Rutarius will allow you to make furniture for summer cottages from snags, hemp. Also from these materials you can make flower girls, sculptures with your own hands. Rutarius is an interesting trend in landscape design. He will help turn the cottage into an extraordinary corner. For this, stumps, various driftwood, an old tree are suitable.
DIY hemp crafts
If you get a section with a tree root system and its low aboveground part, do not uproot this element. To make crafts from hemp for a summer cottage, you will need:
- stumps or one;
- colored chips;
- antiseptic;
- stones;
- flowers;
- knife;
- the soil;
- brush.
- To make the stump craft last as long as possible, remove the dust from the inside. Dry this inner hole. Remove the bark from the stump.
- Paint this natural wood element on the outside and inside with two coats of antiseptic. When it is completely dry, you can start decorating the flower girl.
- Pour fertile soil inside the hemp, plant undersized flowers. Grind the surface with plain or colored wood chips. Place stones next to the hemp.
Inverted glass or plastic bottles can be used instead of stones. The necks of the latter are cut off. If you do not know how to arrange the northern part of the territory in the country, then place the rutaria here, plant shade-tolerant flowers in it.
For the adaptation, not only hemp are suitable, but also all kinds of driftwood.
If you have had an unnecessary log for a long time, cut it from above, take out some of the wood, remove the bark. Also treat the surfaces with an antiseptic, then fill in fertile soil, plant unpretentious plants.
Take a closer look, maybe the driftwood found in the forest resembles someone? In the photo, she looks like a fairy dragon, you just need to work out the details so that they become obvious. To do this, use a hatchet, hacksaw, wood carving tools.
Crafts from snags can be not only in the form of flower girls, check out the following ideas.
How to make furniture for a summer residence, wood sculptures?
See what the craftsmen are achieving. Having indicated some details of the silhouette, you can make such a Bigfoot or a good-natured Leshy.
To make this type of chair, take:
- driftwood;
- board;
- rope;
- stain;
- wood varnish for outdoor use;
- brush;
- self-tapping screws;
- saw.
Crafting workshop:
- To make the chair reliable and stable, choose only strong, not lightweight driftwood, oak is perfect.
- Saw off the parts from them that will turn into legs. The two front ones are short, the back ones, together with the back, are long. Make the base of the seat, put a couple of boards here, attach them with self-tapping screws.
- Make armrests from strong snags, fix them with self-tapping screws and a rope. For the backrest, a reliable cross member is taken, which is fixed in the same way. Two small snags are attached vertically to the center of the back.
- It remains to cover the chair with stain, when 2 coats of it are dry, apply three coats of varnish with intermediate drying.
If you want to emphasize the natural structure of the tree, then do not varnish it, but just walk with an antiseptic, it can be transparent. See what wonderful chairs are made from hemp. The table is made from the same blank, only the table top is attached to the top.
But what can be done from a large hemp by sawing off its upper part. Then the thick intricate driftwood will turn into table legs.
A wooden bench will also turn out to be unusually interesting, delicate and even fabulous.
To do this, take:
- two durable boards, better flooring;
- driftwood;
- self-tapping screws;
- glue for wood;
- antiseptic;
- varnish.
Make the base for the bench. It consists of two front legs and two rear legs. Stuff crossbars on them to connect these elements. Attach the boards on top, which will become the seat.
To securely connect them to the legs, attach driftwood here using self-tapping screws. Additionally, they can be fixed with pins by sawing holes of such a diameter at two connecting elements, into which the glue is poured.
In the same way, fix the back, consisting of many snags. Sand some elements if your design idea requires it.
You can create a massive sofa in almost the same way. But its legs and base are logs.
You can leave the product as it is or paint it with varnish, it also turns out very beautiful and unusual.
Not only individual items will come out of the old tree, but also a whole set. Coated with antiseptic and varnish, it can stand outdoors in the air.
It is so nice to sit in the shade on such country furniture, to eat here, to arrange holidays.
If you will use golden varnish in a spray can to decorate furniture made of driftwood, create, for example, a chic shop that will look like an old one with a copper tint.
If you only have an old stump, remove the bark from it, remove the dust, prepare it as described above, put tempered glass on top, you will have a wonderful wooden table.
He can go out differently. If you have a longitudinal cut of a tree, process it, attach the legs from below, put glass on top. Instead, you can make an epoxy countertop.
Rutary from snags: master class
We continue the topic of how the rutary is created. In order for the crafts to come out beautiful, you first need to prepare the driftwood. To do this, you need:
- soda ash;
- bleach for linen;
- iron brush;
- Plastic container;
- sandpaper.
DIY creation:
- Pour hot water into the container, if it has a volume of 10 liters, then add two glasses of soda ash, stir. Put some driftwood in here. To prevent them from floating, place weights on top. These can be plastic cans of water.
- After two days the wood will soften, then clean the surface with an iron brush. Since the wood will be uneven in color at this stage, wash the blanks. Pour 10 liters of water into the same 10 liter plastic bowl, add one and a half cups of bleach. Place driftwood here for two days.
- After this time, place them in the sun for 3 days. Then, using sandpaper, you need to sand the unevenness of the place.
Now you need to fold these blanks so that you can use them for crafts if you want, for example, to make such a three-dimensional star.
For her you will need:
- plywood sheet;
- jigsaw;
- driftwood;
- hot glue;
- star pattern.
Attach the template to the plywood. Circle it, cut it out with a jigsaw.
Sawing pieces of driftwood of the required length, glue them to the star, starting from its outer edge.
Then, gradually move towards the center, try to cover all the plywood with chocks.
Wait for the glue to cool, coat your work with spray paint of the desired color. The silver star looks great.
For such a craft from snags, the door of a country house is perfect. Attach the finished work here so that the star will decorate the building. You can also make another rutary.
See what a wonderful wood shelf you can make.
For her you will need:
- strong driftwood;
- rosewood varnish;
- iron brush;
- construction hooks;
- corners;
- brush.
Use a wire brush to clean the surface of the driftwood. Cover with 2 layers of varnish.
If you like, you can paint the hooks and corners with gold paint, and when it's dry, use these elements. Screw on the construction hooks so that you can hang mugs or wine glasses on them. Attach the driftwood shelf with metal corners to the wall.
From snags, wonderful things are obtained not only for the street, but for the house. Watch the next master class, from which you will learn how to make a do-it-yourself flower stand. For this creativity you will need:
- small log;
- snag;
- seashells;
- leg-split;
- river pebbles;
- hot glue;
- self-tapping screws;
- saw.
First you need to prepare the wooden parts. To do this, remove the bark from a wooden log. This should be done very carefully so as not to injure your hands.
Saw circles about 5 cm thick from the log. You also need to remove the bark from the driftwood. If this workpiece is not the right kind, then bleach it in the same way as described earlier.
While the driftwood dries, you will have time to decorate the flower stand. On the side surface in a circle from above and below, glue the rope with a hot gun. Using it, attach stones, shells. Paint the surface with 2 coats of varnish.
In the same way, decorate other pallets where plants will stand, including the largest one, which will become the basis for the flower girl. Attach a snag to it, attach circles to the tops on which the pots will stand.
Paint the driftwood also with 2 layers of varnish, let it dry. You can decorate the flower stand with artificial greenery.
In some places, glue the shells on hot glue, you get a very beautiful picturesque stand.
Do-it-yourself rutarius in the city
If you do not have a personal plot, you live in a city, trees were cut down here, interesting snags and stumps remained from them, then you can decorate the yard using this idea. To implement this venture, you will need:
- stumps and driftwood;
- dye;
- brushes;
- seedling;
- fertile soil.
If it is difficult to remove the middle from the tree cuts, then just paint them, for others, remove this middle part, fill it with earth, also paint these blanks so that they look more positive. In this case, you can use not only white, but also any others.
From the branches of the cut trees, make a semblance of a well, putting four pieces in a row. Add soil here and plant seedlings of flowers. If there is little sun in the yard, then use shade-tolerant plants, for example, hosts, loaches, ivy.
If there are many snags available, you can make interesting sculptural compositions out of them. For example, these are horses.
If you know how to carve wood, then try making a rutaria with a sculpture of a funny person.
DIY wood figures
They can also be made to decorate the courtyard in the city or in the country. Such a rutaria looks great, adds individuality to the site, it is clear that a jack of all trades lives here.
If you want to know which wood is best to carve a sculpture from, then check out the following information.
- Linden is one of the best materials. Such wood is cut softly and easily. The structure of this tree is light, it hardly warps or cracks.
- Aspen is also easy to handle. Products made from it do not even need to be varnished, then after a while they will have a beautiful silver color. But crafts made from such wood are prone to chips, so it is used to create large sculptures.
- Alder lends itself well to cutting and processing, it is resistant to cracks. Therefore, it is also an excellent material. Take note of this when doing rutaria on the site.
- If you want to make elements of fine artistic carving here, use walnut, it is very decorative, does not warp and is resistant to chips.
- Birch is not well processed and warps. Therefore, if you want to carve wood, use this to create small parts and souvenirs. But the birch is well colored and has a beautiful relief.
- Large carvings can be made from oak, they will be durable. But cutting such dense wood is difficult, so you have to make an effort or use an electric tool.
Once you've decided on the material, see what tools to use for your wood carving.
- Large ones are an ax, a hacksaw and even a chainsaw.
- Using cutters with a blade width of 1.5 cm, you can cut out small elements that are in hard-to-reach places. There are many cutters, each designed to perform a specific function.
- Teslo is suitable for initial processing of small parts.
- Knives, jambs and chisels are also used for wood carving. The latter perform any notch, are intended for the elaboration of details. The cutting edge can be of various shapes.
- The Bogorodsky knife is perfect for carving sculptures out of wood. It is named so in honor of the village in which such work has long been performed.
- The drill is suitable for drilling holes.
- To make the surface of the product smoother, use a rasp, a sander and sandpaper.
The photo shows how wood carving is performed. You can see the stages of creating a sculpture from this material on the example of carving a bear.
This was preceded by the following works:
- creating a sketch on paper, you need to draw it from different angles;
- then this sketch is transferred to the workpiece, which is best used as a rectangular bar;
- if you want to avoid mistakes when cutting a sculpture out of wood, then mold it first from plasticine or clay, make adjustments;
- now you can proceed to rough cutting, which is carried out with a hatchet or saw;
- you will create small details with tesla;
- and the cutter and chisel will allow you to cut off unnecessary corners.
As in the photo, to make a bear, take a log. Use a hatchet to chop off the top, but not completely. At the next level, this place of the workpiece should be slightly smaller.
Next, the details of the nose and sternum of the bear are being worked out. Then he will acquire ears, front legs and a workpiece for the hind legs. At the next stage, they are indicated more clearly, and a stand for a wooden sculpture also appears.
For the next step, you need to use chisels, a Bogorodsky knife, jambs, which will help to make more realistic facial features, bear claws, and its fur.
In the final stages, you will need to sand and polish the wood sculpture, then cover it with wood stain and varnish. You can use special wax.
If you want to see how a bear is carved out of a tree with a chainsaw, then refer to the next master class.
If you want to know what the rutaria can be in your country house, then include the following video.
Another one will clearly show how you can decorate the yard with sawed trees.
