Now many residents of country houses seek to decorate a meadow or flower bed with an unusual composition that will attract the attention of passers-by and delight the owners and guests. Today you will be inspired to make crafts from various junk materials.
Plastic bottles are empty containers that nobody needs. Many simply throw them mercilessly into the trash can or trash can. But, experienced needlewomen carefully collect plastic bottles of various shapes and sizes. For what? For the manufacture of incredibly beautiful and original crafts for the garden and summer cottages. You can make different birds and animals, which will become a real decoration of the personal plot.
This article is devoted specifically to crafts for a garden and a summer residence with your own hands. You will learn about the secrets of making deer, sheep, cat, horse, etc. These funny and graceful hand-made animals look great in the garden too.
What materials can be used to create crafts
Before embarking on the aesthetic arrangement of a garden or vegetable garden, you need to carefully consider the idea of decoration.
The design solution can be anything: from the embodiment of the images of your favorite literary work to the creation of interplanetary transport. It all depends on the owners of the site, more precisely, on their abilities, the available free time for creativity, the possibilities of the family budget.
Today crafts for a summer residence can be made:
- made of metal;
- made of wood;
- from concrete and / or cement;
- made of stone (both natural and artificial);
- from brick or rubble;
- from plywood and chipboard;
- from cardboard sheets;
- from unnecessary furnishings;
- from tires;
- made of plastic.
When choosing a material, you need to consider it:
- moisture resistance;
- resistance to temperature fluctuations;
- resistance to mechanical influences.
These criteria will help determine the possible scope of use of this or that type of "raw material" for country homemade products.
What is useful for DIY decoration?
You can decorate the garden with many items that have served their time. Do not rush to take out in the trash:
- old furniture (chairs, bedside tables, stools);
- broken utensils (kettle, iron, metal saucers and basins, tanks, pots),
- banks;
- plastic bottles of any color and volume;
- thin shoes, clothes;
- remnants of building materials.
Excellent crafts for a summer residence are obtained from tires, stones, broken things - a bicycle, a suitcase, a wheel. They become the basis for great compositions and look harmoniously framed by flowers and other plants.
Decor from improvised means
A small vertical garden can be easily made using cut plastic pipes or gutters. They will need to be attached one above the other to a vertical surface. This placement will allow them to form a natural floral wall.
A novelty in landscape design is a funny hanging garden made of ornamental plants, made of buckets unnecessary in the household. A suitable container must be painted in any rich colors, with the help of hooks, hang around the perimeter of the territory fence and plant flowers.
You can update the gazebo by nailing wooden boxes in the form of shelves to its walls, and placing a composition of plants on them.
You can give the flower garden an unusual look by decorating its edges with painted flower pots, on which it is allowed to assign both the function of a fence and a living border. And for marking the border of the flower bed, it is appropriate to use branches and tree cuts.
If the area of the yard is limited, the design experts recommend decorating it with a multi-storey flower bed made of pots of different diameters standing on top of each other.
Ideas for giving with your own hands - arrangement of the territory.
We are laying the pond.
From natural stone on the territory of the summer cottage, you can lay out a beautiful pond of the most diverse shapes. To do this, you need to decide on its size, dig a depression, seal it, pour water and cover it with a stone at your discretion.
Thinking over the play area.
Having thrown all their strength into the improvement of a site or a house, adults often forget about the arrangement of a children's corner. The design of a summer cottage should start 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 (stop);
- 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 site is too small and does not allow you to allocate an area for the play area, create it outside the site. Connect neighbors who have children and build a playground using materials from disassembled sheds.
We decorate the fence.
An unusual fence will add originality to your summer cottage and will favorably distinguish it from the rest. Even the most ordinary fences at first glance can be transformed with the help of our DIY ideas for summer cottages.
- A regular mesh netting or garden trellis can be decorated with a stencil and paint. It looks very original.
- Paint a 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 at the cottage - a photo to the envy of 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. A 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 walkway.
The path, paved with tree rings, looks environmentally friendly and fits well into the natural landscape. Give it a more winding trajectory, plant conifers along it and enjoy a leisurely walk through the forest. - An excellent variant of the idea for giving with your own hands.
You can choose the diameter of the wood rings at your discretion, in the same way as the order of their laying. The photos below perfectly illustrate the possibilities of using this material. And once again they prove the infinity of the creators' imagination.
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, working off or drying oil is suitable.
Substrate preparation is equally important. Work begins with marking and deepening the soil. The use of geotextiles extends the lifespan of such a track.Wooden rings are laid on a sandy substrate, the gaps between them are filled with the same sand.
Stone path.
The material can be gravel, river pebbles, bricks, paving slabs, ceramics.
There are also a great many variations on the theme of patterns. In order for the track to last as long as possible, take the time and energy to properly prepare the base.
The main stages include:
- Digging a trench;
- Formation of a gravel substrate;
- Sand layer;
- Curb styling and pattern reduction;
- Filling vertical voids with sand.
We break up 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 for all women to work and rest. Each housewife can create an original flower bed on her site.
- Pyramidal flower beds with ampelous plants made of 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, for example, a cart, an old chair, a basket or a clay tub.
We fantasize over a place to rest.
An interesting activity for the owners will be the arrangement of a place for rest. Benches and tables made of natural wood, hammocks, beautifully laid out garden tiles and a fireplace, an equipped place for a barbecue, an openwork gazebo, great ideas for a recreation area. You will also learn a lot of interesting things by reading the article "finishing inside the bath photo".
Make a barbecue from an old iron barrel, sew colorful hammocks and large cushions for garden benches to sit comfortably while drinking tea in the fresh air. Such a place, in the country made by hand and according to its design, will be filled with comfort and warmth. Find out more by reading the article on "DIY brick barbecue".
Connect the resting place and the play area with a wooden bridge overlooking an artificial reservoir. The creation of a small reservoir at a summer cottage is not difficult and everyone can do it. A beautifully designed small lake will become the central accent of the entire design of your summer cottage.
Create a piece of paradise with your own hands! After reading the article "weaving from newspaper tubes", you will learn how to create wonderful decorative elements for home and summer cottages from scrap materials.
Country sofa.
A well-maintained dacha with your own hands, a photo 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 seating area, usually paved with stone or wood. It can be adjacent to the house or be located at a distance from it, but preferably in the open air. Although the choice of the final version 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 over a barbecue or aromatic tea. And the main criterion for gathering a large company is the convenience of each of those present.
In addition to the table, a spacious sofa made of pallets can serve as the centerpiece of the patio. "Doesn't sound very good" - you might think. However, take a look at the great options! And you will not notice how you are already mentally scrolling through the structure 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 remove all traumatic elements (chips, nails, etc.) using woodworking tools (jigsaw, hammer, saw, plane, hacksaw, etc.). The specific list depends on the quality of the source material.
Since the sofa will mostly be outdoors, consider impregnating the pallets with protective equipment. 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 implementing this idea for a summer residence with your own hands are as follows:
- drawing creation;
- assembly of a structure from pallets;
- sheathing of the facade and sides with plywood for 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.
Crafts from plastic bottles
Modern mineral water and lemonade bottles come in a variety of sizes, colors and shapes. Therefore, they are a convenient "raw material" for garden crafts. From plastic you can get:
- a gorgeous palm tree, a beautiful spruce or pine tree, voluminous flowers;
- adorable pig, intricate hedgehog, graceful butterfly, ladybug or dragonfly;
- figurines of various birds and amphibians;
- aesthetic fencing of a flower bed, playground;
- garden furniture;
- gazebo;
- greenhouse;
- flowerpots.
Useful homemade products for the garden
Many people build useful homemade garden products from old barrels. They will help save time spent on gardening and gardening work in order to devote it to relaxation.
From useful homemade products, you can advise gardeners to do:
- self-watering system from plastic bottles;
- self-ventilating greenhouse;
- lawn mowers from an electric drill or grinder, an engine from an old washing machine;
- greenhouse or greenhouse made of polypropylene pipes.
Simple designs can be developed independently or you can find homemade drawings on the Internet.
Bottle Cap Garden Accessories
Plastic bottle caps are the easiest material for creating exquisite mosaic images. They are glued or nailed to the base and covered with two layers of varnish. Thus, you can make not only panels and paintings, but also rugs.
Also, such improvised means are used as a compact pavement covering. And, by stringing them on a fishing line, you can get a nice little curtain covering the opening of the front door in the gazebo.
Vertical flower garden or vegetable garden
Decorating a fence, wall of a country or garden house, utility block is not an easy task. One of the options from the category of "cheap and cheerful" is to make a vertical flower garden. Bags or small-sized and volumetric containers filled with soil are suspended on any vertical or inclined surface. Such crafts for the garden and summer cottages are good because you can attach any rubbish - bottles, boxes, pipe cuttings. From all this, you can make original pots.
It can be very beautiful
Most often, ampelous flowering or green plants are planted on such flowering walls. Unpretentious regular petunias and pelargoniums are best suited. Surfinia (very similar to petunia) and nasturtium are also planted. They bloom for a long time, and do not require special care. Any herbaceous plants with long hanging branches are suitable.
So what else can you make the basis for a vertical flower garden? Yes from anything. Everything that can be poured into with even a little earth. See for yourself.
Flower pots
Plastic or clay pots remained - it doesn't matter. Even if they are old and unsightly, they can be painted with some fun paint. And if they are also of different sizes, you get a very original panel.
It is not difficult to make a lattice from slats. It's even easier to hang flower pots on it.
Hanging a pot on a stretched mesh-netting is a matter of a couple of minutes. All you need is a piece of wire.
Even an old dry tree can become the basis for a vertical flower garden.
Pots of the same color, but different shapes and sizes also look great
Plastic containers can be nailed through and through, although this is not a good idea. For earthenware or ceramic ones, you will have to make a "holder" out of wire - a circle that can be attached to a wall / fence, or can be hung on ropes from a crossbar. In general, only here there are a lot of options. Such crafts for a garden and a summer residence do not take much time and the result is pleasing to the eye.
Cans
It is not a problem to find cans of different sizes and sizes. Small and medium ones can be used in the form of cylinders, and large or long ones can be cut in half lengthways or remove a third of the radius from one side. This is how you like it best.
Pillars can also become a support for a hanging flower bed.Painting cans in cheerful colors - it turns out very well
The mounting methods are the same as for pots: those that are smaller can be fixed on supports, the larger ones can be hung. To use waste material - cans - and make attractive and useful handicrafts for a garden and a summer cottage out of them ... Isn't this the height of pleasure.
Plastic bottles
How can it be without them? We twist the lid, cut off about a third from the long side. The mounting method is described above. There is also an option with minimal damage to the wall. Knock down the lattice of wooden planks. Fix this lattice on the wall, and attach the bottles to it with screws or carnations.
You can cut neat flower pots from two-liter bottles
This blooming wall needs plastic bottles with lids, twine and two washers per bottle.
A wall of flowers - hang on the frame and wait until there is more greenery. Fasten to the slats (left) or one to one (right). Take a closer look at the second option - there is a built-in irrigation system - a thin tube with holes for water outlet is passed from top to bottom
You can make such cute pots.
If milk or kefir bottles are not a problem, the plastic is opaque, the root system will be comfortable in it. To drain excess moisture, you will need to make several holes in the lower part. They can be made with a nail heated over a fire. Fast and hassle-free. If the bottles are transparent, it is advisable to paint them. The roots of the abundance of light do not like. You can use ordinary paint (better - acrylic, it fits easily even on bottles), but it's faster to work with spray cans. It is better to paint outside. The paint will decompose quickly inside.
From fabric
From burlap, any more or less dense fabric they sew a bag with pockets under the ground. You can use an old organizer (for shoes, toys, etc.). In general, everything is simple with these candidates for vertical flower beds: we fasten with nails / screws through the bar (otherwise the fabric will tear). Then we put soil in our pockets and plant flowers.
Crafts for the garden and the cottage: even a novice seamstress can sew a similar bag
If there are a large number of linen or canvas bags, you can hang them on hooks and fill them with soil This is an option for planting border flowers
You can sew or use linen bags. Hang them on hooks. You can plant plants in them from above and / or make holes in the sidewall. If sewing is not your strong point, enterprising Chinese sew such bags for hanging flower beds. Such crafts for the garden and dacha already require more effort - bags / sacks are usually sewn. But the blooming wall looks unforgettable.
Sewer or drain pipe cuttings
We take plastic pipes. We cut them in half lengthwise and get two long containers for planting plants. If you don't have your own leftovers, you can buy trimmings on the market, from construction crews. You need small pieces, so this beauty will not cost much.
Plastic pipes can be used as a trample under pots - drill holes in them for a pot Such are the structures - you can put or hang
You can plant flowers directly into pipes - you can cut them lengthwise or make holes
Multi-storey vertical flower garden with daffodils
You just need to figure out how to close up the edges. The easiest way is the bottoms of a plastic bottle. Find the right size, cut it so that there are 2-3 cm of walls, put it on the edges and fasten it. You can attach it to small screws. They pierce plastic well.
Small wooden crates
Wooden crates can be hung in two ways. The first is to fix it like a regular box on one of the sides.The second is to hang not like a box, but like a frame - sideways. The second option gives more options: you can pour earth directly into the boxes, or you can use them as stands for any other containers with flowers.
A panel of boards and boxes with flowers - stylish Crafts for a summer cottage and a garden - such hanging boxes will decorate the wall of a house and a shed Different sizes and formats of boxes and the decoration themselves, and a support for pots with flowers
If your wall is beautiful and you don't want to get it dirty, you can assemble something like a panel from the boards, on which the boxes have already been fixed. This option is no longer quite suburban. It is also suitable for a respectable yard. Wood and greenery look very attractive. And so that the boards do not darken, treat them with wood oil with dye. Such a coating needs to be renewed infrequently, and the old impregnation does not need to be removed.
Ideas for flower beds from old things
As it turned out, a flower bed can be made of everything. Even old pants, a bicycle, a boat, an old chandelier, a chest of drawers, a chair, a kitchen table are used ... Moreover, this is not an ordinary standard flower bed, but an art object that few people will forget. There are very interesting ideas. These crafts for a garden and a summer residence will definitely be remembered by everyone.
From cargo pallets, you can create a wall that will cover the southern wall from the hot sun and plant plants on it. Even old chandeliers sometimes bloom ...
Using an old planting cart is not too new, but it always looks fresh
Decorate the fence by pinning an old bicycle to it ... and plant flowers "On the bike" Don't know what to do with your old trousers? Into their garden! Is the ancient piano lying in the bushes? From it you can make not only a flower garden, but also a waterfall ...
Is there an old boat? Make a bed out of it ... There is nowhere to put the chest of drawers? Pour earth into the boxes and plant flowers The problem of recycling old shoes is always acute - and there is no one to give it to and throw it away ...
Flower pots make great garden decorations
From the same pots, you can collect an unusual round or oval flower bed
Even an old suitcase can be an interesting flower bed.
Tellingly, such crafts for a garden and a summer residence also help to get rid of trash. Maybe you should consider everything available for use in this vein?
Tire decor
An old oversized tire, for example, from a truck, can be easily turned into a pond - just cover it with a film and fill it with water, and put pebbles or river sand around the perimeter.
Often, tires are used in the arrangement of sports and playgrounds. They make good obstacle courses, swings, sandboxes, etc.
You can also make stylish garden furniture from tires. Another original idea is an unusual flower bed. To create it, you will need only a couple of hours of free time, and you can involve a child in painting.
Basis for crafts
Before you start tinkering, it is better to look back and see what you can make a craft for the garden without buying additional materials.
So, the basis for an interesting decor can be:
- old car tires;
- boards, sticks, driftwood;
- broken pots, pots, boxes;
- various containers (buckets, wheelbarrows, pots, troughs);
- improvised materials (stones, cones, branches).
The list can be extended indefinitely, because there is always a broken tin kettle or a broken lamp from a chandelier on the farm.
The main thing is to show imagination and try to rebuild the ideas and instructions for making crafts for the available materials.
Garden Sculpture Ideas
A variety of materials are used for self-production of figures. Sculptures for the garden are concrete, plaster, wood, wire, made from household utensils and even cast from polyurethane foam.
The fence will sparkle with new colors if you decorate it with carved plywood figures of domestic animals and birds.Ceramic pots for indoor plants can also play the role of a good "raw material" for country crafts.
You can create original figures of insects, chickens, geese from balloons and concrete. Consider a master class:
- Inflate the balloons to the correct size.
- Make a concrete solution.
- Cover the balls with the prepared mixture and leave to dry for a while.
- After the concrete has hardened, remove the balls, and paint the blanks and use them as components of amazing garden sculptures.
After impregnating a piece of burlap with cement, it must be carefully hung on any cylindrical object, beautifully draped. And after drying, the workpiece should be painted or decorated in some other way. Then you need to fill in the earth and plant the plants you like.
A similar technology is used to create figurines. These can be dolls, figurines of animals made of rubber or plastic. All that is required is to coat the finished templates with a cement mixture and cover with paint.
To date, many good crafts have been invented for decorating the local area. The Internet is full of photos on the relevant topic. You can use a ready-made idea or come up with something of your own based on it, getting a truly unique decor.
Functional crafts for summer cottages and gardens - pallet garden furniture
Buying summer cottage furniture in stores is not the best option. You won't take an expensive one, the cheap one is made of fiberboard, which swells from humidity in an unheated room and the furniture becomes unusable. So it turns out that the best way out is to do it yourself. There are many ideas that allow you to get a very comfortable environment with a minimal investment of time and money.
A work table and a swing from pallets - such crafts for a garden and a summer residence from the category of "cheap and cheerful"
There are many oddities in our country. One of them is the use of wood for the manufacture of pallets. You can buy used pallets quite inexpensively - they are written off after a certain period of time. It is from these pallets that you can make a table, sofa, armchair and many more different useful furniture. For sofas / armchairs, additional cushions or foam mats will need to be sewn, but this is not a problem for most. It is doubly pleasant to make such crafts for the garden and summer cottages - every time you get a charge of positive emotions when you see them, and even when you use them ...
Pallet handling
The wood is not of the best quality, but it is many times better than fiberboard. Especially for a summer residence. So, we take the pallet, we grind the wood. You can, of course, manually using sandpaper with different grains, but it will go faster if you use devices. Emery wheels of red color on the grinder are suitable, but the processing will be of better quality when using grinders.
Two types of sofas / benches
After sanding, we proceed to the initial stage of assembly, and then, before the final assembly, it will be possible to paint. Why not paint right away? Because during the manufacture, ideas come up, for the implementation of which it is necessary to remove or add one or two or more planks. If the pallets are already painted, light / dark spots remain, which are then difficult to make in the same color. In general, it is better to first try on what and how it will be, and paint everything before assembly.
You can paint with any paint on wood, but do not forget about wood oils. They do not create a film of coloring matter on the surface, but penetrate inside, simultaneously protecting the wood and toning it. When using oils, the texture of the wood is not painted over, but appears brighter. The advantage is that the coating must be renewed without cleaning off the old one, but only by covering / impregnating the top layer. In general, a good option if you want to preserve the texture of the wood.
Connection methods
The pallets are connected to each other with nails or wood screws.In particularly stressed places, metal mounting plates can be used - so that they do not move 100% relative to each other.
A whole corner for relaxation
The inclination of the back in the manufacture of armchairs / sofas can be set using metal strips or corners welded at the desired angle. It may not be very aesthetically pleasing, but it reliably and perfectly fits into the general style of "pallet" furniture. In general, everything is really simple, even if you have not done anything like this before.
