To ennoble a piece of land or a garden, one does not have to be seven spans in the forehead or spend fabulous money. To do this, it is enough to have a desire and make a little effort and imagination. If your own ideas are not enough to make a garden decoration with your own hands - photos of numerous craftsmen will come up with an original solution. By the way, for the most part, people use improvised materials for this. Therefore, you should not say goodbye to old things: many of them can become a real highlight in your garden.
Video ideas for decorative garden decoration
Old pots, buckets and other containers are turning into ...
… Into the original decorative elements in the garden. Surely in any country house you can find a rusty watering can or bucket, a burst plastic basin or a broken garden cart. Flowers can be planted in any of these containers, and they can bring a bright spot to the garden space.
Who recognizes an old watering can in this beautiful flower arrangement? And it takes very little time to make.
For example, with an old watering can you don’t have to mess around for a long time. It is enough to put a bouquet of peonies or irises, tulips or asters in it. Such a flowerpot can be made a central figure on the site, especially if it is placed on a pedestal. It is also easy to make from improvised means. In this capacity, a chair or an inverted bucket will act. True, if you want to put a flower arrangement on a pedestal, then it is better to use plants that will beautifully fall down.
If there is a place to turn around, then large containers or carts can act as decorations for the garden and vegetable garden. In this case, it is better to plant the seedlings in small pots, and then put them inside the containers. However, flowers are sometimes planted directly into the cart. But then holes are drilled in its bottom for drainage.
By the way, even old chairs are used as flowerpots. Seats are taken out of them, closing the empty space with a net. Moss can be beautifully laid out at the base, and climbing plants will wrap around the legs.
For the manufacture of a "flowerpot" from a chair, it is important to paint over all its details with paint that will protect the structure from corrosion.
Finally, from leaky pots, buckets, vats, pots, bases are made for shrubs and small trees. You can paint these elements in bright colors and they will become an additional decor on the site.
Plastic bottles for decor - let your imagination run wild
An ordinary plastic bottle can be found in every home today. After drinking water or a drink from it, as a rule, the container is sent to the trash can. If you have your own garden or plot of land, then you should not classify the bottles as garbage. It is better to collect them, and then create a real masterpiece.
To make a garden decoration out of plastic bottles, you will need very few materials and tools:
- knife for cutting containers;
- brushes;
- paints;
- bottle caps;
- rags, twine;
- bottles.
From this modest set, you can make several original flower beds or figurines that will certainly please the eye, and amaze guests with their originality.
It seems that this fabulous swan will now spread its wings and take off
For example, in order to make a flower bed, you need to prepare a place for it on the site. With a shovel, you need to loosen the earth and make a small mound of the desired size. Then the lower part is cut off from plastic bottles, about a third of the entire length. The resulting blanks are immersed in the soil, stuffing them with soil. The bottom should look out. Thus, the flower bed is given the necessary shape. It can be made in the form of a hedgehog. Then, from the cut bottles, its outline is made, and tall green grass is planted inside - these will be “thorns”. To make the muzzle of the animal, you will need the top of the bottle with a cap. Eyes, nose, mustache are painted on it. There are no limits to fantasy here.
To give the figure volume, you need to raise the flower bed above general level site and choose the right vegetation
Another option for using bottles is the manufacture of figurines of animals, people. You can make a married couple that will symbolize a happy family life. To do this, two bottles are “dressed” in outfits from old rags, their upper parts are painted like faces, filled with sand or other weighting agent and set firmly in the ground.
Plastic bottles they are able to play the role of flower pots if they cut oblong holes on their sides, fix the resulting structures on a wall or fence, on the steps of a porch or just by the path. Then the soil is tamped inside and seedlings are planted. Such landscaping will significantly enliven the backyard.
When making planters from bottles, do not forget to leave drainage holes in them.
In principle, in the use of plastic bottles there can hardly be limits to imagination. From them figurines of animals and birds are made, huge palm trees and artificial flowers are made. Surely once tried, it will be difficult to stop. And so you can populate your entire garden with self-made inhabitants and “plant” plastic vegetation with an unusual look.
There are no unnecessary things for skillful hands: unusual ideas
Are you ready to throw away your worn out shoes? And absolutely in vain. Making a garden decoration from improvised material of such a plan is as easy as shelling pears. After all, it is enough to come up with an idea, and then translate it into reality.
For example, an elegant lady's shoe can become a cozy "house" for an exquisite flower. To do this, soil is poured inside, a sprout is planted and do not forget to take care of it. Of course, in order for the decor to look spectacular, you need to choose a place for it. It can be left in a conspicuous area, arranged in such a way as if the fabulous Cinderella left her glass slipper in a hurry here.
If flower pot from shoes will be located in the open air, it should be varnished or special paints that are resistant to water and fading
If a man’s shoe is completely leaky, then he has no place in the trash - he will become a worthy element of landscape design. Such a decoration will look original if you not only plant flowers in it, but also ... settle small mice. Let their figurines peek out mischievously from the holes. Such an element will cause not only surprise and delight of adults, but also genuine admiration of the children.
Someone does not stop at such planters and creates whole garlands of shoes. Having collected several pairs of shoes, they hang them on a fence or an old stump. Then plants are planted inside. Curly or falling specimens will look very impressive.
If dishes break regularly in the house, then you should not throw them away. It is better to turn it into an original sculpture in the garden. For example, plates can be used as flower pots, real garlands are made from cups. An old cracked vase will also be happy to participate in the composition. Now it will be settled not by bouquets, but by living vegetation.
Wonderful do-it-yourself transformations
Stone fantasies - what can you turn an ordinary cobblestone into
Decorative decorations for the garden are successfully made from such a "pasture" material as stone. Funny figures are laid out of it, and real sculptural compositions are also created. But a stone can look especially funny if you put the hand of an artist on it. Of course, it is not at all necessary to involve real masters of the brush. It will be much more pleasant to admire your own creations if you put your soul into them.
So, if you want to do stone arts, you will need:
- smooth stones;
- paints (acrylic, oil or gouache);
- different brushes;
- bright glass pieces, fragments of ceramic tiles, beads;
- glue;
- stencils.
The stone must be prepared for painting. To do this, it is washed and dried. After that, you can use your imagination and create at least real paintings, at least original and funny drawings. Some details or inscriptions will have to be drawn with a thin brush. Others can be applied with a stencil. Where appropriate, colorful and shiny fragments or beads are attached to the glue.
You can safely involve children in painting on stones: this is a safe creative activity that develops imagination and artistic abilities.
A family of ladybugs "basks" in the sun
Wood is the perfect material for decoration.
A rare garden or vegetable garden does without green spaces. Sometimes you have to remove old trees or cut dried branches. But there is no need to rush to say goodbye to all this “goodness”. It is better to look at them in a new way - as an excellent natural material from which you can make real decorative masterpieces.
For example, ordinary stumps can be used in completely different ways. Funny figures of gnomes or some animals are cut out of them, cozy tables and chairs are made. If you like to be in the warm season in the garden before dark and longer, then hemp can solve the problem of lighting. To do this, you need to prepare a tree. Rotten areas are removed, moss is cleaned. The surfaces are then coated with phosphorescent paint. After it dries, a composition is built from the stumps, counting on the fact that they illuminate the surroundings at night.
Some fluorescent paint and stumps turn into lanterns
The above decoration methods garden plot- this is far from the limit. Rather, it is only an impetus to search for your own original ideas and an incentive to implement them. Feel free to experiment. Moreover, any failure can be attributed to a design idea. The most important thing is to believe in yourself, and then the garden will turn into a real fairy-tale corner.
The suburban area is a favorite vacation spot for most citizens. It is there that you can relax, enjoy plenty of peace and tranquility, and also gain strength. But ordinary paths and beds have not impressed anyone for a long time. I want to make my cozy corner special and interesting. To do this, it is not necessary to buy expensive figures and materials. It is enough to connect your multifaceted fantasy and use improvised materials. How to decorate a summer cottage with your own hands from a photo? More on this later.
The easiest way to decorate a personal plot is to use a variety of figurines that can be purchased at any hypermarket. But in the country, things created by your own hands will still look better. We decorate the summer cottage with improvised materials according to the photo. Almost any materials at hand can be suitable for this: glass and plastic bottles, car tires, old basins, barrels, dishes, as well as toys and furniture that is unnecessary in the house.
Paths created from multi-colored fragments of glass bottles will look very interesting and beautiful. To create them, you need to fill the desired plane cement mortar, break the required number of bottles, then sprinkle the entire surface of the solution with fragments. In this case, it is necessary to ensure that the fragments lie only horizontally and cannot injure. Instead of glass bottles, you can also use pieces of ceramic tiles.
You can also decorate a summer cottage with your own hands with the help of items that are unnecessary in everyday life, which are a pity to throw away. For example, you can use old boxes, wooden chairs, tires, etc. as a flower bed. In order to make a flower bed out of a chair, it is necessary to remove the seat, put a pot of a suitable size in its place, then pour earth into it and plant flowering plants. Figures made of polyurethane foam also look very nice. On the walls of the cottage you can hang beautiful pictures.
natural materials
lovers environment I really like jewelry made from natural materials. So, the summer cottage can be decorated with objects such as stones, shells, as well as cones, pebbles and sand. With their help, you can post interesting pictures depicting fish, bizarre animals, marine life, etc.
Wood crafts look no less beautiful. Figurines, varnished, can be placed throughout the summer cottage, surrounding them flowering plants. To create crafts, soft woods such as alder and willow are best suited.
Alpine slides have been popular for quite some time now. Making them by hand is very easy. To do this, you need to create a small pond, lay stones of various sizes around it, and then plant suitable plants. In addition, smooth stones can be painted in various colors and, spreading them around the backyard, used as cute insects.
A “live” gazebo will look very interesting. To create it, you need to put several benches and a table, and put vertical supports around them, near which to plant climbing plants. Over time, they will grow, they will save from the exhausting heat in the summer, and also purify the air.
If you choose grapes as plants, then you can also get delicious fruits. This is how beautifully you can decorate a summer cottage from improvised material.
flower decoration
Of the variety of plants for suburban area it is necessary to choose those that do not need careful care and watering. But at the same time, preference should be given to beautiful bright colors. What flowers do you prefer?
First of all, you need to know that plants are annual and perennial. Annual flowers can be planted anywhere. But when planting perennials, you need to take into account that they can grow, so it is advisable for them to allocate a limited space.
After you have decided which flowers to plant, you need to think about what it is better to make a flower bed from. For these purposes, old furniture, chandeliers, unnecessary dishes, basins and other vessels, as well as baskets, boats and wicker, are the best suited.
Plastic bottles are well suited for fencing flower beds. With their help, you can create any contours by digging bottles upside down. For greater reliability of the fence, sand or small pebbles can be placed inside the containers.
Flower bed options
How to decorate a summer cottage from a photo? Consider the most interesting options for flower beds. One of the most interesting options is to use an old chandelier. It can be placed on the ground or hung from a tree.
Both low-growing and climbing plants can be planted in chandeliers. In this case, it must be borne in mind that watering them, due to the design features, will have to be done often. Therefore, it will be necessary to think over the irrigation system in advance.
Sometimes the basis for creating country decorations are objects that are mistaken for garbage. For example, when cutting down old garden trees or clearing a building site, stumps remain, which are uprooted and burned. If you look at them through the eyes of a designer, you can see beautiful natural frames for creating flower beds or original floral arrangements. And what about dozens of pairs of worn shoes, old cracked pottery, travel bags with frayed corners? We offer fantastic ideas for a summer house with your own hands, which will turn old things into an exclusive country house decor.
See what you can do - a first-hand overview, so to speak:
New life for old shoes
In any family, there are worn shoes that have become small for grown-up kids or simply become unusable. Traditionally worn boots with worn-out heels “leave” for the country, where they live out their lives somewhere in a rut between the beds. But if you show a little imagination, children's shoes or rubber boots will turn into original planters for country flowers. They decorate fences, porches, house adjoining territories and a playground.
Ordinary rubber clogs for swimming seem to be specially designed for these touching blue flowers to settle in them. By the way, rubber is a fairly strong material, so an additional pot for planting is not required.
For floral decor, any, even the most unexpected shoes are suitable - evening, office and even sports.
Who would have thought that sneakers - the most popular shoes of modern youth - can become stylish "pots" for green plants. Please note that greenery also adorns the socks of a sports couple.
Children grow up very quickly, leaving many pairs of beautiful and strong, unworn shoes. Do not give especially interesting models to relatives, but bring them to the dacha and make a wonderful decor out of them.
These cheerful "residents" can settle in your dacha, and in a wide variety of corners. Shoes will meet guests at the entrance, boots will line up along the fence, and slippers will decorate the wall or fence
Some pairs of shoes, despite their “not the first freshness” look, look so textured and original that they should not be obscured by lush flowering or ampelous plants.
From several pairs of old shoes, as well as related household items, you can make an unusual composition that is appropriate precisely in a suburban area that is not limited by the walls of the house. Such a "family" design find can be placed on the porch, veranda, in the children's corner or right on the lawn.
One of the options when a powerful image created by boots is brighter than a colorful floral arrangement. In this case, it is the shoes that are the decorative center, and the flowers are just a light frame.
Before you is a family of several pairs of shoes. Each couple has its own age, a certain mood and even its own character. I wonder if boots and boots look like their owners?
Transform crockery and cutlery
Unfortunately, shoes wear out, and dishes break or simply become unnecessary. But in the country, not a single old bucket, not a single kettle will remain forgotten! We take paints in our hands and paint old metal and ceramic plates, basins and jugs in all the colors of the rainbow. We choose the paint depending on the material from which the dishes are made - so the decor will last much longer.
See how bright colors can change a boring garden corner. The heroes of the amazing colorful picture are the most familiar objects: a metal kettle, a jug for water and even two large colanders.
DIY decorations for summer cottages can be placed everywhere: on lawns, among flower beds, near a pond or pool, along a greenhouse or fence. A cheerful teapot in sunflowers is conveniently located on the edge of the bench.
It is enough to paint smooth, even sides of metal utensils in any color you like, but if there are chips, scratches or dents on the surface, they can be masked with colorful drawings or bright ornaments
Products made from natural materials look especially natural against the background of stone paths, a wooden fence and lush greenery. Pottery made of clay goes well with flowers, besides, it is not afraid of rain, wind, or occasional frosts.
As if someone forgot to remove the tea set from the table late at night, only instead of the table - a basin with earth, and instead of tea - fragile green bushes
Among the old crockery, there are remains of beautiful porcelain sets - elegant cups and saucers, decorated with delicate painting. Do not rush to take expensive and high-quality dishes to the summer cottage - perhaps it will find application in the house.
Tea cups, saucers, milk jugs, instead of candles mounted on a candlestick, turn it into a beautiful exquisite vase, which is also very functional and serves as a stand for sweets, nuts, flowers or handicrafts
Do not forget about cutlery that has come out of active use - spoons and forks. No special skills are needed to make an adorable bag or clothes hanger.
To make a hanger, you will need a sanded and varnished board and several old forks. It is easier to work with aluminum products - they easily bend and take the desired shape, but steel ones are stronger and do not unbend under the weight of clothing
It is a little more difficult to make an unusual chandelier, which is decorated not with crystal or glass pendants, but with metal forks and spoons.
To make a chandelier for a kitchen or terrace, you need an old lamp frame for one or more lamps and a set of cutlery
Such different suitcases
Due to the strength of the material and the rigid design, old suitcases that have not been used for their intended purpose for a long time still lie on the mezzanine and serve as mini-pantries for New Year's toys, children's things and sleeping sets bought in reserve. Their owners do not even know what can be done to give from unnecessary things thanks to creative ideas. First of all - a traditional flower garden.
We fill the opened suitcase with soil, using a layer of waterproofing, and decorate it with low flowering plants. In a convenient pocket sewn to the lid, you can store garden shears
The lid of the suitcase resembles a cabinet door; it closes just as conveniently and, if desired, even locks with a key.
We equip the suitcase-wardrobe with convenient shelves and drawers - and now you can store any household trifles in it, from soap accessories to needlework items
A large suitcase is an excellent blank for making a console or a side table.
One part of the suitcase turns into a convenient table for books, a table lamp, a flower vase, the second - for photos, a collage or a set of convenient pockets
Old suitcases and chests fit perfectly into the country interior. They play the role of flower stands, bedside tables, storage for knick-knacks.
If a suitcase for decorating a room looks too “modern”, it can be aged with fine sandpaper or special paints.
A large and large suitcase can easily be turned into a comfortable sofa.
To make an armchair or sofa, you will need wooden legs from old furniture, bright pieces of durable textiles and stuffing material - foam rubber, batting or foam rubber rugs
Pets often choose boxes and suitcases for games or sleep, and it takes a couple of hours to finalize a thing to a soft and comfortable bed for a tailed friend.
A large comfortable suitcase, a soft blanket folded several times, a beautiful cover design - and you have a great resting place for a small dog or cat
Part interesting ideas nature itself gives us to decorate the dacha and garden. Sawn old trees, large branches, stones, river pebbles - all this can be found right on a suburban area, especially after repair work or road construction. Let's use an old stump and make a lush flowering flower bed out of it.
A beautiful and easy-to-plant stump flower bed resembles a natural planter. It can be installed in any part of the garden, near the house, arbors or terraces, or, if the roots of the stump have not been removed, left in the same place
Stage # 1 - choosing the "right" stump
In order for the flower garden to serve for years, it is necessary to choose a strong, healthy, disease-free and rotting stump. If the upper part is destroyed, it can simply be cut off with a grinder.
It's okay if, after removing the extra parts, a low base remains - for the arrangement of the flower bed, the width of the stump is more important than its height
Sometimes in summer cottages there are rotten stumps that look quite picturesque and are also suitable for planting flowers. They can be decorated and turned into a flower bed, but there will be a danger of infection with a fungus or diseases of healthy trees.
Our task is to remove the core, and in its place install a container for planting flowers, for example, a flower pot, several pots or a container
Stage #2 - surface and interior treatment
With the help of a hammer and a chisel, a drill, a jigsaw, a pick, we split the middle part and take it out in pieces. This process is laborious and takes a lot of time.
One of the options for destroying the core: first, we make holes in the central part of the stump with a drill (the more, the better), then we break the wood with a pickaxe and take out the chips
Sometimes the middle is filled with kerosene and set on fire, but in this case there is a risk of destruction of the necessary parts.
High humidity or bad weather can make it difficult to start a fire, so choose a clear day with no rain and make sure the wood is also dry.
We leave the bark in place, but treat it with an antiseptic, as well as the inside. Remedies for fungus and decay are sold in building supermarkets. If you have recently built a bath, built a gazebo, terrace, bench, a small amount of impregnation, most likely, you have left in stock.
Stage # 3 - preparation of the container and soil
The result is a processed stump suitable for planting flowers. Now you need to choose a container that is suitable in size and place it in place of the hollowed out core. It is not recommended to pour the earth without a container, as the stump will collapse faster.
Do not forget about drainage: before placing the container inside, we drill several holes with a drill that bring water out to the base of the stump
The choice of soil depends on the type of flowers. Suitable universal soil or a mixture of soil, sand and peat.
Stage #4 - planting flowers
We set the pot inside the stump, fill the soil and plant flowers. Undersized border plants and lush garden shrubs will do - the main thing is that the sizes of the flower bed and the stump do not contradict each other.
The pot is installed according to all the rules, but the dimensions are not respected, so the edges are visible from the outside. It is necessary to fill the entire container with soil so that the composition looks more natural.
This is how a finished flower garden looks like from a processed stump with preserved roots.
Plants of any color with small and lush buds are suitable for a low flower garden: alyssum, begonia, ornamental cabbage, petunia, chlorophytum, marigolds, forget-me-nots, violets, daisies, bell, carnation, gerbil
A tall stump is an excellent stand for large and climbing plants.
Ampelous plants can cover the top of a natural planter or the entire stump. Any flowers with falling shoots are good for planting: pelargonium, verbena, nasturtium, petunia, surfinia, fuchsia, dichondra
Unusual use of old logs
Logs left after building a house or clearing a garden are a versatile tool for decorating a summer cottage. Garden furniture, Russian-style wooden compositions, playground toys, flower bed stands, swings, original paths are made from them.
Even clumsy, bent logs and branches should not be burned or thrown away - sometimes amazing things come out of them.
An old log covered in cracked bark and moss is the perfect solution for a natural-style flower garden. It seems that the flowers have independently chosen a place to live.
An original swing can be created from a bunch of crooked and seemingly unusable logs. The seat is hollowed out from a thick trunk, and the support is constructed from several curved elements.
Even if you don't have enough woodworking skills, you can create a comfortable, functional "furniture set" for a picnic.
To prepare the benches, it is enough to trim the opposite sides of the logs, leaving the bark on the untouched parts, and for the table you will need two coasters from large cut-off circles and a wide tabletop
From sawn logs, boards and bars on a free lawn or sandy area, you can create a whole children's play world. Cozy huts, fun slides, comfortable benches and swings that look like real cars and trains - children will find something to do while adults work in the garden.
To make a beautiful flower garden train, you need to prepare several boards that imitate the railway track, 3-4 chocks for the composition, wooden circles for the wheels and bars for decorating the locomotive
Country house - perfect place for the embodiment of decorating fantasies and design ideas. To create the next masterpiece, you should not look for material in the store - just look in the closet or in the garden, and you will be surprised how many interesting and useful things you can find there.
It would seem, well, what else to dream about? The suburban area is finally ennobled. A country house, a bathhouse and a fence, beds, there is a greenhouse - everything is in order. At the gate there is an arbor, a front garden, but still the feeling of satisfaction somehow does not come.
And all because there is no garden decor, that is, what fills the surrounding space with individuality, makes it our world, creates a good mood and an atmosphere conducive to staying in the country. Garden decoration can and should be done with your own hands. Making it a work of author's art is not at all as difficult and expensive as it might seem. So what should be worked on?
How to decorate a summer cottage ^
Original flower beds versus traditional flower beds
“Decorating a summer cottage is not necessarily the destruction of what has already been created”
Flowers have been used to decorate the garden plot for a long time. Flowerbeds with petunias, peonies, fragrant tobacco, roses - can be found in any courtyard. Usually, these landscape objects are given the correct shape and are standardly enclosed with plastic or obliquely laid bricks. But what if, instead of one sprawling flower bed, make several small flower beds? This will not entail material costs and will not send you in search of exotic plants.
A few small flower beds will enliven the site
Items that have already lost their relevance, even in an unpretentious country life, will help to revive the familiar picture in front of the window, such as:
- dishes;
- worn furniture;
- various utensils.
Old dishes in the garden decor
Look around! To decorate the site with your own hands, you will probably find a holey trough, a rusted wheelbarrow, a leaky pan, a lone shoe in the barn. All this wealth is not difficult to transform into something amazing imagination. In many cases, the container will simply need to be filled with earth. If there is space, you can make a garden decoration, and a whole bed. In general, the raw material for the implementation of the author's ideas is often, in the literal sense, underfoot.
Bright flowerbed from an old car
Decorating a summer cottage is not necessarily the destruction of what has already been created. If all kinds of stationary flower beds were originally planned in the decor for the garden, the location and appearance of which suits you, try to refresh the atmosphere by updating them appearance. How? Well, let's say, build a picket fence from pegs or braid them with an elastic vine, like a tyn.
Decorate your flower beds with a wicker vine
In principle, any material of natural origin can be used for the fence:
- stone;
- chocks;
- slats;
- boards;
- branches.
Natural stone fence
Do not rush to get rid of construction debris. Fragments of tiles and bricks are also good for edging flower beds.
Stone fences, as elements of garden decor, should try to give different forms. In the simplest case, stone fragments are laid out in several rows, so that a high curb is formed. More talented in design, you can lay out stone vases, wide bowls or baskets as a decor for the site with your own hands.
Flowerbed - brick snail
Carried away by the creation of original flower beds, one should not forget about the compositional unity. Stone displays will not harmonize with a wooden facade and vice versa.
We decorate reservoirs
The pond itself is a great decor for the garden, however, this object can be improved in its attractiveness. To do this, you will have to equip waterfalls or fun fountains inside impromptu ponds and lakes. The sounds of the murmur of falling water and the rainbow of water dust formed by intersecting jets can be admired day and night.
Small fountain for garden decoration
The lucky ones can be considered those through whose plot a stream passes - it will also make an excellent decoration for a summer cottage. However, in this case, the emphasis should not be on fountains, but on the arrangement of thresholds, with the help of which a real cascade of waterfalls is formed.
Artificial stream with rapids and bridge
The similarity of a natural stream is easy to imitate. All that is needed for this is the presence of a functioning water supply system in the house. Thresholds, in an artificial stream, it is better to replace with a small composition of jets escaping from under the water column. This effect will help organize fountain nozzles.
An illuminated pond will also act as an original decoration of the garden. In the evening, the iridescent palette of the water surface will make an indelible impression. Sets of lights of above-water and underwater design are not so expensive as to forego such pleasure in garden decor.
Pond illumination at night
How else to decorate a summer cottage in the area of \u200b\u200bthe reservoir? figurines and statues. It can be turned into a fabulous lake, surrounded by gnomes or inhabited by mermaids.
A good idea is with an earthenware jug, as if forgotten on the shore, which turned over on rounded pebbles and pours the water collected into it back into the pond.
An earthenware jug is ideal for decorating a pond
Tree in garden decoration
Easy to process and affordable, wood can serve as the main raw material for creating masterpiece garden decors with your own hands. Such designs can have a purely decorative function or carry an additional practical load. The functional objects of garden decor include:
- gazebos;
- fences;
- bridges;
- benches.
That is, everything that is used in everyday life.
Wooden elements, as decorations for a summer cottage, are attributed to the manifestation of a rustic style that perfectly suits country landscapes. The main buildings here were erected in the style of Russian architecture (from rounded logs or a kind of timber). A carved bench or a whole set of furniture in the form of deliberately rough stools-blocks and an unplaned table may appear near a cut down bathhouse.
Functional log decor for a rustic garden
Somewhere along the alley you can put a carved donkey harnessed to a cart full of flowers. He will become a household name, symbolizing diligence and perseverance.
Wooden donkey with a cart
When deciding how to decorate a summer cottage, pay attention to such an element as a well. It can be improvised under a flower bed or acting.
Having conceived the decor of the site with your own hands, use old and interfering trees in your work. Evaluate their shape, location. Perhaps they should not be sawn to the very root and obligingly get rid of the hemp? A cut trunk can be a wonderful garden decoration.
Stump design option
Even dead tree beautiful in its authenticity and naturalness, and if you add a drop of imagination to this, then a pretty flower bed, a fabulous house or a luxurious chair for a siesta will appear on the site.
Stone garden decorations
Stones also represent a category of natural materials, only they are used, often in their raw form. They are beautiful from the start. The stones give an idea of the power of nature and perfectly demonstrate the timelessness. No wonder this material is so loved by Japanese designers who create huge and miniature philosophical gardens.
Japanese style rock garden
It is difficult for the Slavs to delve into the very essence of contemplation, therefore, in the garden decor of a summer cottage, stones appear in a more prosaic form. Paths are paved with them, curbs are made, alpine slides are constructed.
Alpine garden slide
It doesn’t matter how the stone is laid out when decorating the site with your own hands, it is guaranteed to ennoble the territory. Even a handful of gravel sprinkled under a flower or scattered near a pond will be enough to give these elements sophistication, to say nothing of granite blocks or marble in a garden landscape. Relief irregularities can also be used to decorate the garden. They are decorated with bushy flowers, stones. Rockeries, dry streams are created from them. It would be appropriate to look at a stone path paved across the stream.
Dry stream will decorate any garden
What is the main thing in working with stone? First of all, the availability of resources and, of course, fantasy. Finding a stone placer somewhere on the eve of the mountains is much easier than collecting the right amount of material in the field. In the second case, to decorate the garden plot, boulders, crushed stone, rubble stone, decorative dumping, etc. - have to buy.
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You can make the dacha territory charming and at the same time not overstrain by activating your own imagination and using everything that comes to hand. Even a broken flower pot can be the key to success. It is not difficult to transform cracked and split ceramics into Thumbelina's house. And how to decorate a summer cottage with other items?
Plastic decor
“Plastic garden decor is not distinguished by pretentiousness, but you can’t refuse originality to it”
Modern plastic containers are rarely given to ordinary people. It is simply sent to garbage containers, although in the country the bottles are ready to become indispensable raw materials for all kinds of crafts. Perhaps plastic garden decor is not distinguished by pretentiousness, but you cannot refuse originality. Having a mountain of containers in reserve, set up an artificial plantation of cacti and palm trees in the middle of a living garden. The unexpectedness and exoticism of the element will allow it to become the strong point of the landscape composition.
Garden decor from plastic bottles
If there are no monumental stocks of plastic, stop at a few penguins, which will greatly enliven the decor of their summer cottage, especially in winter, when it's time to decorate the Christmas tree. Representatives of the younger generation will be happy to participate in such fun.
A pair of bottles are taken to work on garden decorations. Each pair is cut so that a ten-centimeter lower part remains. The separated bottoms are connected into a barrel and covered with white acrylic paint. The preparation is ready. Then it remains to paint the decor for the garden, dressing it in a black tailcoat, a yellow hat, a scarf that matches the color and draw eyes with a beak. A foam pom-pom or an old tennis ball is attached to the top.
Penguins from plastic bottles
Such manipulations are repeated several times. A penguin shouldn't be bored. You can make a whole family of funny birds, and give them a cozy clearing on the site.
The flexibility and pliability of plastic allows you to work wonders out of it. In decorating a summer cottage, it can be used in all sorts of ways. A plastic bottle equally successfully transforms into both a lawn fence and garden furniture.
Fencing for flower beds made of plastic
Mosaic decor for the garden
A summer cottage is a fantastic space for expressing one's individuality and demonstrating creativity. If bright ideas in the design of the garden are not alien to you, then mosaic placers will be exactly what you need. Mosaics can be laid out garden paths and lake shores. It is permissible to decorate fences and inlaid garden furniture with it.
Mosaic decoration of garden furniture
This garden decor is truly versatile. This is a great way to update garden decorations, like worn sculptures. Mosaic masonry is made with pieces of old tiles, broken porcelain, glass.
How to decorate a summer cottage with mosaic placers? You don't need to have an artistic gift to do this kind of work. It is enough to carefully lay out the compositional elements. If you wish, you can try to create a specific pattern.
The use of mosaics for garden decor
Old tire as a flower garden
Finding a used car tire is a breeze these days. But they are an excellent material for decorating a site with your own hands, because they are ideal for building nice little maxi-pots for flowers. For greater decorativeness, the tire is cut on one side so that the teeth are visible. The base of the future flower bed is painted. Then the elements are laid out over the site, covered with soil and planted with your favorite flowers.
Flower garden from old tires
Old barrel in a new way
Having painted a rusted barrel with bright patterns, you can equip a house for ampelous plants in it. It is often converted into a vertical bed by cutting holes in the sidewalls. Barrels can also be included in garden decor as ordinary water storages. In this case, the emphasis should be on the originality of their painting.
Decorative painting of barrels for the garden
If there are no watering cans or basins left to decorate the summer cottage, and the flow of creative ideas does not dry out, take hold of the wicker baskets. They are not so durable, but after treatment with wood preservatives, they can last more than one season. They decorate the porch, terrace, gazebo.
Wicker baskets for garden decoration
You can talk about how to decorate a summer cottage for a long time. Let's try to choose the most attractive solutions.
A chair thrown away by someone can become the basis of a mini-flower garden. For an absolute transformation, you need to throw away the seat, replacing it with geotextiles, fill it with nutrient soil and you can plant flowers with a superficial root system, such as mosses, young, sedum. A pair of bindweeds that can beautifully wrap around the back and legs of the structure will not hurt either.
The chair can become the basis for a mini-flower garden
If there is no real pond in the garden decor, but you really want to get a pretty bridge into it, put it in a mixborder. Pouring water is imitated by low-growing or creeping plant species, and irises and other tall grasses will help decorate the banks of an impromptu stream.
Climbing plants imitate flowing water
Don't know how to decorate your backyard? Find an old umbrella, bike or wheelbarrow and transform it into a makeshift flower garden. The highlight of your flower bed collection can be shoes and shoes used as pots. Motley shoes can be placed around the garden, along the paths, nailed to the fence.
An old bicycle will become a highlight of garden decor
Do not rush to repair damaged paving slabs on the paths. These potholes are a great opportunity to decorate the garden plot with your own hands. The resulting pits are filled with soil and low-growing stonecrops, mosses, pansies are planted in them.
The summer cottage is always full of natural materials, quite suitable for transformation into garden ornaments. For example, it is easy to arrange an original flower bed in a stump by hollowing out its core. In the resulting hole, you can put a plant in a pot or saddle a flower garden in the standard way, filling the stump with earth and planting beautiful flowers. In highly cut dry trunks, it is good to plant liana-like and climbing plants. Beautifully falling from above, they form green or flowering columns, which can be played in a peculiar way in landscape design.
flower bed in stump
floating flower beds
The presence of a pond on the site is a real gift for a novice designer. The object can become the main decoration of the garden plot. To do this, it will be enough to decorate the water surface with a floating flower bed. They are easy to build. You will need:
1. A piece of foam.
2. A plastic container or an unnecessary basin.
3. Soil.
4. Ornamental plants.
The bottom of the plastic container is perforated and lined with geotextile. This will prevent the soil from being washed away by water. An impromptu flowerpot is filled with earth mixture and planted with flowers.
Foam base for floating flower bed
To give the floating flower bed greater stability, it is installed on a foam stand, the snow-whiteness of which is masked. You can hide the protruding edges under the turf or falling shoots of climbing plants.
Disguise pallet flower beds
When forming water decorations for a summer cottage with your own hands, give preference to water-breeding plants. This category includes undersized daylilies, swamp irises, hostas. Floating flower beds are equipped with an anchor or launched into free swimming.
Floating flowerbed in the pond
A leaky boat standing on the shore can also be turned into a flower bed. It will become not just a logical addition to the landscape, but an aesthetic link between the two elements - water and earth.
Flower bed from an old boat
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New duties of old tools
Old choppers, rakes and pitchforks are another unpretentious, but very effective way to decorate a site with your own hands. Having arranged them in a tripod in the center of the flower garden, you will get an excellent stand for climbing plants. Such a green pyramid will add charm to the whole landscape.
Old garden decor tool
Bright accent
In the spacious garden, you can arrange an unusual clearing, the main element of which will be the multi-colored tent of Scheherazade. It is made from a suspended hoop, to which a colorful translucent lightweight fabric is attached. Its ends can be left in free flight or fixed to nearby branches. Wicker furniture, as well as a hammock, will look good under such a canopy.
hoop tent
Through the Looking Glass
Optical illusions in garden decor are a very impressive thing. The reflection effect adds depth to the space. You need to hang mirrors in areas of the fence behind the trees. At right choice their locations, you will immediately notice how the boundaries of the site are erased.
Reflection effect adds depth to space
Non-standard bench
An old bench with a fallen seat can be repurposed as a garden decor item. The remaining frame can be filled with plants in flower pots.
Original flowerbed from an old bench
Branching installations
Dry branches and driftwood can also be used to decorate a summer cottage. Of these, you can lay out or weave a semblance of arches and gates, which will very successfully separate the yard from the garden.
branch arch
welcome guests
It is not at all necessary to make the garden sedate and prim. It can also create a fun environment. Gloves painted in different colors will help to show his funny side.
Masking extra elements
If there are not very aesthetically looking, but extremely necessary items in the garden, they should be converted into garden decorations, but this should not be done by rebuilding or dismantling, but simply by hiding unaesthetic objects under decorative covers.
magic lanterns
Fans of evening gatherings in the garden are well aware that in this case one cannot do without lighting. However, it is difficult to consider an ordinary light bulb as a garden decoration. It deprives the atmosphere of mystery.
Let yourself enjoy the effect of waiting for a miracle, filling the night with magic and romance. Add homemade lanterns to your garden decor. Cans of tin or glass origin can become their basis.
Lanterns from cans will fill the space with magic
In a tin, according to a previously drawn drawing, holes are stuffed with a nail. A burning candle is placed inside the prepared container. If the flashlight is planned to be hung to decorate the garden plot, then a wire handle is attached to the tin.
Tin can lanterns
Glass jars are stained with stained glass paints. Then proceed according to the already described algorithm.
Decor in the winter garden
For many, a dacha is a place of permanent residence, and not just a house for seasonal recreation, so the desire to see its territory attractive in winter is quite natural.
Garden and garden plots serve a very tangible practical purpose - their main purpose is to grow fruits and vegetables on them. That is, we use these territories for food. But these areas can be made the focus of style, transforming with the help of improvised materials and even unnecessary things that you wrote off, mistaking for trash. A simple garden decoration with your own hands - we have selected photos, little tricks and unusual ideas for you in this material.
The easiest and most common way to transform a site is, of course, its landscaping. Flowers and hedges are an organic and self-evident solution. Flowerbeds and green plantings are the best decorations for the garden. By adding greenery to the garden, you solve several problems at once.
- Flower beds will give the site well-groomed and "groomed".
- Vertical landscaping will add volume to the territory, hide some imperfections (withered trees or stumps, outbuildings with peeling paint, etc.). Use bindweed, ivy, hops and lemongrass.
- Hedges will help divide the territory into zones, hide your possessions from prying eyes. Usually use thuja, rosehip, jasmine and lilac.
Tip: if your choice fell on vertical gardening, and you want your garden to smell fragrant during the flowering season with blooming green carpets covering the walls, first stretch a rope or fishing line along them. This way the plants will cover the required area faster and grow better, plus you can control their direction.
Decor with an emphasis on practicality
- gazebos
If you want to arrange a place under the canopy of fruit trees to communicate with guests, better ideas than installing a gazebo, you will not find. Choose models made of wood rather than synthetic materials - they look nobler and fit organically into the atmosphere of any garden. In the garden, you can also make a mini gazebo to relax from work, or you can find an unusual creative greenhouse.
- Furniture
Furniture - good way ennoble at least a garden, at least a summer house, and even in a garden plot it will come in handy. A wrought iron bench or stylized chairs and tables will add sophistication and sophistication to the area, especially if you combine such furniture with a green hedge or a canopy of fresh flowers. So you solve two problems at once: a household item will serve as an element of decor.
- Fences and fences
The first thing that catches the eye of guests is the fence. Therefore, you also need to think about its decoration. Protection from prying eyes and intruders is important, but a fence can also serve more than just practical purposes.
Use a figured grid, metal fantasy elements. The fence can be planted with girlish grapes, the same ivy or roses. If your fence is solid, paint it with bright colors, use ornaments and floral patterns.
Liven up the fence with bright colors - this will add attractiveness to the entire site.
birdhouses
If you want the garden to always be filled with the chirping of birds, you can equip birdhouses, baths and feeders for birds. Use your imagination, forget about primitive square houses - make a birdhouse of an unusual shape, several floors, take care of the color. This will bring your garden to life, literally and figuratively - bird housing can be the highlight of your garden design.
An unusual birdhouse can be an interesting accent in the decor.
Paint Tip: Whatever you decide to paint, it's best to choose light, soothing colors as this will add light to the exterior.
- original backlight
If the area is large, you will need to illuminate the area at night. And all kinds of lanterns, lamps will come to the rescue in the design and decoration. Use hanging lanterns, which can be equipped with mini beds with hanging plants, large lanterns with candles, stained glass options and lamp houses. So the issue of lighting will be removed, and you can add mystery and even fabulousness to your garden. Garlands also look good.
With the right choice, the garden will be buried in flowers day and night.
- Let's add water
The most spectacular decorative garden decorations are ponds. Depending on the area, vary the size of the pond or stream. In addition, this is an excellent solution if the groundwater on the site lies close to the surface - such a move will allow you to occupy part of the land that is unsuitable for planting. If you decorate a pond with lilies, water lilies, launch live fish into it or throw a bridge, you will become the owner of a real Narnia. Nearby you can place figures of mermaids, fairy-tale creatures. You can decorate the pond with floating candles.
Turn on the creator mode: the quintessence of creativity
Using the resources of your imagination, you can make a truly unique and inimitable landscape design, there would be a desire. Moreover, it is not at all necessary to spend fabulous sums on the purchase of expensive sculptures made of bronze or stone. Independent garden decoration from improvised material is gaining more and more popularity, plus it allows you to prove yourself as a designer, sculptor, art artist, and so on and so forth.
Anything that catches your eye can be used. Look into the bins of closets and sheds - for sure there were old things that could be given a second life. A pinch of fantasy, bold adventurism and a sense of beauty - all that you and I will need in this exciting business. Well, and also, of course, a minimum of investments - you can’t do without it (for paint and other auxiliary materials).
- old shoes
If you paint unnecessary children's or adult shoes with paint (or, by the way, you can leave it like that, with deliberate shabbyness, just don't forget to wash it), they will turn into a spectacular element of decor. They can install small lamps along the path, build mini-flower beds from shoes, put candles in them and install them on the porch. Properly styled old shoes and the right context - and the shoes look appropriate and stylish.
Boots - a creative version of the flower bed
- broken things
Building materials lying around (wallpaper, sawdust, bricks and tiles) can be used for decoration if you approach this issue with creativity and a share of healthy irony. Cracked tiles or broken bricks can be broken into pieces and laid out with fragments of the path. If there are unnecessary CDs left in the house, they can also decorate the path.
Fragments can be hung on a fishing line to lamps, decorated with beads and rhinestones, you can lay out borders - depending on how much source material you have and how far you are ready to go for your idea.
Broken pots can be filled with earth, digging them a little into the ground, and planted with bright flowers so that no cracks can be seen - voila, the decor is ready.
The remains of crushed stone, sand and broken bricks can be painted in different colors and laid out around the flower beds in different patterns, it turns out very cool, try it. The same construction waste can be laid on the paths - there is no need to go the simplest way, laying them out with ordinary stone tiles, it's boring.
Unnecessary plastic and glass containers often accumulate in the country, especially after the holidays. Don't want to throw it away? Use it as a material for decorative purposes. A well-made garden decoration made of plastic bottles or glass containers will look expensive and unusual. Bottles can be used in different ways:
- The bottoms of glass bottles can be used to draw the same paths.
- Shapely cut plastic bottles make wonderful garlands for the garden, play with colors and textures, there are many master classes on this topic on the Internet.
- Bottles can be filled with colored bulk substances (sand, mulch) and made into a mini-fence for flower beds, laid out along the paths, used cut plastic bottles for planting small plants - it looks impressive.
- If the Great Experimenter lives in your soul and is strong enough, you can go further - make a house-lamp out of glass bottles and cement: the glass will transmit light, you will get a non-trivial decor element with a minimum of costs.
- The bottoms of the bottles can also be useful for decorating the house itself - at the porch you can make a mosaic out of them on the wall.
Photo ideas for using glass bottles:
Plastic bottles are useful everywhere
- Mirrors and frames
If you have a couple of old or cracked mirrors in your bins, with the right entourage and composition, their fragments will make your exterior truly spectacular. And if you have frames from old paintings or from the same mirrors, you can create a unique flower bed by combining these elements together.
As you can see for yourself, there are a whole sea of options for decorating a garden and vegetable garden. You can make art objects with your own hands, you can take ready-made elements as a basis and decorate to your liking. If you have imagination and a bit of patience, your site will sparkle with colors and colors. Try, experiment, be brave.
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