At dachas and country houses, a large number of unnecessary junk items often accumulate. Dilapidated furniture, tires, plastic and glass containers - all this is a wonderful basis for the invention of country decor. By inventing garden crafts with your own hands, you can not only save your family budget, but also spend quality time with your loved ones.
Joint activities bring people together, and hand-made items contribute to the development of imagination and creative thinking. Children are happy to join in the creation and design of homemade products, which gives a lot of positive emotions and pride in the work successfully done.
Brief overview of the article
- Curtain made from plastic bottles
- Wood products
- Crafts from old tires
- Flowerbed "Frog Princess"
- Cement products
- Flowerbed in the form of palms
- Furniture and decor items from waste pallets
- Flower beds made from waste materials
- CD decor
- Garden products made from stones
- Photos of crafts for the garden
Curtain made from plastic bottles
A version of this craft for a summer house is perfect for decorating a gazebo in a garden recreation area. To make an unusual curtain from plastic bottles, you need to cut off the bottoms of 0.5 liter bottles with scissors or a knife.
In order for the shape to have smooth outlines and resemble a flower, a small depression should be left in the workpiece. If desired, at this stage you can repaint the flowers in the color you like.
To ensure that the cut plastic is not sharp, the edges of the molds are scorched for a few seconds with sand heated in a metal bowl - this can also be done as desired. Then holes are made in the blanks with an awl and strung on a strong fishing line.
DIY hammock
You can make an excellent home hammock from a wide rectangular piece of thick fabric and a skein of strong rope. After all, there is nothing easier than stretching the canvas between two supports. And if you want it to hold its shape better, first sew loops to the fabric and put it on a round wooden frame - like curtains on a cornice.
Photo: avsycheva-landscape-design.ru
Wood products
Wood crafts at the dacha look no less creative and original. This material will undoubtedly be found in any country house. The first association that arises is a wooden table or bench. Moreover, it is not necessary to make garden furniture in a classic style.
Chairs made from stumps or wooden logs are no less comfortable and stylish. Common but very useful products for the garden include wooden birdhouses, a fence, children's swings, and chests for storing tools and materials.
If you don’t have an overlocker, the edges of the parts for the covers can be finished with a zigzag
Sewing chair covers is not difficult if you have a sewing machine at home, especially a type like the Podolsk Sewing Machine. You don't even have to process the cut edges of the fabric if you don't have an overlocker or your sewing machine doesn't zigzag. The main thing is to make a pattern and accurately cut the fabric along it, taking into account seam allowances and hem allowances. If you have experience, you can calculate the details of the back and seat on paper, and then transfer the pattern to the fabric. However, it is necessary to take into account seam allowances, back curves, its thickness and many other points, including the shrinkage of the fabric during washing.
Crafts from old tires
In recent years, among crafts made from scrap materials, products made from car tires have become increasingly common. The most popular solutions among them are ottomans, garden furniture, flower beds, hanging swings, decor for the garden, vegetable garden and playground.
True craftsmen create true works of art from tires. For example, flower beds decorated in the form of fairy-tale and cartoon characters turn out to be very funny. We will tell you more about one of these useful crafts for the garden in a step-by-step master class.
Why is this necessary?
Indeed, if you need new garden furniture, a flowerbed or a napkin holder for your home, why not just buy it? Why waste time and effort on making an item that is likely to be inferior in functionality to a factory product?
- Savings are not always decisive, but they are the most obvious. A significant part of Russian summer residents are pensioners; The price of many decorative items looks quite impressive compared to the size of the pension.
- After many years of general shortages among people who found it at a conscious age, the idea of throwing away an item that is suitable for at least something causes unconscious rejection. But transforming it with your own hands into something useful, on the contrary, fills the owner with enthusiasm.
By the way: the pleasure of creativity, of independently creating something beautiful and functional, should not be forgotten either.
- Finally, some products simply cannot be found for sale. Either because they are not in demand, or simply because no one has thought of them yet.
We will devote this material to ideas that are unpopular among industrialists.
Flowerbed "Frog Princess"
With a few tires and a can of green paint, you can create a fabulous Frog Princess that will successfully decorate any lawn.
- Two of the three tires are laid close to each other, and the third is installed on top.
- Next, the inside of the wheels is filled with earth. After preparing the base, they begin to design the frog itself.
- To form the paws you will need four branches - two thick and two thinner.
- An additional shape for the paws is cut out of wooden blocks using a hacksaw.
- To decorate the face, plastic bottles are used to form the eyes and crown.
- All remaining details are completed with paint.
Simple dog house
To make a booth for your beloved pet, you don’t need the skills of a designer or architect. A beautiful stylish house can be made from just a few boards that are left over after finishing work. To prevent your dog from turning over the bowls, cut holes for them at the base of the booth.
Photo: krasivosti.pro
Cement products
Garden crafts made from cement are not only resistant to sunlight and precipitation, but also very reliable and affordable - cement can be purchased at any hardware store for a low price.
For decoration and design additions, craftsmen use flower pots, vases, figures of fairy-tale characters or elements of the plant world. Often, in addition to cement mortars, concrete is used, which is particularly durable.
Concrete can be used to create a base for compositions. This could be a fountain area, a terrace for flowerpots, a base for a sculpture and much more.
Concrete sculptures
Skills in working with concrete open up endless possibilities for creativity. Flower beds, flowerpots, sculptures - anything you want - are cast from it. If you are still a beginner, but after construction there is a bag of mixture left, start with something simpler, like these cute pot-bellied owls.
Photo: podelunchik.ru
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Flowerbed in the form of palms
A flower garden created in the shape of crossed palms looks very attractive. To make such an amazing composition, ordinary rubber gloves are used, which are filled with cement mortar. For rigidity, a thick wire rod is inserted into all fingers.
In order for the craft to be strong, it is important that no air bubbles form. Fully filled gloves are shaped into the desired shape and secured in position. After two to three days, the gloves are cut and removed.
If it is necessary to connect two palms, use the same solution. At the final stage, the surface of the product is polished with sandpaper, primed and painted.
Sewing covers is cheaper than completely reupholstering chairs
It is enough to buy 1.5 - 2 meters of fabric, make the correct pattern and sew it yourself. Fabrics for sewing chair covers can be used very inexpensively, the main thing is that they are easy to wash and iron. At the same time, they must be quite strong and dense, since chairs are under constant stress, especially in the kitchen and dining room.
Furniture and decor items from waste pallets
Crafts made from pallets for the garden are environmentally friendly and useful products for everyday life, which will undoubtedly attract the interested attention of all your guests. Waste pallets can be a wonderful material for creating unique outdoor furniture.
To get started, you can experiment with a simple project. For example, from a simple and practical table. If you have a lot of old pallets, you can build an easy-to-install deck deck as an alternative to traditional plank flooring.
An original shelf and hanger made from pallets will stylishly decorate the hallway, and flower beds, pots, stands and other decorative elements will harmoniously fit into the landscape design of the local area.
How to take measurements for a chair cover
The more accurate your measurements are, the more accurate your chair cover pattern will be. Particular attention should be paid to the legs, as they tend to widen towards the bottom, sometimes only to the rear legs and only to one side. Therefore, take as many measurements of the chair as possible and draw a diagram of your measurements before you begin constructing the slipcover pattern. Determine the widest and narrowest areas and mark them on the drawing. Make a copy of the seat and back on paper, tracing an outline with a pencil and attaching the paper to these parts of the chair. Then cut with scissors and fit the pattern, placing it exactly along the back and seat to check. Make markings on the resulting patterns and use them as the basis for constructing a further pattern. The remaining details will have to be done using calculations. All dimensions indicated on the drawing of the chair are arbitrary and are given only as an example of what measurements should be taken.
Flower beds made from waste materials
In the photo of crafts for the dacha you can see interesting ideas for flower beds made from excess dishes, shoes, furnishings and even cars and bicycles. In particular, any chest of drawers or table with drawers can be transformed into a unique supply for flowers.
Any dishes and old household items can be used for country decor. And by hanging bright rubber boots with flowers on the fence, you will add brightness and uniqueness to your garden plot.
Such flower pots will enliven the monotony of the garden, add brightness to the green lawn, and fit perfectly on the steps, porch or fence.
CD decor
Moisture-resistant, wind- and rain-resistant compact discs are perfect as a material for garden decor. The discs are easy to process, they are easy to cut and paint, shimmer beautifully in the light and reflect the sun's rays.
Crafts can be made in the form of animals, birds or fish. In a summer kitchen or veranda, a teapot stand made of a disk and flat stones glued to it will be useful. You can transform an old pot by gluing pieces of a cut disk to it in the right order.
A miniature owl made from a disk and foil can become a small garden scarecrow, and the simplest decor for a gazebo can be made as follows. Cover the disk with beads, sea shells and stones, tie laces with weights to it, which will sway nicely in the wind.
Garden products made from stones
Simple, but very memorable garden products can be made from ordinary stones. The stones are painted with paints and felt-tip pens, combined with metal inserts and simply assembled into funny compositions.
The simplest solution is to apply a nice design with acrylic paints. You can come up with an image or an interesting inscription yourself, or choose any drawing you like, transfer it to the stone using carbon paper, and then paint it with a felt-tip pen.
Interesting garden items can be made from sea stones, adding interesting shapes using soft wire. Or collect funny little frogs from stones of various sizes and secure them together with sealant or cement mortar.
Pond decorations
If there is a small artificial pond or fountain in the garden, be sure to decorate it too. Collect entire fairy-tale scenes from figurines, decorative figures and decorations for the aquarium. But plastic water lilies, frogs and birds from old bottles just don’t drown.
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