Bridges for dachas - are they really needed?
We like to look at the fire dancing in the hearth, or on a river smooth surface sliding under the bridge, which pushes us to build a fireplace or to cross a stream at the far end of the country plot. In the latter case, after making one successful decking over the murmuring waterway, we can suddenly feel the need to make and ornamental garden bridges, just to complement the landscape design with beautiful details. And a big construction begins.
Of course, you always have a choice, do it all yourself from wood, or order openwork forged designs, curving a steep arc between rails, decorated with metallic colors. Many factors can affect this, for example, if you already have a forged gazebo and a set of similar benches for garden paths, then it's better to order the appropriate bridges. However, much more fun you will get from walking on the flooring made by own hands.
The simplest coating for an even bridge is a thick plywood, which can be easily screwed with screws to joists of lumber or boards.
But is it necessary to build something? Will not it look stupidly sticking in the middle of the section of the bridge in the total absence of the river? Not at all. Imagine that you came up with a beautiful pattern for the mixboarder, but when you started to embody the idea, it turned out that there was not room for a side path that you planned to enter the garden. Do you think we will have to look for a compromise? And here not. Simply finish planting a flower garden and in any part of it make a bridge swinging, according to the principle of those used in the fortresses. They picked it up, and the mixboarder pleases the eye, and it will be needed in the garden - lower the flooring.
Is the bridge small, or how to get to the gazebo?
Someone likes flowers and plants them all the space of the site. Except for the tracks and the area in front of the house. Others want to get from the land allotment of maximum benefit, and everywhere are planted vegetable beds. Can I abandon some paths in favor of planting? Undoubtedly. For example, a small roundhouse is set in the middle of the flower garden. An ideal ring of flowers on low stems will look very organic, but the track will necessarily cut the composition.
Therefore, just stretch to the entrance to the pergola, the bridge is small and narrow, necessarily humpbacked, so that underneath the plants they receive their portion of sunlight. We put the construction so that the shadow on the plants growing under it is discarded only at noon. Another option is when the beds with vegetable crops are broken along the main path, and a lateral passage into the garden will mean a decrease in the area under cultivation. And in this case, the dacha bridges in the landscape will be as relevant as possible.
It's not necessary to make a wide flooring, it's enough that one person passes without touching the railing. If you correctly position the structure with respect to the sides of the world, or more precisely, from north to south, the sun will look under the bridge before and after noon. If the curvature of the flooring is not given to you, we make several steps at both ends and thus significantly raise above the plantings of the .
Decorative bridge in the garden, or where else to attach it?
Garden decoration is one of the main tasks not only for those who live in the city but also for summer residents. After all, neatly trimmed green fences and time-cropped trees look well-groomed, this corner of nature helps to relax and even a little relaxation. On the practical benefits of care for planting, you can not even mention. But is the gardener the only reliable owner? It does not hurt to try yourself and as a designer.
In particular, in order not to violate the integrity of a beautiful lawn, try to throw a light bridge over it, a video on how to do it can be found on the Internet. If the site is wide, in the middle you can make a tiny pad and connect it with two decks. Or another option, more global. Often, small lakes are laid on piles with a refractive, constantly changing direction of the flooring.
Turns are due to the fact that you have to bypass particularly deep places, because the supports have to be slaughtered in the bottom, and this is better done where there is smaller. In the same way, you can build a long decorative bridge in the garden. Fussing among the trees, the boardwalk on high racks will pass over lawns and bushes of hedges, without disturbing the overall picture of the green corner. Well, there, where your fruit crops and lawns are absent, a comfortable ladder will descend to the ground.
