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Do it yourself and on a small budget
I renovated the room latest renovation did twenty years ago. I spent 16,921 R on this.
Victoria Tsarenkova
renovated grandma's room
I inherited from my grandmother her room in our family apartment. In this article, I will tell you how to make simple repairs and restore furniture so that the room takes on a modern look.
What will you learn
What did the room look like before the renovation?
Our apartment is located in the old housing stock of St. Petersburg. This is the name of the houses built before the revolution. Ours was built in the 1890s. These buildings are different from modern ones. uneven walls, high ceilings and whimsical layouts. They also have ceilings with stucco, painted walls, tiled stoves, stained-glass windows and old type-setting parquet. I like it when they preserve the special, ancient spirit of St. Petersburg apartments during repairs - this is their highlight.
16 921 Р
I spent on redecorating the room
In the apartment, we renovated all the rooms, except for my grandmother's. She objected to the refurbishment as being too hectic, and we didn't push it. Therefore, gradually her room came into a deplorable state: old wallpaper, dilapidated wooden frames and Soviet furniture. Only the parquet is well preserved.
Preparation for repair
I decided that the renovation would be my creative project, not a debilitating inevitability. And it helped me to relate more easily to all the vicissitudes of this process. There was excitement: what will I get in the end. In addition, I was in no hurry and did repairs only in free time.
I am not a designer, but I feel the colors, style and combination of textures. This is a family thing for us: my brother is an artist, and my mother has recently become interested in watercolor painting. And I also love different sites and groups in social networks where they meet interesting interiors. It seems to me that such “observation” helps a lot when you come up with interior design on your own.
Therefore, an approximate picture of how I want to see my room immediately appeared in my head. That's what was important to me.
Painted walls, not wallpaper. I wanted bright colors, and I decided that three walls would be blue color and one is yellow. I also didn’t want to glue the wallpaper, because this is an additional procedure, and I needed to make everything easier and faster. The option of painting old wallpapers didn’t work either: they had been hanging on the walls for twenty years and I wanted some kind of update.
Gray furniture. I decided that I would repaint my grandmother's lacquered furniture to make it look more modern. I chose the gray color because I thought that the gray shelving would look cool against the yellow wall. The combination of these colors is one of my favorites.
Bed in the form of an ottoman. I didn’t consider a sofa or a couch, because I wanted to sleep on the bed: in the evening, just throw back the covers and lie down, and put everything back in the morning. I'm tired of "sofa rituals": in the evening, lay out and lay sleeping area, in the morning, remove the linen and assemble the sofa back.
Before proceeding with the repair, I found and saved pictures from Google and Pinterest with the desired result to a folder on my laptop, sorting everything by color and their combination. I knew that's what interior designers do: they put together "mood boards" or "mood boards" for visualization and inspiration.
Pinterest is also convenient because you can save all your favorite pictures directly to your board - this is how the user's folders are called on this site. I also recommend doing a search query in Pinterest in both Russian and English, because the results are very different. If you request in English, you will get more images, as this social network is popular all over the world.
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Work plan
It always seemed to me that repair is difficult and expensive. I thought that I couldn’t cope with it on my own, because I don’t understand building materials, I don’t know what and how to do. But there were no other options, because there was no money to hire craftsmen. Therefore, we had to do everything ourselves and as cheaply as possible.
My brother helped me. He himself did the renovation a few years ago and suggested what materials to buy. For example, he advised instead of the famous "Rotband" to take ordinary plaster. It's cheaper and works great for my needs. Another brother said what kind of paint is needed for the walls, ceiling, windows and radiators. He explained what to paint and in what order. Without his advice, I would have spent much more time, effort and money on repairs, figuring out what's what.
I did not want to do everything perfectly correctly and strictly according to technology. It was important for me to meet the budget and put the room in order - so that it was clean, tidy and just nice to be in. And I also wanted to preserve the spirit of St. Petersburg, which the apartments in the old fund are so famous for. Therefore, I did not strive to level the walls, ceiling and window openings to European standards.
I was to:
- Rip off wallpaper.
- Seal up nail holes and small potholes in the walls.
- Prime the walls.
- Paint the walls, ceiling, windows and doors.
- Repaint furniture.
Painting works
Ceiling. I started by painting the ceiling. Since I had a "no rules" repair, I decided not to shoot old whitewash, do not process leaks and do not close up cracks - but paint immediately according to what is.
For the ceiling, I bought the cheapest in the construction hypermarket water-dispersion paint. I planned that one bucket of 3 kg would be enough for the entire ceiling. The label said "3 kg ≈ 18-24 m²", and the area of \u200b\u200bmy room was 14 m². As a result, it took me three such buckets to the ceiling. Painted in two layers. Perhaps I used up so much paint because I did not follow the technology - that is, I did not prepare the ceiling for painting in any way.
9 kg
it took me paint on the ceiling with an area of 14 m²
At first, I had difficulty with the ceiling: the roller did not apply fresh paint, but only removed the old whitewash. I had to paint with a wide brush, and make a curly strip at the junction with the wall with a thin brush. As a result, it seemed to me even easier to paint with brushes than with a roller. In addition, I stood on a high stepladder almost under the ceiling, so my hand didn’t get tired much.
One bucket of paint cost 159 R. Painting the entire ceiling cost me 477 R.
Firstly, I primed the walls - that is, I applied special compound so that the paint adheres better to the surface of the walls. In addition, the primer protects the walls from mold and mildew. One liter of liquid primer was enough for my room. It must be diluted with water, applied with a roller on the walls and allowed to dry. In what proportion to dilute and how long to wait for drying, indicated on the package.
1 l
liquid primer went to the walls with a height of 3.2 m and overall length 11.5 m
Secondly, I patched up the nail holes and small dents so that dust would not accumulate in them and the surface of the wall would look more uniform. There were many such holes and potholes in the walls. For this, I needed a plaster mixture. I bought a 5 kg bag, which I completely used up. The mixture must be diluted with water until smooth. For this, I used a construction mixer that my brother gave me. Whether it will be possible to whip the mixture by hand - I do not know.
I did not breed the whole bag at once, but in parts. The mixture quickly hardens, and it must be applied to the wall in time. I added water by eye, focusing on the fact that the plaster should be in consistency like thick sour cream.
Applying plaster on the walls is simple: you take the mixture on a spatula, cover the hole, level this patch on the wall with the sharp side of the spatula. I liked this part of the work: compared to painting the ceiling, it was almost a vacation.
In general, first it was necessary to close up the holes and only then primed the walls. But I made a mistake and did the opposite. It did not affect the result of painting.
It was also easy to paint the walls with a roller. But I have a problem with the color scheme. I planned to make one wall yellow, but when I painted it, it turned out terrible. This wall moved forward and visually crushed. And the brother came up with such a move: leave a wide yellow stripe on the wall, and paint blue paint on the sides.
On the advice of my brother, I bought one of the most budgetary paints - the Marshall brand. He painted such walls and was pleased with the result: the paint lay well on the surface and covered it with a dense layer. The colors are vibrant and have not faded or faded over time.
It took me five buckets of 2.5 liters: four blue buckets and one yellow. I painted in two layers, but I didn’t use up all the paint - half a bucket of blue paint remained and a third of the bucket of yellow. I plan to use them later when repairing the toilet and bathroom.
10.4 l
paint went on the walls with a height of 3.2 m and a total length of 11.5 m
The paint is sold in white, and in order to get other colors, you need to do "tinting" when in white paint add some paint of the desired shade. I was tinted in a construction hypermarket, where I bought paint. There are special machines that strongly rotate the bucket and thus mix the colored paint with white. The tinting of one bucket cost 63 R.
Yellow paint cost more than blue. The most budgetary paint for 399 R was not suitable for tinting yellow, so I had to buy a bucket of yellow from another price range of the same brand - 455 R each.
In total, I spent 2297 R on wall paint.
Windows and door. Before painting the windows and the door, I scraped off the cracked paint from them with a spatula, and in the wall between the windows plaster mixture made some obvious inconsistencies.
I painted the windows and the door in two coats of universal acrylic enamel. I did not understand the nuances and took the most budget option on the shelf in the construction hypermarket.
5 kg
enamel was used on two windows and one door
My windows are wide - each 1.25 m. The door is also rather big - 2.7 × 0.95 m, plus it had to be painted on both sides. This work took two full buckets of 2.5 kg. At first I bought one bucket, and when I realized that I needed more paint, I had to take a second one.
I painted the window frames and the figured part of the door with small rollers 6 cm long, and everything else with brushes and large rollers. To prevent paint from getting on the glass, I sealed them with construction tape around the perimeter of the frames. In general, the glass was also in a deplorable state. But I decided not to do anything with them yet. I just washed and scraped off the paint from the last repair.
One bucket of enamel cost 364 R. I spent 703 R on painting two windows and a door, since I bought one bucket at a discount, asking for a discount card from a neighbor in line at the checkout.
Batteries. Batteries require special paint. If you paint with a regular one, when heated during the heating season, it may crack or rust will appear. So I bought acrylic enamel for radiators. I'm lucky the heating hasn't been turned on yet. Otherwise, there is a risk that even special paint may dry unevenly on warm batteries.
Before painting, I did not remove the old coating and did not prime the batteries - although this is recommended in articles about repairs. I just wiped the batteries with soapy water to remove dirt and dust.
241 R
worth a bucket of enamel
I painted mostly with a brush. And for the internal surfaces I used a roller 6 cm long with a handle: it is easy to slip it between the sections of the radiator, and it painted over all the internal surfaces of the sections well. It took a little more than half a 0.8 liter bucket for two batteries, although I painted in two layers and did not save.
I also bought the most budgetary enamel, a bucket cost 241 R.
width="1000" height="667" class="" style="max-width: 1000px; height: auto"> The parquet in the room is well preserved. I just brushed it with a brush for 110 R and a solution of ammonia, which removes dirt. Due to this, the boards became lighter. But if you peel it off and varnish it, it will be generally gorgeous Materials for repairing walls, ceilings, windows, radiators and doors - 4091 R
Wall paint "Marshall" and its tinting
Quantity
5 buckets of 2.5 l
2297 R
Enamel "Lacra" for windows and doors
Quantity
2 buckets of 2.5 kg
703 R
Paint "Lacra" for the ceiling
Quantity
3 buckets of 3 kg
477 R
Enamel "Tex" for radiators
Quantity
1 bucket for 0.8 l
241 R
Liquid primer for walls
Quantity
239 R
Plaster mixture for walls
Quantity
1 bag per 5 kg
134 R
Why I decided to repaint the furniture
From the furniture in the grandmother's room there were two racks, square table and a round table, as well as an ottoman stool, a TV stand and an old sofa.
I built a TV cabinet through Avito. The sofa at first agreed to be picked up by the employees of the housing office, but they could not pull it out of the room through the doors. As a result, my brother and I broke the sofa and threw it into the construction waste container: there was no time to attach it further, and it looked shabby.
We decided to leave the rest of the furniture for two reasons. The first is sentimental. This furniture is a memory of people dear to me. My grandparents bought a Riga set in the mid-70s. And when my grandmother passed away, my mother and I could not give this furniture to strangers.
The second is practical. It was necessary to furnish my room, but it was not possible to buy new furniture. And this set, which has wandered around for 40 years in different apartments, is still in excellent condition - certainly stronger than the furniture that we bought in the nineties and even two years ago.
And then I decided on this experiment. The fact that furniture in the style of "Soviet chic" can be transformed beyond recognition, I learned even before the repair from the Internet.
I had to take off the furniture lacquer coating and paint it a new color.
How to remove varnish from furniture
I studied articles and videos on the topic and found three ways to remove varnish from furniture.
Thermal way. The surface is heated with a building hair dryer, and then the varnish is scraped off it. I immediately refused this method: such a hair dryer can heat up to 600 ºС, and I decided that it was simply dangerous. Suddenly I do something wrong and set fire to the surface or burn my hands.
Chemical way. A wash composition is applied to the surface with a brush, and after a certain time specified in the instructions, the varnish is removed with a spatula. Minor residues of varnish are removed with sandpaper. I decided to try to remove the varnish from the table in this way. In a video from one restoration workshop, it looked like this: a wash was applied, and the coating was easily removed to a light living wood. But there was a nuance: the master used a wash for car paint. I bought a tool for furniture "Destroyer coatings B-52". And I didn't succeed.
The "destroyer" removed only 1-2 mm of varnish and deformed the table in several places. Perhaps because I left it instead of the prescribed 30 minutes for 45. Or maybe this wash just didn’t fit my furniture.
I was also worried about the toxicity of the drug. Although I worked in a respirator mask, the smell filled the entire apartment and did not disappear immediately. And on the bank short list components of the product coquettishly completed the words “additives that ensure the penetration of the gel inside polymer coating". I was puzzled that the manufacturer did not indicate the exact composition, so to "decontaminate" I washed the table with water and vinegar. And I decided to go the third way.
mechanical way. The surface is treated with sandpaper - manually or with a grinder.
At first I wanted to remove the varnish with a grinder. Thought it would be easier. But the machine would have to be bought or rented. In addition, I was told that it is no easier than doing it manually. So I decided to manually “walk” on the furniture and bought a sandpaper holder.
I went through all the surfaces with sandpaper twice: first, coarser with P120 grit, then softer with P180 grit. The surface of the table was softened by the chemical wash, and the varnish was rather difficult to remove. With racks it was easier: both of these giants, two meters long each, and even with shelves, drawers and internal sections, I sanded quickly and easily.
Width="1000" height="667" class="" style="max-width: 1000px; height: auto"> The sandpaper holder cost 120 R , and the cheapest grinder would cost me somewhere around 1000 R . I only processed the corner sections of the furniture with small pieces of sandpaper without a holder - otherwise you can’t get close to them
How do I paint furniture?
I made a mistake when I chose light gray for furniture. I painted the table, but it looked so dull and cold against the background of blue walls that it immediately became clear that it was impossible to leave it like that.
So I went through the paper palette again and suddenly settled on purple. I never liked this color, but I liked how it goes with yellow and blue. I also thought that it would be unusual - purple furniture. So I decided to paint them.
I like the combination of colors on the walls and furniture. The question may arise: do I get tired of such bright colors? No I love bright colors and their combinations, so I don’t get tired, but, on the contrary, I recharge Do-it-yourself apartment renovation where to start - this question was asked at least once in a lifetime by every homeowner. Usually, positive emotions this upcoming event evokes in those who have received or purchased their own housing for the first time. Those who have already dealt with the work of bringing the apartment in order know how much trouble they bring, and how much effort they will have to put in to achieve the desired result.
But, if it's time to start updating the apartment, then you will have to be patient and a decent amount, the amount of which depends on what type of repair it was decided to carry out.
Types of repairs in the apartment
Repairs can be major or cosmetic, covering the entire apartment or its individual premises. But you should be aware that repairs in some rooms can become more time-consuming and require more effort and effort than work in other rooms.
Overhaul
Capital works involve repairs "from scratch" in new apartment or redevelopment with the replacement or transfer of installed elements in the old housing. The amount of work will depend on what changes it is decided to make in the apartment.
The total scope of work may consist of the following activities:
- It may include the demolition or installation of partitions, the consolidation or division of rooms, the transfer or expansion of doorways. If at least one of the listed actions is planned, then it is imperative to consult with a specialist who will determine whether this process is possible. All repair work related to the dismantling or installation of walls in high-rise building, must be confirmed by the permission of the commission of the managing organization.
- Replacement and relocation plumbing fixtures, radiators, electrical sockets, additional lighting.
- Replacement of windows and doors.
- Replacement old finish ceiling walls and floors.
- Embedding furniture, if this process is included in the plans.
A major alteration in an apartment is a lengthy process that cannot be done in two days or a week, while you will have to free the rooms from furniture and all things, as they will interfere with work or may be damaged by building materials. It may be necessary to carry out repairs in turn in each of the living rooms, in this case, you will have to take care of buying a dense plastic film for curtaining doors from construction dust and dirt. But, as a rule, overhaul still assumes that the family will have to live elsewhere for this time.
Redecorating
Redecoration usually involves replacing decorative finishes in one, several or all rooms. Perhaps, having removed the old coating, you will have to adjust the corners, surfaces of the ceiling, walls and floor.
When performing a cosmetic repair option, preparing surfaces for new decorative materials can be called one of the most important processes. No matter how expensive the chosen wallpaper, linoleum or paint may be, if they are laid or applied on uneven surfaces with cracks, the expected effect will not come from them. Therefore, in order for the decorative finish to look properly, it is impossible to do without leveling the surfaces with putty or self-leveling floor.
Having chosen the repair option that is suitable for a particular apartment, you can proceed to further work.
Drawing up a repair plan
The first thing to do is to draw up an apartment plan, which will display exact data on the area and height of the ceilings of each of the rooms, with or without partitions, in a word - in the form that the apartment should appear after repair work.
General rules for repair planning
IN design project you should show the desired color of flooring, wallpaper, as well as at least an approximate arrangement of furniture. Using this project plan, it will be easy to calculate the necessary building materials and accessories for each of the premises of the apartment. Of course, it will not work to take everything into account, but this will save you from some mistakes that are typical for non-professional craftsmen:
- Given the arrangement of furniture and various household appliances, you immediately need to determine the location and number of electrical outlets and switches.
- We must try to avoid the shortage of certain finishing materials, since if they have to be bought in addition, it will be very difficult to perfectly match the shades of the same tile or wallpaper.
- Having made a project in color, you can visually verify the correctness of the decorative coatings selected by color, and how they will harmonize with the shades of the furniture.
In the process of drawing up such a plan, many ideas for decorating the premises may appear, so it is recommended to make a project in several colors, and then choose the one you like best.
The plan can be made with computer program or on a regular A4 sheet. It must be carried out in compliance with the dimensions corresponding to the present, but on a reduced scale.
If the plan is drawn up manually, then drawing it once, then you need to make several photocopies on which you can apply different shades or different arrangement of furniture.
The presence of a graphic plan will allow you to "play" with the styles of decoration and furniture arrangement You can draw up a plan of the entire apartment to see its color scheme in full or make a design project for each of the rooms.
In addition, it is very convenient to put down the stage number on each of the plans, and plan a certain work on each of them. For example, one of the drawings can show the redevelopment of the walls, the other - the electrical wiring and placement of outlets, as well as the connection various devices, on the third - future alignment furniture and color scheme.
Dividing a room into zones
To know where to start repairing each room, you need to determine what will be located in it.
- In the children's room, it is desirable to separate, if the area allows, a sleeping place from the play area or from the place for the child's activities.
- The kitchen should be spacious, so it must also be correctly divided into zones, determining the working and dining place, as well as the installation of various devices.
- If you plan to separate or combine a bathroom, then on the very first drawing it is worth measuring and indicating its dimensions and the arrangement of accessories.
- If it is started with the desire to divide it into two separate rooms, you need to measure everything very carefully both on the drawing and on the spot. In this case, you need to immediately determine the thickness of the partitions, since they also occupy a certain area.
Sometimes such a redevelopment can also affect the hallway, since in some apartments it occupies a fairly large area. Here it is important to determine what design the partition has that separates the hallway from the rest of the rooms. If it is capital, then you cannot touch it without permits.
- If it is not possible to divide the room with a partition for some reason, you can install a closet or shelving as a "barrier". It should also be noted on the plan.
Selection of materials for decorative finishing
In the next plan-drawing, it is worthwhile to deal with the finishing material and its color, since the comfort of being in the room will depend on these factors. Deciding on the finish, you need to choose it wisely. Naturally, the safest for human health is natural material, such as cork, wood, paper, ceramics and the like, however, some types cannot always be used due to high price or inconsistency with the chosen design. So, what materials can be used for different rooms:
- Children's room and bedroom for adults. For premises of this purpose, it is necessary to use as much as possible natural finish, which does not cause allergic reactions, "breathable" and has soundproofing qualities. If a major overhaul is being carried out, then before mounting decorative trim, the walls can be provided with a soundproof layer - materials such as texound, acoustic drywall, cork and others are suitable for this. As a finish for walls and ceilings, it is best to use plastering and coating paints and varnishes on water based or pasting with paper or cork wallpaper. Today, in building stores, these materials can be found for every taste and color.
- Living room. For this room, you can choose from a wider range of finishes. Here, linoleum, laminate, parquet, carpet, cork and other modern materials can be laid on the floors.
What you need to know about linoleum
Despite the fact that many new floor coverings have appeared, linoleum is not going to give up its popularity at all. Useful information about is available in a special publication of our portal.
Plastering and painting, pasting with cork, paper, non-woven, vinyl, textile, glass and other options can be used to decorate the walls.
The ceiling can be plastered, covered with a stretch ceiling, single- or multi-tiered suspended structure, or also covered with wallpaper.
The modern solution suspended ceiling!
In this matter, perhaps, there are no boundaries for the imagination of creative owners. In a special portal article dedicated to, you can find out a lot of useful information and even, perhaps, choose one of the options for decorating your own apartment.
- Hallway. Materials for the walls and floor of the hallway must have a pronounced resistance to abrasion, and be easy to clean, since dirt and dust from the street first gets into this room.
The floors can be laid with linoleum or laid ceramic tile.
The walls are pasted over with vinyl wallpaper or sheathed with plastic, wooden or laminated clapboard.
The ceiling in the hallway should be made light, since in this room most often there is no natural light. Therefore, a light-colored suspended ceiling with built-in lighting is perfect here.
- Bathroom. or a separate bathroom should have a moisture-resistant finish that is easy to wet cleaning and is not afraid of means household chemicals. traditional material for these rooms is ceramic tiles - it does not hide the already small area rooms, and is also durable, non-abrasion and easy to clean material. Ceramic tiles are perfect for both walls and floors.
In addition to tiles, plastic panels have been increasingly used for cladding the walls of the bathroom, especially since today a wide range of this material is presented in hardware stores.
The ceiling in the bathroom can be made of the same plastic panels, moisture-resistant drywall for painting, but the stretch ceiling will be the best option for a bathroom or a combined bathroom.
Special requirements - to the ceiling in the bathroom!
High humidity, high probability of direct water jets - all this imposes specific requirements for finishing. How to decide on the type - read in a special article of our portal.
Color spectrum
An important role in design decoration rooms of the apartment is the color scheme, as it should fully contribute to the creation of a comfortable environment. Therefore, this factor must be carefully considered.
The harmony of the design of the rooms will depend on the shades correctly matched to each other. In this process, you can focus on this table.
To make the room light, you should select soft white-beige warm shades. Especially it concerns ceiling surface, as its light color enhances electric lighting. Therefore, quite often in modern interiors, the shades of lamps and chandeliers are not turned down, towards the room, but towards the ceiling.
You always want to make a children's room bright, so that its colors evoke joy and optimism. However, you can’t get carried away at the same time, it must be remembered that the child will not only play in this room, but also relax, so it is recommended to decorate the recreation area in calmer colors.
The bedroom for adults should be conducive to relaxation, and therefore it is recommended to decorate it in pastel soft and fairly light shades, which will help you fall asleep pleasantly in the evening, and wake up with an optimistic mood in the morning.
The color selection affects the psychological and physical state of the body, because if a person does not get enough sleep or does not rest properly, then his vitality and immunity decrease, so the selection of shades should be taken seriously.
Dark shades in combination with lighter colors can only be used in a well-lit room, otherwise they will act on the psyche, especially children, very depressingly.
Having decided on the materials and their colors, they measure all the surface areas on which the selected finish will be made. Next, a list of necessary materials is compiled with an indication of their quantity.
With the list compiled, you can go shopping for the necessary materials.
- It must be said right away that you should not purchase everything you need for repairs on natural disasters. construction markets, where although the prices are lower, no one will give a guarantee of quality. Counting on such "savings", sometimes you have to pay double or even triple the price. cheap material applied to walls or laid on floors, it is not known how it will behave, and you may still have to replace it with a quality one soon anyway. And this is not only unnecessary spending, but also wasted time and effort. Cleaning surfaces from a new low-quality finish is an extremely unpleasant task, as the mood will be completely ruined. Therefore, it is recommended to purchase building material from a trusted seller who can provide quality certificates for all products.
- You need to purchase material with a margin, approximately 15% of its total calculated volume. This approach will help you do the work calmly, without fear that something will not be enough. By the way, you can immediately clarify whether the store accepts the remaining surplus back - this approach is often practiced.
- When choosing products for quality, you should examine them very carefully, as well as study the certificates that you need to request from the seller. For example, when purchasing materials such as ceramic tiles, laminate or wallpaper, you must definitely check the batch number of the product on the package - it must be the same, otherwise products in different packages may differ significantly in shade and even in quality. This difference can sometimes be noticed only in the process of work, by combining piece copies or canvases from different batches side by side - this moment can also complicate the process of high-quality repairs.
- The choice of new doors and windows must be taken very seriously, since replacing them later will be quite difficult and expensive, since this process will necessarily affect recently repaired surfaces.
Reliable front door - a guarantee of safety and comfort
The front door not only protects against uninvited "guests", but also ensures that a comfortable microclimate is maintained in the apartment. It is not cheap, and in order to avoid mistakes when, check out useful information in a special article of our portal.
- Carefully choose accessories for the bathroom. You should not succumb to the currents of fashion to purchase plumbing items made from newfangled materials, as they may not always be suitable for specific cases. First, it is recommended to study their characteristics and calculate all the "pros" and "cons".
- Heating radiators are also carefully selected. Nowadays, these devices made of various materials can be found on sale, but not all of them can be suitable for installation in central system heating. When purchasing radiators, one should rely not only on their operational capabilities, but also pay attention to the manufacturer and the availability of a quality certificate.
Useful information about heating radiators
These heat exchangers cannot be selected solely in terms of their appearance- it is necessary to take into account their operational capabilities and thermal power, depending both on the area of the room, and on some other important criteria. About all this - in a special publication of our portal dedicated to .
- A few words should also be said about the compositions that will be needed to treat surfaces before installing finishing materials on them - these are various primers and antiseptic solutions. Such funds will create better adhesion between materials and protect walls and ceilings from mold stains.
After necessary materials purchased, repair, you can proceed to a phased repair.
Stages of repair and construction works
Surface preparation
One of the most important stages in carrying out any type of repair is the preparation of surfaces, since this will determine how neatly and firmly the finishing materials will adhere to the walls and ceiling. The preparatory stage includes such activities as cleaning surfaces from old coatings and repairing any flaws that may have appeared during the operation of the housing.
1. The first step is to remove old wallpaper or paint from the walls.
Wallpaper can be removed in several ways, depending on how tightly it adheres to the wall:
- With the help of a spatula, with which the canvases are picked up and carefully removed completely or in large pieces.
- If the wallpaper is glued securely and does not want to come off, they need to be wetted with water using a roller, and these manipulations must be carried out several times. When the paper gets wet, it can be easily removed with a spatula.
- The third option is suitable if the walls are securely pasted vinyl wallpapers which are quite resistant to water. In this case, they can be steamed using a special device - an iron or a steam generator. If there is no such device, but there is an iron with a steaming function, then you can use it, but apply metal surface vinyl is not allowed. It is brought to a distance of 100 ÷ 150 mm to the wall and treated with steam. After that the old decorative coating should move away from the wall and can be carefully removed with a spatula.
The paint coating is removed with building hair dryer or grinders with a brush attachment installed.
2. Next, you can move on to cleaning the ceiling. If the ceiling plaster has cracks and chips, and it is not planned to make a false ceiling, then the old whitewash, and sometimes the plaster, will have to be removed. This process is quite laborious, and it is also carried out with the help of water, which is first soaked on the surface, and then the old coating is removed with a spatula or a grinder with an iron brush.
"Weak" places of the old plaster must be cleaned off If it is mounted suspended structure, then it is not necessary to remove the coating from the ceiling - it will be enough to treat the surface with an antiseptic and strengthening primer.
3. The next step is to remove the floor covering. However, producing redecorating, sometimes this process is not carried out, especially in cases where the floor is in good condition and quite satisfied with the owners.
4. After removing the old coatings, cracks or other fairly large defects will be found on the walls and joints of the planes. They must be repaired, otherwise they may show through the new decorative finish.
For this small cracks expanded, primed and sealed cement mortars, putty or sealant. , which sometimes appear at the joints of surfaces, can be filled with mounting foam.
5. After cleaning the walls, the electrical cable is laid out if it was planned to reinstall the sockets. For cable routing in some rooms, you may have to cut strobes in the walls to hide the wiring in them.
6. If the heating circuit is to be replaced, then at the time when the walls are cleaned, markings are made for brackets for radiators, and holes in the walls are also prepared. This must be done on the walls without finishing, so as not to spoil it later.
Replacement of windows and doors
The process of removing and installing these interior elements is usually carried out by specialists, as this is a rather laborious work that requires certain skills and accuracy, special tools. Therefore, if there is no such work experience, then it is better not to undertake such work on your own.
It is also better to entrust the installation of the front door to qualified specialists, because the safety of housing will largely depend on the reliability of its installation.
Interior doors are installed at the final stage of work, so this work can be postponed for now.
Dismantling and installation of partitions
The next step is the dismantling or installation of the partition, if it is planned and permissions have been obtained for these works. Both the construction and demolition of the wall can be done independently.
How difficult is it to build light interior partition?
With knowledge of technology and careful performance of work with a similar task, you can completely cope on your own. How to conduct, and what materials are needed for this - this information from detailed instruction can be found in a separate portal publication.
You can also dismantle the partition between the bathroom and the toilet yourself if it is built of brick or gypsum boards. This process will require a puncher, a sledgehammer and, possibly, a grinder with a metal disk - if the partition is reinforced with a reinforcing grid.
This is not to say that this work will be easy, but as a result you can get enough large room, in which it is quite possible to carry out the planned redevelopment.
Leveling the ceiling and walls
When the windows and doors are installed, and the cracks and gaps that have been repaired are completely dry, you can proceed to. This process is simple, anyone can perform it - the main thing is to carry it out carefully, without missing a single surface area. The primer is carried out with a roller, and hard-to-reach places are processed with a brush.
Then, after complete drying of the primed walls and ceilings, they need to be leveled. To do this work, you need some experience, therefore, before diluting a large amount of putty, you should try your hand at small area walls with a little mortar.
If the walls have enough flat surface with minor flaws, it will be enough to use a putty composition. But in the case when the surface has large distortions, the alignment will have to be carried out by plastering along the beacons. However, if the area of \u200b\u200bthe room allows, then the walls can be leveled with sheets of drywall.
Very laborious, but very milestone- alignment of walls No matter what technology the surface leveling process takes place, after the layer of plaster and putty has dried, the walls and ceiling should be primed again.
Ceiling requires perfect alignment if it is not planned to be covered with a stretch or false ceiling.
How to properly level the ceiling surface?
The process of carrying out is quite complicated and requires special skill. Therefore, if a decision is made to do this work on your own, you should pay attention to the recommended article of our portal.
The surface leveling process also includes the finishing of slopes on window and doorways. They can be ennobled with drywall, plastic panels or plastering.
floor leveling
The next, fifth stage, the surface of the floors is leveled. This process in the apartment can be carried out different ways- this is a bulk self-leveling mortar, a dry screed or floor installation on logs, followed by closing it with plywood or other sheet material.
All these processes may well be carried out independently, after careful study. technological instructions which can also be found on our portal.
Use of self-levelling building compounds
One of the methods for leveling the floor surface is the use of special construction mixtures. The technology is described in detail in the corresponding publication of our portal.
If you are not sure that you will be able to qualitatively cope with such work on your own, then it is better to turn to specialists.
Decorative wall decoration in living rooms
The next step is to finish the walls - pasting them with wallpaper or painting. These works are not so complicated, and can be done on their own, so it is quite possible to save on them.
If the decoration will be carried out with wallpaper, and they have a certain pattern, you must immediately calculate its step so that the ornament matches perfectly on the wall.
Before cutting the canvases, the wall is marked vertically and horizontally. The lines are beaten off with a colored cord along the ceiling and one of the corners. The first sheet of wallpaper will be aligned along the vertical extreme line, and the subsequent ones are already guided by it and the upper horizontal color strip.
If it is planned to paint the walls, then it is carried out using a roller, which is put on a special bar for convenience.
The wallpaper glued and dried on the walls is framed along top line foam or paper border, which completes the overall design of the room
Installation of flooring in rooms
Laying process floor covering must be carried out very carefully so as not to damage or stain the decorative wall decoration. If linoleum or carpet is laid on the floors, then before fixing it to glue or under the baseboards, it is laid out and left for about a day in order for it to straighten out. Cloths of this material are cut in length, approximately 10 ÷ 12 mm less than the length of the room, and laid 5 ÷ 7 mm wide from the wall. Such gaps are necessary for free thermal expansion material.
It should be noted that any material laid on the floors must have such gaps. So, when laying a laminate, special inserts are used, which are removed only after the flooring is completed over the entire area of the room.
The installation of the floor covering is completed with the installation of skirting boards.
Installation of interior doors
Interior doors are installed on last step work, so as not to make a mistake in the height at which the door will be installed, since the leveling layer and the floor covering will raise the floor and change the level of the floor.
In the enumeration of the stages of work, the issue of repairing the bathroom was deliberately omitted. This event has its own nuances that must be considered separately.
This is the approximate procedure for preparing for repairs in the apartment and its phased implementation. It is quite understandable the desire of the homeowner to do this with minimal cost, hoping for own forces and abilities. But still, you should soberly assess your capabilities - it is possible that the best solution would be to contact specialists.
At the end of the publication - an interesting video clip with expert advice on conducting initial stages apartment renovation.
Video: how to start repairing an apartment
Before starting repairs in the apartment, it is necessary to carry out preparatory work. The main thing is to carefully plan each step. To get started, find out on the site the current prices for apartment renovation in order to correctly plan the budget. This will avoid extra costs in time and finances in the future. Now you can move on to the work plan. The entire scope of work is conditionally divided into several stages, which must be performed strictly alternately. Let us consider in detail the stages of repair work and the rules for their implementation.
We are planning a renovation
The first thing to do before a major overhaul of an apartment or house is to draw up detailed plan your dwelling. This diagram should indicate where furniture, interior, Appliances. This will help you decide where to start repairs in the apartment, where to place sockets, switches, chandeliers.
Thanks to the plan, you will be able to lay pipes and wires without complications and the first time. After all, the comfort of the room directly depends on the rationality of the placement of these elements.
If the plans include not only cosmetic work, but a turnkey apartment renovation with redevelopment, then initially it is worth starting demolition or building walls. Next, you need to decide on the style of future housing - will you stick to one style when decorating the entire room, or combine future interior with multiple styles.
People who do not have enough experience in this matter are advised to seek the advice of a professional designer. The specialist will be able to develop best option interior design, taking into account the features of the layout and personal wishes of the client.
Once planning is complete, proceed to financial matter- Calculate what materials and how much you will need. It is better to buy them in specialized stores.
Give preference to well-known and proven brands, the quality of the assortment of which corresponds to their price. Savings on materials can result in additional financial costs in the future.
Rough work
It is necessary to start transforming the premises from the implementation of rough work. These include the dismantling of the old coating. To new interior looked attractive and lasted for many years, tiles, wallpaper or whitewash should be removed.
If you do not plan to change the floor covering, it must be protected from possible damage during construction work. To do this, use a dense plastic film, the edges of which must be firmly fixed with masking tape. In case of planned large-scale works, protect the floor from mechanical damage it is more convenient with sheets of cardboard, which are much stronger than film.
It is not recommended to replace windows and interior doors at the first stage of repair. After all, when dismantling and puttying, a significant layer of dirt will settle on them, which will be difficult to get rid of. Only cash withdrawals are required.
Electrical and plumbing
At the second stage, it is necessary to do the dirtiest, but at the same time the most important part of the work. It's about electrical and plumbing. These types of work should be taken extremely responsibly, because in order to correct mistakes, you will have to re-make a major overhaul in the apartment. For this reason, it is not recommended to save on the quality of wires and pipes. After all, it will be possible to repair them afterwards only by destroying the wall.
Initially, a storming scheme is drawn up for each individual wall. It is recommended that these diagrams be retained even after repair in order to avoid erroneous damage to pipes or electrical wiring nails. Lay the wires with the required cross section, as well as pipes, into the prepared strobe, carefully seal the strobes.
window replacement
It's time to change the old windows. But if you are renovating an apartment in a new building, you won’t have to do this part of the work. After all, in modern houses high-quality metal-plastic windows have already been installed.
Anyway window frames and glass should be protected from paint with a film or pleated paper curtains. These curtains are quite high quality and their price is not high.
After finishing work with windows, you can begin to prepare the floor and ceiling. You need to do the following:
- align the walls;
- wipe seams and cracks;
- putty.
The building materials used for the rough phase of the repair do not have to match the base materials. But they must be of good quality.
Surface priming
Next, proceed to apply the primer to the walls and ceilings. Thanks to this coating, the strength of these surfaces is increased. A high-quality primer, has in its composition substances that seep into the surface, connecting its small particles. Be sure to wait until the primer is completely dry. Only after that you can start painting the ceilings.
The next step is to level the floor. For this, a screed and a fill are made. But it will be much easier and faster to use modern specialized solutions that level themselves. After all, apartment renovation in 2018 should be done using new technologies.
During the drying of the floor, all work is stopped. Violating this rule, you will damage its surface and the work will have to be redone.
Wall finishing materials
Those materials with which the walls will be finished, you choose solely at your own aesthetic and financial discretion. The most popular way of finishing is wallpaper. The range of this material is quite rich in terms of color, size, texture and material. Often also referred to as painting, either decorative plaster walls.
For fans of more daring decisions, there are other options. The only limitation of your imagination is that the materials must be in harmony with the overall interior.
If you want to save money, you can decorate the walls of the room with the remains of several types of materials. This solution will emphasize your originality, and significantly reduce the cost of repairs.
Floor decoration
When the walls are already decorated, proceed to laying the floor. You can make a coating from linoleum, laminate, carpet, block parquet or parquet board.
popular solution in modern interior is the use floor tiles. But you can start laying it only at the end of the design of the ceiling.
The final touches of the renovation
This stage is the final one. Now you can start installing door frames, thresholds, baseboards and more. Assemble and install furniture, appliances, decorating interior items. After that, it remains to do the cleaning and admire the new home.
Photos of the main stages of repair in the apartment
The usual everyday business: the apartment clearly needs repair, but there is not enough money. How to make an inexpensive apartment renovation with your own hands? It seems to be the simplest, obvious way: surface cosmetic repairs. That is, plywood wallpaper, whitewashing the ceiling, painting, fixing the creaky floor; Possibly window replacement.
However, if you calculate the labor costs and consumption of materials, it turns out that by increasing labor costs by half, and spending money by a quarter, you can give the apartment a completely different look, and for a long time. How much you need to invest specifically depends on the prices in the region, but the general methods by which you can make an apartment cozy and elegant inexpensively are the same.
Saving money when repairing an apartment with your own hands is, like the Earth in ancient legends, on three whales and a slowly hurrying turtle under them:
- We are not afraid of work. Nothing comes from nothing. Either money or labor.
- Wherever possible, we do not change the capital, but the old one that has lost its appearance, but renew it.
- We attribute the maximum savings to where it will not affect the quality of work and will not be visible.
- We spread the costs of labor and money over time: having conceived repairs in the summer or autumn, we spend a year on preparation, and then we pile on and quickly do everything. To lay out 200-300 thousand rubles at once is a problem, but it is quite possible to break them up in parts for a year. In addition, there will be time to measure seven times - cut once.
Where it's hard to save
The only area where you have to invite a specialist is to remake and strengthen the electrical wiring if it is old and weak. Here, the only way to save money is to negotiate with the DEZ electrician. He will do the work in pieces, in his spare time, but the likelihood of hack work will be even less than that of “branded” specialists: after all, he will then serve all this.
It is better not to save on electrics and wiring, however, some points, such as installing sockets, can be done independently.
Tool
Good specialized tool much easier and cheaper work. But it's hard to buy. Therefore, it is better to rent a tool as needed. In terms of costs, it will come out a little if you decide in advance on the design and draw up an approximate work plan for yourself.
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Plumbing
A sore point with independent cheap repairs is the replacement of plumbing. If it is still “alive”, only filthy, then it can be cleaned and painted. How to do this will be described below. But if there are chips and cracks, then, if you like it or not, you need to change it.
For such a case, here is some information for you: new settlers, especially in houses above the budget category, often start a major overhaul immediately upon entering, and excellent, completely new faience and cast-iron plumbing equipment ends up in a landfill. Landfill operators (simply - landfill scavengers) have long turned this circumstance into a profitable business.
They do not make direct contact by office phone with strangers, but it is quite possible to get through to them using word of mouth methods. The rate is from a third to a half of the factory price for a household item. And do not think that they will take you to the dump and show you where it lies. In the back room you will be offered a choice of clean, carefully washed products, which you can sit down on at least immediately.
Construction garbage
The next sore point is the removal of construction waste. The operation is not cheap, and requires paperwork. Exit: basement, barn, cottage or closet and a few bags of used plastic sackcloth, bought for a penny. Construction garbage does not turn sour and does not rot, then you can pour it into a container in a garbage dump in a bucket. There is nothing illegal in this.
It is very important to determine the actual scope of work and relate it to your own needs. financial possibilities. All design and design decisions must be made before the actual repair work begins. Redoing is expensive, time-consuming and sometimes impossible.
Where to start renovating a room?
Having coped with the preparatory process and found yourself in front of bare peeled walls, you still do not fully imagine the total amount of upcoming expenses and work. However, it is already possible to find out where and what will be located, what colors are optimal in a particular room and where a computer, TV and other electrical equipment will be installed. Be sure to pay attention to the location of windows and the need for additional lighting in rooms. For what? Because the repair should begin with the equipment or the re-equipment of the electrical network, including the location of the fixtures - the main and additional ones.
This should be done both in old apartments, which are completely renovated, and in new buildings. It's no secret that in new houses the wiring is installed without taking into account the wishes of the owner. Each newcomer invariably has a desire to maximally adapt housing to their needs. The abundance of electrical technology requires an optimized high power grid with many branches. It is very inconvenient in a new apartment to unwind all kinds of extension cords and install additional sockets.
Parallel to electrical network it is necessary to mount the air conditioning system and the fastening elements of the heating network devices. It is also necessary to perform work that requires chiselling, drilling, grooving, chiselling, recesses and other mutilation of walls, floors and ceilings, accompanied by the formation of dust and fragments of brick, concrete and gypsum. Then we calmly remove the debris and proceed to prepare the base of the future floor.
There are several options here:
installation of a rough plank floor;
pouring concrete screed;
preparation for installation of a warm floor;
What's next?
The next stage of repair work concerns windows. If a replacement is required, we change it. If the windows have already been installed and satisfy your request, then we skip this stage, not forgetting to inspect the condition of the slopes, the presence of thermal insulation, and the sealing of cracks. It is worth checking how the doors open and close, if there are any distortions, what are the vertical and horizontal levels. It is very difficult to eliminate these seemingly obvious flaws after plastering and painting walls or wallpapering. It is also desirable to install internal window sills. Plastic wrap will help protect them from splashes of paint and putty.Of course, this work can be done later, when installing interior doors, but this option is more practical.
If the walls in the room require additional leveling and a significant amount of work before painting, then calculate the total amount of building mixtures needed to process all the walls to be repaired. Building materials, despite the high cost, should always be taken with a small margin. It is very inconvenient to run after a bag or two of putty, which, as a rule, ends at the most inopportune and crucial moment.
The sequence of work on the repair and decoration of the room: frequently asked questions
What comes first: floor screed or wall plaster/putty?The answer to this question is unequivocal - before you start finishing the walls, you need to finish everything. preparatory work with the floor. It should be ready, after cleaning, for the installation of decorative flooring.
The floor covering is mounted last, whether it is a laminate, parquet or self-leveling floor with a 3D effect. The prepared floor base is covered with cardboard or film - this will make it easy to remove traces of plastering, and such ones inevitably arise.
Prior to the start of puttying and plastering, all manipulations with drywall, if any, must be completed. All partitions, niches, decorative and functional details must be done before the start of the “wet” finishing phase. All work of this kind, including leveling the ceiling, must be carried out in one technological cycle so as not to return to them, remembering, for example, that “somewhere here” a ski storage niche or a safe was conceived. What comes first: flooring or door installation?
Flooring of any type should be laid before installation of interior doors. This will help to avoid errors during their installation and achieve a minimum gap between the threshold or floor plane and the door leaves. Installing the door is a clean and precise job that does not require the use of mortars, adhesives or other substances that can stain a clean floor. The tools used in this case cannot damage it, with careful work.
But this applies directly to the door. door frame can be put earlier - before leveling the walls. This will remove all the cracks and bumps near the opening. If the walls and openings are initially ideal, you can postpone the installation of the box for later.
When installing the box ahead of time, it is important to take into account the height of the future flooring!
What to do first: glue wallpaper or lay laminate (parquet, carpet)?
Wallpaper of any type on the prepared walls is glued before the start of laying the decorative flooring. This is also true for wall painting.
True, on this issue there different opinions. Supporters of the second option answer this question in the same way as the question of what comes first: paint the ceiling or glue the ceiling plinth. According to their position, the wallpaper is glued after the installation of the floor and ceiling plinth, because you can replace the wall decoration at any time without touching the skirting boards either from below or from above. And the edges of the wallpaper can be simply cut evenly to the level of the plinth.
The ceiling is painted after the installation of the upper plinth. In this case, it is very convenient to eliminate all the unevenness and looseness of the connection, and then the baseboard and ceiling are painted in one go and look monolithic.
What first: stretch ceiling or wallpaper / painting?
The specificity of stretch ceilings allows you to install them at the final stage of repair work, after painting the walls and sticking wallpaper. This work is very clean, and it is quite difficult to damage the walls or floor while doing it.
The principle of order of work "from top to bottom" in this case does not work. It concerns, mainly, traditional repair works. New technologies are making their own adjustments. The experts themselves, who install stretch ceilings, recommend inviting them to the end of the repair.
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If you make a short list of the sequence of repairs in the room, then it will look like this:
wiring; heating and air conditioning system; floor preparation; dismantling / installation of windows; preparation of walls for wallpaper or painting; ceiling (all works); wall painting or wallpapering; finishing floor; door installation; rapids and floor plinth; stretch ceilings. This order is not an axiom. Each master chooses the sequence that is convenient for him. But in general, the sequence looks something like this.
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