Brick facing in the interior: We make a choice

Beautiful geometric relief of brick masonry little leaves indifferent. Maybe therefore, the brick over time does not lose its relevance not only as a constructive material, but also as a finishing.
There are many imitation materials, they are used to styling under the brick of concrete or block walls. But why imitation, if a facing decorative brick for interior decoration is best able to cope with this task?

There are many types of facing bricks. There are options that are more often used for.
We will talk about what facing brick for interiors is the best choice in the implementation of the planning and design of the premises.

Glazed and Relief Brick

Brick glazing technology takes its beginning since the time of ancient Egypt. It was used in different countries, and many of them had their technologies that were preserved until today.
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Some glazes the raw brick, and then burn it, others apply the glaze on the burned brick, and subjected to secondary burning. Each technology provides a product with its physicomechanical properties, in accordance with which its price increases.

And if the technologies are worked out by centuries, the decorative surface of the brick is regularly adjusted, due to the emergence of new trends in design and decoration. Standard red brick is not so popular now.
The main purchasing demand falls on a brick with a finish of its face surface. And it can be not only glazed smooth, but also embossed, and an uncooked, that is, a coated composition of white clay, glass and quartz sand.

As you understand, these species have the highest cost. It may vary depending on how much of his sides have a decorative coating: two or four.
Brick with double-sided coating (spoons and stump) are used to masonry bearing walls or their cladding. With a thickness of masonry, one and a half or two bricks, on the one hand the decor will simply be seen.
Why pay more for the brick, decorated from all sides?

If you need to build, for example, the interior partition with a thickness of one brick, then the four-sided decor will give the opportunity to get a refined masonry at once in two rooms.

This is very relevant if you build or bought an apartment in a new building without finishing. In such apartments, as well as cottages and townhouses, there are no internal partitions, and the space is planned at the discretion of the owner who bought housing.

Erecting partition

In order for the design to be fame, the partition must be competent. And if you decide to do it with your own hands, two questions will be standing in front of you: "Where to start?", And "what decorative facing brick for interior decoration is better to choose?".
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Start laying from the installation of apartments: both intermediate and angular. They are evoked with the help of a construction level and a plumb, although professional builders use levels for this.
The order is a metal profile or a wooden bar to which serves serves, corresponding to each row of bricks.

When lighthouses are laid out, apartments are recovered and fixed, the cords called the pages between them. It is they who provide the horizontal of the rows when making a masonry, and serve as a reference point for the position of each brick and equal thickness of horizontal seams.
Brick to build a septum is better to choose a hollow, so much reduces the load on the supporting structures. To ensure the sustainability of the future partition, its rigidity is enhanced by performing anchoring.
Metal anchor is one end to be laid in the seams between the bricks, and the other in the shutters, pierced in the bearing walls.
Under the first row of masonry, the strip of rubberoid, and begin laying bricks along the axis of the partition. The masonry is made with suture dressing, by shifting each subsequent row to the half-brick.
A small gap forming between the ceiling and masonry is filled with mounting foam.

In principle, for the partition device without subsequent plastering, you can take clinker brick, and silicate. They can be simply coated with hydrophobic impregnation that protects the surface from absorbing moisture and smells.
These types of brick have a dense and smooth front side. Therefore, the masonry is often simply covered with a hydrophobizer or color. No surface preparation, in addition to removing the influx of the solution, in this case, will not be required.

We outlined the process of building a brick partition only in general terms.
If you decide to take on your own for this work, be sure to watch the video. Master class from professionals is the best instruction.

Facing the bearing wall bricks

The construction of a brick partition from facial brick is just one of the options for obtaining brickwork for interior design.
But sometimes you need to bind the carriage wall:

The ideal option when the interiors of the rooms are thought out in advance, at the construction stage of the house. In this case, the cladding of the walls is performed during the construction of walls.
It is possible to decorate in the course of the masonry, you can not only the facade, but, if necessary, the inner walls.

If you have finish and repairing the old house, then over the wall finishing options it is worth thinking. It is necessary to make a decision on the basis of the structural wall material.
If the house is built of brick, it is possible to create a beautiful interior design without additional cladding.
The best option when the brickwork has not been placed before, and the wall was, for example, she was covered with a board or dry plaster. Then, removing the old coating, you can simply read the wall, the surface of the brick is sandpaper, primed and paint, as in the photo below.

Watching walls you are unlikely to be able to fully release the masonry. Even if the plaster holds poorly, be sure to have a place where the perforator will have to apply, and they can damage the surface of individual bricks.
This is the very case when decorative facing brick for interior decoration is simply necessary. His choice is carried out depending on which design of the premises you would like to embody.
Perhaps even a few types of facing will take. You can see such a finish in the bottom of the bottom.

It uses two types of decorative bricks of contrasting color, and with different reliefs. All the charm of this interior is that the facing are made by individual fragments and as if zoning the room is called the design.
Even if the walls of the house are made of other structural materials: panels, blocks from cellular concrete, wood - they can also be bred by decorative bricks. But it is advisable only if you know exactly that the foundation of the house will endure an additional load.

Of course, the finishing of small fragments of the walls will not create any problems. But if you want to build a whole wall or an entire room, the masonry should be based on the foundation or slab of the overlap, which may not withstand the weight of the cladding.
Then the aid comes a ceramic tile, stylized under the brick. On the example above, the walls of the room are lined with its help. But, not knowing this, few people guess that it is not a brick, but a tile.
After finishing the house with facing brick, you can solve constructive tasks. One such task is to strengthen the bearing walls.
For this purpose, the most durable, and, consequently, the most expensive, hyperpressed brick.

We have not mentioned about it today only for the reason that most often it is used for external cladding. Although, if there is a need to strengthen the walls from the inside, nothing prevents the use of brick in the interior too.
By the way, the imitation of brickwork can be performed with the help of the facade tile, which is produced by the same technology as the hyper-compressed brick.

A few words about brick design

Brickwork capable of decorating walls of any room, not just a living room or kitchen. For example, the interior of the corridor, the walls of which are erected from facing bricks and painted in one tone with the ceiling.
The monotony of such a decoration break the doors, lamps and frames of patterns of contrasting color.

So:

In connection with the brick design, it is impossible not to remember the style of the Loft, the business card of which is the combination of walls without finishing with expensive accessories and decorative coatings. In the interior, decorated in this architectural style you can see a naked brickwork, or a concrete wall, and an expensive flooring, a chic ceiling construction, or a magnificent wroughtted staircase.
Against the background of deliberate simplicity, in such a room you can see magnificent furniture and lamps under the antique.

In this style, any room can be decorated, even a bathroom. An example of this interior, we also want to imagine.
Most often, without finishing leave only one or two walls. Also produce the design of the walls and in the case when the design laying is not decorated, and the cladding is performed.
And in this case, the room is lined completely, but different types of bricks. Moreover, unusual pearl paint was used for staining.
The result was an unusual and original bathroom interior.

Loft style is not the only one, where the design uses brickwork. There are other styles like ancient: English, Mediterranean, Modern, Art Deco, and more modern, for example: High-tech or fusion. By the way, between Loft and Fusion styles there is something in common.
Namely, mixing. Only in the loft is mixed with cheap and expensive, and in the style of fusion - various forms and elements of other styles.

In conclusion, we can conclude that the brick was and for a long time will remain in priority - and not only in the finish of the facades, but also in the design of the premises. By choosing a brick to create a beautiful interior in your home, you are unlikely to have to regret it.
Provided, of course, all the conditions and technological processes were observed.