Hidden interior doors- this is a godsend for any designer, since they allow you to implement any idea when creating an unusual interior. Such designs adapt to the wall of the room, thereby forming a single surface. Currently the doors are hidden box became in demand again. In addition, to create them, enterprises began to use heel loops (for installation on the upper and lower ends of the canvas).
Hidden interior doors can be found in private homes. Their style is ideal for interiors with romantic, avant-garde, and loft designs. The main task of door structures of this type is only to emphasize the design of the room, and they should not be the main emphasis during repairs.
Hidden doors for painting or wallpaper?
This question cannot be answered unambiguously. When choosing one or another solution, you need to be guided by the available budget and the original idea of the owner of the premises. Today, both options are considered generally accepted, but greater preference is given to structures for painting. They can make any room spectacular, but at the same time they look pretentious. You can see such a door made to look like wallpaper in the photo.
Maintaining a minimalist style is also typical for structures that will be covered with wallpaper. Hidden interior doors under wallpaper offer a lot of possibilities and have a number of advantages:
- no need to invent any design;
- maximum invisibility of structures;
- budget savings (since you don’t have to buy additional paint).
Despite this, a single rule will apply to both doors - all of them must be coated with primer varnish before finishing. Its use allows you to create an ideal basis for further DIY actions - applying wallpaper glue or coloring.
Interior sliding doors: hidden frame
The solution will be ideal option for houses in which the priority is to make the most of the already small space. In addition, this type can also be used if there are small children in the family to protect them from impacts.
Installation of such a door requires empty place in the wall where it will move. To do this, you will need to install a false wall, the creation of which will not take much time. It can be constructed from ordinary drywall.
The modern market provides the widest range of hidden models sliding doors. They can be made of any material and can have one or two doors. The choice is also possible depending on the direction of opening of the structure and equipment with additional decorative elements. In the photo you can see one of these doors, equipped with decorative glass.
Features of installing hidden interior doors
To montage door design with a hidden box with your own hands went correctly, you need to take into account the following nuances:
- Preparatory work must be carried out at the proper level. This refers to the preliminary finishing of the doorway and the wall to which the structure will be adjacent. If there are any unevenness on these parts, it is necessary to get rid of them using high-quality leveling using putty and plaster. Only then will it be possible to create a perfectly flat surface.
- Following the strict verticality of the canvas. Otherwise, you will be constantly disturbed by its spontaneous closing or opening.
- Taking into account the correct planting depth and required foaming. If all the work is done as it should, then the cracks formed in the door vestibule should have same size. During normal installation, no part of the product should touch another.
If you plan to create unusual interior in your house or apartment, using a similar interior door for painting, you need to use a special profile base. It should be covered with plasterboard to continue the rest finishing works. As a result, the overall appearance of the surface is not lost. The video provides more details hidden installation interior doors.
The secret box makes it possible to create protected from external influences structures that will be very difficult to notice. In addition to their attractive appearance, hidden interior doors with a hidden frame have another, no less important advantage, which is a high level of security. It will be very difficult to get into such a room without permission. You can see in the photo various options interior finishing hidden doors.
How to treat the door?
The basis for a future hidden door must be properly processed. This can be done using:
- primers;
- hammer enamel;
- nitro paints;
- powder enamel.
The first solution can be called the most affordable of all available. Despite its simplicity, the coating provides the door leaf high level resistance to changes temperature regime, prevents the penetration of moisture or cold, and also meets the requirements fire safety. If we talk about the cheapest option, then this is the use of nitro paint. Such a coating can be created in any premises, including technical ones.
Using powder enamel, you will create a door that will be protected against abrasion from various adverse factors. As for hammer enamel, its main advantage is to provide a longer and more reliable coating.
In our age, they are especially valued non-standard solutions in the decoration of the apartment. This can be a self-leveling floor with a 3D image, or suspended ceiling, as if floating in the air, and, of course, a hidden door. The last option is interesting in that it can perform both decorative and practical functions. Installing a secret door would be appropriate if you want to create a stylish minimalist interior. Also, using this design you can make a room hidden from prying eyes. What types of secret doors are there - read on.
Hidden doors allow you to truly unique interior. They absolutely do not stand out against the background of the walls or look like a decorative element of the room.
It is not necessary to decorate a ready-made door; you can order an option with a design that suits you, for example, a door designed to match the color of your wallpaper.
At first glance, it may seem that a secret door is a difficult-to-install element that cannot be made with your own hands. However, with a little imagination and effort, you can install invisible doors yourself.
Basic requirements that must be met when masking a door structure:
- The door structure should be disguised as the surrounding finish. To create a favorable basis for decoration, the door frame with the canvas can be covered with plasterboard.
- The hinges and sliding mechanism must be of a hidden type. Otherwise, these small details will give away the entire structure.
- The door handle should also not be visible. You can use mortise fittings or a rotary mechanism.
- To make the door as invisible as possible, you need to install a piece of plinth under it instead of a threshold.
- If you mask the door with a mirror, a picture, or want to make it a single structure with the wall, then it should be installed flush with the wall.
These rules will allow you to make the door in the interior of the room invisible to prying eyes. Some options will simply align the door with the wall, while others will make it a real highlight of the interior.
You can achieve the effect of door invisibility by the most different ways, however, it is important to fulfill the basic conditions of camouflage. Next, we will give you several options for installing an invisible door; you can use one of them, or, based on the main nuances, come up with your own.
Hidden invisible doors disguised as a wall or cabinet
One of the most popular ways to make invisible doors is to disguise the panel with the frame as a wall. This option looks the most natural and minimalistic. If you want to create an interior in a minimalist, hi-tech or modern style, then this method is perfect for you.
How to disguise a door as a wall:
- The easiest way to disguise a door is to cover it with wallpaper. You must use the same wallpaper that you used to decorate the walls. If canvases with large patterns are used for such finishing, they must be matched to the pattern on the walls.
- You can hide the door by painting it. This technique is appropriate if paint was also used to decorate the walls.
- Interior doors can be disguised with panels decorated to match the color of the walls.
- If you use colored inserts in the interior, then the door can be decorated to match one of them. In this case, the junction of the door and the wall will be almost invisible.
- If you decorate the door with tiles, then thanks to the seams between the ceramic elements door leaf will be almost impossible to distinguish from monolithic wall. This design is best suited for the bathroom. The tile must be chosen in such a way that it matches the style of the interior.
When disguising the door as a wall, you should think carefully about how it can be easily opened. Sliding doors can be installed even without a handle, and for opening doors, mortise handles or a special mechanism are suitable.
One more interesting option, with which you can hide the door to the pantry or to any other room, is to install it on the door leaf of the cabinet. This option was most often used in ancient locks, and in order to open such a mechanism, it was necessary to turn one of the books. Nowadays it is not necessary to complicate the design so much; you can order a standard opening door made in the shape of a cabinet.
Using a closet you can disguise the entrance to the pantry, which very often spoils the overall interior of the room.
All decorative elements, located in such a cabinet must be attached to the shelves. For example, you can use mock-ups of books instead of actual literature.
A door decorated to look like a wall or cabinet is most invisible in general interior rooms. Such options are the most difficult to implement, but they look the same.
A secret door decorated with a mirror, painting or curtain
There are simpler options for designing a hidden door. You can bring them to life with your own hands, even without experience in installation work.
Simple options for decorating doors:
- Decorating a door with a curtain is the simplest option for creating a hidden door. This design does not look so modern and original, but making the right choice textiles can make the interior more vibrant and interesting. Curtains are usually used for camouflage old door leading to the pantry.
- Disguising doors as mirrors. This mirrored entrance structure, in addition to looking very original, also serves as a full-fledged mirror, so it is especially appropriate to decorate the entrance to the dressing room in this way. The handle on the door should either be made of the same mirror material, or be mortise. You can also use a prop frame instead of a pen.
- Also, to hide the door, you can decorate it with a picture. This interior element looks very unusual and interesting. You don't have to spend money on a real oil painting; you can simply decorate the canvas with a box of photo wallpapers decorated with frames.
Secret doors decorated in this way look no worse than canvases imitating a wall or cabinet. To make the doors in your apartment original and beautiful, you only need to use a little imagination and practical knowledge.
Pencil door hidden in the interior
Another option for installing a hidden door is to use hidden sliding doors. In this version, the compartment panels go deep into the wall.
The pencil door when closed is very noticeable, but when it is open and hidden inside the wall, it gives the impression of free passage. This design not only looks stylish, it also saves space, as it open form does not form a dead zone.
Make one like this entrance structure possible in two ways. In the first case, the niche in which the door will be hidden is cut directly into the concrete wall. This option for installing a pencil case is very complicated and requires a lot of time.
Another way is to build a pencil case from plasterboard. To do this, a part is destroyed concrete wall, and in its place is built plasterboard construction, in which a niche is made for sliding doors.
Sliding doors that slide into walls are suitable for both classic and modern styles interior With their help, you can increase the space of a room, while separating it from other rooms. This type of hidden door is the most difficult to implement. However, thanks to the original appearance he looks especially interesting.
DIY secret door (video)
Hidden doors in the interior look very original and interesting. Installing such a structure with your own hands is easier than it might seem at first glance. Imagine, use the most unusual ideas to decorate your apartment, and you will receive a unique and unique design apartments.
Some owners want to arrange a secret room in their apartment where they can hide personal belongings from prying eyes, cash and other things that you want to hide.
A secret door can be installed for the following purposes:
Hidden door in the wall
To hide a door in the wall, you need to decorate it with your own hands so that it blends into the overall interior. It's better to sheathe it beautiful panels made of plastic or wood, but you can simply cover it with material to match all the walls of the room.
In this case, it is important not to install platbands, but to use special locks and hidden hinges on hinges.
Hidden wardrobe door
Secret door in the form of a cabinet - the oldest and classic version, which has already lost its popularity. A closet equipped with shelves on which all kinds of souvenirs and personal items are located will hardly arouse any suspicion among anyone. To prevent things from falling off the shelves when the secret door is opened, they are lubricated with special wax.
Can be purchased now ready-made system cabinets, which is already equipped with a door, but is much cheaper and easier to make bookshelves on a pre-installed door.
Another very simple options in the interior there will be a closet arrangement, in the back wall of which there will be a room.
The use of cabinets is the best method disguising a secret door to the room. But using this method would be appropriate only if you have a home office or library.
Hidden door behind a mirror or picture
A mirror or a special mirror overlay will help to perfectly hide secret interior doors. It is better to hide the door using this method with your own hands in the hallway or in any room where there are mirrored cabinets.
This is quite easy to do. You just need to fix the mirror on MDF base, make a frame from metal or wood and install a hidden handle.
You can also disguise interior doors using a painting. As a result, instead of a door, you can get a work of art in which the door leaf will be a painting, and the frame will be instead of platbands. To do this, it is better to stick photo wallpaper on the door or hand-paint the canvas with special paints.
So one can come up with original interior and at the same time hide a certain room from prying eyes with your own hands.
Curtain to disguise the door
One of the cheapest and easiest methods for arranging a secret door is a curtain. You can choose both simple fabric sheets and intricate draped curtains.
To disguise the door in this way, you need to use a cornice (which can be sewn into suspended ceiling or hang on special brackets) and a curtain or curtain. This option is best suited to hide the entrance to a niche, dressing room, or for use in an inconspicuous corner of the room.
If the owners of the house want to hide something dangerous, then it is better to do it not behind the curtain, but behind secure door with a good lock.
It may seem that secret interior doors are enough complex design to do it yourself. It's actually quite easy to make it yourself. To do everything quickly and correctly, you must adhere to the following principles:
To prevent the door handle from showing, it is better to use a special in-depth model. An excellent option would be to use sliding mechanism, which will work when pressed or rotated.
If your home has hollow walls, That a great option will be the installation of hidden sliding doors. This option will be especially relevant when limited space. You can open camouflaged doors using special automation or manually.
An excellent option would be to use a hidden door in dressing room. Most often, owners do this to hide their belongings from strangers.
Today I will show you the second method of installing doors. In fact, there are about five such ways. And if possible, I will make a video for each method and show it to you. The second method has similar points to the first. I would say this is a crossed method. This method cannot be used everywhere. I'll tell you where exactly it can be used. But the main advantage of this method is that it speeds up the process somewhat. So, let's go.
Installation of hangers
And the first thing we need to do is to have such a straight suspension and two self-tapping screws with a press washer. Screw these hangers onto the box in this way.
Distance. As for the distance, how do I do it? On the loop side I will twist one hanger over the loop. If you tighten it under the hinge, the screws that hold the hinges begin to push against them and don’t screw in completely; they get in the way. So I did it over the loop.
On the opposite side there is a lower suspension at a distance from the bottom of 10 centimeters. And then alternates every 64 centimeters. Upstairs - no. Here 64 remains, but not here.
Why? Here it is absolutely not needed, because here I adjust by driving in the wedges. That is, a suspension is not even needed here. He will even get in the way. Why? Because when we hang the canvas, it is easier to adjust the gaps this way, driving and loosening the wedges from different sides.
Regarding assembling the box at 45, 90 degrees, you can also see videos on my channel.
Installing the box in the opening
And the next stage is that the box is inserted into the opening in this way.
In this case, our floor is rough. There is no finished floor yet, so I left a certain gap under the finishing floor so that later I could install the finishing floor.
Our box must be aligned in two planes. Now you see, it’s a little hard to see from the camera. Here we have a laser, a laser beam.
Accordingly, what you use. You can level with a laser, a plumb line, or a two-meter bubble level. How convenient is it for you? The main thing is that in this plane the box is aligned in a similar way in this plane. Here we have a wall - an absolute level. Therefore, when installing, I check this way. That is, I don’t apply the level in order to see what it shows, so that in these two planes my box lies flush with the wall.
Likewise here.
Well, you should never count on this because the walls may not always be level. It's just that in this case it's perfectly aligned. Therefore, I do so with complete confidence. But, nevertheless, in this regard, I advise you to check. As they say, measure twice, cut once.
The next thing to do in this case in the installation is to secure two hangers. This one is the bottom one. Exactly where the hinges are. I will fasten them with dowel nails. Accordingly, here I have it aligned, here I make a mark and drill.
I will fasten it with 6x40 dowel nails. I don't drill all the way through because there aren't 6 holes. I don't drill. Why? Because I had a sad experience. Even two sad experiences, apparently the first one didn’t teach me anything. Since then, I never do that. I'm drilling here, I'm hammering plastic part and I screw it in here with the nail itself.
The next point, I almost forgot to say. The suspension naturally needs to be noted and deepened. Now why didn't I do it? Previously, I measured before installation and immediately deepened it. That is, I hollowed out this part of the putty and plaster to the thickness at which it would not stick out. Accordingly, all this will then be plastered and will not be visible. Naturally, you cannot leave it, because painting, wallpaper, and so on - it will all stick out and the casing will not cover it.
Why did I do this now? Because it speeds up the process. First I fasten it like this, I’ll also fasten the bottom one, the loop one I was talking about. And only then, after foaming, will I deepen them. But a little later I will show you how this happens.
Installing wedges
And I almost forgot to tell you one more thing. These are wedges. You will need to jam them, definitely jam them. Because when you pull. More precisely, when you attach the suspension, it may move a little, so this wedge will not move the box.
That is, it does not allow the box to move there, the suspension does not allow the box to move there. Accordingly, the box holds tightly. Below in a similar way. This must be done before attaching the suspension. I completely forgot about it. I set the box level, jammed it, and then tighten it with a suspension and secure it. This box is not going anywhere. But besides this part, accordingly, you need to fix it here.
So that our box does not move in this plane. Exactly the same here.
After we have secured these parts of the hangers to the wall, let me remind you that we do not touch any others anymore. Here they are not assigned to us yet. We screw the canvas to the box and put it in place. How to embed loops - I also have a video on the channel.
But now we will regulate. The most interesting thing about us is the adjustment of the canvas relative to the box. What do we need to do next. The next thing we need to do is adjust the canvas relative to this side.
Look, now I have covered it, now the lower part has touched the box, but the upper part has not yet. Look, she's moving. Accordingly, either this part of the box needs to be pushed out here towards the canvas, or the lower part needs to be recessed. But we need to dance from the wall itself. That is, with these manipulations, we do not need to move the box deeper than the wall itself.
If, for example, we have a zero here, by the way, there is none here, we need to move the box deeper there. Now we have it flush, but here we have a deeper box. It's already touching. Accordingly, here we need to stretch. Well, while I was pulling it out, I knocked down the wedges. This is not scary, because here we already have everything fixed. Our door hangs on the frame, I will now wedge them again, having already aligned the frame with the canvas.
Let me note why this part is aligned directly under the canvas. Because itself. Why is it not leveled, for example, in two planes? Because the canvas itself can be manipulated. It could be a propeller. It may be level here, but this part could be shifted somewhere by the propeller. If we do this also according to the level, if we come across a box that is curved, we will not have the door close tightly. We will also have squelching in some place. We have no choice here. One way or another, the canvases are always well behaved. Not much, just slightly, it generally depends on the manufacturer. The cheapest doors - they can be very badly damaged. And most often it is practically impossible to verify this. Meaning not with the naked eye.
Adjusting the gaps
The second thing to do is adjust the gap.
We have a gap, and it should be the same everywhere. Accordingly, for this reason we could not secure these suspensions. If we secured them by tensioning them, the gap would increase. If we secured them by compressing them too much, the gap would decrease. And it should be the same everywhere. And we will do this now, only after adjusting and securing it. Accordingly, here in a similar way
So we'll do some adjustments. The first thing we need to do is make these wedges. Wooden wedges that taper towards one end.
We make a mark and transfer everything to this part.
We insert it along the mark. Since we had the canvas suspended, this gap should be the same. This is the way we achieve this. The next thing we must do is, as we see, again in this place to those wedges that, by the way, I dropped. So, we wedge it in such a position that the canvas touches the box. That is, it can be easily felt when we clamp here and move the canvas a little. When the canvas touches the box, this is exactly the position we should have. So, I took these wedges, adjusted the box to the canvas and jammed it in this position.
After we jammed the upper part, accordingly, we made a gap everywhere from above during installation. We need to start the adjustment from the top. Here I jammed, I adjusted the gap with small wedges and accordingly the wedges are tightly positioned along the edges.
Now we need to adjust the entire gap in the same way. It is in those parts where we have suspensions. That is, what exactly do we need to do. Again, we remove the size of the gap, take the gap, insert it here up to this line. We insert a wedge so that it is all clamped, in a clamped state and tightly, and fasten the suspension.
Well, that's all, the door is adjusted. A gap wedge, wedges that press the box and a fixed suspension that tensions the box prevents it from moving.
Thanks to this, we have a uniform gap; we no longer need to adjust anything. Similarly, we have a loop side as well. The only thing I haven't done yet is I haven't secured the hangers.
Foaming the finished box
After we have all the hangers filled, we need to start foaming. But before you foam, you definitely need to spray the places that we will foam with water. Respectively, brickwork and door frame.
After we have sprayed with water, we proceed directly to foaming. Foaming must be done from the bottom up.
Well, our foam has already frozen. The next thing to do is to cut the foam in this way.
Remove the wedges and see if everything is in order.
So, our door closes and opens well, perfectly, both outside and inside. Nothing has moved anywhere. Accordingly, now we can begin to ensure that the suspensions that we have left loose with reverse side- we fasten them. We cut off the excess part. We give marks where you need to go deeper. Let's take a little more. And we go deeper.
Now you can secure it.
And after you do this procedure with all the other hangers, you can safely assume that your box is installed. Check whether the canvas closes well, the gap should remain the same everywhere, nothing moves anywhere. But this method is not suitable everywhere. It is suitable in cases where our door opens outwards. That is, not inside the room, but outside the room. In our case, as you can see, the door just opens here - this is the toilet. Why doesn't it fit, because you can jam on this side and foam. And you can do other things. Assembling another door and so on.
From the inside, if you jam and foam, you'll have to wait. Wait inside this room. That's why this case Doesn't fit everywhere. After you have completed all this, your box is installed, you move on to installing the platbands, installing the extensions, if required, and inserting the lock. Personally, I prefer to embed the lock already on the canvas when it hangs on the box. Some people prefer to cut it out before installation. It's more comfortable for me. Do as you feel comfortable. That's all, friends.
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