Decorative panels for walls

The stage of preparing the walls for finishing is quite difficult and expensive. Before wallpapering or painting, you need to prepare their surface with a high quality. This will take a lot of time, effort and materials. Fortunately, in the modern market there are decorative panels for walls, which relieve all this, because they are very popular and popular.

Types of decorative panels for interior decoration

Today there are many options for this finishing material. The most popular are wooden and plastic panels . Consider them a little more detailed and give each of them a description:

  1. Decorative panels for walls made of wood . Not all of them are made from solid wood. There are more budgetary varieties, such as decorative panels for walls made of MDF, fiberboard, particle board, HDF, hardboard, plywood. Each of these species has its own characteristics.
  2. For example, fiber boards are not very dense, they are additionally trimmed with veneer or impregnated with resins. It is not recommended to use fiberboard for rooms with high humidity.

    MDF is already a denser material, excellent withstand different loads. It is also additionally laminated, veneered or laminated. Today, these panels are the most popular finishing material.

    Modern HDF panels are even more dense, they are not afraid of either temperature changes or high humidity. Of course, this is reflected in their cost - they are the most expensive in the category of similar materials.

    Organlite is a subspecies of particleboard, made of wood fibers, but larger grinding. Its use is limited, as manufacturers only trim one side of the sheet.

    Plywood as a decorative wall decoration is rarely used. More often it is used as a base for another finishing material.

    And the most expensive wooden panels are panels made of solid wood. Used to create a classic style or modern style.

  3. Decorative panels for polyurethane walls from the moment of their appearance have won great love and popularity due to their versatility and cheapness. Most often, these decorative panels are used to decorate the walls of the bathroom, kitchen and balcony. They are absolutely not afraid of moisture and temperature changes, do not burn, do not emit harmful substances, are not subject to deformation. The only downside is their low stability to mechanical action. Simply put - they can be punched with a careless blow of a solid object.
  4. But they are presented in a huge range, both color and texture. For example, there are panels that mimic a brick or stone masonry. In addition, such panels are practical, because caring for them is extremely simple - they stand washing with any household detergent.

  5. Decorative 3d panels for the walls have become a modern finishing material that helps to bring original visual effects to the interior of the room, making it three-dimensional in perception, which will radically change the style of space. According to the manufacturing material, the 3d panels can be aluminum, polymeric, made of MDF, fiberboard, chipboard and wood.

Decorative panels for exterior walls

Decorating the exterior walls of the house with decorative panels today is also quite common. The two most popular materials for such panels are metal and PVC. Both can be the basis for creating panels that imitate the most diverse natural materials - stone, wood, brick. For example, look at how houses with this or that trim can look: