The current trend is decorating garden plots with old bicycles, because they are very suitable as stands for pots, tubs and flowerpots
Original ideas for DIY garden decorations will help highlight the natural charm of the garden plot and bring to life the hidden talents of the designer (and everyone has them). Before embarking on a critical mission, inspect your supplies... and go ahead!
Thanks to DIY decor, the garden can become not only beautiful, but also very original.
Garden lamps made from glass bottles look very impressive
Decorative well for the garden
Old things, a little imagination - and you create original crafts
Advice ! Remember the sacred rule of a real dacha owner: you can’t throw anything away!
To create extraordinary things, you will need things that are completely unnecessary at first glance: dilapidated furniture, old dishes, car tires, plastic bottles, firewood and scraps of building materials, tubs, barrels, holey shoes, etc. Using stones, wood and plastic to decorate the garden and dacha - the most effective ways.
Some decorative crafts amaze with their beauty
Tin man making tin cans on the porch of a house
Wooden ducks to decorate the shore of the pond
DIY garden decorations: dedication to garden design art
The most important condition in creating decorative jewelry is a sense of style. First, outline a style direction for yourself (taking into account the size of the territory, the style of the garden and your own preferences). All decoration ideas for decorating a garden plot can be divided into two groups:
- functional;
- non-functional.
DIY garden figures: functional ideas
This includes elements that harmoniously combine aesthetics and useful functionality.
Garden swing made from car ramps
Magic ponds. If you have old metal/plastic bathtubs or other containers, use them to create tranquil ponds. Plant aquatic plants in your ponds. You can even get unpretentious fish. Decorating flower beds and ponds in your summer cottage can be done with boulders, pebbles or tiles.
Interesting DIY decorative fountain
A garden pond made from a dug-in bathtub or other large container looks modern and stylish if its boundaries are outlined with pebbles.
Division into zones
Print out a few sheets of your site plan and put your ideas on them. Visual information on how to arrange a garden plot can be found in photos in magazines or on thematic websites.
1. Determine where the main areas will be: residential, utility, recreation area. This stage requires drawing up a rational plan. Consider the terrain, the size of the space, the presence or absence of finished buildings. Set aside the design of garden beds and flower beds for a while.
2. The curves of garden paths will help create an interesting design for your garden. Take care not only of beauty, but also of convenience. Gather information about the bushes and trees you plan to plant. Mark their location on the plan depending on height and growth conditions.
The design of the entrance to the garden will look advantageous if you use plants that bloom longer than others.
3. Plan the location of your green hedges.
- Setting up a vegetable garden at your summer cottage requires a well-lit area with fertile soil.
- Proper design of a vegetable garden implies a thoughtful number of necessary beds. Caring for them should be a pleasure, and not turn into a chore.
- The photo of the beautiful design of the garden beds shows a combination of different crops. When planting, you need to take into account the peculiarities of their cultivation.
- Before planting fruit and ornamental trees, you should find out to what height and width they grow, and how far they should be planted from each other. Plants with needles can be planted on the leeward side. Shrubs planted along the paths will help create a decorative design for the garden. It is preferable to plant tall trees in the lowland part of the garden.
Examples of designing the garden of “stars” can be found on the pages dedicated to them on the Internet. Nicole Kidman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sting, Mikhail Boyarsky, Anastasia Melnikova, and Evelina Bledans love to dig in garden beds.
Crafts for the garden from bottles and garden decoration with flowers (photo)
Flower world. Original flower beds made from plastic bottles, old tires, unnecessary shoes, iron buckets. Here you can even decorate an old bed, chairs, bicycle or chest of drawers. If there are large stumps left on your site, do not rush to uproot them. From them you can make magnificent flowerpots for the garden with your own hands and plant flowers there.
Advice!
For flowerpots made from stumps, additionally use clay pots (to plant flowers). You should not plant flowers directly into a tree - it will rot from water.
Magnificent mini-garden in an artificial stump
Any stump or stone, if properly designed, can become an excellent decorative element for the garden.
It’s a pity to uproot hundred-year-old stumps - they can be given a second life as an exclusive garden flowerpot. You can also arrange flowerpots for pots in sections of logs and uprooted and cleaned stumps
Romantic buildings. Plastic bottles can be used (you can build an entire gazebo from them). What do you think of cozy benches with a canopy in the spirit of French villages? For this, unprocessed logs of various sizes are used. From old armchairs or stools you can build a cozy swing or unusual crafts to decorate your garden with your own hands.
A bench made from the roots of an old tree looks very impressive
A DIY swing decorated with fresh flowers will add romance to your garden.
How to decorate your garden and dacha plot with your own hands
Many owners of their own houses or summer cottages strive to create complete comfort and coziness in their gardens. Amazing landscape design, a colorful rose garden or alpine slide, a small decorative pond, a beautiful babbling brook or fountain. Thanks to such original solutions, owners of summer cottages and private houses will be able to truly relax and decorate their courtyard.
Option 1.
Beautiful garden paths made of decorative paving stones with a cozy seating area surrounded by a green lawn.
Option 2.
Do-it-yourself garden path using a special form into which prepared cement-sand mortar is poured.
Option 3.
An amazing decorative pond with a babbling brook, lined with natural stone and floating lilies. An excellent solution for a recreation area, which can be decorated with spring-autumn perennial flowers or made into a beautiful flower garden or flower bed.
Option 4.
Another original solution for a decorative pond with a fountain and lilies. In this case, a special plastic tray is used, which is decorated around with spring-summer flowers and a lawn. The most affordable way for those who dream of making a small pond on their site.
The amount of rolled lawn for your site can be calculated using our lawn calculator.
Option 5.
A more expensive option for a decorative pond with a beautiful fountain. Decorative bricks are used to divide the lawn and the pedestal for the fountain. Decorative figurines and stylish solar-powered lamps ideally complement the overall design of the recreation area. Evergreen hosta, cypress and other vegetation are used as green spaces.
Option 6.
An original solution for creating a decorative pond using a baby bath. Decorative figurines and solar-powered lamps will perfectly complement and illuminate the relaxation area in the evening. An ideal solution for small garden plots.
Option 7.
Amazing medium sized landscaping design. Natural stone, crushed stone and evergreen shrubs were used to decorate it. An excellent solution for large garden plots, which can be supplemented with a small pond.
Option 8.
An economical option for decorating your garden using used car tires. An ideal solution for small garden plots.
Option 9.
An inexpensive original option that uses used 200 liter barrels with colorful painting. An ideal solution for creating a cozy relaxation area. You can also plant beautiful autumn and spring flowers in barrels.
Option 10.
Another original option using a used 200 liter metal barrel, which is painted in bright colors with a garden theme. An ideal solution for small garden plots.
Option 11.
An original solution for creating a beautiful recreation area at minimal cost. Natural stone laid out in the form of a fence where a decorative mill and various decorative elements are located. You can use solar-powered lamps to illuminate the recreation area in the evening.
Option 12.
An original solution using an old wheelbarrow surrounded by a bright green lawn. Bright colorful composition with spring-summer perennial flowers. An ideal solution for large and medium-sized garden plots.
Option 13.
Amazing landscape design for wealthy owners of private houses or summer cottages. Small natural stone with evergreen shrubs and autumn-summer flowers perfectly complement and decorate the recreation area.
Option 14.
Another original solution for wealthy owners. Amazing landscape design using various flower arrangements, a decorative fountain, evergreens and a beautiful lawn. An ideal solution for large and medium-sized garden plots.
Option 15.
Brightly colorful landscape design for large areas using various flower arrangements and evergreen shrubs. In the center of the site there is a pedestrian path made of natural stone.
Option 16.
An ideal solution for a small garden plot. A cozy and beautiful recreation area with bright floral designs and an original path made of natural wooden stumps.
Also check out the video on site arrangement:
Answering the question - how to decorate a summer cottage with your own hands, the photos suggested above will help you visualize this or that landscape design, recreation area or beautiful corner that would look ideal on your garden plot.
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Wooden crafts for the garden and a decorative birdhouse for the garden with your own hands
Favorite birds. Our magical garden simply cannot do without the shimmer of birds. To make the birds comfortable, you can come up with original wooden birdhouses for them. Decorate them with decoupage, painting, and decorative details. For the birdhouses themselves, you can use leftover boards and wooden furniture. Birdhouses made from old large boots look great. You can awaken your imagination and create a real miracle of a birdhouse idea from corks or large porcelain teapots.
Advice!
It is best to hang birdhouses on deciduous trees, with a slight slope.
And make the roof removable to make it easier to clean. Birdhouses with bird feeders can be made multi-colored or even carved
If you live near a wooded area or park, make a fun, simple squirrel feeder. To do this, you need to firmly fasten, for example, a chair from a set of toy furniture to the tree, using a pair of screws. Using a long self-tapping screw, a head of corn is screwed onto it and is just as easily replaced
Fences and picket fences
First of all, the area is fenced off. It’s understandable: building materials need to be produced, but how to protect them? It's easier behind the fence. If possible, it is better to immediately install a beautiful, solid, reliable fence. Not all of them cost much. Budget options can also be very attractive. The main thing in this matter is the idea, and they are in the photo. So, a combination of long and short boards can create an interesting fence, more transparent at the top and almost without gaps at the bottom.
An ordinary picket fence with a non-standard approach also looks good
If the boards are placed edgewise, the effect is even more interesting. Now, if you don’t see it, you won’t believe it...
Who would have thought that thin boards often nailed down would make such an interesting fence?
With thin, fresh boards you can make a beautiful fence that uses the principles of wattle fence. The boards are passed between the posts and bent.
Beautiful fence made of boards
You can make a unique fence from slabs. You'll have to tinker with it - treat it well against parasites, and match the boards one to the other so that there are as few cracks as possible. You may have to work on them with an ax or plane. But croaker is almost a waste material, its prices are low, so there is a chance to get a designer fence for little money.
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A fence made of slabs is cheap and cheerful, but it’s a lot of work...
More models and photos of wooden fences in this article.
If funds allow, you can put up something monumental, such as a fence made of stone or brick. It will require a lot of work and money, but it will also last a long time.
My home is my castle…
For internal division of the site, such solid fences are useless. For a vegetable garden, you can install a trellis made of a thin bar, grow a hedge, or weave a wattle fence.
Internal fences for the site
If you are “lucky” and there is a blank wall facing your garden, you can also decorate it with a kind of fence along which climbing plants can be allowed to grow. An interesting option is presented below. When the ivy grows a little it will be very beautiful. Instead of ivy, you can plant clematis. In winter, the view is worse, of course, but in summer...
Ways to decorate walls
Read more about fences in the article “Types of fences for private houses”
DIY garden sculptures: decor
A world of pure aesthetics reigns here, which pleases the eye and gives a special charm to the entire appearance of the garden. Various souvenirs, funny animal figurines, garden crafts - such DIY garden decoration from scrap materials will become a real highlight of the yard design.
Smooth stones painted with drops of acrylic or other paint. You can also paint them with fluorescent paint
Beautiful peacock made of forged elements
Sea pebbles will help create beautiful decorative elements for your garden
Crafts from stones for the garden
- Fantasies made of stone or wood. You can make wonderful things from stones or leftover boards. Acrylic paints, beads, and fragments of multi-colored glass can help you. You can create funny gnomes, little men, or just wonderful little animals or insects. And if you paint the surfaces of stumps or boulders with fluorescent paint, you will get magical night lanterns.
Beautiful ladybugs made using mosaic
Chic horses made from tree roots will become the main element of your landscape decor.
Fun ants made from golf balls and wire
Advice!
Involve your children in exciting work with paints and applications.
You will have a wonderful time with them! Autumn garden decor using painted pebbles
Bright ladybugs made from sea pebbles
- The revival of plastic. Using plastic bottles of different sizes in design is the most economical option for decorating a garden. What type of garden decoration made from plastic bottles do you want?
- Cute animals and birds: piglets, bunnies, kittens, elephants. Or maybe proud swans will raise their necks in your garden or perky sparrows will sit along the fences?
- Little people: it has become very fashionable to create various colorful characters from plastic bottles - from cheerful village boys and girls to arrogant aristocrats.
Hanging garden decor: fisherman and fish from old spoons
Decorative mushroom caps for the garden can be made from many materials and old things: toys, dishes, disposable containers, etc.
Scarecrow garden watchman made from old clay pots
- Flowers and Plants: Make your garden a tropical paradise. Plastic bottles make great palm trees and cacti. You can add a little tenderness - daisies, bells, poppies, roses.
DIY flowers from plastic bottles
Advice!
Place crafts made from plastic bottles in the depths of the garden or flower beds.
Especially if you have children (so that they cannot reach them with their hands). The edges of plastic crafts can accidentally damage them. Bright figures of birds from plastic caps
Unusual garden decor can be made from rusty metal: sheets, pipes or old tools. For example, a decoration for a tree trunk - a woodpecker made from a circular saw and a shovel
Magnificent daisies made from metal rods
About the prosaic but necessary - toilets
These buildings sometimes appear before fences, because without them it’s a disaster. Builders will develop all the nearby nooks and crannies, and who, I wonder, will like it. So the most necessary, perhaps, building. Why are we talking about toilets in relation to decorating a site? But because this building can be made in such a way that it does not have to be hidden. Showing off is also not an option, but there is no need to disguise it either. For example, a standard birdhouse can be made from logs. You'll get a mini-hut.
Costs little, looks good...
Plant a plant around it, make it pretty, and this corner of the garden will also be attractive. For example, like the photo below.
A few more options on the same topic. The same simple design can be designed in different ways. You choose the style depending on how the dacha or garden plot is decorated.
Well, if you need a stone toilet, then why not decorate it in the style of a medieval castle. Only crowds of tourists will need to be driven away...
DIY crafts for the home from scrap materials: workshops on making
How to make a garden decoration with your own hands? We offer several master classes on making creative masterpieces for the garden.
Small iridescent balls strung on metal rods will give your garden a cosmic effect
Bright flowers will help decorate your decorative well
Funny decoration “Bat”
DIY bats will be especially appropriate for Halloween
Our garden must acquire a protector. The bat “Batman” will cope perfectly with this role. It can be hung on a fence, tree or at the entrance to the house. Arming ourselves:
- wire;
- nylon threads;
- double-sided tape;
- elastic black fabric;
- pieces of fur or feathers;
- foam sponge (round or oval);
- rubber tube (it is better to use a large tire);
- acrylic paint white, black and pink (you can use any waterproof paint).
Interesting scorpion made from car tires
A flower bed placed in an old umbrella looks very beautiful
Decorative flower bed made of tires in the shape of a cup
Highlights of our garden: ponds
Perhaps the second favorite decoration of the site after flower beds is ponds and small ponds. The picturesque combination of water and plants is mesmerizing and gives you coolness in the summer. Decorating reservoirs is a creative process and there are also many styles. You can make a flooring around it from boards. And so as not to have to worry about painting and impregnating them, they can be made not of wood, but of composite - there is a new material that looks very much like wood. The only difference is that it does not rot or change color. This material is called decking. It can be used to cover an open veranda or terrace near the pool. You can see an example of its use around a pond in the photo.
Flooring around the pond - it will be convenient to walk even after rain
You can also pave the space around with stone slabs. This arrangement will take more time, but many people like this option better. To prevent the entire finish from “floating”, you will have to remove part of the soil, fill it with crushed stone, compact it, and add a layer of sand on top. You can now lay slabs on it. The gaps can be filled with a mixture of sand and cement, the excess can be thoroughly swept away, and then either wait for rain or water the blind area - the cement will set, securing the slabs. The coverage will be reliable.
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Beautiful red granite, and even a stream. This garden decoration required patience to set up and cost a decent amount of money.
Using the same technology, you can line the edges with boulders collected on the river bank (or purchased at a garden center).
Boulders are a great way to decorate the edge of a pond
If the paths in the garden are made of paving stones, it makes sense to decorate the shore of the pond as well. The technology is known, only the material is different.
Paving stones - no need to look for anything, everything is in the store
Crafts made from tires for the garden (photos and step-by-step production)
Begin:
Step 1.
Decide on the size of the future Batman and cut the required piece from the tire. Using a marker, draw its outline on the camera (head with ears and wings). To add volume to the paws and ears, cut them separately from the tire.
Step 2.
From a foam sponge we cut out the muzzle and body of the mouse and cover them with black fabric. We sew these parts very tightly to the rubber blank. You need to sew with nylon threads strictly along the contour. Additionally, you can strengthen the parts with wire.
Step 3.
We attach the paws to the body with a wire threaded through it. We cut narrow strips from the tire. They are needed to give relief to the wings. We glue the rubber strips to the wings with double-sided tape. The edges can be secured with threads for extra strength.
Step 4.
We sew additional ears (which we cut out separately) to the upper edge of the ear and the head of the mouse.
Step 5.
Coloring. We paint Batman's ears, draw a mouth and a nose. Let's make his chest lighter and add a few strokes of black (they will imitate fur). We glue feathers or fur onto the paws, neck and ears using tape.
Funny bat made from car tires
Batman Defender is ready!
Romantic swan lantern made of plastic film
A swan made of plastic film (dense polyethylene) will perfectly decorate a garden lake in your yard
An amazing and very gentle swan can be created from ordinary plastic film (polyethylene). Equipped with lighting, the miracle bird will add charm and sophisticated charm to the garden. We will need:
- regular tape;
- aluminum wire;
- remnants of the linoleum backing (isolon);
- transparent 5-liter plastic bottle;
- polyethylene 6-7 meters (it is better to use 150 microns, this film is used for greenhouses).
Beautiful swans made of plastic bottles and plaster
Let's get started:
Step 1.
We decide on the size of the swan and make its frame from wire and a plastic bottle.
Step-by-step guide: making a swan from thick polyethylene and a plastic bottle. Step 1
Step 2.
We cut the isolon into long, narrow strips. We wrap the entire frame of the bird well with these strips and fasten it with tape for strength.
Step-by-step guide: making a swan from thick polyethylene and a plastic bottle. Step 2
Step 3.
We cut the polyethylene into long strips. Then we give the stripes a fringe effect. To do this, make uniform small cuts on one side of the strips.
Step 4.
Starting from the swan's tail, carefully wrap polyethylene strips onto the prepared frame with the fringe facing outward. As you wrap, carefully burn the film to adhere to the main part. It is convenient to cauterize with a regular screwdriver heated on a gas stove. Do not overdo it, otherwise you may burn the swan right through.
Step 5.
In the same sequence, we make the swan’s wings separately and attach them to the frame.
Step 6.
Backlight. There are several options you can use here. You can take a regular round lantern and place it in a bottle (after cutting a hole in it). Or decorate the swan on top with neon flexible tubes or self-adhesive LED strip.
White swans are a symbol of eternal love and devotion
It is best to place the miracle bird next to a pond (provided that the pond is located near the entrance to the house).
Decor made with love by your own hands will fit well into the summer colorfulness of the garden.
DIY clay garden decor
DIY Chinese wind chime bells made from copper wire, beads and natural stones from unnecessary jewelry
A garden plot is a place where you can realize your own creative potential.
Site layout
The first thing you should do when receiving a plot is to think about what and where you will have it. You decide where the house will stand - at the beginning of the plot, in the middle, closer to its far edge. Then you “arrange” the rest of the planned buildings. If you are planning to build, determine a place for a bathhouse, then place outbuildings - a barn, a chicken coop, a firewood shed, vegetable garden beds and greenhouses, and decide where the garden will be. Next come resting places - these are canopies and gazebos.
The main buildings are on the plan; now paths are being laid between them. Straight paths are needed only in one case, if the area is long and narrow. In this case, a flat path to its far end will visually make it closer. For all other objects, it is better to make them sinuous, with smooth bends.
Site plan - placing the house and main buildings
Now it's time to think about placing decorations for the area. First of all, these are flower beds and flower beds. They are built quickly, planted with annuals in the very first season will delight you, while everything else is still under construction and is still far from beautiful. A longer task is the construction of rock gardens and rockeries. Pulling and laying a couple of tons of stones is no joke; besides, they are planted mainly with perennials, and they take their final appearance only after three to four years. And then, only on the condition that you immediately selected all the plantings and planted them correctly, which without experience is an unprecedented success.
Do you want to surprise your friends and neighbors? Paint the flowerpots with luminescent paint. When darkness falls, they will glow, giving your lawn an unusual look.
Clay pots painted with luminescent paint glow in the evening no worse than lanterns
The second option for turning ordinary things into extraordinary is to use car paint with a chrome effect. Paint several stones or the same pots and get mirror stones...
Mirror balls are balls painted with chrome effect paint.
Another traditional type of decoration is small or large bodies of water - ponds and small ponds. Very small ones are built quickly - from a tire, in a couple of hours. Larger ones may take a couple of days to arrange. But there is no point in constructing ponds before the house is built and the paths are laid. Save this decoration for closer to the finish. Also, after the main construction, it’s time to install pergolas, arches, and canopies. And just at the end of the day, they begin to play with lighting, although there are very simple and original ideas. For example, take a tin can, make holes in it, but not just like that, but according to a pattern, creating a pattern. You can put an ordinary low-power lamp inside, and if there is no electricity yet, put a candle and place/hang it near the house.
A completely unsightly jar turns into a wonderfully beautiful lantern...
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Place a candle inside
And hang it on the veranda or in the gazebo
This decoration of the site can be hung in the garden or on the veranda. It’s not difficult to do, it looks great, although only in the dark))
