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Once we become the owner summer cottage, the concept of landscape design takes on a completely different meaning. I immediately want to direct my creativity to decorating my favorite dacha, to realize creative ideas and plans in crafts with my own hands. Most importantly, a modern summer resident does not need to purchase any materials or equipment for this. For bold ideas for country decorations, any unnecessary things that have already served their time will be useful.
Just look at them from a different angle and try to avoid the usual stereotypes. And add humor. Then your dacha will be the most favorite place for the whole family. After all, there you can not only work, grow the necessary vegetables and fruits, but also have a good rest. Making garden decorations with your own hands is not only profitable, but also useful.
The benefits of this action are enormous:
- Unnecessary things are reborn. Sometimes, a completely unpredictable decision transforms a site beyond recognition, making it more comfortable and beautiful.
- Family creativity opportunity. Children and adults alike love to participate in this process. Working together inspires kids so much that in the future they themselves will come up with new ideas.And another plus is that children will not break handmade crafts.
- If your own ideas are not enough, you can use photos posted by other summer residents. Or watch how neighbors decorate their property. So, you can make new creative friends.
In any case, it will fill your life with new energies, beauty and inspiration. DIY garden decorations will become your favorite pastime on the property.
We invent and create
It is almost impossible to imagine a cottage or garden plot without flowers and decorations. You don’t have to give up beautiful flower beds with luxurious flower beds. You can add variety by using unusual solutions. Mini flower beds are easy to make from scrap materials. The only important component will be ordinary earth. It must be poured into any of your inventions.
Old shoes
There is plenty of such material in any family. If you still don’t have enough, then friends who don’t have a dacha will definitely help out. These are the best flowerpots for your favorite country flowers. You can decorate not only a children’s playground with such designer crafts, but also a fence, a bench, or a porch. Even on the lawn, such a decoration will look very impressive. Abandoned, forgotten by everyone, a shoe in which flowers grew. Children really like this idea.
For the sake of original design, some even use sports shoes.
A composition of several pairs of shoes will perfectly complete a family design project.
A combination of shoes and boots from all family members will decorate the porch or lawn better than the most fashionable item. Such garden decorations look very stylish.
Dishes
Here the scope for creativity is unlimited.Even broken dishes or a leaky bucket are perfect for decorating your summer cottage with your own hands. One has only to pick up paints, and old plates, jugs, buckets and basins are transformed before our eyes.
Made in this way, garden decorations can be placed in the most unexpected places - on the shore of a pond, on a bench in the garden, on a stool, along a fence, in a greenhouse and in garden beds. Any place will become brighter and more fun. Often old tea sets that are either out of fashion or half broken are taken to the dacha. It is not necessary to make garden decorations out of them for your dacha. An excellent solution would be to create a composition for your home. If you place cups, saucers or a milk jug on an old candlestick, this decoration will transform the room.
Old spoons and forks will also be used here. By adding a board, we get an original hanger. An amazing decoration for a modern cottage. You can see what it looks like in the photo.
Craftsmen with great experience are able to create real masterpieces. In the photo there is a chandelier made from cutlery and an old lamp.
Not everyone can boast of such decorations in their dacha.
Furniture
A very profitable creative option for decorating a garden. Furniture with flowers can take up a lot of space on the site. This makes it possible to play with space without much expense. And when you want to change the garden decorations for your dacha, you don’t have to dismantle anything. Simply move old furniture to another location or change the decor. Colorful photos will help realize such ideas.
Looks great on a summer cottage:
- bed;
- dresser;
- old piano;
- typewriter;
- broken chairs.
Furniture can be combined in one area, painted in an unusual color, or other small elements can be added. This design solution will help add originality to an ordinary area. Garden decorations do not have to be new.
Regular stumps
At an old dacha or after construction work on a new site, cuttings of logs or stumps of old trees are sure to remain. Do not rush to throw away such a valuable decorative element. You can make creative decorations in your area. To make such an unexpected flower pot for your dacha original, you will have to work on it a little. Select a stump without signs of rotting or disease. Flowers need space, so the core is removed. This can be done using different tools. A jigsaw, pickaxe, drill, regular hammer and chisel will do. Depending on the size of the stump, this process takes a fair amount of time. The bark is not removed, but is treated with an antiseptic and antifungal solution. The core also needs to be treated to protect flowers in the country from diseases. A suitable container is inserted inside the stump and soil is filled. If the soil is placed directly into the cavity of the stump, it will collapse faster. Low-growing border flowers, garden shrubs, even junipers are suitable for planting in pots. The main thing is to maintain the proportions between the plants and the stump. Your garden decoration is ready. The photo shows a transformed stump.
Construction remains
The most numerous of this category are usually boards and bricks. Old logs will be used to make swings, garden furniture, toys, and various fairy-tale compositions.
Any of these decorations will refresh your dacha or garden plot.
If you cut the logs into low bars, then the “forester’s path” is ready.From the same sawn remains you can make a playground design.
Children will be pleased with the comfortable benches, slides, and designer cars.
Tires
If your dacha or garden plot is located outside the city, then theoretically you already have a car. Many gardeners use old tires for strawberry beds or leaf crop design. But it turns out that decorating a garden plot or cottage with the help of these elements will turn out no worse. Craftsmen carve figures of birds and animals.
The simplest solution is to make a flowerbed and paint it the desired color.
Very simple and useful. This decoration on the site looks very harmonious.
Plastic and glass bottles. Making an original garden decoration from glass bottles will take time and patience.
A very important feature of such crafts is their waterproofness. They do not burn, do not melt in the sun, and do not get wet in water. Even from fragments you can create masterpieces that will delight the eye. Plastic bottles are more flexible and capable of transformation. Talented craftsmen make figurines of animals, trees (palm trees), fences for flower beds and beds from bottles. By painting the bottles in different colors, each one gives the garden decorations a unique design.
Streams and waterfalls
An original decoration for a dacha will be a “dry” pond or stream, an alpine slide, made from the remains of building stone. By adding metal or forged parts, you can build a wonderful bridge across a stream. It’s not difficult to build such a decoration for your dacha, but you can be sure that it will be exclusive. A wonderful idea for creating garden decorations is a flower stream.
Old dishes, a little imagination and hard work - your decoration will be hard to miss. Photos of similar projects:
You can use old suitcases and umbrellas to create decorations in your dacha. Floating flower beds will create bright islands on a pond or river and add romanticism. Lanterns made of tin and metal will make a walk on the path fabulous. Even an old broken bicycle will serve for a long time. Such decoration for a dacha, in general, does not require any expenses.
And a colorful photograph of your masterpiece, posted on the websites of summer residents, will be a help for other craftsmen.
Remains of metal rods are also suitable for creating designer jewelry. Arches on the garden path, entwined with ivy or roses, will definitely add coziness. Figures made of wood, hemp or rope will enliven the clearing and lawn. Even a straw scarecrow in a garden bed, dressed in the “latest fashion”, is an excellent decoration for a summer house.
Conclusion
The main thing is, don't be afraid to experiment. Any homemade garden decoration will bring invaluable benefits. After all, beauty in the area is the key to good mood and health. And old things will be very happy to serve their owner again. When you want to change the design of your dacha, you will immediately find new ideas. And their implementation will add creative inspiration. Therefore, your dacha will always be bright, beautiful and, most importantly, loved.
