Decorating a summer cottage with your own hands

For many families, a garden plot becomes not only a place for outdoor recreation, but also a platform for experimentation, creativity and self-expression. The owners of the land and the house strive to arrange the space inside and outside so that it is cozy, pleasant and pleasing to the eye. Decorating a summer cottage with your own hands from scrap materials is an excellent budget option.

A garden plot without a flower bed is a rare phenomenon. Anything will come in handy to create creative elements that harmoniously decorate the site! Recycling has become a fashionable trend today - a second life for old things, respect for the environment and the economy of reasonable consumption.

What can become an original flower bed for flowers and other ornamental plants? Everything! Old things - shoes, furniture, dishes, car tires, floor lamps, wooden pallets, baskets, buckets, even logs and stumps - yes!

Unnecessary shoes. Just imagine a composition that can be created from elegant ladies' boats, children's rubber boots, sneakers, felt boots with galoshes, hiking boots, filling them with soil and sowing seeds.

Old chairs, a desk with pull-out panels and drawers, an old chest of drawers with shelves are also an area for decor with fresh flowers and can be an excellent decoration for a summer cottage from scrap materials. A flower bed made of an old ivy-covered piano can decorate an area by a pond, a flower bed made of a birdcage and an old typewriter can decorate a porch. An old painted bicycle with a flower bed from a basket fixed to the frame will not be left without attention.

Tires - paint in the colors of the rainbow or, observing the style of the house, fold in a pyramid before sowing or arrange around the site.

Household utensils. Unnecessary dishes can make a fence - just stick the plates along the edge of the garden bed. Barrels, basins, buckets can be painted and pasted over with pieces of broken dishes - why not pots for large plants?

Take a solid board, flatten it, process and paint it, nail forks to it, bending teeth in the form of hearts, swans, geometric shapes - and you have a hanger ready! Pour soil into old metal mugs and ladles, plant climbing plants in them, and decorate your veranda with these unusual planters.

Bottles. Plastic and glass bottles are also excellent materials for decorating the site, useful and original. Glass bottles can serve as a fence for flower beds or beds, their advantage is that the glass does not melt in heat and does not get wet from moisture. Plastic bottles can be transformed into various figures, painted, and from the cut bottoms, you can make a mosaic on the playground.

Don't throw away any lumber left over from building your home. Logs can be cut into pieces of the same size and thickness, processed and made into paths from the gate to the house, from the house to the playground, and so on. Timber trimmings can also be a design element and enhance your garden plot.

Sawed trees and stumps - this is the scope for creativity! A bird feeder, a pots or a bed, a stand for tools and equipment, and much more that can be made from the remains of building materials.

How to make an unusual flower bed from a stump or a sawn tree? Make sure the selected log or stump is free from decay and disease. Using the tools, cut out the container for planting, leave the bark as much as possible and remove the core.

Pick up or make a container (pot, box) suitable for the size, install it in the cut-out opening, fill it with soil and plant the plants. Do not put soil directly into the tree, otherwise it will collapse, and the plants will not receive suitable conditions for growth and flowering.

Remember, that:

The soil for planting must be of high quality. Good garden soil is the key to successful ornamental plantings.
Regardless of the size, all flower beds must be watered and fertilized with top dressing.

Paints must be resistant so that they are not afraid of weather changes, rainstorms, sun rays, dry air, snow, dampness.

Wooden objects must be carefully sanded to avoid injury during use. Before painting, wooden objects must be treated with antiseptic and antifungal solutions in order to avoid rotting and destruction, and also dry well so that the paint layers lay down evenly. The top can be coated with a fixing varnish for shine and additional protection from the elements.