Arrangement of a summer cottage or personal plot
Do-it-yourself garden crafts made from scrap materials will help replace expensive decor from the store, which is sold at a fairly high price.
The cheap cost of such jewelry will require minimal expenditure of money and effort to create them, because for this you can use available materials:
- original design of flower beds and decor of free space near the house, in the garden and vegetable garden;
- decorating the terrace and the house, complementing the unified concept of landscape design, and practical design of the site;
- furnishing and decor of the garden, combining aesthetic design and practical designs, decorated with different elements;
- installation of decorative compositions that enhance the aesthetics and harmony of the arrangement of the local area, highlighting individual zones;
- formation of a children's playground with practical and beautiful crafts used for protection from the scorching sun and bad weather.
To create such crafts, you can use leftover building materials and old furniture, used car tires.
As consumables, the home craftsman will need fasteners and paint coatings, leftover boards and wood, declarative elements and individual decorations, plastic bottles and caps, and things to be thrown away.
Improvement of the residential area
The grassy lawn in front of the residential building is equipped with flower beds. The shape of the flower bed can be varied, depending only on the designer’s inspiration. Made from unused household items.
When choosing flowers for a flowerbed, you need to remember that some are leading flowers, while others are flowers that complement the composition. As a rule, no more than 4 types of flowers are planted in a flowerbed. Everything on the territory should be harmonious and naturally complement each other. Flowerbeds decorated around the perimeter look neat.
Flower beds decorated using plastic bottles look beautiful. For stability, plastic bottles are filled with cement mortar. After it dries, they dig in around the perimeter of the flower bed. The outer side of the flowerbed can also be arranged using rubble or laid paving slabs. Flower vases arranged figuratively, made from car tires, installed along the path to the house look interesting.
The terraces of houses will pleasantly surprise neighbors with hanging pots with fresh flowers. Made using gypsum mortar. It is permissible to decorate the walls with a mosaic of empty bottles. The cut bottoms of the bottles are glued to the wall according to the selected sketch and painted in the required colors. Such arrangement of a residential building will give it a unique look and unique beauty.
The walls of houses decorated with leaves look fabulous. These leaves are made from gypsum. Painted and coated with a protective composition, they will decorate the walls for a long time.
DIY crafts: original ideas
Non-standard and rather exclusive crafts for the garden and dacha are made quite simply; for this it is important to choose an interesting idea.
Thanks to the creative process, bright and attractive decorations will appear on the site, which will successfully replace standard designs and will remain in the garden plot and even vegetable beds for a long time:
- beautiful flower beds with fresh and artificial flowers;
- sculptural compositions of figurines of animals and beasts;
- flower pots made of different materials, replacing the usual flower pots;
- abstract figures and crafts made from natural and waste materials.
When combining different elements and creating complete compositions, it is important to adhere to the general idea of designing your own summer cottage.
On the backyard territory, you can implement a decorative project and supplement it with unusual and exclusive crafts that will perform a decorative and practical function.
Decorative crafts
To make a beautiful decoration for your summer cottage with your own hands, you can use decorative crafts, such as figurines made from plastic bottles.
Ordinary wire and concrete will help create original flowerbeds in shape and size, configuration, horizontal and vertical, inclined arrangement on the site.
Fence art
You can find a million options for drawings for painting a fence. For example, it’s not at all difficult to depict a palm tree like this against the backdrop of the sea.
If you are not much of an artist, there are very simple options. Even children can draw this. And maybe even better than some adults.
If there is only one paint, and it is black or brown, there will be a place for it on the fence.
With the help of a pattern on a fence, wild grapes or ivy can be turned into the hair of a beauty (or anyone). Thick wire will help to give the desired shape around the drawn face.
And, of course, the eternal topic is the old bicycle. It looks best when painted the same color as the wheels.
Do you want to combine originality and benefits for nature? Hang birdhouses on the fence. Many and different. If a boy grows up in a family who can already hit a nail with a hammer and not hit his fingers, let him practice carpentry with all his might under the supervision of his father or grandfather. In life, simple male skills will definitely come in handy, even if he becomes an astronaut when he grows up.
Practical solutions
By making interesting crafts for the garden, you can forget about scarecrows and devote your free time to building practical structures.
In the flower beds, several tiers made from old boxes or basins, unnecessary utensils or even shoes, where you can plant climbing and flowering plants, will look interesting.
- A DIY mailbox is a beautiful decoration and a useful addition to a suburban area
A house for children is a place where a fairy tale becomes reality, we create it ourselves
Bridges for a dacha - a picturesque element of the landscape in a suburban area
How can you decorate your garden in an original way?
By making crafts from available materials, it is very easy to decorate your own garden and increase its practical use.
On the territory of a young garden, you can create an area for a wonderful holiday with family or friends, decorating it with decorative elements and furnishing it with furniture made by yourself.
Porcupine
The vegetable porcupine looks pretty cute. To assemble it, you need to stock up on the following materials:
- cardboard stand;
- elongated pumpkin;
- carrots;
- olives;
- potatoes;
- apples;
- mushrooms;
- with skewers.
The vegetable predator will be an exquisite decoration for any competition.
Garden furniture
Practical and reliable crafts made of wood, these are garden furniture that fully corresponds to the aesthetics of the design of the garden plot.
From the trunk of a tree cut down on the site, you can build benches and a table, comfortable chairs for sitting and a small canopy that protects from the sun in hot weather, and from precipitation in rainy weather.
Garden paths
When considering crafts for landscape design, it is important to pay attention to the arrangement of garden paths, which are necessary for working in the garden.
The beautiful design of such functional structures is carried out by decorating them with caps from plastic bottles or the bottles themselves, pebbles and stones, stumps and cut tree branches.
Crafts for the porch or open terrace of a private house
In front of a private house or country house there is always a small plot of land that can be concreted and made into an open terrace.
The beautiful decor of this site and the arrangement of a protective canopy will help complete the landscape composition, and decorative elements will increase the aesthetics of its arrangement.
Umbrella planter
Old umbrellas and children's umbrellas with broken handles or knitting needles are often sent to landfill, but they can be used as flower pots.
The fabric covering can be painted or painted with a geometric pattern, carefully remove the knitting needles, place soil inside the umbrella, and plant climbing plants in it to paint the terrace or house.
Tire parrot
Beautiful and colorful parrots made from small tires from a scooter or children's bicycle will help support the theme of the living corner.
The long and bright tails of such exotic birds will be noticeable from afar and, if desired, the parrots can live in the garden or on the terrace next to the house, in a family recreation area.
Alarm
This product has philosophical overtones. Looking at it, you can’t help but wonder if it’s time for a snack. To create an alarm clock you need:
- round pumpkin;
- eggplant;
- wooden skewers;
- plasticine.
Order of steps:
- Cut 2 - 3 cm from the sides of the pumpkin, cut off the tail.
- Repeat similar steps with the eggplant, increasing the size of the excess cut by 2 times. Cut out numbers from the skin of this vegetable.
- Stretch the plasticine and make arrows.
- Fasten all the parts with skewers.
Hanging chair
From an old chair that no longer fits into the interior of a house or apartment, you can make a hanging chair or sofa for relaxing in the country.
For such a craft, it is important to choose the right installation location and ensure correct and reliable fastening; in order to increase the operating comfort of such a craft, it is better to install a special, protective canopy in the recreation area.
Airplane
Required:
- medium-sized zucchini - 2 pcs.;
- small zucchini – 2 pcs.;
- carrot;
- toothpicks.
Looking at such an airplane, one remembers the children's saying used when feeding babies: “here an airplane flies and ends up in the mouth.” Probably, this craft was invented by a hippopotamus mother for her baby, because no one else would be able to swallow this plane.
Garden figurines: traditional and original decorations
You can use garden figurines to decorate your garden and driveway, lawn and vegetable garden, replacing traditional gnomes with unusual crafts.
From plastic bottles, polyurethane foam, and scrap materials, you can make unusual and bright, attractive decor that will help you decorate your own territory in a stylish and unusual way.
Foam figures
Polyurethane foam takes any shape well when filled and is easily cut using a stationery or regular kitchen knife.
After giving the frozen mass the required shape and outline, it is necessary to cover it with plaster and paint it with suitable colors, creating mushrooms and insects, animals and flowers.
Caterpillar
You can create a wonderful caterpillar from apples, carrots, parsley, and olives. This toy will keep your baby's attention for a long time. After all, the body of an insect can be decorated with anything - dried flowers, herbarium, leaves, cones, legumes.
Crafts from plastic bottles
From plastic bottles of different shapes and sizes you can build practical bird feeders and drinkers or decorative figurines.
Exotic peacocks and flowerpot pigs, palm trees and huge flowers, storks and pink flamingos will remain attractive for a long time and will not lose their aesthetics and presentable appearance.
Candy bowl in the shape of a pig
It requires:
- an elongated watermelon of medium diameter;
- a piece of pink felt fabric;
- buttons;
- skewers.
Homemade vegetable products are excellent helpers when feeding babies. You can stage entire performances with them.
Second life of toys
Old and broken children's toys, balls and cubes, cars and dolls will help create original sculptural compositions or become elements of decoration.
In addition to toys, you can use old furniture and elements of furniture structures, discarded items and clothes as material for crafts that decorate a garden or vegetable garden.
Carriage for Cinderella
To get the transport of this fairy-tale princess, you need to prepare:
- large round pumpkin;
- small squash – 4 pcs.;
- skewers;
- decorations (ribbons, artificial or dried flowers, beads, etc.).
You need to cut out windows and doors in the pumpkin. Then you need to attach the squash to the carriage - they will make excellent wheels. All that remains is to decorate the craft to your taste, add a horse and place a doll inside.
