Hello!
We are in the process of closing off the floor plan by constructing a wall between the kitchen and dining room. However, the wall will have a large rectangular "archway" approximately 170 cm wide and 230 cm high. In this opening, we plan to place a curtain on a curtain rail to easily switch between open and social or closed and hide the kitchen mess.
In the opening, I want to build some sort of frame and trim that has a relatively wide and deep "groove" to conceal both the curtain rail and the edges of the curtain. The idea is for everything to look "recessed," a bit like a sliding door opening.
Due to existing furnishings, the wall is quite thin. In width, it consists of a 45 mm stud + 2 x 16 mm drywall, which gives a total width of 77 mm.
I have my own idea as shown in the attached image, but I'm unsure how to attach the smaller 21 x 21 studs in a good way, should they be "toe-nailed" into the 45 45 stud? Or is there a suitable adhesive to attach them to the stud and drywall?
I am also open to suggestions for other solutions.
Nail gun fasten it with 50mm nails, because then you'll also need to secure the frame with the small piece so 30mm nails will be good..
But smart idea otherwise😊
Yes exactly. The difficult part is that everything shakes when you hand-nail, but it's certainly possible to get it right. You can screw as well, but it takes more work to hide them by filling in the screw heads...
Here comes a small update and follow-up questions:
Discovered that there were stylish and robust planed moldings with dimensions of 15 x 69, so instead of placing blocks in front, I screwed and glued these directly to the rule with thin (3mm) screws, which became very robust:
The new problem is that due to various reasons, there's only room for trim on one side (the left in the picture). I'm unsure how to make the other side look nice without a visible crack between the list and the drywall.
Considering placing some kind of reinforcement over the gap and then puttying up to about 1 cm from the edge, painting the putty with wall paint and the outermost 1 cm with trim paint. Similar to how it's done in this post:
