It is the fine finish that creates the appropriate style and design for each new home. But in order to reach the fine finish, the craftsmen have to go through another important stage - preparing the walls of the building for their fine finish, that is, roughing. The rough finishing of the building includes the preparation of the floor for the final flooring, and rough plaster, and the processes of insulation and soundproofing.
Attic style
As soon as the thought of your own separate country house arises in your head, after this idea there are several dozen new accompanying thoughts, among which the question of the style of your house is in the first place. What should he be? One-story or one-and-a-half-story with an attic. Of course, you can’t immediately come up with the style of your future own home. You need to review building catalogs to choose a style both for the original design and, of course, for your pocket. There are many options for finishing the attic. The more modern in the house, the more expensive and comfortable the house becomes.
Diy attic cladding ideas
Here, for example, are a few ideas for arranging and decorating an attic space. Most mid-range developers follow a few traditional trends, among which Canadian and Scandinavian home styles stand out.
The Canadian house style has the most common principle of frame construction, in which a complete frame is first erected from the foundation to the frame base of the roof with any attic finish. For the construction of such frame, Canadian houses with an attic, a wooden beam is used. There are several types of timber for building a Canadian house. This is a Canadian-made glued beam, which is made from special types of wood. Our domestic wooden building materials for building in the style of a Canadian house also have good quality indicators.
Finish is an important design element
The first thing that catches your eye when entering a room is its walls and ceiling. The evenness of the corners, color shade, pattern. All these elements can be a good addition to the overall style of the room.
Designing a room in one design style begins with the first steps of finishing. Already at the first stage in the process of plastering the walls, you need to adhere to the general style of the entire room. The idea, for example, of the Egyptian style is remarkable in that the walls should be decorated to this design, with all kinds of relief moldings on the ceiling and with patterns on the walls.
Create patterns on the wallsusing a variety of stencils. The stencil drawing on the wall should not stand out as a separate element, but should emphasize the uniform style of the wall and the whole room. The photo will tell about another idea in the arrangement and decoration of the attic using the example of the Feng Shui design style.
Each style has its own subtleties of oriental design. Each room in the room can have its own design and individual color schemes. You can not finish the whole room in one color or in one style. Such monotony in the house always irritates the nervous system. Separate design for each room is the best solution for the style of the whole house or apartment.
Preparation of walls, floor and ceiling
Depending on the technology used, there are different ways to finish the attic space. These include various types of plaster for internal and external walls, and laying with clinker bricks, facing tiles, siding and wallpapering. Each type of attic decoration has its own characteristics and materials. But the beginning of all these processes in all cases will be the preparation of walls, floors and ceilings.
And if this is a new house, then the preparation of the walls begins with puttying and plastering, which also depend on what material the walls are made from. It is brick, aerated concrete or wood. For all these materials, both the preparation of the walls and the facing processes will be different. Indeed, the preparatory work includes insulation and waterproofing and soundproofing.
Imitation underbeam - progressive finishing of the building
You probably guessed that imitation under the beam is a modern progressive material, a kind of polymer building materials that are used mainly for finishing walls and ceilings of suburban buildings, mansards and for finishing the attic of a house. Finishing a building with this material solves not only the interior design, but also the issue of thermal insulation of the premises. Imitation under a bar is superimposed on a heat-insulating layer and allows you to create a satisfactory savings in saving heat, which plays an important role in modern life.
The density of the sheathing on the walls imitating a bar creates an original fastening using tongue and groove grooves. Thanks to the original technology of blanks, consisting of two parts, which are connected in a special way at the manufacturing plants, imitation of a bar has a high resistance to deformation. The main thing in laying imitation under a bar is that the laying should be done in accordance with the direction of the light. Finishing the attic on the outer walls of imitation under the beam is done both horizontally and vertically, but so that it is a ridge up.
Progressive heat-insulating materials in combination with imitation under a bar create not only an elegant look of apartments, but also comfort, cleanliness, and warmth. An imitation is installed under a beam on a crate of bars fixed on the wall at a distance of 400-800 mm perpendicular to the planks, which are attached to the bars with self-tapping screws through holes drilled in advance at an angle of 45degrees. For the pediments of houses and for the design of ceilings, they take a delicate imitation of timber, made of larch, which has an extraordinary strength, reliability and strength.
Finishing the attic inside
The same principle is used for finishing both external and internal walls of the room. The only difference is that there is no insulation layer on the inner walls, so the first draft layer of plaster serves instead of the insulation layer. The first layer of rough plaster on the interior walls should be up to 10 mm thick. Regarding the finishing work on the floor, then, of course, the floor is first leveled with a rough fill using waterproofing technologies. Then comes the process of floor insulation and laying the final coating.
When arranging an attic room, an important element is the dry cladding of the room using plasterboard or chipboard plates, with which you can create not only a stable microclimate in the attic room, but also equip the room with all kinds of partitions and niches that can be used as a dressing room.
Sheathing of external walls
Modern PVC products or lining are very popular for finishing external walls and the facade of a house. There are different types of plastic facing material. For example, vinyl siding made for a latch and a nail edge works well with an attic finish. It can be used for all types of cottage-type houses in especially rainy areas. High density wall sidingcompletely preserves their second attic floor from rain and moisture.
In addition to plastic materials, other, natural materials are also used for cladding the external walls of the house. Wooden cladding boards can also be used to finish the attic, but their disadvantage is that they age very quickly under the influence of rain. They need to be repainted often, cleaned of old paint.
