Sooner or later, every owner faces the problemquestion about replacing or transforming interior doors. There are several reasons for this: as a rule, after less than 10 years, even very high-quality doors lose their beauty and originality, the material gets damaged or shrinks and fades. It often happens that the appearance of your doors simply becomes boring.
Construction of interior door.As a rule, despite the large selection of ready-made, seemingly original door models, in any case, with a greater or lesser probability, you will find the same product somewhere else. And of course, you do not want to buy something banal, because your interior is original and unique, so the door should fit into the ensemble of a unique style. Another important reason is that even an old and unsightly door with peeling paint, deep scratches and indelible stains is very much not worth replacing, because you realize that any dismantling of the door entails the replacement of the door frame itself, which creates a huge amount of dust, dirt and sealing the holes that appear with plaster and pasting fresh wallpaper around the opening - as a result, you will be forced to start a local, and sometimes a major alteration. Then the expediency of buying new doors comes to naught at all. And then it is much easier for the owner to make the decor of interior doors with his own hands, to come up with and create a new style without changing the entire frame.
If the door is made of wood or veneerwood, the most suitable solution would be to cover it with colored paint or varnish. For high-quality restoration of the door, you do not have to be a master - many of the proposed ideas can be implemented even by a person who has never held a spatula or brush in his hands. In high-quality and major repairs of interior doors with your own hands, the first stage of any decor should be getting rid of damaged areas. To update your door, you will need to dismantle it. To achieve ideal similarity with other interior elements, replace all door fittings and overlays in one room, in this case, a single interior design will be visible. The tool that you will need for work: paint brush, spatula, building hair dryer, screwdriver. In case of glass elements, carefully dismantle the fasteners. Then you can start removing the old coating. You will need to heat up the bad layer of paint with a building hair dryer and at the moment of its softening and swelling, start stripping it with a pointed spatula. After successfully removing all the paint, start to eliminate cracks, joints and remove scratches on the wooden surface. You can do this with the help of wood putty and filler specially selected to match the color of your door. And finally, after the applied materials have dried, cover the door with stain or drying oil in the color that will look harmonious in your room. If there were glass elements, put them back, but using new fasteners, they cost pennies, and the appearance will be more aesthetic.
Décor options and their application
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Multi-colored but well-chosen moldingslook very bright and stylish. In the case of a door made of wood or veneered wood, the most profitable solution for you will be to cover it with paint in color or varnish. The correct method of painting the door leaf is to use only a brush and a sprayer. For a high-quality coating, the brush must be directed along the grain, and then the paint will completely cover all the irregularities. Return to the table of contents</a>Decorating interior doors with patterns and moldingsAnother original and elegant solution can be a pattern, as well as an image on your door using paint of different tones. You can paint the background of the door in one solid color, and all other parts, including moldings, in another contrasting color. If the covering is without moldings, you can apply wooden overlays, pre-painted with the desired paint. Return to the table of contents</a>Decorating with wallpaper or fabric In decorinterior doors with your own hands there are many successful options. Today, anyone can easily find specialized photographic wallpaper on the Internet, find it in a store. This material is made in standard sizes of the most common doors.
Stained glass paintings can be painted using a stencilor show all your creative imagination. Instead of expensive photo wallpaper, you can use other materials to decorate interior doors. If you decide to transform a child's room, then children's magazines and even coloring books will come in handy. For kitchens, it would be a good idea to select cutouts of various pictures and favorite dishes. Having chosen paper material, be sure to place it under cold water, then slowly apply PVA glue and attach it to the door. Then carefully iron all the paper until there is not a single air bubble at the bottom. The same method can be used to decorate with various fabric materials. A large number of fabric materials will help to recreate all your ideas. Return to the table of contents</a>Stained glass and sandblasted decor If in yourIf the interior door has glass elements, then a successful decor would be stained glass design. It is now very easy to find stained glass paints on sale. You need to draw the picture that you would like to see on the surface of the door stained glass. Then draw a thin line along the contour with a brush with black or dark paint. When the contours dry, start painting the desired areas with different colors. One option may be to apply a picture using sandblasting. This can be done in a specialized studio where decorating work is carried out. With a lot of effort and creativity, it is possible to achieve a unique style for the interior door and the room as a whole.
