What makes a garden site unique and memorable? The notorious gardeners will say that these are rare varieties of flowers that have been grown on flowerbeds, masters of all trades suggest that this is a unique irrigation system that they managed to assemble and install on their site. But there is one feature that will make the site unique - it's a garden decor, often made by own hands and carrying a part of the author, his attitude to life.
Agree, the process of creating a new "masterpiece" of self-creation pacifies and inspires new creative experiments. And the site, ennobled by various decorations, looks incredibly cozy, it is here that you want to come back again and again, rest here with your body and soul. We suggest you to plunge into the world of serenity and beauty - after getting acquainted with photos of various ideas, you must note for yourself a few options for the dacha and garden, which you want to implement on your own site.
Decor tracks and paths on the site
Garden paths - this is something without which, in principle, you can do, but they add comfort in moving around the garden and at the same time ennoble it. Someone prefers to just concrete the paths, some like more creative ideas for the design of the paths.
But even if you are inclined towards concreting, you can take a creative approach to this process and get as a result concrete paths in which the paving elements look like huge leaves or like hearts. For the casting of such tiles will need special shapes, which can be purchased in specialized stores. But some craftsmen have adapted a silicone mold for this cake. If you decide to go this way, then get ready for the fact that such tiles dry long enough, the day will not pour more than one piece. Therefore, either you need to be patient, or buy more molds. By the way, such a garden decor can be made even in color, for this it will be necessary to impregnate each tile with a coloring composition.
For the design of garden paths, you can also use logs, stones( laid loose to each other with the grass growing between them), bricks, cobblestones or simply fill the gravel paths. And as an original curb use multi-colored beer bottles inserted by the neck into the ground.
Decor of the land
One of the central places in the decoration of the garden area is occupied by figures and sculptures. You can buy them ready, and you can do it yourself. From under the pen of these masters come snow-white swans from tires, chic turtles and bulls from mounting foam, funny gnomes and floor vases of concrete.
Swan from car tires. Also for decoration of the site, feather birds bought in the store, or made by hand, can be used. For example, from color wrappers you can make a cock that looks like real.
How to make a garden decor using balloons
Interesting figures can be made using ordinary balloons. Here are two decor ideas for a garden with the use of balls:
- The first option - colored ice balls - refers to the winter decor. Tinted water is poured into the balloons, the ball is tightly tied and sent to the frost. After the liquid freezes, the shell from the ball is removed, and colored ice figures are laid along the tracks or in another interesting way.
- The second option - balls of colored thread - refers to the spring-summer decor. For their manufacture, it is necessary to inflate the balloon, loosely wrap it with thick threads and cover it with PVA glue. If desired, the thread can be painted in a bright color. After the glue dries, the ball is pierced with a needle and gently pulled out through the threads. The resulting decor hangs over long strings on trees or on the terrace.
Original garden lights decor
Lanterns, torches and candlesticks can be considered as full elements of garden decor. Unusual lanterns are made by hand from ordinary cans, glasses or bottles with a wide throat. Stunning decor is obtained from glass bottles.
Fans of needlework will be interested in the option of decorating ready-made lamps. For example, standard and faceless black lanterns, which are sold in any construction shop, can be repainted in a different color, more suitable for the color scheme of your house and the surrounding area. You can also make it unique by drawing a picture on the body of the lantern and its glass windows or decorate with decoupage techniques with the obligatory varnish coating, otherwise this decoration will not last long to change the weather conditions.
Decor of garden barrels on the plot
Almost at each summer house there are metal barrels in which melted and rainwater gathers. Usually they have an unpretentious appearance and order the landscape to be spoiled. To fix the situation will help decor the garden barrels - as a rule, they are painted with bright colors and draw on them all kinds of drawings. But if there is a creative nature in you, and there are no skills of the artist, then a variety of stencils will come to the aid, with the help of which in a few minutes the barrel will look noble. As a stencil, you can use even natural materials, for example, a green twig with leaves. Agree, such a garden decor with their own hands is easy to make, as a result of creative experiments, an old and rusted barrel will turn into an elegant lady, into a nice gentleman or red fly agaric.
In addition to paints, the decoration of the barrel in the garden can be beautiful flowers, as in the next photo.
Wooden elements of the decoration of the garden plot
Garden decor from the tree just refers to this type of decoration of the infield, which most harmoniously fits into its atmosphere and the general idea. Decor of natural materials - that's what will always look appropriate in any garden and in any garden. What can be used as a wooden decoration?
Decorative cart, carelessly left in the garden, will serve as a beautiful flower garden. Such an element can be used in two ways: in the first case, the earth is buried in the cart and flowers are grown directly in it;In the second case, pots and tubs of flowers are placed in the cart and it is used as a stand.
Such decorative carts are made, as a rule, from pure unpainted wood. This makes it possible after the purchase to give them any color or artificially aged, having issued in the style of Shebbie chic. In any case, the village simplicity and naivety will do their job, and such a decor in the best way will fit into the exterior of the country plot.
Wooden stairs can be adapted for a flower rack. Cascaded mottled plants will decorate any courtyard, besides, it is easier to care for them, do not bend each time to pour or loosen the ground.
Wooden tubs are also useful for decorating a garden. They can be placed along the tracks and used as flower pots, or you can lay them on your side in the garden and plant flowers in such a way as to create the impression that they flow out of the wooden container. It turns out a bright and unusual flowery trickle at the dacha.
flowers Do not drop the spilled tree to the landfill. From the cut trunks and thick branches you can build unusual sculptures or more functional things, for example, a table with chairs. Such a wooden composition is sure to become a full-fledged adornment of the garden.
As you can see, in order to improve a plot, it is not necessary to buy expensive sculptures or decorative flowerpots - decor for a garden can be made with your own hands literally from improvised materials. The main thing is to show a little imagination, and the site will turn into an oasis of tranquility and coziness.