Every owner wants to make their summer cottage special and unique. But there are not always unlimited material possibilities for expensive landscape design. This does not mean at all that stylish, modern and original country house beauty with your own hands is impossible. With a minimum of costs, it is quite possible to create a paradise for relaxation and get maximum pleasure not only from the result, but also from the creative process.
When starting to decorate, it is advisable to immediately decide on the style of the intended decor. To be in line with the latest fashionable trends in landscape design, and to choose original and unusual garden decor, let’s pay attention to the options for the latest popular styles of decorating suburban areas.
Mini pond for a country house
Veranda - a territory of comfort
Many summer residents add verandas to their houses, where the whole family can relax in any weather.
It is important that it be a clear continuation of the style design of the house, but also have common motifs with the design of the territory of the personal plot.
Often verandas have to be painted. You can approach painting the veranda in an unconventional way and use different color shades, with which you can create several cozy areas.
Plants in pots and tubs located at the entrance to the veranda, hung in the form of flowerpots, will look original. An interesting solution would be to hide garden lamps powered by solar panels in them.
Path made of wood logs
At every dacha, logs appear from time to time and they can be used to design a path in the garden. To do this, it will be enough to cut them into rings, about 10-15 cm, and drive them halfway into the ground. It is only advisable to place them as close to yourself as possible, so that there are no large gaps. You can also design paths in the recreation area in this way.
The idea of antiquity
There are various options for designing a cottage and garden.
If there is no veranda in the house, then an original idea for a summer house would be to equip a patio surrounded by flowers and nature. This will be the most comfortable place in the country to relax, surrounded on all sides by green spaces. Even the rich people of ancient Rome loved to relax this way.
Based on our climatic conditions, it is better to equip the patio with a canopy or tent, which will reliably cover it from rain and sun.
To arrange a patio you will need:
Table and comfortable chairs or armchairs. It would be better if they were the same in design. The table can be of any shape, depending on the size of the area. For an open patio, it is better to use plastic or furniture woven from rattan, bamboo, or wicker.
Barbecue, with the help of which juicy and aromatic dishes are cooked on coals, delighting the guests.
Barbecue with skewers.
A fireplace that will not so much heat as decorate and serve as an additional source of light in the dark.
Children's corner and funny figures
If you have a large family, then most likely you have already allocated space on your garden plot to organize a playground. You should not disperse sculptures and figurines over the entire area of the site - it is better to arrange them in groups. You can make crafts with your own hands together with your children, let them be simple, but made with your own hands.
To the side of the house you can install a cute scarecrow made in the style of the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz. You can dress it in old clothes, make a head from an old white pillowcase and paint it, use unnecessary scraps or simple straw as stuffing. Draw a funny face for the scarecrow and install it. Looks very funny.
Conditionally divide the area into several zones; they can be limited with the help of hedges and decorative fences. Sculptures in the garden should fit into the design style of the site.
By the way, this cheerful and bright parrot is made from an old tire; who would have thought that such beauty could be made from unnecessary materials! And here comes the elephant...
From stones you can build a real fairy-tale castle, near which fairy-tale heroes will settle.
Original ideas for a summer house - beautiful and new
This funny bun can be made from polyurethane foam: it can live in the garden or in the hallway, pleasing the eye with its bright colors. Read a master class on creating such a bun from polyurethane foam here.
How to make such a beautiful craft with your own hands - read the article Sculpture from polyurethane foam for the garden
It is worth remembering that bright sculptures will enliven even the dark corners of the garden, bringing fun and joy into it. Less bright figures can be placed against an expressive background.
Guest from the Alps
An alpine slide is considered a decoration of a summer cottage, not only in summer, but also in winter. It must be multi-tiered, no higher than 1 meter and, if the size of the plot allows, located on the sunny side of the plot.
The structure should look normal, fit naturally into the design of the site and resemble an ordinary mountain valley.
Plants on an alpine hill should be low and unpretentious; it is better to use annual plants such as fern, periwinkle, lavender, matthiola.
In order to build an alpine slide, you must first prepare a base for it. To do this, the top layer of earth is dug up and a base is laid, consisting of crushed stone, gravel, old bricks, expanded clay, which are both drainage and the formation of a hill.
Next, this layer is covered with fertile soil, and stones of different sizes are laid. Earth is again poured between the stones to form the next tier. Typically, an alpine slide should have from 3 to 5 tiers.
The soil is thoroughly compacted. It is important to ensure that the planting area is horizontal.
At the end of the work, plants are planted, and the remaining voids are filled with pebbles or marble chips. You can decorate the alpine slide with decorative figurines and lanterns.
Advice from experienced summer residents
To make it simpler and easier to start arranging your dacha, you should take note of some advice from experienced summer residents:
- First you need to write a plan and divide the dacha plot into all the desired zones.
- You shouldn’t rush to throw away old things, because there are a lot of interesting ideas for making your own garden using unnecessary things.
- All decorative items must be made in the same style and combine harmoniously with each other.
- When designing original flower beds, you should make sure that they can be easily watered if necessary.
- Try to make and place all products in such a way as to minimize injuries.
Original barrel
Those who love originality can plant strawberries in a barrel. The barrel can be either metal, wood or plastic.
Use a metal barrel carefully. For her, a mandatory requirement is rust treatment. To do this, take a metal brush and thoroughly clean the barrel from traces of corrosion.
After cleaning, the barrel is washed with running water from a hose under high pressure. Next, you need to turn the barrel over and drill several holes with a diameter of about 5 cm in the bottom, closer to the middle.
Holes with a diameter of 7 cm must also be made in the walls of the barrel, placing them in rows at a distance of 30 cm row from row and 15 cm in a row. The last bottom row of holes will be 15 cm from the bottom.
Before filling the barrel with earth, drainage is done. To do this, old branches and tree branches are placed at the bottom of the barrel, and all this is sprinkled with sand.
Next, the barrel is filled with loose, fertile soil, and an adult plant with a lump of earth is planted in each hole in the walls and on top of the barrel.
The result will be a beautiful green column with red berries, which can decorate both the entrance to the terrace and the front garden, or hide any not very attractive place on the site. In the end, she will also delight you with the harvest!
DIY stone crafts for the garden at the dacha - for children and adults
Plastic bottles are, of course, wonderful, but original masterpieces can also be made from materials given to us by nature. Even simple gray stones, after successful processing, will take on a completely different look. Funny animal sculptures will create a sensation.
Photos of DIY stone crafts
Painted stone crafts will fill your garden with bright colors. Place such a cheerful family of ladybugs on your property.
Paint the stones with your own hands - you will have beautiful crafts for the garden
If you have artistic skills, you can draw a dozing cat, tiger, or funny cartoon creature on a large rock. The surface can be pre-leveled with regular putty. To prevent the paint from being washed away by precipitation, you can open the stone with a transparent varnish.
Beautiful crafts made from stones are not difficult at all
Vegetable bed
Housewives at their summer cottage often use such interesting ideas for their summer cottage as creating vegetable beds that will not only decorate the plot, but will also be a source of a rich harvest with excellent taste.
These flower beds vary in size and design depending on the size of the plot. If the plot is square, then a flower bed in the shape of a sun will look original.
In the center they dig up a small circle of earth, adding fertile soil, plant cabbage in the center of the flowerbed, and marigolds are planted at the edges, which will not only resemble the sun by blooming, but also protect the cabbage from butterflies.
On the ray beds, 3 furrows are made and vegetable crops are planted. Plants that are taller are planted in the central furrow. This could be cauliflower, dill, parsley, asparagus or radish.
Along the edges it is better to plant lollo rossa lettuce, squash, sorrel, and cucumbers. Nasturtium, green lettuce, and petunia can decorate the edge of a flowerbed, becoming an original border.
Aromatic herbs such as sage, spinach, thyme, onion, and garlic will get along well in such a flowerbed and become not only its decoration, but also a useful means of repelling harmful insects.
The ability to select plants that best suit each other is an important part of creating a vegetable bed.
It is important to consider not only what plants you want to see in the flowerbed, but also their ripening period and compatibility. The paths between the rows are sprinkled with yellow sand or gravel.
Skillful hands and imagination will help you create a summer cottage so that it becomes not only fun and unusual, but also a unique creation of your own hands.
When everything is done with soul, then relaxing at the dacha will always be a pleasure. In winter, preparing for the new dacha season, long evenings will be enough time to look at new photos of ideas for a dacha and choose something that will allow the dacha to sparkle with new colors.
Old stumps and products made from them
Unnecessary stumps left after uprooting the garden will also be useful to you for arranging your dacha and personal plot. If we consider a purely decorative function, original figurines and even such a miracle can be made from stumps.
This is a sawn tree buried in the ground, at one end of which there is a nose with sawn-out nostrils. The eyes of the miracle can be made from a mosaic or simply painted, the “fur” is herbaceous perennial plants, the ears are two sharp stones or logs.
You can organize a funny flower bed in an old stump or paint it, giving it a resemblance to a funny fairy-tale character or simply drawing a smiling face.
Stumps can be used to make wonderful garden furniture. A rough but original set will look perfect on the veranda or in the gazebo. However, it will be useful for the first time at home.
Another idea for a beautiful craft for the garden - do it yourself
Even in a flower bed, such painted stumps will look quite funny, the main thing is to get creative.
Even from stones you can build not only a fancy alpine slide or turn them into painted figures, but also make unpretentious garden furniture from them.
An interesting combination would be a tandem of stone and mosaic.
By the way, by placing old chairs on wheels, you can get a very interesting and comfortable place to relax in the garden.
Do-it-yourself crafts made from mosaics also look very cool; you can also use glass, round pebbles, and fragments of tiles left over from former times. The pieces of glass can be glued onto thickly rubbed paint, and then opened with clear varnish to protect them from the effects of precipitation.
Mosaics can be used to decorate borders, paths, and benches. The pieces are laid on cement mortar, and can then be coated with acrylic varnish. You can replace the tile pieces with small pebbles.
New ideas for a do-it-yourself garden - see photos
Turning to the topic of garden paths, we would like to offer you a few more original options that you can make yourself from scrap materials.
And for a country house you can make very beautiful and unusual furniture, on which there is no shame in even seating guests.
You can make original paintings and panels from scrap materials to decorate your country house.
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Even old pallets and boxes can be turned into something unusual by making a “buffet wall” with flowers inside the house. It looks very original, so you will have plenty of reasons to be proud of your dacha.
Bench for a summer residence
A bench for a summer house is the simplest and most basic item. You can make a bench with your own hands using different methods and methods. You can make a simple standard bench with or without a back, or you can have cup holders or a canopy, or place a small table on it...
The most popular material for making a bench with your own hands is wood. For a faster option, you can use unnecessary pallets; with their help it will be easier to complete this piece of furniture.
If there is no possibility or desire to make a canopy, then you can simply make a hole in the armrest of the bench so that you can attach a sun umbrella into it if necessary.
