Do you want to get into a fairy tale? Then you need a fantasy garden. Learn how to make a beautiful castle, stone pillars, shower and toilet with your own hands.
What is a fantasy garden?
This is another type of summer cottage design. Now fantasy is gaining momentum. Therefore, not only films, cartoons, books, quests are made on this topic, but also plots are decorated in this way.
If you want your summer cottage to have elements of mystery, to be different from others, then you can plan it in such a way that you get a fantasy garden. Everything here will be done in the same style, from home to plantings.
A mysterious atmosphere reigns on such a site. This style evokes associations with the Middle Ages, legends, secret. Here you can put a house, a veranda in a fantastic style, make a pond, so that it seems like this reservoir is from a fairy tale, and now Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka will come here, and a mermaid is sitting on the branches of the trees.
There are no colorful and bright colors here, but the atmosphere of mystery, mystery, and sometimes even ominousness reigns.
If you have a site where there are shady swampy places, and if there is also a territory and an irregular shape, there will be where to turn around. You can make various turrets, grottoes with your own hands, make a semblance of ruins, put large boulders here to decorate the garden in the fantasy style.
If you have an old machine, do not put it away. See how well it fits into a fantasy suburban area. Over time, it will grow overgrown with moss, this is what you need. But you can type it in the forest and arrange the car yourself in this style.
Not all plants will be appropriate here. Give preference to trees with dark bark and original pattern of branches.
It:
- maple;
- oak;
- alder;
- elm.
Plant the following shrubs:
- derain;
- black elderberry;
- chokeberry;
- honeysuckle.
Black elderberry and chokeberry produce edible berries. If you plant not decorative, but edible honeysuckle, then you can also eat its fruits.
Give preference to decorative deciduous plants, these are:
- hosts;
- ferns;
- cereals;
- sedge.
Of course, every suburban area implies the presence of a house. Let it be fabulous too. If you want to build a house with your own hands or order it, then pay attention to the following projects.
Fabulous cottage in the style of fantasy
Such a house is just made in a fairy-tale style. It seems to be small, but it is not. After all, the area of this house is 105 sq. m. Building with an attic, there are four bedrooms. The house project is very interesting.
As you can see, two bedrooms are on the first floor. Entering the hallway, you need to go straight, and you will find yourself in the living room. From here you can go into a corridor that leads to a fairly spacious kitchen and bathroom, as well as two bedrooms.
There is also a place to rest on the second floor. The plan of the house provides for the presence of two bedrooms here, as well as a hall and a bathroom.
If you want to build a house so that it has a smaller size, then pay attention to the next cottage.
Such a fantasy-style house will surely arouse the interest of others. As you can see, it is finished with stone. Even the pipe is made of this material. How to do it yourself, and at the same time the pillars in this technique, you will find out if you watch the master class below. Such a cottage is decorative even in winter, look how it looks against the background of snow.
The project of the house provides for the presence of a bathroom, a veranda. In a spacious living room, you can install a stove and a table with a microwave on one side, and put a sofa on the other side to relax here. There will be room for a bedroom on the second floor.
If you liked the idea of stone decoration, then pay attention to the next house project. The outer wall, chimney and space below it are decorated in the same way.
The roof is made of tiles, so it creates an even more fabulous look. There is also an interesting layout inside. After all, the ceiling in the bedroom is tilted. There is also a sloped ceiling in the living room. In addition to these premises, there is a bathroom on the ground floor. There is even a veranda, which can also be decorated in a fantasy style.
And here is another house project, made in a fabulous style. Round and rectangular turrets with original roofs allow you to achieve such a mood. The windows also look fabulous. After all, they have a bizarre shape and beautiful lattices. Even the garage doors are made in the same style. And the windows in the attic are decorated in an unusual way, which complements the desired atmosphere. This cottage is spacious, because it has a garage, 3 bedrooms, and the area of such a house is 225 sq. m.
This fantasy house is spacious. There is a beautiful round-shaped office in which it is so pleasant to work. In such a house there is a basement in which you can make a boiler room.
If you are wondering what the layout of this type of building is, then check it out. On the ground floor there will be a place for a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, and a bathroom. As you can see, the cabinet is rounded, which makes it very original.
On the second floor there are bedrooms, a cozy living room, a sitting area and a bathroom with a toilet and a bath.
If you want a pink house, you can check out the next project. Seeing such a structure, a person may think that he is in a fairy tale, or the house for Barbie has increased many times.
If you are going to create a garden in the English style, then also pay attention to this structure. This will fit into the suburban area of this type. This attractive home has a spacious terrace with lathing and beautiful railings, balconies on the second floor, Venetian windows. They are located on the wall of the hall. The second floor has three rooms and a bathroom. The ground floor has everything you need.
The next country house looks especially mesmerizing. If you surround it with a bridge, place a few boulders, make a stone staircase, you will get the impression that you are in a fairy tale.
If you want to have a more compact fairy-tale house on your site, then pay attention to the next project.
On the ground floor there is a dining room, an interestingly shaped kitchen, a hotel, a guest toilet and a laundry room. The living room has a wood burning fireplace, followed by a staircase that leads to the second floor. Upstairs is the master bedroom, bathroom, dressing room. Here you can make another bedroom, an interesting bay window on the pediment, a gable roof with carved elements make this house look like a building from a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
The next house project is also suitable for those who want to decorate a fantasy-style summer cottage.
A spacious round tower, a veranda basement lathing, a double roof over it, a railings, a wooden plinth, all this contributes to this. And if several forest trees grow on the site, then the fabulous impression will intensify.
How to make DIY stone pillars for a fantasy garden
And now - the promised master class with step-by-step photos, which describes in detail the process of making decorative elements from stone. You can adopt this technology by making a chimney for your home, or by creating fantasy garden decorations.
You can make pillars and arch like this to decorate the gate. Then it will be clear that a real fairy tale awaits you behind them.
The process of making poles is very simple. First, put together a small formwork from 4 boards. To make the process go faster, you can make three similar blanks.
Prepare the grout. If the metal post is already installed, then place the formwork frame down, put a little cement and the first row of stones. Then it will need to be covered with the next batch of cement. In this manner, place stones here below. Then slide on the second formwork frame. Using the same materials, continue to shape the post. Then place the third frame and lay the next row of stones.
You can wait until the bottom of the pillar is dry and then use these three frames further. But you can knock down more of such wooden elements in order to gradually arrange the entire post and not wait until the lower rows dry out.
What pillars will come in handy not only when you will make out a fence, but they will be very appropriate in a fairy garden. Thus, you can make columns for a shed, gazebos, or make small towers that will become elements of the dacha's decor.
If you do not have that much material, or you want to make a small fantasy-style structure, then pay attention to the following.
Such a composition for a fairy garden will turn out to be very durable, because it is created from a cement mixture. You will need to take one part of cement and 2 parts of sand.
The sand must first be dried in the sun and then sieved to remove debris that can spoil the finished mass.
But do not mix the entire cement mixture with water at once, as a lot of material will be needed, and over time it will dry. It is better to first make a certain portion, use it, and then cook the next one. See what elements you need to make.
First, let's make the towers. To do this, take a sheet of iron and roll it into a cylinder. To keep the tower in this position, tie this blank with wire. To save the amount of grout, place a bottle inside.
Now pour the prepared cement mortar into the formwork, which should dry out a little, but remain plastic. Then remove the formwork.
Now you can feel like real sculptures, as you begin to add the necessary details to the towers. Take a chisel, screwdriver, hacksaw, scalpel. With the help of these tools, it is necessary to simulate plaster chips, masonry, cracks.
Make loopholes, windows, small balconies and other elements. If you have a tower at the top, then put a metal base here, place a bottle inside and pour cement mortar between these two materials. When it also dries up a little, but still remains plastic, remove the formwork elements and also use the tools to add strokes to these details that will make them more realistic.
To make a roof, bend a cone from a tin. Pour cement mortar here. When it is dry, remove the formwork. This is how the castle will look when you assemble and paint it. But for now, pay attention to the shape of the roofs.
Very soon you will have a fantasy-style summer cottage. In the meantime, look at how the walls of this structure should look like.
To make them, create formwork from the planks. Lay roofing material on a flat surface, and on top place the formwork and pour cement here. If you are going to make a wall with an arch, then put this element made of metal here. Thus, you will make a gate or door.
While the cement is still not completely dry, you can stick pebbles into some of the wall elements. Or use tools to make a similar cladding.
Let the walls dry for a while, but for now make the rest of the castle elements.
After some time, you can connect them with cement mortar. Place a roof on top using three bricks. If you find it difficult to draw the necessary elements on the cement, then just attach the stones here. Make roofs from sheets of iron and put them on top of the towers.
You can start with completely simple products, for example, make such a lighthouse near a decorative pond. For a fantasy garden, these are great attributes.
If you have the appropriate shapes, you can make a sculpture of this kind out of cement on the bank of the pond. Let this fairy-tale character guard the reservoir. You will make the edges of this small pond with stones, which will need to be attached with cement. Plant pond plants here.
You can plant a water lily if you like. To do this, buy pot-grown at the store. Remove it from there along with a lump of earth and carefully remove a quarter of the soil below. After all, over time, it depleted, since the water lily took nutrients from there. To make up for them, prepare the following mixture.
You need to take: 3 parts of clay from the pond and 1 part of rotted manure, mix it all. Place this substrate in the bottom of the pot, then place this lily again on top. Now you can put this container in the pond so that it is at a depth of 30 cm. In order for the water lily to overwinter, you will need to lower this pot to a depth of 1 meter in the fall.
You can place a sculpture of Alyonushka and Ivanushka, who turned into a goat, on the shore of such a pond. You will also make all this out of cement. As for the sculpture, it can also be placed on the shore of a pond. Look, the bottom walls have a flat top surface. Towers of different heights are installed on top. Such a structure also looks wonderful near a reservoir.
Based on your preference, paint it. The roofs on the towers may be pink, and some elements may be brown. But since the cement itself is gray in color, so leave the rest of the main elements the same in color.
DIY fantasy decor elements
To make the dacha look fabulous and mysterious, do not forget to make interesting decor elements for it. Make some of them with cement as well. See what a wonderful pots you get. And doing it is quite simple. You will need to find a suitable shape from which you will make the base of the head. Put the same inside, but smaller. Fill the gap between these two containers with a cement mixture. When the sculpture dries up, also use this mass to make ears, nose, and other elements. Subsequently, it remains to paint the eyes, mouth and beads, and then put the pots inside.
Even a shower can look extraordinary here. Complement it with various elements so that it also takes on a fabulous style.
And the toilet in the country can be of this kind. To do this, you need to give it the shape of a hut on chicken legs, and trim the outside with elements with imitation of a bar. At the ends of the roof, on one side, crosswise attach 2 slabs of different sizes and on the other? too. At the bottom, make a small staircase and use the stump to make chicken legs out of it.
You can choose a more traditional shape. Then the toilet for the summer cottage will be in the form of a triangle. Starting from the bottom, it is necessary to trim the outer walls with planks, placing them slightly overlapping. Attach wooden planks from the ends to create a fantasy toilet.
You can do it yourself or buy the following decorative trims to trim the edges of the roof. A board with an imitation of a timber will allow you to make the walls look like they are made of logs.
But you can also use this material to make a toilet. Then the building will be warm and durable. It will perfectly fit into a fairy-tale style garden.
If you want you to have a completely unusual bathroom, then you can make it in the form of a mushroom or such a twisted hut.
Even if you have an old country toilet, it will fit perfectly into the overall concept of the site. After all, it will seem that you have fallen into an old fairy tale. You can fix a few new household items outside, as well as decorate the door with such car numbers or something similar to add originality.
If a man has golden hands, then he can make a similar carved roof. This structural element is installed on a wooden frame. Such a toilet will also serve for many years.
If part of your summer cottage is located in a forest zone, then the fantasy style will be limitless. You can build a toilet from small logs, and make not only walls from them, but also a door, a roof.
If you have a large old tree on your site, cut the top of it, and make a hole in the bottom so that you can easily fit in here. Check out a couple of ideas for such country toilets.
Here are some fantasy garden elements and structures you can borrow for your site. You will surely be interested to see how the craftsmen created a garden in a fabulous style.
But such a fairy house can decorate your site.
See which paths are appropriate if you want to make a fantasy garden.
