The presence of a summer cottage is undoubtedly an advantage. Today, the suburban area is used not only for growing vegetables and fruit crops, but also for outdoor activities, family and friendly gatherings, and for the summer season. The direction of landscape design has become very popular.
To create an individual style on the site, most owners make interesting crafts from scrap materials.
Scopes of country crafts
For the manufacture of country crafts, materials such as:
- Wood (all its varieties: MDF, chipboard, plywood, solid timber, wooden slats).
- Metal, including sheet metal.
- Plastic bottles and bottle caps.
- Old car tires.
- Stones (river and sea, sandstone, plastun stone).
In the work can be used pieces of PVC pipes, old belts, textile rags and many other items that are no longer used in everyday life.
Crafts made from various materials are used in the following areas:
- Garden decoration. These can be figures made of plaster or concrete, wood or plastic caps, corks, bottles.
- Useful accessories. For daily use, you can build sets of garden furniture (furniture is made from wooden pallets, old metal barrels, stumps or log cabins, plastic bottles). To store work equipment, they often build racks, shelves, mobile boxes.
- Sometimes fruits and vegetables are used in the work, the use of which can be found in the photo of new products for the garden.
- With the help of stone, bottle caps, wooden corks, garden paths are arranged, which is very important in rainy weather. From rubber strips from car tires, coverings for the garden are weaved, making out clean and convenient aisles between the beds.
- Old barrels are used for irrigation and rainwater collection.
The best DIY garden crafts are a combination of practicality and original appearance.
Floral borders and paths
Accumulated glass bottles should not be hastily taken for recycling. The bottoms of such containers are of sufficient thickness, which gives the bottles special strength.
Instructions on how to make crafts from bottles:
- The bottles should be filled with soil or sand.
- Before decorating the garden path, markings are carried out using pegs and a cord.
- Focusing on the markings, the bottles are laid with the neck down, placing the containers as close to each other as possible.
Garden curbs are laid in a similar way. A distinctive feature of such curbs is the longest possible service life, as well as the ability to replace part of the fence in the event of a breakdown.
Crafts from wooden saw cuts
A very large number of interesting crafts for a summer residence can be made from natural materials. For example, from wooden cuts or whole stumps (without signs of decay or pests), you can cut a beautiful set of furniture: a table, chairs.
At the same time, the master can leave the natural look and color, or decorate the finished products. An obligatory stage of independent work is to impregnate all surfaces with a moisture-resistant composition or oil.
Lanterns on the summer terrace
Very original crafts for the garden can be made from vegetables, for example, pumpkin lanterns.A similar decoration is placed on a summer terrace, in a gazebo, in a recreation area.
To make a beautiful lantern, you need a pumpkin (it is better to choose orange varieties to get the desired effect).
You should also prepare a sharp knife with a sufficiently long blade, a metal-cut candle.
Instructions on how to make a craft for a summer residence with your own hands:
- First of all, the master should think over the design or prepare a sketch, a photo of the future craft.
- The pumpkin is washed, dried, and then degreased with cotton wool dipped in alcohol.
- The upper part is cut off with a knife. Remove all the pulp with a spoon.
- The next creative stage involves working with the remaining frame. The planned ornament is carefully cut out with a knife. On the eve of the autumn holidays, you can cut out a scary face, or choose a stylish ornament for carving.
The task of the master is not easy, he needs to free the most even area inside the pumpkin. A candle in a metal form is installed on this platform. An original vase for fruits and sweets can be made in a similar way.
Crafts from cement and concrete
Having in stock cement, sand and a container for mixing the solution, you can make interesting flowerpots for flowers, figures for garden decor.
The most crucial moment in independent work is choosing the right form for pouring.
Instructions on how to make garden crafts from cement:
- All ingredients are mixed in a prepared container, the working mass is thoroughly kneaded.
- Cement is poured into a rubber glove (dense), leaving it to solidify. As the concrete hardens, the position of the glove should be periodically changed to get the desired shape for the future craft (for example, a palm with a certain position of the fingers).
After the cement mass has solidified, the rubber is carefully removed from the finished product. Inside the open "palm" you can fill up the soil and plant a flowering annual. Alternatively, you can place your palm in the flower garden, completing the decorative image of the garden.
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