How to budget the cottage: 7 ideas for eye delight
You can make a cottage comfortable and stylish without any special costs. For decorating the site, improvised means and materials are suitable.
Flobes in a chair
The old chair with a worn seat is easy to turn into an elegant decoration of the cottage. You will need a chair itself, a strong rope, a mesh frame in the form of a pot or a colander without a handle, decorative plants, coconut coyra.
Stages of manufacturing a “flowering” chair:
- Wind the twine on the frame and tie the mesh frame instead of the seat.
- Bend the back with the ends of the rope.
- Place the Koyra in the frame. Instead of it, you can use agrothestil with expanded clay from above.
- Pour the ground into a recess.
- Land plants.
Ampelic flowers or assorted of succulents are suitable as plants.
The decor of the facade
An unsightly barn or other outbuilding can be ennobled using a pot with flowers fixed on the facade. The basis for fastening pots is the wall itself or a decorative crate of wood.
Suitable plants:
- Beautifully flowering: begonia, bindweed, marigolds, petunia, chrysanthemums;
- Clematis and mountain lominos braided the wall;
- Weaved roses. They bloom for a long time, make a pleasant aroma and have a mass of shades. For roses, it is necessary to use a fortified crate, as they can sag under weight;
- Plants that create a green veil: ivy, wild grapes, various vines, hops.
Close -located pots and spreading plants form a vertical garden. This technique is often used for a small area of the site and to create a cool coolness.
Pebble mat
Such a rug is used at the entrance to the country house or as a litter in the summer soul. For manufacture, it is suitable as river pebbles, there are sea stones. It is important that they are smooth, flat and do not have sharp corners.
For a pebble rug you will need pebbles, a piece of carpet, a flat tray or rubber rug, an adhesive gun, scissors.
Stages of making a pebble rug:
- Cut a piece of the required size from the base.
- Wash and dry the stones.
- Make preliminary laying of pebbles on the basis of a rug.
- Glue stones using an adhesive gun.
If the rug is designed to cleanse the shoes at the entrance to the house, then pebbles can not be glued. It is enough to pour it into a shallow tray and smooth it. From time to time, it is necessary to get and rinse stones.
Lighting
A spectacular element of the decor of the garden area is stones glowing in the dark. You can paint them with a phosphor. This is a substance that accumulates sunlight and glowing in the dark.
Options for using luminous stones:
- To designate paths in the dark. You can arrange stones both along the edge and in a chaotic manner;
- For flower beds. A special charm will give the use of elves and gnomes together with luminous stones hidden among colors;
- For reservoirs. Luminopher is able to accumulate light even through a layer of water. At night, such a reservoir will be beautifully highlighted;
- chaotic, throughout the site. This effect is called the Milky Way.
There are two ways how to paint stones with a phosphor:
- bulk. Pour pebbles into a container and pour the solution on top. Mix everything thoroughly using a wooden stick;
- Using a spray gun. Thus, large boulders are processed. Pour the paint into a spray gun and spray the entire stone evenly.
Steping paths
Such a path is used on lawns to prevent trampling and formation of Zalysin. Suitable and affordable material for manufacturing is trees.
Instructions for the manufacture of a step track:
- Mark on the grass an approximate arrangement of elements.
- Put out the contours of the saws with a shovel and dig a hole in this place. Its depth should be more than a thickness of 1-2 cm.
- Tam the bottom of the recess and pour down a layer of sand.
- Put an element of the track and slightly knock on it with a rubber hammer.
- Fill the gaps with earth, plant the seeds of the lawn into the voids.
As an alternative to spiles, slabs from a sandy-cement mixture, large flat stones or finished elements of the path can serve as an alternative.
Creative bird feeders
Such feeders will not only decorate the garden, but also attract birds into it, whose singing is pleasant to listen to, relaxing on the veranda.
From pumpkin
It is enough to cut the hole in the center in the vegetable and clean all the seeds. For reliable fastening, tie the pumpkin with a twine and hang.
From aluminum cans
Cut the bottom and cover in them. Carry the edges with sandpaper and paint the outside in bright colors. Fix on branches with wire or twine.
From thermal sulfates
You need a pallet and a pretty plastic napkin. Make holes in the pallet in the corners, tie the ropes and fix it on a tree. Bend the napkin in a semicircle and glue the edges to the pallet. This is a roof. Pour food into the pallet.
From the sticks from ice cream
As a base – a piece of plywood or a small tray. Put the wands in the shape of a well along the edges. Fix the entire structure with a glue gun. Bind the rope in the corners.
From the old hours
Remove the mechanism and pendulum from them. Open the door and put on the bottom of the treat for birds.
Unusual stock
Such a drainage will perform not only a decorative, but also a practical function – will take excess moisture and relieve the puddle after the rain.
Stock device:
- Dig a trench with a width of 15-20 cm and up to 30 cm deep.
- Pour a layer of crushed stone on the bottom and tamp.
- Close with a decorative coating: pebbles, special coating, brushwood, decorative pebbles.
- Decorate the edge of the drain with a fence of wooden rails or moisture -loving plants.
- Install the decor: water mill, figures, light sources on the solar battery.
Decoration of the cottage with improvised materials is simple, affordable and inexpensive. Only a desire and a little fantasy will be required.