Many like it when the doorways between rooms in the apartment are decorated in the form of decorative arches. It looks unusual and elegant. A skillfully designed arch will help you to shade and other elements inherent in the style in which the interior of your home is designed. In addition, curved arch openings are capable of withstanding significant loads.
Types of arches in the apartment
Despite the fact that the arches in the apartment are in themselves one of the techniques of architectural design, they also come in various forms:
- First of all, the arches can be made from various materials. The most popular today are the arches in an apartment made of plasterboard. Also, arches are made of wood, chipboard and fiberboard, bricks and concrete and even plastic. Wooden arches in the apartment are usually made of oak, beech, aspen, ash, pine. It is also possible to finish the arch with a stone - for example, in an apartment in the style of classics, provence or country .
- Proceeding from the constructive features of arches, experts divide all their views into so-called active and passive. The second class includes classical arches with a regular level arc and their variations are ellipsoidal, with a pronounced rise or with a cut surface. As for active arches, their shape can be absolutely any, depending on the architect's idea: asymmetric, lancet, trapezoid, horseshoe, etc.
- Usually the arch in the apartment leads from the hallway to the hall, from the kitchen to the dining room, from the living room to the loggia, etc. From this directly depends on how best to trim the arch in the apartment.
- Arch in the apartment can be located not only in the doorway of the corridor, but also in the middle of the room, dividing it into two functional zones. This technique in the design is called zoning and allows you to delineate, for example, the working and sleeping areas of the room.
In addition to traditional arches in the apertures, many decorate their homes with windows or swinging doors in the shape of an arch.
