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Gone are the days when everyone in the summer cottage was engaged in beds and fruit trees, but did not think about the decor. Once upon a time, unpretentious flowers along the fence or a small flower bed were the best decoration of the courtyard. Today, the dacha is becoming a place of country recreation, and many owners hire a landscape design specialist. But if the hands are in place and there are a few worthwhile ideas, no big expenses are needed. The original design of a summer cottage with their own hands is made from improvised materials, which are in abundance in every garage, on mezzanines, balconies or in pantries.

Do-it-yourself cottage decoration

Mill in a country house made of stones

Decorating a flower bed with a tree

The main advantage of homemade country decor is that it is possible to attach everything that it was a pity to throw away. Every thrifty owner of the house in the garage and on the balcony, mezzanine and in the pantry has many years of deposits of all kinds of good, which will soon become an adornment of the landscape.

Do-it-yourself dacha design can be adapted to many items that have served the main period:

• bald car tires;
• plastic bottles, containers and containers;
• ropes, tarpaulin, burlap, camouflage net;
• trimming boards and thin saw cuts of wood;
• unnecessary plastic pipes;
• thick wire, chain-link mesh, metal scraps;
• old shoes and sports equipment;
• plywood boxes and wooden packaging;
• empty barrels and other containers;
• leaky teapots, bowls, pots;
• unnecessary carts and bicycles;
• old plastic and wooden furniture;
• remnants of building materials and mounting foam.

First of all, you need to evaluate the "reserves" in order to distribute them for arranging the cottage as needed. Some of the materials will go to the manufacture of fully functional devices.

In any yard, "Moidodyr" (washbasin) in the barbecue or barbecue area and a swing sofa in the shade of the garden under a tarpaulin canopy will be useful. From other old things, make flower stands and planters, all kinds of original garden decorations with your own hands.

The head of a boar from a pile of earth in the country

flower bed decoration

You will need a detailed site plan for competent zoning and marking. Even in a small courtyard of a country house or in a country garden, it is necessary to distribute functional zones that delimit:

• borders;
• sides from plastic bottles;
• hedges;
• decorative masonry;
• original fences.

A well-maintained estate does not require redevelopment, you only need creative design ideas for giving. On the new site, places for a comfortable pastime are being determined:

• hearth for outdoor cooking;
• children's playground with a decorative sandbox;
• gazebos, benches, swings;
• parking under a canopy for cars, motorcycles or bicycles;
• playground for a children's pool;
• decorative beds, flower beds, flower beds and alpine slides.

Working on a country design with your own hands, it is possible to realize old dreams and plans of the whole family. Free areas can be covered with small pebbles, sow lawn grass, undersized border plants and flowers, as in the photo.

Arbor in the country with their own hands

Flower bed in the country

DIY border in the country

garden paths

Arguments about whether paths are needed in the country last until the first downpour. In some regions, the soil is so viscous that you can’t pull your feet out of the mud - it sticks to your shoes in a heavy lump. The only way out is to provide aesthetic paved passages between summer cottages.

Paths made of different materials will help to decorate the cottage with your own hands:

• bricks or foam blocks;
• cutting boards and round cuts;
• sea ​​pebbles and wild stone;
• compacted fine gravel and sand;
• homemade paving slabs;
• marble chips and other bulk materials of small fractions;
• concrete paths with mosaic masonry of broken glass and ceramic tiles.

The country alley leading to the garden will be functional and attractive in itself, when there are original borders or rows of annual flowers on the sides. But the original idea of ​​\u200b\u200blaying will make it a real decoration of the garden with your own hands from improvised materials.

Decorating the dacha with plants

Flower beds in the country

A paved path can be below ground level or slightly elevated, have a flat or slightly convex surface. Alleys will last for many years if done according to all the rules.

A shallow trench is needed, which is marked and fixed along the rope between the driven pegs. This is the only way to make the track the same width.

The bottom of the trench is compacted with gravel and sand, regardless of the type of paving material.

Next, you need to organize formwork for concrete with filler or sides for large blocks. As decorative sides, low log pegs, rows of glass or plastic bottles of the same size dug upside down are suitable.

Sandbox with flowers

Flowers in pots in the country

Flowerbed of stones in the country

Between the formwork, the compacted trench is filled with a concrete base for recessed finishing materials. Between the tiles of the mosaic path, you need to carefully fill the seams.

Alleys made of bricks, blocks and solid tiles (without cement mix) are sprinkled with sand at the seams.

When laying tiles or bricks on sand, use a rubber or wooden mallet to fit and level.

The horizontal is adjusted by the building level.

If the site is in a lowland, be sure to organize drainage, otherwise the alleles during a downpour can turn into gutters. The situation will be saved by a shallow drainage ditch parallel to the garden path, paved with ceramic fragments or filled with cement.

Design ideas for giving will be embodied in the best way if all stages of the construction of the path and its decor are done slowly and efficiently, observing the laying technology. The easiest way is to use ready-made trellis templates for home-made tracks made of cement with filler, as in the photo. The template is rearranged step by step along the prepared trench with a “cushion of sand and gravel, filling in with the base material.

Forms for paving slabs and "euro-fence" of various sizes and shapes are on sale. You can organize a whole production for a summer cottage or start your own business.

Landscaping the border in the country

DIY border in the country

Decorative hedges, fences and borders

According to the technology described in the previous section, decorative bumpers are made to strengthen the levels of a summer cottage under a slope and the walls of a cascading flower bed. The palisade method is also suitable as a decorative hedge.

The edge of the low side can also be used as paths between flower beds and sandboxes. Children love to run along the rows of dug-in "stumps".

Hedges are a great way to save on do-it-yourself zoning of a summer cottage. Suitable shrubs for pruning, ordinary or standard roses in the form of a tree. Undersized border roses are planted between them, you get a two-row flower wall.

The simplest side is made from plastic bottles. Containers of the same color are filled with sand, gravel or soil. In a small trench, the bottles are dug up to half and covered with earth or stone chips. They can be empty, but they stay filled with something longer.

Attention! Plastic bottles cannot be filled with water - lenses form under the sun's rays that burn out nearby plants. Even a fire is possible.

DIY flowerbed

Stone castle in the country

Do-it-yourself brazier made of stones in the country house

Floral arches and climbing pergolas

Climbing roses and other climbing flowers are a great way to decorate a homemade country gazebo or arch from improvised materials. As a basis, a metal bar, corner or channel is suitable, which can be assembled into a structure with a welding machine or twisted with bolts.

Ready-made supports for arches must be securely fixed in the ground. Do-it-yourself dug pits with columns for country decor are well tamped with rubble and sand, after which they are cemented and covered with stone chips. On the top of such a gallery, depending on the climatic features of the region, grapes or fragrant flowers can creep.

In a hot climate, it is better to make a covered gallery. Remains of light-transmitting roofing materials are also suitable. Sheds along decorative paths can only be on the south side, but slanted to give more shade. A wire trellis is stretched between the pillars, where the plants will curl. The most economical way is to grow cucumbers, ornamental beans or pumpkins along the arch.

Flower lovers can decorate the cottage with their own hands from improvised materials in different ways. They make vertical flower beds in holes from wide plastic pipes, wooden or openwork metal shelves for pots, as in the photo.

Flowerbed of stones in the country

Do-it-yourself cottage decoration

Garden sculptures and decor from improvised means

Do-it-yourself garden design from improvised materials is mainly associated with such materials:

• car tires (bald tires);
• templates from plywood scraps, from which it is easy to make the missing elements for the "smiling characters" of the country decor;
• plastic containers;
• ceramic flower pots;
• unnecessary shoes;
• metal and wooden barrels, etc.

Some homemade garden sculptures are so good that they can compete with real masterpieces. For example, polyurethane foam frogs or plaster swans.

But most of the role models are made from car tires - threaded and inverted. Acrylic paints will transform any material to make recognizable characters for do-it-yourself country design. Depending on the skill and style of decorating the garden and patio, you can choose any idea. This is what swans and parrots look like from rubber, palm trees from plastic bottles.

Making a flower bed with snails with your own hands

Making a cottage with improvised materials

Table and chairs made of stumps in the country

Original flower beds and mini-flower beds

Mini-flower beds with succulents and cacti (other small plants) inside large shells look original. Equally interesting to many will be the idea of ​​​​using shoes as flower pots or old hats on the wall.

Small containers are suitable for succulents and indoor plants exposed for the summer in the open air. But before you decorate the cottage with your own hands, keep in mind that they will have to be brought into the house during a downpour, hail and gusty winds. It is better to make original forms and planters stationary, and insert flower pots for the season or upon arrival at the dacha on weekends.

Traditionally broken down vehicles are used as original DIY garden ornaments. Carts and bicycles, large parts of the car body are suitable for a small flower garden. Musical instruments are also suitable. Creative idea - a piano with flowers and a waterfall.

Fountain, artificial pond

A mini-reservoir is an excellent solution for decorating a summer cottage with your own hands. A small tank can be equipped from improvised means:

• old rubber boat;
• a large metal barrel;
• excavator bucket;
• tub;
• cistern cut.

The bottom of a homemade pond is made in a small pit, with a compacted pillow of gravel and sand. From above they are lined with a tarpaulin and a dense film in 2-3 layers, the edges are fixed with stones in the form of bumpers. It remains to fill with water and decorate with pivot plants.

Advice. To maintain the ecological balance, it is necessary to monitor the condition of the water, which is periodically drained or circulated. The fountain needs a pump and a filter. To complete the design of the "lake", add homemade frogs, a swan or a crocodile.

Flower beds in the country with flowers

DIY flower bed in the country

Landscaping with playground

So that children do not get bored in the country, and they do not take time while working in the garden and in the beds, there is a solution - a playground with a sandbox and funny home-made figurines.

An important condition is that the place for children's games should be clearly visible from different angles of the summer cottage in order to observe what is happening.

Sandbox sides are easy to build from improvised means:

• log palisade;
• painted boards;
• wide wooden box;
• big tire etc.

In any type of sandbox, children need space to sit and lay out the molds. A country children's corner can be fenced off from neighbors with a fence in the form of pencils or decorated with other home-made decor - paints to help!

If there is enough space, you can build a more interesting sandbox on the site - in the form of a ship, car or tower. Somewhere nearby, you can build a tree house with rope ladders and a slide for descending into the sandbox or a tent camp from old bedspreads. Stretch the ropes between the trees, give them clothespins and cloth, they will gladly build houses for themselves.

Original garden furniture

The fantasy of craftsmen is limitless - from plastic bottles, awning materials and wood waste they make garden furniture on the verge of masterpieces. After trimming the garden and removing dead wood, there is a lot of material left that is easy to attach to make:

• armchairs;
• swing;
• rocking chairs;
• tables and stands.

For comfort, soft seats are made, and natural-shaped material goes to the sidewalls and the frame of the products. It is very convenient to use ready-made pallets or pallets as the basis for a sofa or a corner under a canopy. Puffs and banquettes, tables and chairs are made from plastic bottles. There is time and experience - make a whole sofa for the dacha from plastic bottles, but you will need a lot of containers of the same shape and volume. A cover or cape for a homemade sofa is sewn from old curtains.

More original ideas will be suggested by photos from our gallery.

That's where you can show all your creativity, so it's in the decor of the garden with the help of old, it would seem, no one needs gizmos. You can experiment with such consumables as much as you like, they will always be found on the farm.

Everything is useful in the decor!

1. Inventory in a new role

Do you have shovels and choppers of “advanced age” lying around on your farm? Find a new use for "honorary pensioners": for example, decorate a garden gate with them.

True, there is one caveat: to protect the inventory from further corrosion, the tools must be varnished, resistant to adverse weather conditions, or painted. Old garden shears, sickles and hand shovels, hung on wardrobe hooks, will come in handy for decorating the wall of the hozblok.

Other ideas for non-standard use of garden tools can be found in the selection:

2. Here life is in full swing

An old galvanized one that has served its purpose can be turned into a mini one in no time.

Mini watering can fountain. Photo by Elke Borkowski

To do this, you will need an electric one, which is usually installed in. Water will be supplied by a pump through a hose stretched through a hole in the bottom of the watering can to the sprayer.

Advice: It is more convenient to turn the fountain on and off using the remote control. For the winter, the pump must be removed from the water, rinsed thoroughly and brought into a dry, frost-free room (more on winter storage of tools and equipment told in).

3. On a new path

The old ones don't have to be thrown away. They, or rather their fragments, can be a concrete walking path. To make it easier to work with the mosaic, the fragments can be laid out in a row and a strip of adhesive tape can be glued on top (to fix the pieces). Flip the "tape" over and apply metal and ceramic adhesive to the back of the mosaic. After you have glued the tiles to the concrete base, remove the adhesive tape and fix the mosaic with mortar.

Mosaic garden path. Photo by Marion Nickig

Important: Walking slabs must be at least 4 cm thick, otherwise they will break quickly.

Tired of the old gray slab track? Make creative "blotches" of herbs - resistant to trampling pupavka noble "Treneague" or grassy.

Path with herbs. Photo by Marion Nickig

And for those who have a garden path still only in the project, a master class on.

4. Firewood, get on the line!

If you like to sit by or a fire, then your site probably has a supply of firewood. Most often, the logs are simply piled in a pile, which, of course, takes up space and spoils the overall look of the garden property. Let's fix this and make a woodshed (a frame filled with logs), for example, in the form of a covered semicircular rotunda.

You can also build a remarkable landscape object - a woodcutter with a window.

Advice: the structure is not stable enough, so do not use glazed frames.

You will find other options for unusual solutions in the selection. And the article will tell you what is important to consider in order to fold the logs not only beautifully, but also conveniently.

5. Pictures-flower beds

young ( Sempervivum) is so unpretentious that it grows without problems even on a vertical surface.

Painting - flower garden

1. Take a wooden frame and attach a coarse mesh instead of glass on the back side.
2. Then nail 4 strips along the perimeter of the frame - these will be the walls of the box for the substrate.
3. Line the mesh with moss so that the earth does not wake up through the cells.
4. Pour the substrate to the very edges of the planks, tamp and nail a solid board - you get a box with earth in a frame, “glazed” with a grid.
5. Turn the picture upside down, water the substrate and plant young in the cells.
6. Hang your masterpiece in a sunny spot and water your plants with a spray bottle.

And a few other great posts on the subject:

You can choose planting material for succulents in our catalog, which combines offers from large garden online stores and collection varieties. .

8. Doorknobs aren't just for furniture

Use ceramic door handles to make an accessory for a flower garden or an ornament to support herbaceous perennials.

Attach the handles to the bamboo sticks, making sure that the circumference of each stick matches the hole in the thread of the handle. However, since this is still an interior accessory, you should not count on the fact that such crafts will last you a very long time.

9. Vertical gardening

To, it is not necessary to buy hanging planters. There are many other interesting options. For example, you can hang a wire basket filled with plants from a tree branch. All you need for this is a thick branch and a strong rope. Just remember to line the container with non-woven material so that the earth does not wake up through the cracks.

Another non-standard solution is to hang plastic basins between tree trunks dug in a row (be sure to dig the supports deep).

You can hang plastic basins between tree trunks dug in a row

Important: do not forget to make drainage holes in the containers.

10 Rustic Pallet Furniture

Previously, they were used only for transporting goods. Now creative designers are increasingly making all kinds of furniture out of them. One of the options is in the photo.

Fasten two pallets, cut out one of the boards and insert the back pallet - you're done! Do not forget to impregnate the "chaise lounges" with special wood preservatives, since euro pallets are usually made from soft woods. Paint your newly made furniture in a bright color, and it will become even more attractive.

You will find other variations not on the theme of pallets in the selections.

Nowadays, a modern summer cottage is not only a place of spiritual unity with the surrounding nature, but also an environment for maximum physical and emotional comfort. Your full rest depends on the harmonious combination of objects located in the country.

Long gone are the days when a country cottage was a place for growing vegetables and fruits. Then people did not even think about the special exterior of the site, its ennoblement and decor.

See also here how to decorate the yard with your own hands with photo and video instructions from the pros!

Remember, after all, some 10-15 years ago, the most striking impression from visiting the dacha was several flower beds or weaving branches of grapes along the fence. But today this place is becoming a truly paradise, for which designers and builders are involved.

In our article, we will tell you some of the best and amazing ideas for decorating a landscape area with your own hands from improvised means, without spending fabulous money.

Tips from experts on the design of summer cottages

First, you should immediately understand your taste preferences in style. Secondly, it is necessary to take into account your time and financial possibilities.

And most importantly, it is important to create the most comfortable nest for a good rest of the soul and body, without resorting to too pretentious and complex designs.

In working on the creative design of your dacha, you can use the following simple and almost free things:

• used car tires;
• plastic bottles of different sizes and colors, bowls, buckets;
• ropes or ropes, wire, mesh;
• ownerless polypropylene pipes;
• old unwanted shoes;
• all kinds of wooden boxes;
• different-sized containers, tanks;
• dishes: mugs, teapots, beautiful plates;
• non-working old bicycles;
• unused building materials.

Ideas for site design

You will be surprised, but many handmade figures or figurines are not only unique and one of a kind, but also extremely attractive. One example is frogs made from mounting foam or swans made from plaster.

You may have noticed the abundance of figures made from old car tires. What they didn’t do: from ordinary fences to exquisite firebirds!

The main brightness is added to the transformation of tires by the use of special paints, which make real masterpieces from incomprehensible black rubber statues.

On the Internet today there is an abundance of photos of the beautiful design of the site: these are rubber parrots or pigs, palm trees from bottles, etc.

DIY artificial pond

In your country house, you can build a fountain or an artificial pond with your own hands, and this will be an excellent solution for an attractive exterior of the site. The fountain container itself can be easily made from an unnecessary boat or a large tank, and the bottom of the pond is lined with gravel and sand, on top of which a tarpaulin is applied in several layers.

At the end, simply fill with water, and it remains only to decorate in accordance with the wishes and tastes. Along the perimeter of the reservoir, flower vases or simply planted flower beds will look harmonious.

Country paths

Let's think about whether we need trails or paths in the country? Undoubtedly needed! When it rains, you are unlikely to enjoy running into dirty puddles with mud into the house. To do this, we recommend making aesthetic passages that are installed near the objects you need (toilet, garage, veranda).

To implement this idea, not much is needed: large sea stones, unnecessary bricks, small pebbles, non-sharp bottle glasses.

And imagine how beautiful such a country path will look, along which small flower beds of various colors are planted.

We strongly recommend that you place a simple bird feeder in your summer cottage, which will not only be a benefit for singing sonorous birds, but also a joy for children. A "refectory" place for birds can be made from the simplest plastic bottles or wooden boxes.

Note!

Modern landscape design is not only an opportunity to decorate our summer cottages, but also allows us to develop our imagination in order to achieve the goal of getting a comfortable rest for body and soul. Many ideas can help you create a piece of paradise that you want to return to again and again.

Photo of the process of decorating a summer cottage with your own hands

Note!

Note!

In the life of every person there was a period when drawing was a favorite pastime.

For some it was in childhood, and some have been creative all their lives. So the cottage for you is a blank sheet of paper, and you are an artist who makes this place beautiful and cozy for yourself and your loved ones. So what can you “draw”, how to make a cottage beautiful with your own hands? Let's try to collect in one place all the basic techniques that you can use when landscaping a summer cottage.

Using them, your dacha will acquire a complete and harmonious look, and you will be fully provided with a good rest.

Where to start to make a beautiful cottage?

Of course, you can simply list the techniques that are used to decorate the site, but we will try to state them in order of implementation.

Of course, everything that you would like to do must be put on paper, having drawn up a master plan. Apply all existing structures and plantings and determine what you want to leave and what to remove and dismantle. And we begin to "draw" our future cottage.

First, look at the relief. There should be no problems with a relatively flat area, but if the cottage is located on a slope, then you will need to use some special tricks. They will help not only to strengthen the slope, but also to make a beautiful relief.

It can also be an inexpensive option that you can do it yourself, but will become a screen for various functional areas. The original version is a gabion fence.

Green plants can also become building material. This is the creation of a high hedge - a beautiful element of landscape design.

Fruit trees will also decorate the site, the spring flowering of which will be the first to mark the arrival of spring.

Then you need to think about what facilities you would like to have in the country. One of the most popular is the gazebo.

She will become the central figure, where you can also have a barbecue. Moreover, they come in different configurations, sizes, made of wood, plastic, forged, metal, etc. They can be decorated with drapery, curtains, green climbing plants and decorative flowering plants.

One more thing that children will especially like- This . It can be both stationary and portable. Also, for your children, you can arrange a playground with swings and other entertainment facilities that you can do yourself.

In order to beautifully equip the cottage, you need to use green plants. This, which is of several types: ordinary, parterre, sports, and others. To keep the edge of the lawn even and beautiful, use.

Various flower beds will decorate the summer cottage. And it can be, rabatki,. The original solution will be a mini-flower garden in a flower pot. Today you can buy it in the store, and if you wish, you can do it yourself. Even an old stump can be turned into a creative planter.

You can decorate the cottage beautifully with the help of. This element of the landscape will become the central figure of the design. You can also create, and if you want to enjoy the murmur of running or falling water, you can make a stream or waterfall.

In addition, there are a large number of different types of shrubs and trees - decoratively deciduous and beautifully flowering. By combining them with each other, you can create beautiful groups and compositions that will decorate your summer cottage.

Crafts and other small architectural forms for the beauty of your site

Final stage- This is the installation of various decorative sculptures and other decorations. On sale today there are small forms for every taste, but you can make them with your own hands from improvised materials and unnecessary things.

Crafts from old tires and tires. For example, flower beds, mini-pond, planters, children's swings, small sculptures.

If you know how to handle solar instruments, then it will not be difficult for you to make various ones. They can be made of wood, foam, etc.

Original compositions and crafts are obtained. Even old shoes can be a decorative planter, and properly selected stones will become a bright fly agaric or a Chinese lantern.

As you can see, there are many options for how to decorate a cottage beautifully. Moreover, the list discussed above is far from a complete list. Look for inspiration on the pages of our website and bring your ideas to life, making it cozy and beautiful!

Check out the ideas that will tell you how to make the cottage beautiful. You will learn how to plan a summer cottage, make original flower beds, garden figurines.

Cottage plan

It is necessary that you be able to determine in advance where you will have the following zones located:

• residential;
• economic;
• recreation;
• garden;
• vegetable garden.

This lot has everything you need for a garden. Sauna with a veranda, after taking water procedures, you can relax on the terrace. There is a barbecue nearby which is very convenient. A small pond adjoins this recreation area, instead of it you can put a pool. Nearby is a flower garden.

There is parking near the entrance. So it will be possible to immediately put the car in place upon arrival here. This is where the house is located.

The compost box is located in the farthest corner of the site, and this is correct, but if this area does not border on the neighbor's. If this is not the case, then you will need to move the compost bin a little deeper into your site. Nearby is a vegetable garden, there are several bushes. It is better to plant them on the north side so as not to obscure the beds.

Plant residues will be conveniently composted, but put there that are not diseased and undamaged by pests.

In this plan, potatoes are planted behind the house on the north side, but here the area is dark. Therefore, it is better to turn this plan 180 degrees so that the north begins to be where the south was on the diagram. But then place the children's area closer to the recreation area, so that it will be accepted in the hot midday hours.

The plan of the cottage can be very different. You choose the most suitable for yourself.

The second also has everything you need. The residential building is located 3.5 meters from the fence, you can plant a shrub around it. To the right of the house there is a corner bench and trellises, along which climbing plants will trail. This site plan is very good. Sitting on a bench, you can admire the compositions with stones, a flower garden, a Christmas tree.

After passing such paths, you will find yourself near the arch of the pergola. By the way, it can be made with your own hands from a variety of materials. Even suitable for this. After passing under the arch, admiring the flowers curling along the pergola, you will find yourself in a summer gazebo. It is surrounded by an orchard, and a vegetable garden is nearby.

This cottage plan includes a barbecue and barbecue areas. Nearby is a hozblok and a washbasin. A flower garden and shrubs separate this area from the parking lot.

To make the suburban area visually appear larger, the designers suggest placing it diagonally, as it were. This is the trajectory of the garden path in the next photo.

It can be laid out of stones or tiles. Place stone or rubber tiles around the house. In the center of the plot there is a recreation area with a swimming pool and a flower garden. Nearby is a summer kitchen with a gazebo. As you can see, the beds are broken in a very original way. They form a semicircle with sectors, between which there are tracks. There is a greenhouse nearby, and fruit trees grow on the sides of it.

But the plan of this type of cottage on the other hand.

As you can see, there is a place for a sports field, there is a table with an umbrella so that you can sit in the shade in the fresh air. Behind the greenhouse is a country shower, and the barrel, located on the building, is heated by the sun. You can also buy one that runs on electricity, then you will have warm water in any weather.

If you want to build a cottage for permanent residence, do not plan to mess around in the beds, then take a place with a sports ground. Here you can play football, volleyball, basketball. Don't forget the pool. It can be built near the bath.

The diagonal path will visually enlarge the area, it goes to the well. As you can see, he, the bathhouse and the house are built in the same style, the walls here are brown, and the roof is blue. Place fruit trees around the perimeter of the site on three sides, and decorative trees near the entrance area. Here there is a place for fruit bushes, hedges.

If you still want to have beds in the country, you can also arrange them diagonally so that the area seems larger. Here the house, summer kitchen, outbuildings are also built in the same color scheme.

Harmony also reigns on the next plan of the dacha. Here, a gazebo, a house, a bathhouse with a veranda also have a common style. Neatly arranged beds add grace to the area. And fruit trees will delight you with a harvest, and on a hot summer day they will surround the gazebo with a cool shadow.

Place the greenhouse and beds on the south side, and the house and gazebo on the north. Then in the summer there will be enough sun for the plants, and people will not be hot in the buildings. See how to make the cottage beautiful with the help of a lawn. It looks great here, but it needs to be trimmed periodically to keep the area looking well-groomed.

You can decorate the cottage, make interesting zoning with the help of rhombuses.

Plan the site in advance, mark the paths, lay them. Inside some diamonds there may be a lawn. Install the platform for the pool and it. Arrange beds, find a place for a flower bed, fruit bushes.

Now that you have made the zoning of the site, you can start arranging its individual territories to make the cottage beautiful.

Flowerbeds and flower beds in the country with their own hands

They can be made even if you do not have stones and plastic borders for edging. Even old boards will do.

But it is better to pre-paint them, then the borders will look better.

Vertical flower beds and flower beds in the country house look very nice, they take up less space than usual ones.

Knock down a box of four large boards, install a smaller one on it so that the corner of the top one is in the middle of the bottom board. Place boxes 3 and 4 in the same way. Plant flowers here, but do not forget to water them, as the earth dries out faster than in ordinary ones.

Making a flower garden in the country can be like this.

Connect the boards with corners, occupying a small area near the veranda. can be made not only from wood, but also from a variety of materials. If you have an old bathtub, a broken toaster, a kettle, buckets, then turn them into picturesque flower beds.

But it is better to pre-paint the bath, then such a flower bed will look better.

Use an old umbrella. Open it up and place the flower pots inside.

But you can open it only slightly, fix it in this position, pour light soil inside and plant flowers.

You can advise to make an original flower garden in the country with your own hands. This idea is perfect for beginners and will find application.

1. Tie them at the bottom with ropes, pour soil and fix them on such a rocky hill or on a plane. Plant flowers in the upper part of the trousers, it will turn out very funny.
2. You can shock neighbors and passers-by with other original flower beds. If you already have unnecessary clothes, tie the bottom of your jeans and the sleeves of your jacket. Put clothes on a wooden chair, pour soil inside.
3. Plant flowers on top. It remains to put on the character's shoes, and you can be sure that random robbers will not enter your site at night, as they will think that sitting people are vigilantly watching the safety of the territory.
4. You can complement this composition by making an artificial fire of flowers. Place three sticks near it with the letter P, place a pot on top, which will also contain colorful plants. From afar, it will seem that two people are sitting near the fire and waiting for the stew to be cooked on the fire.

More experienced summer residents can embody the following interesting idea.

If you have figures of athletes, place their busts in the flowerbed area. You can also make these using papier-mâché. But it needs to be covered with several layers of varnish on top so that the material does not get wet from the rain. Plant flowers around each character. And between the flower beds, pour blue decorative stones. It will look like people are playing water polo.

For beginners, it can be made from almost anything. Do you have a broken toaster, old shoes, unwanted kettles? Turn it all into mini flower beds. If the products do not look very good, then pre-paint them. Pour nutrient soil inside and plant plants.

How to make a cottage beautiful: DIY garden figurines

They will also help to decorate the summer cottage. And they can be made from a variety of materials. Summer residents have long learned to use old tires for other purposes. The result is amazing figurines, the manufacture of which does not require financial spending.

To make such birds, you need to cut a part of the tire lengthwise and with a knife separate two small fragments from it, which will become wings, they are not cut completely to keep on the wheel. Bend the remaining middle part in the opposite direction, it will turn into a tail. Make the head out of plywood, attach it to the top of the tire with a screwdriver. Paint the sculpture and you can place it in the country.

If you have grooved wheels, make alligators out of them.

Such blanks will not even need to be painted. The color and texture of the wheels are perfect. If you want to make a garden sculpture from a tire with your own hands, but so that it is not so formidable, then make a funny donkey. Harness it to the cart, put a vase on it, in which you will plant flowers.

You can make mini flower girls and at the same time garden sculptures from tires by making swans out of them. To do this, make a longitudinal cut in the center and unscrew the tire. Cut out a narrow tongue that will become both the neck and head of the animals, make a small tail at the back.

Attach a plywood or plank head to the tire half. Color the donkey, make his hair out of straw or bast. You can attach a cart to the figure in which sand will be stored or flowers will be planted.

If you find it difficult to cut through the thick rubber of the tires, then you can use the tires as they are.

It will be easy to decorate the cottage with such a frog princess, which will also be a flower garden. Attach two old green rubber pieces of hose to it, at the ends of which fix plywood paws, put two more side by side. Paint all this splendor green, make the frog mouth and eyes.

You can even make country furniture out of tires. It is durable, practical and weatherproof.

If you want to have a wooden chair, and there is a stump on the site, turn it into this convenient attribute of relaxation.

In general, you can decorate the cottage with a variety of figures made by yourself. For this, the remaining from the repair, canned foam, alabaster and cement are suitable.

Even an old chandelier will come in handy. She will play the role of a flower bed. Put it in the chosen place of the site, fill the ceiling lamps with earth and plant flowers.

If desired, even an old boat will turn into a garden sculpture and at the same time into a flower bed. Paint it, fill it halfway with soil and place the plants.

If you do not have such an item, you can build a sailboat yourself. To do this, you can use boards and plywood, make a captain's bridge and other elements of the ship.

See how to make a tin woodcutter to decorate your cottage. It will require this:

• cans of three sizes;
• drill;
• bolts with screws;
• dye;
• tassel;
• metal funnel or bucket.

Drill several holes in a large tin from one side and the other. Make exactly the same in smaller tins. Attach these elements to a large jar and secure with screws and screws. In the same way as you attached the arms, attach the legs and head with neck to the figure. Color your creation by highlighting the features of the tin woodcutter's face. You can put a metal funnel or a small bucket on his head as a hat.

We propose to make a bat that can surprise people who see it, they will think that this is a real animal. Reassure them by telling them that this is your protector, Batman.

How to make a bat - master class

For crafts you will need:

• rubber chamber;
• foam sponge;
• double sided tape;
• strong threads;
• black stretch fabric;
• a piece of black fur;
• acrylic paint.

Cut off a piece of the desired size from the tire. Using a marker, draw an outline of a bat on the tire. The foam rubber washcloth will turn into a body and a muzzle of a mouse.

Use double-sided tape to stick strips from the rubber chamber on the inner parts of the wings. Sheathe the foam body and head of the mouse with fur.

Make paws out of wire, cover them with black cloth. Highlight the facial features of the bat with paint, fix it on the tree with a wire.

You can also decorate the site with beautiful garden paths, lighting. Comfortable benches, arches will also add charm and convenience to your estate.

To find out how else you can decorate a summer cottage, watch two videos.

A photo selection of the first story will help you choose what you like.

The second video will teach you how to plan a summer cottage.