important place, and from the functional side, and with aesthetic.

Niche is not easy in the wall, they can often perform the function of a cabinet or shelving, visually expand the space, hide in itself the imperfection of the layout of the room or technical elements (pipes, batteries), or just keep the necessary things in themselves every day.

Niche make it possible to create an additional free space in small rooms. This is especially true for small narrow rooms. Also, niches can be created in spacious apartments With long free walls, in such cases, the niches will become excellent decorative elements of the entire interior. Now let's look at the basic ways of applying niches in ordinary apartments.

1. Built in wall rack for books

This is a traditional and well-known way to use niches in the house. Of course, the easiest way to design a niche, its depth and number of shelves in advance. But it can also be easily done with small repair work. The advantages are obvious - for such a number of books, as in the photo, it would be necessary for a rather big cabinet, and so - niche perfectly accommodates the entire library, also decorates the empty wall.

To arrange such a niche, you will need wooden shelves that are sold in construction stores. If you want to additionally highlight such a built-in rack, think about it at the repair stage, because the wiring is paved before finishing work. Otherwise, you will have to install the flooring in close proximity to the niches.

2. Niche like a buffet for dishes

This method of use of a niche is not particularly different from the previous one. Only with the difference that such a niche for dishes will particularly appropriately look at the kitchen, in the dining room or in a combined dining room with a living room. Although there are several of its features - a niche for dishes can be significantly less, not so deep, as for books, and shelves in niches can be made from glass.

Idea

Beautiful combination - a few shelves decorated wooden Rama, allocated under the dishes, and one - under the candles. The practical and decorative function is connected together.

1

3. Niche as a decorative design

If you have enough high ceilings And you do not want to hang banal shelves, the built-in niches are perfect option For storing different little things, memorable things and photos. When niche becomes decorative element, You can already think about the complex design of our yourself and about unusual materials for its design. For example, you can paint the wall of the niche wall in a different color from the rest of the walls, lay out the mosaic, or insert the mirror on the back surface. Then due to the visual effect, Niche will seem even deeper.

4. Niche near the bed in the bedroom

This very interesting way Save place. As a rule, it is 20-30cm., But sometimes you can "drown" the bed into the wall even on the half meter. Also, we all are well acquainted, especially on old French films, folding beds that were placed in a niche and closed the door like a wardrobe. This is an excellent idea for a small apartment, or the storage option of the guest sofa.

A few point lamps will fit very well in such a niche, which will give you the opportunity to comfortably read the books, lying in bed. If you make a niche slightly wider than the bed itself, then you can accommodate even small shelves to replace the bedside table, or bedside tables.

The rear wall in below is worth making an emphasis - blew the wallpaper with a bright pattern, paint paint, characterized by several tones from the one that is used on adjacent walls, hang pictures on this wall or composition from photos.

5. Niche in the bathroom

The niches in the bathroom serve as interesting decorative elements, as well as the place of storage of bath accessories and hygiene. Place such niches in any suitable places - above the bathroom, above the washbasin, in the wall near the window (if there is a window in the bathroom). The niches decorated with contrasting materials are especially stylish: stone and tile, mosaic of different contrasting colors, water-resistant paint of dark shades.

In such niches it is convenient to store clean towels, then they will always be at hand. In addition to hygiene products, small plants in pots or sets of decorative vessels will be perfectly looking in the niches.

To create a romantic setting, put several lit candles in a niche.

6. Niches to accommodate additional lighting and visual expansion of space

As we have previously talked, Niche is not just a shelf built into the wall, it's also important element Design of the room as a whole. So, with their help you can hide a TV or a picture, add a few additional lamps, or sconce.

An interesting combination of domestic niches - in the photo below in two large niches, a TV and a built-in fireplace are hidden, and in two smaller - shelves with photos. The designer chose a natural stone as the main material finishing material, in which the fireplace is hiding with chimney.

As we know, the mirror opposite the bathroom doors helps to visually increase the space. And especially it works in tandem with niche with extra light.

The mirror drowning into a niche, which is also finished with another material, serves as a decorative element. But to expand the space in the photo below, another interesting technique was applied - the mirror is not the whole wall, and a little less, as if the picture in the passport, and it was at the expense of this niche visually deepens the wall.

Let's summarize: Niche is a universal way to design empty wall or small sections of walls. It can perform a functional role - shelves for storing books and dishes, or be the subject of decor provided beautiful design The niche itself and the use of unusual materials for its finishing.

Author

Yulia Danilova

Interior designer