Interesting ideas for a summer residence: plot decor

A summer cottage for many people is already a familiar and integral part of their life. Someone is used to growing plants from year to year and harvesting, while someone just relax in nature in a pleasant company. Regardless of where the dacha is located, how much area it occupies, each owner thought about how to refine it. A lot of effort is being made to improve and decorate the site.

Many people just go to the store and buy everything they need to create coziness and comfort. But it is much more pleasant and interesting to use your imagination for this, especially when all the necessary material can be found at hand.

Hand-made items are very popular now. There are many interesting ideas for decorating a summer cottage. With their help, the resting place will become truly unique and unrepeatable. The beauty you have created in the country will attract the eyes of neighbors, surprise guests with its uniqueness who have visited your cozy corner outside the city.

The modern pace of life exhausts us on weekdays, everyone tries to come out of town on weekends and get some fresh air. Having a country house, it is difficult to do without a recreation area. It should be comfortable and calm to be here, since the summer cottage is, first of all, a place for your rest from the everyday hustle and bustle. After working in the garden and in the garden, I want to relax somewhere, be filled with new strength and energy.

If the familiar environment is already bored, it is not necessary to make repairs, it is enough to find fairly simple solutions in this matter, to show maximum imagination:

• The swing, which can please not only children, but also adults, can be hung in the shade; unusual pillows of bizarre colors and shapes will surely make this place a favorite.

• A simple device from an old barrel can be made an excellent barbecue. And in the evenings, admire the tongues of flame under the trills of forest birds.

• Install a table, benches or chairs in a specially designated place, lay out the area with tiles and, if desired, decorate it, you can make stands for flowers from wood cuts, which can be used to decorate this recreation area.

• DIY gazebos look very beautiful. And the material for manufacturing can be any: leftovers from construction, plastic bottles, tree twigs, or just winding plants will perfectly play the role of living walls.

• By hanging a comfortable hammock in the garden, you will get great pleasure from relaxation, new strength will appear and you can continue to work.

• Every summer resident dreams of installing a decorative pond. It's not as difficult as it sounds, you just need to choose a size that suits your site and select a tank. Fill it with gravel, pots of aquatic plants and fill it with water. Lying stones around your reservoir will resemble a stone necklace, but do not be zealous, everything should be in moderation.

Arriving at a summer residence, you begin to improve the garden, the firewood will not put themselves in the woodshed either, but a significant part of the time is always given to business for the soul.The most favorite plants of the yard for the summer resident are flowers. This is a decor that no site can do without. Certainly, some separately planted plants look good, but the flower bed is always mesmerizing with its splendor.

Summer residents know different tricks on how to make a flower garden much more beautiful, using, for example, plastic crafts. Plastic is one of the most readily available materials.

He has very attractive qualities:

• Strength.
• Flexibility.
• Durability.

Very often, plastic bottles are used to make flowers for decoration, palm trees, gnomes, and animal figurines. Then these crafts are complemented by the compositions of flower beds. It always looks very nice and attracts attention.

It is very good to make flower garden fences from plastic of various shapes and colors. The advantage of curly flower beds from bottles is that they can easily change their shape. If you wish, at least every year change the shape and size of such a flower bed. In winter, such a flower bed is not afraid of frost.

The use of stones in landscape design has always been popular. Stone decor for a summer residence can be made with your own hands. Even if it is simple, but harmoniously fit in - this is already a huge plus for its creator. Flower beds can be overlaid with smooth white pebbles. You can buy it in a store or go for a walk on the river in search of it. It will be a small business trip.

A clever solution: put a jug upside down on the lawn, deepen it into the ground and sprinkle it with small stones next to it, and then decorate this composition with low colors to match, thus creating a pleasant atmosphere of magic.

An interesting idea for a summer residence using stones in the decor is the creation of an alpine slide or rockery rock garden. A decorative garden composition made of stones of different sizes and dwarf plants, complemented by a dry stream, also made of stones, is one of the ways to expand the space. Looks great and will not leave you or your site without guest praise.

Creative homemade products from old rubber are now widespread among gardeners. Decorating playgrounds with various animal figures, sandboxes, tire swings, rubber paths between beds, artificial reservoirs and, finally, various flower garden decorations - all this looks very original on private territories.

Detailed instructions will help you make wonderful flowerpots out of tires you don't need. Of course, it is necessary to use male power here, since you cannot simply cut the rubber. Moreover, if you want to cut something curly, you will have to resort to special tools, such as a grinder.

Small tires are used to make miniature flowerbeds, free-standing on the lawn or along the path, painted in different colors. Fantasizing, you can make a multi-tiered flower bed using rubber of different sizes and diameters. And tires dug into the ground can serve as a fence of sites.

If we talk about ways to update a suburban area, decorating it, you should pay attention to such material as wood and twigs.

The tree can be used for many of the most original crafts for a summer cottage and a garden:

• The wood selected as a production material, subject to special processing, will delight the eye for a long time. Wooden décor is notable for its low cost and is quite easy to process.
• From a bar, you can make original paths that will add comfort to the site. Wood block curbs are very popular, but they are laborious. A fence made of wooden round timber looks very interesting; with the help of paints, you can turn the fence into multi-colored men or into colored pencils. Such fences can be used to enclose the territory on the site, for example, a playground.

• When creating a wooden decor on the site, you can use mosaic decorating. The mosaic will add personality and creative originality to your crafts. You can beautifully decorate a stump cut with multi-colored glass or fragments of tiles left after repairs. Beads and bright stones also look very nice in the overall composition of the mosaic.
• A wooden fence can also be decorated with bright glass and beads. To do this, you need a drill with drills, glass pieces and the fence itself, of course. It is necessary to make holes in the fence, placing them in a chaotic order, then place already prepared glasses and beads in the holes. Now it remains to observe the charming overflows and play of light reflected from your fence.

• An interesting bird feeder can be made from a birch stump; it will be a wonderful decoration for your garden. You need to make a small hole for the treats, and the visor will be a protection for the rain. With a feeder, birds will often visit their summer cottages, and adults and children will be able to admire beautiful birds.
• If you no longer have room for flower beds on your site or you just do not want to spoil the lawn, find several felled tree trunks of various diameters, with their help and your imagination, you can easily make a steam locomotive. From above, you need to make holes with a chisel and a hammer and plant your favorite flowers, timely watering will give you the opportunity to admire their beauty all summer long.

• Flowers can also be planted in a wicker basket made from twigs of trees that grow near your site.
• Rods, and in particular wicker structures, are the most economical material for making decorations on the site. You can fence a pond and a fountain, weave a support for climbing plants, and for the more experienced, those who have already tried themselves in this difficult task, weaving arches, benches and gazebos is suitable.
• Quite beautiful and very common is a fence made of twigs - wattle. You can fence them off the entire summer cottage or allocate a recreation area, a garden, a playground, here you can show your imagination, and such a fence will last about 5 years.

When equipping a suburban area, you can do almost anything with your own hands, the main thing is that you need to plan all stages of work.

Here are some useful tips on how to apply old or unnecessary things when creating decor on the site:

• Furniture that you no longer use for a long time can be applied to your homestead and give it a new life. Pre-clean it of old paint, paint it again or simply varnish it and now the decor element is ready. If you don't want to create a new flower bed, then this option is perfect for you. For old chairs, you can remove the seats, put boxes in their place and turn them into portable flower beds. You can also do with the bed, in this case it can serve as a flower garden fence.

• Surely summer residents have inventory that is no longer required for work:

1. Shovels.
2. Choppers.
3. Sickles.
4. Garden shears and many other tools.

• On the trees of the garden, you can install not only feeders, but also birdhouses. Bird houses should be made as comfortable as possible, and at the same time special. Birds will gladly settle in your area and protect your crops, and the trees will look more beautiful outwardly.
• Wooden staircases, which have served faithfully, are increasingly being replaced by modern dacha aluminum structures. But you should not throw them away, they perfectly play the role of support for climbing plants. Of course, you need to check that such a helper can still fulfill this role and does not collapse under the weight of the plants.

• Do not throw away old dishes either. If you paint a metal teapot, make a mosaic of multi-colored glass on it and plant a flower in it - this will be the highlight of your garden. Likewise, pots, basins and anything else, do not be afraid to use what is already at hand, you just need to be creative, and your suburban area will turn into a paradise from which you will not want to leave.
• Shoes, carts - all this can also be used as flower pots, of course, after cleaning it from dirt and repainting it in the colors you like.
• If you have patience and collect a large number of corks from plastic bottles, they can also be used in decorating a summer cottage. They can lay out a path in the garden, decorate the facades of buildings on your site, or show artistic ability and make drawings on a wooden fence, here you will need a screwdriver and screws to help.

If you place such a log near the house, it will certainly delight you with its unique look. Such a flower bed can be of any size and be in any place convenient for you. To make it, too, will not be difficult: make a depression with a hatchet, fill in the earth and plant any flowers.

Decorating the landscape of a suburban area with a dry stream is a very interesting idea. Anyone can make a dry stream, even a novice gardener, and this is its main advantage. So that the stream does not seem empty, unfinished, it must be decorated with plants. The plus is that they can be anything to your taste.

Interesting crafts for the garden can be made from car tires. These can be flowerpots, swings for children, or just funny animal figures. A creative approach, a little patience and skill - and now original products flaunt at your dacha.

New, exclusive ideas arise among summer residents when creating various things from plastic bottles and lids. How unusual a vertical flowerbed for greenery looks or how unusual furniture looks like. For such ideas, you need to be patient and have a large number of bottles.

Even in order to put firewood in a woodpile for the winter, you can use a creative approach and achieve excellent results in decorating a summer cottage.

How wonderful the recreation area with a live gazebo looks. A laconic and at the same time an amazing place for a family dinner or for relaxation. It's nice to just sit here after a hard day and have tea in nature.

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