Stone walls in the kitchen - decor options

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Decorating the walls of the kitchen with stone

Stone is an excellent material for wall decoration. Design from it always looks natural and fashionable. Walls in the kitchen, located between tables and wall cabinets, are often trimmed with stone. But such materials make the walls in the kitchen quite expensive. The article presents decorative coatings that imitate stone and allow saving.

Material requirements

If you want to make the walls in the kitchen with your own hands under a stone, you can use:

• Building panels.
• Clinker tile.
• Wallpaper under the stone.
• Decorative plaster.
• Painting the wall in the kitchen water emulsion.

In this case, the coating must meet certain requirements.

These include:

• Sufficient durability.
• Eco-friendly product.
• Flexibility and resilience.
• The absence of the influence of temperature differences on them.
• Moisture resistance.
• Unpretentiousness in leaving.
• Resistance to detergents.
• Low price.

What can be the walls in the kitchen

Stone Materials

Tip: To choose the right one wall decoration materials, to create a unique wall decor in the kitchen, you need to get acquainted with the features of the coating.

The table provides a summary of the most popular types of stone materials for kitchen walls:

Photo and title	Coating features
Hardboard panels	They are obtained by pressing eucalyptus wood at high temperature. In appearance, they resemble the laying of stone with the lining. In the manufacture of panels, lignin is secreted, which solidifies, forms a fairly strong connection, comparable to concrete. Advantages of the material: Ecological cleanliness. High moisture resistance. The front side can repeat the granite, marble texture. Acrylic coating provides material resistance to detergents.
Fiberglass panels	Made of plastic. These are great washable walls in the kitchen. Not afraid of moisture. High resistance to acids and alkalis. Not afraid of hot drops of fat. Easy to attach. Light weight. Excellent soundproof properties. Beautiful appearance. Minimum cost
Lack of coatings: some panels require a battens for installation, which reduces the area of ​​the room.
The tile is brick	Brick tile made from raw clay. Low cost. Glaze coating allows you to maintain a natural color for a long time. Matte relief is difficult to damage even with a strong impact. It keeps heat indoors well. The disadvantage is high moisture absorption.
Wallpaper under the stone	When they are made, several layers of paints and varnishes are superimposed on the surface of the canvas, which creates diverse textures and shades. Paper coatings are used to decorate the dining area. Acrylic and vinyl stone-like wallpapers are glued in the working area. Advantages of wallpaper: Low cost of material and gluing process. A wide range to choose the right composition allows you to create any design. Less time will be needed to replace the material when removing it from the wall. When joining with other materials, it is easy to create joints, without the use of borders, moldings. Disadvantages: Some wallpapers accumulate dust and dirt. It is difficult to wash greasy stains.
Tip: To hide the irregularities of the walls or to create a realistic relief on the surface of the wallpaper, you need to give preference to foamed vinyl coatings.
Flat plaster	Smooth plaster imitates marble, granite, polished stone slab, for example venetian plaster. The coating is made as even as possible, finished with a wax composition, polished. The wall acquires a perfectly smooth appearance, glossy or semi-gloss surface. The picture is obtained by mixing plaster solutions of different colors or painting the surface
Flat top plaster	With this coating, the development of the seams is not very deep, with small grooves, without depressions, has a flat look
Convex plaster	This type of plaster imitates a stone on a wall in volumetric masonry, 3d plaster. In this case: the application of large volumes of solution with layer-by-layer coloring is required. Volumetric plastering is easier to perform using special molds, which allow you to get the desired product picture. But impressions for molds will need to be purchased ready-made, which additionally increases the cost of coating
When performing plastering work, certain knowledge is required, supported by skill and experience. But, having mastered simple tricks, a beginner can succeed in decorating his own kitchen.
Painting the wall between the kitchen and the room	Benefits: Ecological cleanliness. Easy to apply. Walls can be washed. Low cost. Disadvantages: Low resistance to mechanical damage. Cracks may appear over time. Cannot be used on uneven walls. The color on the wall after drying and in the jar is very different.

Choosing a wallpaper under a stone, they can be corrected by painting the walls in the kitchen at your discretion.

Some tips and tricks

Those who are interested in detailed instructions on the use of materials, their choice for a particular room and application methods can view a wall wall workshop in the kitchen.

• When caring for the coating, decorative panels are wiped with a warm soapy solution and then dry.
• To get a smooth coating to simulate stone on the walls, you need to use white finish plaster.
• To give greater naturalness and naturalness when decorating the walls with wallpaper under a stone, you can square the area where the material will be applied artificially jagged. And so that the wallpaper does not tear when pasting, glue must be applied to them twice, and let the composition soak in well. At the same time, the wallpaper will become soft, they can be glued on the kitchen wall at an angle, and after complete drying, they will tightly cover all the relief zones.
• When decorating stone walls, good lighting is always required.
• The main thing is that after coating the room does not turn into a basement. The best option is the stone finish of one of the walls. And how to do this, shows the video in this article.

Wall decoration in stone in the interior of the kitchen in any way - it is fashionable, stylish and original. Such eccentricity and vintage wall covering brings a variety to the monotony of the walls of the kitchen.

Everyone decides what material to use on the walls in the kitchen, guided by their tastes and material capabilities. We only offered to get acquainted with some types of materials that can replace the wall decoration in the kitchen with natural stone.