In the modern design of apartments and houses, door slopes are not just a neat space around a door or in an empty doorway. Modern door slopes are a real work and art, 100% reflecting the nature and characteristics of the owner of the apartment. That is why we decided to tell in our article about how to choose and make beautiful and original door slopes with our own hands.

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1. Door Slope: Definition and Functions
2. Door slope   video   video
3. Door slopes: types
4. Door Slope Finish: Features

Door Slope: Definition and Functions

Door slopes    these are parts of the wall, on both sides of the door frame (external and internal door slopes), if it is planned to install the door frame and door, or components of the doorway (upper, right and left door slopes), in cases where the door is not installed.

Door slopes, until recently, performed a very specific task: with the help of door slopes, a doorway was strengthened and ennobled, which was damaged during the installation or dismantling of the door frame.

But, in the modern design idea and the variety of finishing materials, they gave impetus to the use of door slopes in a new way. Now the door slope easily copes with such a task as decorating the space of not only the doorway, but the apartment as a whole.

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What you need to know before you get ready to make door slopes with your own hands?

The fact that in its structure the door slope resembles a layered cake, the layers in which must go strictly in order, in order to obtain a qualitative result.
 

1st layer - draft, its components:

- a primer that is applied to the previously cleaned surface of the wall of the doorway;

Note: sometimes, in order to insulate the door slopes of the entrance doors, a layer of foam is laid before plastering the walls.

- a layer of plaster or a piece of moisture-proof drywall, the right size glued to the plaster (both options require the use of a level or beacons, in the case of slopes from the plaster, because the door slopes should be smooth);

Note: door slopes made of drywall are a simpler and faster, affordable way to prepare the surface of the door slope for its subsequent decoration; they are more often used for arranging interior doorways. But plastering door slopes is a more time-consuming and time-consuming option, requiring experience and skill. It is used more often when arranging exterior door slopes of entrance doors or doorways exposed to high humidity (balcony doors) for subsequent painting.

- installation of a reinforcing corner on the outer corners of the door slope, followed by puttying and cleaning the surface of the slope.

- primer.

Note: the use of the frame, instead of gluing drywall to the plaster, when erecting slopes from drywall, is permissible.
 

2 - layer: fine  - It can be made of absolutely any material: from simple painting to the use of such finishes as, for example, laying mosaics and gluing cork to the surface of the door slope.

At the same time, each concrete topcoat is fixed in its own way, which is most suitable for this.

Door slopes: types

Decorative door slopes can be classified based on the materials used in their finishing.

There are:

- painted door slopes

- door slopes glued with wallpaper

- door slopes from a laminate

- door slopes from MDF

- door slopes made of artificial stone

- door slopes made of ceramic tile / mosaic

- door slopes from a mirror

- door slopes from cork

In general, the choice of material for decorating door slopes depends on the imagination and the ability to correctly apply it!

Door Slope Finish: Features

Consider in detail the most popular, due to accessibility, functionality and originality, design options for door slopes.
 

Painted door slopes    This is the easiest and fastest, although not the most original way of arranging door slopes.

But, on the other hand, such a slope can always be updated or changed using a primer and another coating option.
 

Stone door slopes   It is widely used both in private homes and urban apartments. Artificial stone is glued to a prepared slope surface with glue for artificial stone.

The pattern / pattern is pre-selected, as well as the styling method: without seams or with them. If you have the latter, you need to unblock them. The finishing touch, finishing the door slope of artificial stone, is coating it with a layer of special protective varnish.
 

Slopes from laminate and MDF    they are mounted, in principle, in the same way: marking and trimming is done to obtain the panels of the required size, the corners are joined, and after that, everything is mounted on glue (liquid nails).

It is worth noting that MDF slopes are more resistant to moisture and temperature extremes than similar laminate door slopes.

Author: Sergey and Svetlana Khuentsov

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