New ideas for crafts to give. We decorate the cottage with our own hands: we make decorations from improvised materials. Vertical flower garden

Despite the fact that the area occupies a suburban area, you always want to ennoble it. It can be both expensive landscape design and do-it-yourself ideas for giving, embodied with the help of improvised materials. A beautiful and original site is able to attract the attention of passers-by and guests, and the owners themselves only push to create even more interesting details. Below is a photo of the main ideas for giving and garden made by hand from improvised materials.

Ideas for giving or another life for old furniture

Furniture that has not been used for its intended purpose for a long time can serve faithfully for more than one year. Having cleaned it of old paint and repainted it, you can create interesting ideas for giving:

chairs: after removing the seat, install large flower pots in their place;
dining table: by attaching the tabletop vertically to the wall of the house, while removing the legs and nailing two horizontal rails-holders, you can get a shoe stand;
chair back: in different variations, you can make a shelf or a hanger for small things, an original photo frame;
wooden bed: without legs, suspended on strong ropes or chains, a hanging bed is obtained;
chair seat with backrest: if you remove the legs and attach a rope, you can build children's.
door: great base for shelving, shelves, mirrors, hangers and even tables, headboards.

As a rule, old furniture is made of natural materials. In the skillful hands of a creative person, it will certainly become the basis of new and useful interior items.

Tire Garden Ideas

One of the classic options for using stones in the garden is fountains. In such structures, wet stone plays with a new color and takes on an interesting look. In an old tree or stump of stones, you can make a small house for the gnomes. Fans of exotic plants can create a garden from stones - a flower bed. And enterprising craftsmen can build mobile stone paths by making them from a metal mesh and laying pebbles in them.

Stone painting is another good solution for decorating the garden. For a drawing, you can choose any plot or picture: a ladybug, a house, a smiley, a cat. Having applied the contour with a pencil, it needs to be painted with acrylic paints.

Interesting ideas for giving with plastic bottles

Plastic is a readily available and inexpensive material. Thanks to such qualities as strength, flexibility and durability, modern craftsmen for summer cottages have found many applications for it:

funny crafts;
improvised tools and devices;
protective fences for trees from rodents and flowers;
bird feeder and fly trap;
pots and flowerpots for outdoor flowers.

For more serious DIY ideas for a summer house made of plastic, you will need a large number of bottles. For example, for, greenhouses, supports for climbing plants.

For these purposes, you should stock up on patience and ingenuity. Summer cottages are built from whole containers filled with sand or earth and fastened with screws. The soil will give strength and reliability to the structure.

Country ideas: use tree twigs

Wicker designs made of rods are the most economical option for decor in the country. You can weave baskets, arbors, benches, arches, supports for climbing plants, fencing fountains and ponds.

But the most common is the fence - wattle. They can protect not only a summer cottage, but also allocate a recreation area, a place for pets or green spaces. This do-it-yourself idea for giving in pictures and on the site looks especially and original.

To create a wicker fence, the twigs of willow trees growing in the lowlands near the water are used. You can also use young aspen, hazel, or any available branches of garden trees. For weaving, annual even shoots are taken, which are harvested in the fall. They are sanded, dried, tied in bunches and stored for storage. Before use, a dry vine should be steamed well, and for maximum security, it should be well treated with an antiseptic for wood.

Unfortunately, the traditional wattle fence is short-lived, it can last no more than 5 years. To prevent rotting of the fence, you need to install a low brick foundation or make a small drainage from the sand. Wattle can also be made from cattail or reeds.

It is better to paint any product from a vine with natural dyes:

hydrogen peroxide will give the rods a white color;
potassium permanganate or stain will give a brown color;
iron sulfate will make a gray tint.

It all depends on the creative nature of the master and skillful hands.

We build a miniature reservoir

Every summer resident dreams of installing a decorative pond on his site. After all, it is an indicator of design art and mastery of the owner. Regardless of whether the territory is small or there is no possibility to equip the construction of a full-scale pond, today this idea is quite feasible. Consider some interesting and quite simple ideas for giving with photos of miniature ponds.

They have a common technology - the selected tank is filled with gravel, pots with aquatic plants and filled with water:

For a pond, you can use small containers: large flower pots, a basin, a tub.
Pond in the largest possible capacity. The tank is installed in the chosen place of the garden.
An old barrel, dug mostly into the ground, creates a stationary, deep pond. It can be equipped with a fountain or a small waterfall.
Pond on the terrace. For this option, a container is suitable. Attached wheels allow you to make a miniature pond mobile.
The smallest reservoir can be built at home. Such a piece of nature will brighten up dull winter evenings, and in summer - a terrace in the country.

Ideas for giving - video

The landscaping of a summer cottage implies not only competent planning and cleanliness, but also a certain decor. Most often, various borders, original flower beds and garden sculptures are used for this. To avoid unnecessary costs, we decorate the cottage with our own hands, using only improvised materials.

For the manufacture of garden paths, a wide variety of materials are used: brick, stone, gravel, round cuts of wood, and others. To make the site look harmonious, all tracks must be of the same material and, preferably, the same width. The most important thing is that the surface does not slip and does not collapse under the influence of moisture.

Prices for paving slabs

paving slabs

For work you will need:

It is more convenient to lay out a path from a whole brick, but a more beautiful surface is obtained from a broken one. So, first mark the boundaries, and then remove a layer of turf 15-20 cm thick. The bottom of the trench is well tamped, covered with a layer of coarse sand. The sand is poured with water for greater compaction and the laying of bricks is started. Very often, a brick is laid out without cement mortar, filling all the gaps with sand, but the use of the mortar will make the masonry much more reliable and durable.

Brick can be laid in any way: in parallel rows along the length or width of the track, in a checkerboard pattern, randomly, intersperse a whole brick with a broken one, form geometric shapes. Each element must be tightly laid next to the others and knocked out with a rubber mallet so that it does not protrude above the surface. The denser the laying, the more reliable it is. In a similar way, paths are made of stone or gravel.

Learn from step-by-step instructions, how, in our new article.

wooden walkways

If there are a lot of old unnecessary trees in the country house, you can create very beautiful garden paths from chocks and saw cuts of trunks. The saw cuts must be of the same thickness, not less than 15 cm; It is not necessary to select according to the diameter of the workpiece. You can not use too cracked or rotten parts of the tree - they will not last even a season.

For work you will need:

saw cuts of thick branches and trunk;
bituminous mastic or waste oil;
geotextile;
coarse sand;
hammer;
shovel;
building level.

All saw cuts must be cleaned of bark and soaked with mining or hot drying oil from all sides. If bituminous mastic is used, the blanks are thickly coated on the side that will be in the ground. While the wood is drying, you can make markings on the ground and remove the top layer of the earth.

Laying saw cuts

The depth of the trench should be such that the saw cuts, after being installed on a sand cushion, are flush with the surface or slightly rise above the ground.

The bottom must be well tamped and covered with geotextile, releasing the edges of the material up on both sides of the trench. A layer of sand is poured, leveled, saw cuts are tightly installed and the gaps formed between them are filled with the same sand or screenings. With the help, they control the location of the saw cuts horizontally so that the track has a flat surface.

Beautiful homemade borders can be placed along the paths, around the flower beds, at the gate, or delimit the site into zones. For the manufacture of curbs, wooden chocks, rods, vines, bricks and stones, glass bottles, cinder blocks, and concrete are used. Broken glass, multi-colored pebbles and ceramic chips are used as decoration for concrete products.

Borders made of brick, stone and cinder block

To lay out a brick border, you will need:

According to the markup, a layer of earth is selected to a depth of 15 cm and a width of 20 cm. The bottom is compacted and covered with crushed stone to half the depth of the groove, and poured with mortar from above. When the mortar sets well, lay out the brick in rows in a checkerboard pattern. The border can be solid or have gaps - it depends on the amount of source material and the imagination of the master. In the same way, lay out a curb made of stone or cinder block.

To make the cinder block more decorative, you can use outdoor plaster and dye. After laying the cinder block and drying the solution, a plaster mixture is prepared: dry plaster is diluted with water and a coloring pigment is added. Now the surface of the border is covered with a decorative mixture and patterns are created using a spatula. This edging looks very attractive both along the paths and around the flower beds.

For wooden borders, small-diameter saw cuts, chumps made of branches, strong rods and antiseptic-impregnated hardwood timber are suitable. The blanks must be of the same size and without bark, otherwise the border will look very sloppy. First, all wooden elements must be soaked with used oil, drying oil or dried well in air.

While the workpieces are drying, you can make markings and select the soil to a depth of 15-20 cm. The bottom and walls of the groove should be covered with geotextiles, and then a layer of sand should be poured onto the bottom. Dried logs are alternately inserted into the groove, knocking with a mallet and checking their height by level. The gaps are filled with sand or screenings, soil is poured on the sides and compacted.

You can make neat and attractive concrete curbs. For this you will need:

Mark the borders of the curb and take out a layer of soil 15 cm thick. On both sides of the groove, formwork is installed from the boards and fixed with jumpers. The inner side of the formwork is upholstered with polyethylene to make the curb surface smooth. For the same reason, the boards should be as even as possible. As a reinforcing frame, 2-3 steel bars with a cross section of 10 mm can be laid, interconnected by wire at a short distance.

The solution is poured into the formwork, the surface is leveled with a trowel. After 2-3 hours, colored fragments of ceramics, pebbles, glass are pressed into raw concrete - everything that fantasy suggests. After a day, rub the irregularities and leave to dry completely. If desired, finished borders can be painted.

Border decorated with pebbles and lids

Making garden sculptures

Home-made garden sculptures can not only decorate the cottage, but also give it a special atmosphere and originality. You can use plywood, stumps, clay, gypsum or cement mortar, old car tires, scrap metal, plastic bottles and even polyurethane foam to make sculptures! The most important thing is that all the figures are combined with each other and in harmony with the surrounding landscape, otherwise the summer cottage will look like a warehouse.

It is easy to make any decorative figure from plywood. In the process of work you will need:

sample;
jigsaw;
waterproof plywood;
primer;
self-tapping screws;
screwdriver;
multicolored paint.

The figurine can be three-dimensional or flat, depending on the chosen template. Flat ones are easier to make and the process itself takes less time. To do this, a template is applied to the plywood sheet, circled with a pencil and cut off all the excess with a jigsaw. Then the sections are ground and the workpiece is treated with a protective primer. When the plywood dries, all that remains is to paint the figurine and install it in the garden.

Volumetric figures look more original and can perform additional functions, such as this cow.

To make it, you will need 4 identical sheets of plywood and several small fragments from which the head of the animal will be made. Additionally, you will need a metal or wooden frame and a container for plants. Plywood sheets are cut according to the template and fastened in the form of a box. The head of a cow is assembled from scraps, ears are attached to it and all together are screwed to the base. Then you need to properly paint the structure, dry it, and then install and fix it on the frame. A container is placed inside, filled with earth and ornamental plants are planted.

Find out how to do it with step by step instructions in our new article.

Plaster sculptures

Making a country planter from a gypsum mixture and a bottle

Children are very fond of creating various crafts with their own hands. To do this, you can use a variety of improvised materials:

paper,
cardboard,
plastic bottles,
flower pots, etc.

Especially if it's crafts for the street. If you live in a high-rise building and you have a cozy courtyard with a playground next to your house, you can decorate it with crafts from improvised means. If this is a private house, even more so: here your imagination is not limited. Street decorations are also suitable for kindergarten. Children will be especially pleased when you make crafts for the street with them. You can carefully consider all the proposed crafts in the photo and pictures.

Photos of the best works

original variants

So, what crafts can be done for the street or garden?

Ordinary plastic bottles make excellent flowers for decorating the garden. This will require:

2 or 3 plastic bottles,
waterproof glue,
paint sprayer for plastic
small block of foam
wooden pin,
colorful markers,
paper with adhesive tape
scissors or a knife for cutting bottles,
bending line.

Wash plastic bottles and let dry.

Using a ruler and markers, mark the cut lines on the bottles. If the bottle is small, a gap of 2.5 cm between the lines is sufficient; if the bottle is large, a gap of 5 cm or more can be made. Cut along the lines 1/3 of the bottle, starting from the top. Cut off the top of the bottle and discard.
If the bottles are colorless or if you want to give them a different color, they can be dyed before cutting. To do this, we put the bottle on a wooden pin upside down, install the pin in the foam and paint the bottles with a spray bottle and paint for plastic. It is advisable to do this in a well-ventilated area.
To make flowers from plastic bottles with your own hands, then you should bend the petals at a right angle to the bottle. We take 2 bottles, put them one inside the other and glue the bottoms, placing the petals so that they are visible in the gaps. The center of the flower can be decorated with paints, markers. Cut the bottoms of the glued bottles crosswise, pass a wooden pin through the slot and glue it on both sides. You can cut out a circle from colored frozen foam and glue it on the back of the flower. Let the glue dry. Such flowers are not afraid of moisture or dirt.

This is how they look like in the photo. What other crafts can be made from plastic bottles with your own hands? Look at the photo, maybe you will like something from the offer and you will do it in your garden or on the street.

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bottle crafts

What else can be done with plastic waste?

From ordinary flower pots you can make amazing bird houses, or birdhouses. In order to make a house with your own hands, you will need 2-4 clay flower pots for outdoor use, waterproof paint, and a brush. We turn the pots upside down and put one on top of the other. Above you can install a flashlight. The potted house can be painted in any color, draw doors and windows. If there are cracks or holes in the pots, this is even better. We make it like a window. The house will look beautiful on a playground for a kindergarten, in the courtyard of a private house. In the pictures you can see the design options for such houses. Similar crafts for the street are possible from any available means with your own hands. It is easy to make a whole hanging garden out of plastic bottles. What a fantasy for children's creativity! We will make flower pots from plastic bottles. To do this, cut a square hole in the bottle. We pour the earth into bottles, plant flowers there. We tie a fishing line or a strong rope along the wall on a support, tie the bottles in front and behind and hang them in rows in a checkerboard pattern. Hanging gardens are ready. When the flowers bloom, the bottles will not be visible. In the photo you can see what such a garden looks like. From improvised means you can build a beautiful street lamp. Such crafts are suitable for a garden in a private house, for a playground. Lanterns are easy to make with your own hands. We take bottles with thick walls. Inside we pour legumes, sand or small gravel to about half the jar. Place a candle inside. Instead of candles, you can use a more advanced version. We connect several light bulbs with wires and place each light bulb in a jar. To prevent the bulbs from falling out, we close the jars with lids, after making holes for the wire in them. We also build containers for seedlings from improvised means. Crafts can be entrusted to children. This is a real life saver for gardeners who do not have enough seedling boxes or do not have the means to purchase them. We collect shells from raw eggs. It is desirable that the egg remains intact at least two-thirds. Inside we pour the earth, plant a seed or seedlings. Subsequently, seedlings can be planted in the garden, without worrying about it. To pre-take out the plant: over time, the shell will rot and become a good fertilizer. If desired, children can paint each "pot" in their favorite colors. Anything can become a flower bed, even an old bicycle. To make it blend in with your landscape design, paint it a suitable color, such as white. Ahead, install a container with earth where flowers will be planted, or a ready-made pot of flowers. The bike will look unusual and stylish.

How else can you decorate the street near the child's kindergarten?

These photos will help you understand this issue.

Original ideas garden decorations with their own hands they will help to emphasize the natural charm and bring to life the hidden talents of the designer (and everyone has them). Before embarking on a responsible mission, inspect your supplies ... and go!

Advice! Remember the sacred rule of the real owner of the cottage: you can’t throw anything away!

To create extraordinary things, you will need things that are completely unnecessary at first glance: dilapidated furniture, old crockery, car tires, plastic bottles, firewood and scraps of building materials, tubs, barrels, holey shoes, etc. Use of stones, wood and plastic for decoration garden and cottages are the most effective ways.

Do-it-yourself garden decorations: dedication to design country art

The most important condition in the creation of decorative jewelry is a sense of style. First, outline a style direction for yourself (taking into account the size of the territory, the style of the garden and your own preferences). All ideas for decorating a garden plot can be divided into two groups:

functional;
non-functional.

DIY garden figures: functional ideas

This includes elements that harmoniously combine aesthetics and useful functionality.

Magic Ponds. If you have old metal/plastic bathtubs or other containers, use them to create peaceful pools. Plant aquatic plants in your ponds. You can even get unpretentious fish. Flowerbed decoration and reservoirs in the summer cottage can be trusted with boulders, pebbles or tiles.

Crafts for a garden from bottles and garden decoration with flowers (photo)

Flower world. Original flower beds from plastic bottles, old tires, unnecessary shoes, iron buckets. Here you can beat even an old bed, chairs, a bicycle or a chest of drawers. If large stumps remain on your site, do not rush to uproot them. From them you can make magnificent ones with your own hands. flowerpots for the garden and plant flowers there.

Advice! For flowerpots from stumps, additionally use clay pots (to plant flowers). Directly planting flowers in a tree is not worth it - it will rot from the water.

Romantic buildings. Plastic bottles can go into action (you can build a whole gazebo from them). And how do you like cozy benches with a canopy in the spirit of French villages? For this, raw logs of various sizes are used. From old armchairs or chairs you can build cozy swing or unusual crafts to decorate the garden with your own hands.

Wooden crafts for the garden and a decorative birdhouse for the garden with your own hands

Favorite birds. Our magical garden simply cannot do without bird overflows. To make the birds feel comfortable, you can come up with original wooden birdhouses for them. Decorate them decoupage, painting, decorative details. For the birdhouses themselves, you can use the remains of boards and wooden furniture. Birdhouses from old large boots look great. You can awaken your imagination and create a real miracle of starling thought from corks or large porcelain teapots.

Advice! Hanging birdhouses is best on deciduous trees, with a slight slope. And make the roof removable to make it easier to clean them.

DIY garden sculptures: decor

A world of pure aesthetics reigns here, which pleases the eye and gives a special charm to the whole appearance of the garden. Various souvenirs, funny animal figurines, garden crafts - such a garden decoration with your own hands from improvised materials will become a real "highlight" courtyard design.

Crafts from stones for the garden

Fantasy made of stone or wood. Wonderful little things can be made from stones or the remains of boards. Acrylic paints, beads, fragments of multi-colored glass will help you. You can create funny gnomes, little men, or just wonderful little animals or insects. And if you paint the surfaces of stumps or boulders with fluorescent paint, you will get magical night lanterns.

Advice! Involve your kids in the exciting work with paints and applications. You will have a wonderful time with them!

The revival of plastic. Using plastic bottles of different sizes in design is the most economical way to decorate a garden. What decoration for a summer residence from plastic bottles do you want?

Every person who has a dacha sooner or later thinks about decorating it. To do this, you can buy various elements by installing them at your summer cottage. But for people who want to do everything with their own hands, it will be much more interesting to create various crafts on their own, inventing something interesting and original or copying from finished products. By decorating the cottage with homemade crafts, you can create a very comfortable and cozy atmosphere that brings a lot of pleasure and attracts the attention of others. And the warmth of hand-made products cannot be compared with anything!

In addition, independent design of the cottage allows you to develop and realize your creative potential. And it’s also useful to use a number of old things that are a pity to throw away and are no longer in demand on the farm.

We have collected the latest DIY ideas for summer cottages in one place. And for your convenience, we have issued them in the form of a catalog with a detailed description and vivid images.

We choose ideas for giving with our own hands - a photo.

Each summer resident, if desired, can find a wide variety of ideas for giving do-it-yourself photos that are on the Internet. For the manufacture of small architectural forms, you can use improvised items that are in almost every household. At any cottage you can find some unnecessary furniture, building materials and many other items that may be useful in the design of the site.

The choice of an idea ultimately depends on personal preferences, skills, availability of the necessary tools and materials. As well as readiness for additional financial investments.

Try to find yourself an inspirer and a reliable assistant, then the work will go much faster and more fun. Yes, and a “side view” is certainly useful, especially for enthusiastic natures who find it difficult to stop in time. And remember that your dacha is primarily a natural landscape, and nature loves harmony.

Crafts for giving with your own hands from improvised materials with a photo.

Various kinds of crafts (figurines, houses for birds and pets) are the most popular and affordable objects for self-construction. As a rule, they are made from what is "at hand" and require a minimum investment of time. Thus, this is the most affordable and fastest way to transform the garden area. Next, we will take a closer look at specific ideas for giving.

We create funny figurines.

Even simple bottles from various drinks can be used to make figurines that will look beautiful in a summer cottage. For the manufacture of figures, you can use a wide variety of bottles and containers, pre-collecting it in the required quantity. From plastic bottles and other various containers, you can make animals decorating the site. It can be horses, piglets, cows and much more. By making various figures from bottles, you can reveal your talents and create more and more perfect crafts each time.

We make a birdhouse.

From a simple log house you can make a beautiful bird feeder. To do this, you need to pick up a saw cut of a tree of suitable thickness and cut a recess in it in the inner part, and then fix it on a tree or any other place convenient on the site. Putting food in the feeder, the birds will be able to peck it during flights and thus decorate your cottage. You can make a feeder of the simplest type from a variety of items, the same plastic bottles, similar ideas for giving your own hands, photos can always be found on the Internet and try to repeat.

We make a scarecrow.

Decorate the vegetable beds of your garden with an unusual scarecrow to scare away birds. As a result, you will get a double effect - you will save the crop and bring zest to your garden. A garden scarecrow is a benefit and a great mood for a summer resident.

There are a lot of options for decorating a summer cottage with your own hands, the main thing is to have desire and imagination. On the Internet you can always find a variety of photo examples.

Including imagination, a variety of objects can be used to decorate a summer cottage. Old tires are suitable for creating flower beds that can be painted and distributed throughout the site.

To make crafts with your own hands at your summer cottage, you can use the most common corks from plastic bottles. You will need a lot of traffic jams, but if you wish, you can find them. From bottle caps, you can make very beautiful patterns that decorate walls, fences and many other elements in a summer cottage or animal drawings. Bottle cap figurines and patterns can be painted in different colors, making the display even more interesting. With their help, you can create whole works of art.

Dacha outside the city often bought in the expectation that there would be a good rest from the bustle of the city for adults and children. When buying a cottage, everyone plans to create a unique design on their site, decorating it with products that will be made by themselves. Often there are summer cottages with well-groomed beds, on which there is a small house. Even a child will get bored in such a country house. Any even the smallest plot with a nondescript house will be transformed if you are not too lazy and embody the most unusual ideas for giving your own hands. Photos presented in this article. Use your imagination, put in a little effort, and passers-by will admire your garden.

Consider the land you bought as a space for the creativity of the whole family. Creative ideas for giving with your own hands can be made from improvised material. The entrance will go to everything you were going to throw away. Baskets, old earthenware jugs, barrels, car tires, even an uprooted old tree, with good processing, turn into a beautiful table and chairs. Find out even more items for creativity by reading the article about .

Ideas for giving with your own hands - landscaping.

We lay a pond.

From a natural stone on the territory of a summer cottage, you can lay out a beautiful pond of the most diverse forms. To do this, you need to determine its size, dig a recess, seal it, fill it with water and overlay it with a stone at your discretion.

Thinking over the play area.

Having thrown all their efforts into the improvement of a site or house, adults often forget about the arrangement of a children's corner. The design of a summer cottage should begin with the construction of a playground, this will help create a play area for children, and they will not interfere during work.

For construction you will need:

large saw cut of a log (swing base);

car tire cut in half (limiter);

wooden beams and boards.

And here is another selection of unique ideas for giving with your own hands, photos of which will help you decide on the architecture on the playground for children. Create a simple swing for a child, all kinds of slides with houses and rope ropes, a sandbox with seats on the sides and a heating element overhead from the sun. If your lot is too small to allocate space for a play area, create one off the lot. Connect the neighbors who have children and build a children's town using the material from the dismantled barns.

We make a fence.

An unusual fence will give your summer cottage originality and distinguish it favorably from the rest. Even the most ordinary at first glance fences can be transformed with the help of our ideas for giving with your own hands (photos prove this).

A regular chain-link mesh or garden trellis can be decorated with a stencil and paint. Looks very original.

Paint round timber with a sharp end in different colors, and your fence will turn into a huge set of pencils. Fun and pleasing to the eye.

Even an ordinary tyn will look harmonious in the overall ensemble of your garden.

Do-it-yourself fence to the dacha - a photo to the envy of the neighbors.

Laying garden paths.

Garden paths can transform any area. Even if you do not pay enough attention to the arrangement of flower beds and the construction of small architectural forms. The path in the country, paved with stone, wood or ceramics, will give you not only practicality and ease of movement around the site, but also lay the foundation for its further design. Wooden path.

The path, paved with tree rings, looks environmentally friendly and fits well into the natural landscape. Give it a more winding trajectory, plant coniferous trees along it and enjoy a leisurely walk "through the forest." - A great idea for a summer cottage with your own hands.

You can choose the diameter of the tree rings at your discretion, just like the order in which they are laid. The photos below perfectly illustrate the possibilities of using this material. And once again prove the boundlessness of the imagination of the creators.

Despite all the obvious advantages, wood is more susceptible to moisture and various pests. Therefore, be sure to take care of its primary processing. For processing saw cuts, mining or drying oil is suitable.

Substrate preparation is equally important. Work begins with marking and deepening the soil. The use of geotextiles extends the life of such a track. Wooden rings are laid on a sandy substrate, the gaps between them are covered with the same sand.

Stone path.

The material can be gravel, river pebbles, bricks, paving slabs, ceramics.

There are also a lot of variations on the theme of patterns. In order for the track to last as long as possible, take the time and effort to properly prepare the base.

The main stages include:

trench excavation;

Formation of gravel substrate;

Sand layer;

Laying the border and reducing the pattern;

Filling vertical voids with sand.

We break the flower garden.

There are many ideas for giving to create flower beds and flower beds with your own hands. This is a favorite place of work and rest for all women. Each hostess can create an original flower bed on her site.

Pyramidal flower beds with ampelous plants from old tires of different diameters or unnecessary containers will delight your guests and save space on the site.
You can organize an original flower garden using any item that is not needed in the household, such as a cart, an old chair, a basket or a clay tub.

We fantasize about a place to relax.

Connect the resting place and the play area with a wooden bridge towering over an artificial reservoir. Creating a small reservoir in a summer cottage is not a difficult task and everyone can do it. A beautifully designed small lake will become the central focus of the entire design of your dacha.

Create your own paradise! After reading the article "", you will learn how to create beautiful decor elements for home and garden from improvised materials.

Country sofa.

A well-maintained dacha with your own hands gives a lot more positive emotions from being on it. We invite you to discuss another object that has a beneficial effect on the dacha environment. This patio is a recreation area, usually paved with stone or wood. It can be adjacent to the house or be at a distance from it, but preferably in the open. Although the choice of the final version of the performance of the patio will be based on the prevailing climatic conditions.

Summer residents have already appreciated the patio as a place for friendly and family gatherings for barbecue or aromatic tea. And the main criterion for gathering a large company is the convenience of each of those present.

The central element of the patio, in addition to the table, can be a spacious sofa made from pallets. “That doesn’t sound good,” you might think. However, take a look at the magnificent versions of his performance! And you will not notice how you are already mentally scrolling through the construction and design of the country sofa in your head.

And so, let's get down to business! To begin with, we thoroughly clean the surface of the pallets and eliminate all traumatic elements (chips, nails, etc.) using woodworking tools (jigsaw, hammer, saw, planer, hacksaw, etc.). The specific list depends on the quality of the source material.

Since the sofa will mainly be outdoors, consider impregnating the pallets with protective agents. This will increase the service life, protect against mold and decay. And to assemble the structure together, you will need nails, corners, foam rubber and upholstery fabric.

The main stages of the implementation of this idea for a summer house with your own hands are as follows:

drawing creation;

assembly of a structure from pallets;

sheathing of the facade and sides with plywood for the aesthetics of the structure;

production of soft covers and pillows.

By the way, a similar sofa can also be placed in a gazebo or on the veranda of a country house.

Do-it-yourself dacha photo - exterior decoration of the house.

And so, if you ennobled the territory, and the soul and hands require continuation - take a look at the garden house itself. Perhaps its facade should be updated or made more attractive and cheerful.

Such creativity, otherwise this activity cannot be called otherwise, is also attractive because it allows you to escape from the routine realities of gardening (digging, weeding and watering). In addition, it does not require relentless work, because it can be performed in free time and with breaks. There are no time frames at all. Will you decorate the dacha facade for a week, a month, or finish only the next year - it depends on the level of complexity of the plan, the availability of improvised material and your irrepressible desire to create.

Of course, it will not be possible to tell about all the techniques for transforming the facade, but we will consider the most popular right now.

Mosaic facade.

A mosaic is a picture made of small elements of various shapes and colors. The material can be glass, ceramics, small pebbles, as well as corks from plastic bottles. On the last option, we will dwell in more detail. The advantages of a cork facade are its cheapness. And the difficulties lie in collecting the required number of traffic jams.

“What surface of the house should be exposed to this type of decor? - you ask. Absolutely any: from the ornament around the window or doorway to the integral design of the walls. Photos of the works of real craftsmen testify to the boundlessness of their imagination and inexhaustible patience.

When decorating a large area, focus on the symmetry of the ornament. Preliminary markup will help you with this. And in the process of mounting the covers, periodically move away and evaluate the harmony of your work.

Evening garland.

Glowing garlands are a unique way to create a romantic atmosphere in the country. Yes, it is romantic! It would seem, what kind of romance can be among the beds and greenhouses? If everything is organized correctly, then it is quite possible to allocate a corner for a pleasant pastime.

Such an idea for giving can be easily implemented with your own hands and used as part of a friendly outdoor party, as well as a festive attribute for lovers or newlyweds.

The color scheme of the garland is chosen according to the occasion. It can be an extravaganza of colorful lights or a monochromatic range. In the dark, large white light bulbs look spectacular and somewhat mysterious. And to prefer a warm or cold shade of white - decide for yourself!

Floral motifs.

Facade decoration with decorative plants and flowers has been used for a long time. Everyone met the walls of houses filled with greenery of liana-like plants (loach, wild grapes, etc.) But how many of you have heard of a vertical garden or useful gardening at home?

The most practical gardeners live in a constant need to make the most of the available fertile resources, especially in a situation with a small plot of land. And this, believe me, is not uncommon. Therefore, they decided that a number of fruit and vegetable crops could be grown in a somewhat non-standard way.

An example of this is the vertical bed - an interesting and useful way to decorate the facade of the house. There is, however, some limitation - a southern or southeast / western wall is suitable for such a bed.

The basis of the whole structure is a frame made of picket fence, nails and wire. It is on it that our fruitful shoots will crawl up. The stems are fixed (as they grow) with textile ropes or cellophane tapes.

Tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins and zucchini can now grow very close and delight the eye with natural colors.

By changing the frame structure, you can create different patterns on the wall, controlling the direction and density of plant growth. And such landscaping keeps cool inside the house on a hot day.

There are also more affordable landscaping options. These are flowerpots at the entrance and on the windowsill. Flowers in the morning will wake you up with their fragrance and cheer you up. And during the day they will bloom to the delight of guests and neighbors.

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