What gardener doesn’t want a beautiful, and most importantly unique, summer cottage? How interesting a white swan looks on the lawn or a funny caterpillar under a bush! And most importantly, almost anything you find at hand will help you achieve this, be it an old tire, a plastic bottle or an old log.
With a little effort and imagination, you can make excellent crafts out of them. In this article we will look at how to turn the unnecessary trash that you were preparing to throw away into a work of art! You can see photos of each of the country crafts in the article itself.
What material should I use?
When creating decor for your garden plot with your own hands, you can also get rid of many unnecessary things. After all, many of those items that you have not used for a long time will turn into original garden decor.
You can use the following items as a basis for realizing your ideas:
- old tire;
- broken pieces of furniture or vehicles;
- unnecessary dishes, plastic bottles, glass jars;
- household appliances;
- pipes or fittings;
- branches or logs.
- worn shoes or clothes.
Before throwing these things away, look at what crafts for the garden and dacha you can make from them.
Ideas for flower beds and flower beds
The flower garden and flower beds are the heart of the garden plot. And if you decorate them in an original way, the dacha will be fabulously transformed.
Tire flowerbeds
It’s easy to make a unique work of art from ordinary car tires – a garden flower bed. Before you get started, you should think carefully about the shape and decor. Consider these options:
- flowerpot with wavy border;
- bowl with smooth edges;
- framed with fringe;
- in the form of a flower.
The next step is to apply the pattern to the tire, then cut out the pattern along the applied contour. All that remains to be done is to cut the tire inside out. All that remains is to decorate the resulting form; for this you will need to paint it, you can come up with a pattern and apply it to the resulting flowerbed.
Distinctive features
Any DIY crafts for the dacha characterize the owner of the house. In addition, they have a number of other advantages.
The process of creating decorative elements captivates family members. Such activities in an interesting playful way teach children to work hard. Little helpers have a rich imagination, so they can enrich your arsenal of ideas for arranging your garden.
A significant advantage of such creativity is its low cost. To create designer masterpieces, you can use any material that is convenient for you.
You can make do with only what you have in the house, or you can visit a specialty store and purchase some additional materials. Here everyone decides independently, focusing on the idea and the available amount of money.
Creating crafts from scrap materials is a great way to pass the time with an interesting activity. The creative process always enriches a person with positive emotions and also increases self-esteem. And your creation will delight not only household members, but also all guests for a long time.
Perhaps the most important advantage of this activity is speed. After all, to create such a decorative element you do not need special knowledge and skills, it will not take much time.
Every housewife has all the necessary tools in her home. You just need to decide on the necessary crafts that will suit the style of your site, allocate a little time and use your imagination.
Photo gallery
After looking at another 35 photos in our gallery, you will surely find original solutions for decorating your dacha.
And a few more ideas in the video:
Decor with plastic bottles
People who have experience in creating garden decor do not throw away plastic containers, but turn them into interesting figures. Bright birds, animals and plants made of plastic will become an original decoration for your garden plot, making it more fun. To learn, just look at the photos of garden crafts and descriptions for them.
Using plastic bottles, you can easily create various fences that divide the space of a flowerbed or vegetable garden, openwork curtains for a door, or a bird feeder. Such crafts perform not only a decorative function, they are also practical.
In addition, you can make sculptures from plastic containers that enliven your garden plot, giving it originality and beauty.
A decorative deer can be easily created from a five-liter brown bottle. To make such a craft for landscape design, cut off the neck of a large bottle and place a one and a half liter bottle at the cut site so that its bottom is at the bottom. Self-tapping screws can be used to connect parts.
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Another liter bottle must be attached to the neck of the second bottle so that it is at a right angle. This design should look like the body, neck and head of the animal. The legs for the animal are made of wooden slats. They need to be placed at the bottom of the bottle in pre-prepared slots.
Next you need to cut out the ears and tail from plastic and place them. At the final stage, the craft is painted using brown and white paint. Two wooden branches will replace the horns of our animal.
There are a huge number of options for such sculptures. Their popularity can be explained by practicality. When creating a figure, you can use different parts of the bottle. Thanks to the characteristics of plastic, such crafts for a flower bed or garden are durable and last a long time.
The material is easy to cut, elements can be connected in different ways: glued, stitched, screwed. When creating plastic structures, there are no restrictions on colors. If you do not find the material of the desired shade, you can paint it.
Alpine slide as a design solution for a garden landscape
The Alpine slide is one of the most spectacular landscape design options. The composition is based on stones and low plants, which are laid out in a certain order in the shape of a mountain.
An alpine hill is a man-made hill with stones, planted with flowers or low plants
It is recommended to locate the rock garden in a place that is visible from all sides. It should also be taken into account that it requires sunlight, so the alpine slide is not installed near large trees.
To create a rock garden, you must first draw a sketch of it, which will allow you to determine:
- required number of stones and tiers;
- the volume of drainage and soil required to form the embankment;
- number of seeds or plant seedlings.
The height of the slide should correspond to its area. Typically, the rise for each meter of diameter is 0.2 m. When arranging a rock garden, you should not neglect the preparatory stage, which includes creating drainage, selecting suitable soil and stones. It is not recommended to use stones of the same size and shape. For rock gardens, a wide variety of plants and flowers are used that are unpretentious to environmental conditions.
A small alpine slide made of flat stones
Alpine slide with an artificial pond
Rock garden made of natural stone with a waterfall
Thus, you can create a unique garden home decor yourself and without much expense. To do this, use any available materials and your own imagination. There are many options for designing the territory, among which you can choose the most suitable style.
Second life of tires
Decorative elements from old tires are created quite simply. After all, this material is soft and easily deformable. Such crafts are used for vegetable gardens and gardens as fences, flower beds or paths. Tires are used to create children's swings, exclusive pieces of furniture, and rugs.
Thanks to the durable and elastic material, the tire can turn into original flowerpots. Having created a beautiful figurine of an animal or bird, plants are planted in it. Such flower beds are always attractive and interesting.
And since the material of the tires is quite resistant to moisture and other environmental factors, these crafts will delight the eye for many years.
The process of creating decorative crafts is interesting and exciting. It gives a person the opportunity to be creative. Therefore, regardless of the choice of shape and material, you will enjoy making decorative figures.
Decorative birds - hens, roosters, parrots, owls
After drying, crafts made from sheet metal about 4 mm thick are subjected to another technological operation - they are varnished using a spray gun. The next step is to paint large surfaces by hand with bright, colorful shades, and then add more detail with a brush.
Let me briefly digress from the topic - such toys, as you see in the picture below, are often made of wood on a spring. But in this case it is an exception. This cute round creature has legs made in the form of a chain, so not only the bird itself sways and jumps up and down in the wind, but also its legs separately, dangling funny in the air.
Since the crafts will be located outdoors, the processing process must include precautions so that the figures can stand for several years outdoors in any weather, and do not deteriorate from corrosion or change their original luminous colors.
Here I wanted to show the figures themselves, simple but quite recognizable, a mother bird feeding her chick.
After final painting, especially if the products will be placed outside and not indoors, it is recommended to additionally spray the birds with varnish using a spray bottle. Be sure to do this outdoors!
Manufacturers of such crafts advise not to leave the products outside for the winter, but suggest putting them indoors for storage, since severe frosts are not particularly conducive to preserving the metal.
Craftsmen make animals of different sizes, from small ones that can be placed on a table to a meter in height. For especially large specimens, an additional round-shaped stick is provided, on which the decorations can be strengthened, i.e. simply stick it into the ground in the garden. Sometimes the figures are already firmly seated on a metal pin.
During daylight hours, metal crafts delight with their variegated colors. But that is not all. Almost all decorative animals that I have come across can be used as candle holders. A regular or small tea candle in a metal cuvette is inserted inside. On summer evenings they create a unique atmosphere and good mood for the owners, as well as invited guests on the terrace, in the garden or also in the apartment.
It was an interesting idea to make the neck like a spring; this beauty even has eyelashes! In my opinion, all the products are wonderful. They don’t buy it very often, but apparently, since there is demand, there is supply. It’s no different here in Germany. The cost is considerable, especially for large copies. I personally, due to my special liking for birds, are very impressed by them. But I probably like parrots most of all, they look very comical.
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DIY garden decorations: dedication to garden design art
The most important condition in creating 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 decoration ideas for decorating a garden plot can be divided into two groups:
- functional;
- non-functional.
Foam figures
A dolphin on the crest of a wave, a cute lamb or a fearless lion with a gorgeous mane will be an excellent decor. It’s easy to make such crafts using polyurethane foam.
To get the desired figure, select the base. It should be shaped like the object being manufactured. Plastic bottles, wood, wire, and paper are often used as a base.
Plaster figures
Stone and wooden statues for the garden are not easy to make. Such products are expensive, so it is better to use an alternative option.
Crafts from plaster are easy to make with your own hands. They look attractive and do not require large expenditures.
They make flower beds in the shape of hands holding flowers. The following figurines for the garden are popular: turtle, mushroom, vase.
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 the shimmer of birds. To make the birds comfortable, you can come up with original wooden birdhouses for them. Decorate them with decoupage, painting, and decorative details. For the birdhouses themselves, you can use leftover boards and wooden furniture. Birdhouses made from old large boots look great. You can awaken your imagination and create a real miracle of a birdhouse idea from corks or large porcelain teapots.
Advice!
It is best to hang birdhouses on deciduous trees, with a slight slope. And make the roof removable to make it easier to clean.
Birdhouses with bird feeders can be made multi-colored or even carved
If you live near a wooded area or park, make a fun, simple squirrel feeder. To do this, you need to firmly fasten, for example, a chair from a set of toy furniture to the tree, using a pair of screws. Using a long self-tapping screw, a head of corn is screwed onto it and is just as easily replaced
