Plasterboard TV niche: design options

A drywall niche is a great idea for a living room, bedroom or kitchen. This design solution has a lot of variations and manufacturing methods. Even inexperienced craftsmen will be able to build a niche that can ennoble an existing interior and emphasize its colors and materials.

Homemade niche for a TV of plasterboard (gypsum plasterboard) can be both effective and functional. You can determine the size, number of compartments, color and shape yourself by linking together all the elements of the interior. Inside, you can easily hide the wires, and additional lighting will put the necessary accents.

The advantages of this solution are as follows:

• such a niche in almost any performance will be cheaper than the cabinet furniture to order;
• installation does not take a lot of time, even a novice builder;
• with proper clearance, the niche will look expensive and neat;
• decorative deepening will protect the TV from falling;
• a niche replaces hanging shelves, bulky pedestals and coasters that eat up a large space;
• ideal for zoning space without the use of partitions or large cabinets;
• in addition to the TV, in a niche, you can mount the speaker system, getting a full-fledged home theater;
• insulation is an additional bonus to all existing pluses.

This design has a minus, but perhaps only one: visually the room looks smaller.

Among the many popular forms of niches for TV, the most popular are three.

• Wall. It looks like a full-fledged wall with notches for TV and decorative elements.
• Fireplace. Under the TV there is a decorative fireplace, which can be decorated with additional lighting for greater comfort. The fireplace can also function as a dresser for TV.
• Window. Suspended construction in several levels creates a kind of portal in the living room.

Lighting plays a very important role in the appearance of the final structure. The safest solution would be spotlights or LED tape. You can achieve a chic effect with neon threads. They are usually placed behind the technique and along the perimeter of the niche. With this design it is worth considering that the light should not be directed into the room, otherwise it will look too bright. The same applies to point lamps.

The optimum shade of light is warm yellow or white. Neon colors (red, blue, green) should be switched on only while watching TV.

You can also cut the original shape in drywall, creating a kind of frame around the TV. In the backlight mode, interesting shadows will appear.

Corner niche also has a place to be, but it assumes a large area of ​​the room, otherwise the design may look cumbersome.

TV stand has long lost its relevance, because niches are becoming increasingly popular. This is not surprising: ease of installation and manufacture and inexpensive material play a role.

Before you begin, you need to think about the project in terms of the design of the entire room and its size.

Variations of design solutions may be as follows:

• recess with arcuate elements;
• square or rectangular groove;
• a niche with additional shelves for decorative vases, books, columns, etc.;
• backlit niche.

By the way of arrangement in the wall, one can distinguish open (a large ledge in the wall, on the back wall of which the TV is placed) and built-in (the TV does not protrude, but is fully embedded in a niche) notches.

A design idea in the form of a niche, the construction of which occupies all the space from the ceiling to the floor itself, is quite popular. In this case, you can in a special way to trim a section of the wall behind the TV, combining it with the color of the walls in the room.

You can build a decorative niche in the form of a closet, and hide the TV behind a curtain or door.

Often, in classic interiors, plasterboard niches for TV are decorated with artificial stone. It is attached to liquid nails or mounting glue. For high-tech style, this solution will not work. Most often decorated with stone decorative niches in the form of a fireplace.

The TV itself is sometimes framed. This is a job for professionals from the framing workshops, but with a strong desire you can try and do something similar yourself.

An excellent option would be to decorate the wall behind the TV using pictures. This solution can be entered into any interior, because the choice of frames and the paintings themselves is limited only by imagination. But if you do not have enough good ideas for the selection and combination of paintings, there is a simpler solution - ready-made vinyl stickers. They can be of any size and shape: in the form of animals, plants, the layout of a city, or simply geometric shapes. Here you need to try to choose the best option for the design of a particular room.

If you want something unusual and unique, decorate the wall behind the TV bamboo. Such a canvas in an eco-friendly style will fit into almost any interior.

Often, textiles are also used to finish niches. It is best to use natural fabrics that are combined in color with furniture and wallpaper.If the design is the central figure of the design of the room, the contrast will also be appropriate.

It’s not as difficult to make a drywall niche with your own hands. By following simple instructions step by step, you can manage it in a couple of days. The result is much more pleasant to admire when you know that you have made such beauty without the help of repair specialists.

• First you need to determine the location of the niche and its size. It is necessary to measure the desired area, make sure that the TV enters there without problems, and make a markup. For greater clarity and understanding of the process, you can make drawings. We should not forget that the TV should not come close, it is better to leave some free space for airing and subsequent more convenient cleaning.

• It is not necessary to dwell on a rectangular groove. The form can be any - think which is more beneficial emphasizes the interior.
• Next, in accordance with the applied markup, you need to install guide profiles, securing them with screws. Such profiles are made of steel tape and serve as a frame for fixing the gypsum board.
• Then you can lay the wires from the TV, sockets and internal fixtures, if they are provided.
• The next step will be laying drywall. When cutting parts, it is necessary to ensure that the joints coincide with accuracy and there are no projections or depressions anywhere, even if they are small.

• Along the perimeter of the gypsum plasterboard sheets, additional profiles need to be installed (they are the same size as the ones that were installed earlier). This is necessary for the additional strength of the product. Using screws, fasten all the details on the guide profile.
• It remains to complete the finishing niche. This is the filling of the joints, primer, sanding, painting, installation of lighting and any other necessary in the specific case of the finish.
• When the finishing work is finished, you can hang the TV. Usually, the kit includes brackets that need to be attached to the drywall with dowels.
• And, of course, decor. Candles, decorative figures, vases, flowers, paintings and photographs - everything depends on ingenuity and imagination.

• If the room is made in a classic style, the best would look symmetrical shelves and grooves.This will help the whole composition look more static.
• Asymmetry will be appropriate in minimalism and high-tech. Here you can hang the TV is not in the center of the wall. This option is more often used in rooms divided into zones.
• It is important to decide before starting work whether the TV will stand on a stand or hang on a wall. From this will depend on the size of the niche.
• Play with color - if light tones prevail in a room, then the niche should be darker by several tones, and vice versa.

• If there is a lot of time and a desire to make your niche original and unique, then a mosaic-lined drawing will be the perfect solution. Such work may take more than one week, but the result will definitely exceed all expectations.
• Flowering shrubs around the perimeter will be less complex, but no less beautiful elements of the decor.
• When drawing up a drawing and a work plan, for convenience, it is possible to split the wall equally with a pencil, outlining the contours of the future niche in advance.

• There are several types of drywall. For any niche in the first place you need to choose a moisture resistant option. Choose the desired thickness should already be based on the shape and dimensions of the niche, as well as the severity of items for the decor of the shelves.
• Part of the wiring can be laid under the plinth. Modern plastic models just suggest such use.
• It is often more convenient to first fully assemble the frame, and then attach it to the wall.
• If the niche goes all the way to the floor, then there will probably not be enough wall-mounted slats. Below all parts of the structure should also be fixed.

• If the finish includes sticking wallpaper, it is advisable to treat the entire niche with a primer for better gluing.
• It is better not to use a wall with a window to build a niche, as it is possible to disrupt the lighting in the room.
• Even at the planning stage, it is necessary to take into account the location of all the sockets, as well as to think about which of them will be used, and where the electrical wires will run.
• When calculating the size of a niche, remember that in time, you may acquire another plasma of a larger size. But even if the new equipment does not fit in the existing “frameworks”, it will only become another reason to again start a small construction project and show imagination and ingenuity in a new style.

• Do not be afraid to use wood for decoration. It will take more time than just painting or putty, but will add warmth and comfort to the overall picture.
• If you use pieces of glass or a mirror for finishing a niche, you must comply with all safety measures. It is best for crushing to use a bag of thick cloth (and preferably several) and a hammer. Make sure that small fragments are not spread on the floor after work. Pets during the finishing work in the room is better not to let.

• A beautiful example of construction in minimalism is a long cabinet and simple shelves parallel to each other.
• In this example, the decoration of artificial stone stands out against the background of the room, but it looks very appropriate and original.

• Lovers of classic interior will like the open-frame frame framing the TV. It is unlikely that a non-professional will be able to independently make something like this, but the framing workshops will come to the rescue.
• A niche with a fully integrated TV looks very stylish. This design, however, can visually reduce the space of the room, so it will be ideal only in large rooms.

• Another option for a niche in the hall. Everything is intertwined here: a stone, shelves, a fireplace, and a small locker.
• The construction with natural wood trim looks very expensive and of high quality.

• Arcuate shapes give the whole interior softness and warmth. It does not look as strict as rectangular and square niches.
• And here is the option to place a niche for the TV in the kitchen. A lot of space does not take and is not out of sight.
• Registration by pictures will be ideally suited for a niche in a bedroom.

• TV in the kitchen can also be very organically fit right above the work surface so that you can watch cooking shows and cook at the same time.
• The finish in the form of a solid wooden canvas looks very interesting. This design fits well into the living room with both a classic and minimalist style.
• Few people do this, but a low niche can be put right in front of the window. With a successful combination of furniture, wallpaper and decor items, it will look very unusual.

For information on how to make a niche for a TV out of drywall with your own hands, see the following video.