As with their hands to make a cozy kitchen and a favorite area for the whole family
Its history repairs in the kitchen to share with us, our subscribers will.
Removing old wallpaper from the walls, we saw your kitchen, so to speak, in its original form at the junctions floor and wall large gaping cracks, surface defects of the walls were raised, the ceiling demanded alignment. In addition, the need to clean the ventilation duct, was scheduled replacement of the external sockets.
Preparing walls for gluing - the first and important step
To wallpaper "went" smoothly and firmly plastered wall first and then were opened primer. This has improved the concrete pavement structure and facilitate the adhesion of the wallpaper. We used the primer is as follows:
The next step - the removal of measurements from the walls and ceiling and cutting the required number of wallpapers.
Clay divorced according to the instructions for use attached to the packaging. Apply glue to the wall of a special roller.
Glue ceilings: how to ensure the evenness of the lines?
It began sticking to the ceiling, so it was plotted lines for flat gluing.
Strips of wallpaper glued along these lines, the edges compared butt. As the end of this phase of the work the ceiling looked like this:
Papered walls: room gets a certain look
The walls in our kitchen have a lot of areas that require cutting out some small pieces of wallpaper. However, we began to sticking straight bands in the far right corner.
Tools and construction equipment was as follows:
Gradually moving along the walls we pasted over areas around the windows and a gas boiler, but the surface of the radiator long left free.
Wallpaper glued so that their bottom edge was almost to the floor, so that later he was able to hide under the plinth.
Unsealed left a hole under a ceiling fan. After special cleaning on top of this hole is produced assembling outer kitchen ventilator.
As the end of the pasting wall wallpaper, they bought a neat and attractive appearance. However, against the background of the new wallpaper has been noticed unsightly condition ceiling moldings. During a previous operation of the surface cracked and lost whiteness. They cleared the cover of the cracked and stained with water-based paint.
After that were installed on the door of the place, and on the doorway fixed frames.
The room has acquired a residential appearance, getting clean, beautiful and elegant. In place of "steel" exterior outlet.
Replacing the flooring
When you are finished with the walls, it was the turn of laying linoleum. After a preliminary "otlezhivaniya" shown in the previous article, it had the desired sex are cut scheme and carried out fixing with the help of special tools. It turned out like this:
Especially I had to work on a level floor laying in the air duct area. This central protrusion require special care.
The end point was the cleaning ventkanala to the room did not get germs, he was treated in disinfectant. Outside, we have established a modern ventilation and mechanical closing (down the chain).
The remodeled kitchen has been brought furniture and installed on the space allotted to it. We were pleased with his work, but there is still work on the selection of appropriate accessories, the placement of favorite household items.
Since the color of new wallpapers significantly different from the first, we planned to buy new curtains on the windows, lighting and tablecloths on the table. This, at least interesting and responsible work, we think, will be stretched more than one day. But it's worth it, because the kitchen - a favorite of our family, because we are going to strive to gather here all together.
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