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As soon as we become the owner suburban area, the concept of landscape design takes on a completely different meaning. Immediately I want to direct my creativity to decorate my favorite summer cottage, to realize creative ideas and ideas in DIY crafts. Most importantly, a modern summer resident does not need to purchase any materials and devices for this. For bold ideas for country decorations, any unnecessary things that have already served their time will come in handy.
Just look at them from a different angle and try to avoid the usual stereotypes. And add humor. Then your summer cottage will be the most favorite place for the whole family. After all, there you can not only work, grow the necessary vegetables and fruits, but also have a good rest. Making decorations for a summer residence with your own hands is not only profitable, but also useful.
The benefits of this action are enormous:
- Unnecessary things are reborn... Sometimes, a completely unpredictable decision transforms the site beyond recognition, makes it more comfortable and beautiful.
- Family creativity opportunity... Children and adults alike love to participate in this process. Collaboration inspires kids so much that in the future they themselves will come up with new ideas. And one more plus - the kids will not break hand-made crafts.
- If your ideas are not enough, you can use photos posted by other summer residents. Or see how the neighbors decorate the site. So, you can find new creative friends.
In any case, it will fill your life with new energies, beauty and inspiration. DIY decorations for a summer residence will become your favorite pastime on the site.
We invent and create
It is almost impossible to imagine a summer cottage or garden plot without flowers and decorations. It is not necessary to give up beautiful flower beds with luxurious flower beds. You can add variety using unusual solutions. Mini-flower beds are easy to make from scrap materials. The only important component will be regular land. It must be poured into any of your inventions.
Old shoes
There is plenty of such material in any family. If, nevertheless, it is not enough, then friends who do not have a summer residence will certainly help out. These are the best pots for your favorite garden flowers. You can decorate with such designer crafts not only a playground, but also a fence, a bench, a porch. Even on the lawn, such a decoration will look very impressive. Abandoned, forgotten by everyone, a shoe in which flowers grew. Children really like this idea.
For the sake of the original design, some even use sports shoes.
A composition of several pairs of shoes will perfectly fulfill a family design project.
The combination of shoes and boots for all family members will decorate a porch or lawn better than the most fashionable element. Such decorations for a summer residence look very stylish.
Dishes
Here the scope for creativity is unlimited. Even broken dishes or a leaky bucket are perfect for decorating a summer cottage with your own hands. One has only to pick up paints, and old plates, jugs, buckets and basins are transformed before our eyes.
Decorations made in this way for summer cottages can be placed in the most unexpected places - on the shore of a reservoir, on a bench in the garden, on a stool, along a fence, a greenhouse and garden beds.Any place will become brighter and more fun. Often old tea sets are taken out to the dacha, which are either out of fashion or are already half broken. It is not necessary to make garden decorations from them for a summer residence. An excellent solution would be to create a composition for the home. If cups, saucers or a milk jug are placed on an old candlestick, then such a decoration will transform the room.
Old spoons and forks will also find use here. By adding the board, we get the original hanger. Amazing decoration for a modern summer cottage. You can see how it looks in the photo.
Craftsmen with great experience are able to make real masterpieces. The photo shows a chandelier made of cutlery and an old lamp.
Not everyone can boast of such decorations in the country.
Furniture
A very profitable creative option for decorating for a summer residence. Furniture with flowers can take up a lot of space on the site. This makes it possible to beat the space at no special cost. And when you want to change the garden decorations for the dacha, you don't have to dismantle anything. Just move old furniture to another location or change decor. Colorful photos will help to realize such ideas.
At their summer cottage they look great:
- bed;
- chest of drawers;
- old piano;
- typewriter;
- broken chairs.
Furniture can be combined in one area, painted in an unusual color, and other small elements can be added. Such a design solution will help to give originality to an ordinary site. Garden decorations do not have to be new.
Regular stumps
In an old cottage or after construction work on a new site, there are always cuttings of logs or stumps of old trees. Do not rush to throw away such a valuable decorative element. You can make creative decorations on the site. To make such an unexpected pots for a summer cottage turn out to be original, you will have to work on it a little. Choose a stump without signs of decay and disease. Flowers need space, so the core is removed. This can be done using different tools. A jigsaw, pickaxe, drill, regular hammer and chisel will do. Depending on the size of the stump, this process takes a fair amount of time. The bark is not removed, but treated with an antiseptic and antifungal solution. You also need to process the core in order to protect flowers in the country from diseases. A suitable container is inserted inside the stump and the earth is covered. If the soil is placed immediately into the cavity of the stump, it will collapse faster. Border low-growing flowers, garden shrubs, even junipers are suitable for planting in a pot. The main thing is to observe the proportions between the plants and the stump. Your garden decoration is ready. The photo shows a transformed stump.
Construction residues
The most numerous of this category are usually planks and bricks. Old logs will be used to make swings, garden furniture, toys, and various fabulous compositions.
Any of these decorations will refresh the cottage or garden area.
If you cut the logs into low bars, then the "forest path" is ready. From the same sawn residues, you can make the design of a playground.
Children will be glad to have comfortable benches, slides, designer cars.
Tires
If your summer cottage or garden plot is located outside the city, then theoretically there is already a car. Many gardeners use old tires for strawberry beds or leaf crop design. But it turns out that decorating a garden plot or a summer cottage with the help of these elements will turn out to be no worse. Craftsmen carve figurines of birds and animals.
The simplest solution is to make a flower bed and paint it in the desired color.
Very simple and useful. Such decoration on the site looks very harmonious.
Plastic and glass bottles. It will take time and patience to build an original decoration for a summer residence from glass bottles.
A very important feature of such crafts is their waterproofness. They do not burn, do not melt in the sun, do not get soaked in water.Even from the fragments, you can create masterpieces that will delight the eye. Plastic bottles are more flexible and transformable. Talented craftsmen make animal figurines, trees (palms), fences for flower beds and beds from bottles. By painting the bottles in different colors, each gives the garden decorations a unique design.
Streams and waterfalls
The original decoration for the dacha will be a "dry" pond or stream, an alpine slide made of the remains of a building stone. By adding metal or forged parts, you can build a wonderful bridge over the stream. It is not difficult to build such a decoration for a summer residence, but you can be sure that it will be exclusive. A wonderful idea for creating decorations for a summer cottage is a flower stream.
Old dishes, a little imagination and hard work - your decoration will be hard to miss. Photos of similar projects:
To create decorations in the country, you can use old suitcases and umbrellas. Floating flower beds will create bright islands in a pond or river and add romanticism. Lanterns made of tin and metal will make your walk on the path fabulous. Even an old broken bike will last a long time. Such a decoration for a summer residence, in general, does not require costs.
A colorful photo of your masterpiece posted on the websites of summer residents will help other craftsmen.
The remains of metal rods are also suitable for creating designer jewelry. Arches on the garden path, entwined with ivy or roses, will surely add comfort. Figurines made of wood, hemp or rope will revive the clearing and lawn. Even a straw scarecrow in a garden bed, dressed in the latest fashion, is a great decoration for a summer residence.
Conclusion
Most importantly, don't be afraid to experiment. Any DIY decoration for a summer residence will bring invaluable benefits. After all, beauty on the site is the key to good mood and health. And old things will be very happy to serve their master again. When you want to change the design of the cottage, you will immediately find new ideas. And their embodiment will add creative inspiration. Therefore, your summer cottage will always be bright, beautiful and, most importantly, beloved.
