The best way to put unnecessary containers and leftover building materials to use is to decorate your summer cottage with your own hands. Some crafts border on masterpieces; they will decorate not only a quiet courtyard in the shade of the garden, but will also make any living space inimitable. Some craftsmen work no worse than artists and designers, performing work in the same style. But even without special skills, it’s easy to implement interesting ideas borrowed from the site if you have the desire and skills to work with simple tools.
DIY country decor
Flowers in the design of a summer cottage
DIY cottage design
Playground
Children need their own corner where they can play and relax. Make the site so that it is clearly visible from the house. The play corner should not be located in the shade or in the sun.
Ideal ratio: 2/3 shade, 1/3 sun. If you can’t create shade naturally, we recommend building a canopy.
You can make a sandbox out of car tires; it’s easy to do: fill the tire with sand. For beauty, we recommend decorating the new sandbox.
Choose larger tires to prevent the sun from burning your child’s head, and install a sun umbrella in the center of the sandbox.
We suggest building a children's swing from the same tires. This thing will make any child happy.
Flowerbeds
The easiest way to create a flower bed is to use car tires. You can leave the tire as is or decorate it, then fill it with soil and plant your favorite flowers. This option does not require any special skills; even a child can do it.
You can put in more effort and create real masterpieces.
We present to you a photo of garden decorations made from car tires. It looks simple and interesting.
You can recreate your favorite cartoon characters. Or, as an option, create a whole composition from tires.
You can also make flower beds from stone. Build multi-level flower beds. A flower bed created around a tree is perfect for shade-loving plants.
In the photo we present original and simple flowerbed decorations with the most ordinary stone.
Decorating the premises at the dacha for the New Year
The festive mood is created not only by a Christmas tree with toys. They decorate all the rooms in the country house to the best of their imagination and financial capabilities.
- Coniferous and berry wreaths with gilded bells are hung on entrance and interior doors.
- They attach snow globes, “rain”, pendants and glass stars, balls, snowflakes to beams and ceilings.
- “Snow” drifts with various branches, figurines, candles in glass jars or candlesticks are laid out on the windowsills.
- Snowflakes, paper New Year characters and posters, and various stickers are pasted on the walls.
- Furniture and large household appliances are turned into fairy houses, snowmen or snowdrifts. Decorate with garlands and toys.
Popular are dried flowers and pine cones painted with sparkles, simple twigs transformed with a can of spray paint into wonderful frosted structures.
Ideas
Now let's move on to the most interesting section. Let's tell you more about ways to decorate a dacha using available materials.
The most important helpers in this matter will be your imagination and creativity.
Paths
Beautifully designed paths will make the site a beautiful and original place. It is worth paying attention to the design of country paths. The presence of beautiful and neat paths creates a positive impression of the owner.
Materials that are suitable for decoration:
- brick;
- natural stone;
- crushed stone;
- paving stones;
- tree;
- concrete.
A neatly laid brick path will look impressive.
The photo shows how a path made of round timber will look no less beautiful.
You can create a stone path or a gravel path.
Illumination of the dacha and plot for the New Year
What is a holiday without beautiful, bright illumination? In recent years, it has become fashionable to decorate the interiors of dachas, facades and areas with a variety of lighting elements. This type of decor came to Russia from the USA, where every owner of a house with a small area in front of him tries to outdo his neighbors in the art of Christmas illumination.
- Lanterns, original lighting structures, garlands are hung on fences and railings, and framed window and doorways.
- Compositions of luminous deer and sleighs, Santa Clauses, Snow Maidens and other characters from New Year's fairy tales are placed in the yard.
- They decorate tree trunks and branches, pillars and canopies, and other structures in the courtyard of a country house.
- Long flashing garlands and New Year's lights are hung in the rooms, and various illuminated figures are placed. Mirrors illuminated with multi-colored flashing lights look especially wonderful.
For street lighting, special electrical appliances with a high degree of protection from moisture and capable of operating in low temperature conditions are chosen.
- LED and neon garlands in the form of nets, fringes or cords.
- Duralight light cords or figures made from them.
- LED figures and laser spotlights.
In the premises you can use standard lamps, without a high IP level, as well as real and decorative candles, lanterns in jars, floating candles, paper lanterns.
The lighting is placed in such a way that it does not interfere with free movement and is well secured. And products with open fire are placed away from flammable elements of the environment.
Fence
This is what is the first necessity in the country. But if your fence looks simple and boring, this is a reason to turn it into a “work of art.” Such a fence will delight you and surprise all your neighbors with its beauty.
Creating a hedge will be one of the best solutions. Climbing perennials are suitable for such a fence. We advise you to choose virgin grapes, which are unpretentious, grow quickly and are resistant to climate change and temperature changes. Looks impressive!
We offer another option for designing a fence. Regular bright paint will help to “refresh” an old fence. You can decorate the fence with your children. Bright drawings are also welcome.
DIY crafts
Handmade crafts will look original.
Plastic bottles made from scrap materials are extremely popular. They can easily create any shape.
And if you add colors, you get unique country decorations. You can create animal figures (hedgehogs, piglets, bees) from bottles.
Tires are also a great material to unleash your full creative potential.
Jewelry made from glass bottles will last a long time and reliably. You can use them to make fences for plants.
If you have a bunch of old CDs lying around at home, don’t rush to get rid of them. In the photo, dacha decorations made from disks look impressive, and the main thing is that anyone can do this.
This is just a small part of how you can decorate your dacha with your own hands, without much expense.
It is important to show patience, hard work and approach the task creatively. Take a closer look at unnecessary and old things, perhaps they will serve as the basis for your next country creation.
Setting the festive New Year's table at the dacha
Is it possible to do without a feast with your favorite snacks and drinks on New Year's Day? To maintain the overall atmosphere, the closest attention must be paid to the decoration and table setting.
- The central place is occupied by candles in candlesticks, containers with water or jars. After all, it is the living lights that create an unforgettable, magical atmosphere on this night.
- Christmas tree branches, tied with ribbons and decorated with small toys, are placed on top of the tablecloth in the colors of the coming year. They put up thematic figurines and decorative figures.
- Transparent jars filled with layers of salt, cones, silver rain and red berries look interesting.
- Glasses can be decorated with engravings or decorative patterns, and champagne bottles can be braided with ribbons or painted.
Don't rush to remove the decor after the holiday is over. Let the unusual, fairy-tale design give you a little more warmth, keeping you warm throughout the winter holidays!
