If you are thinking of how to decorate a dacha with improvised materials, then for you is decorating a pots, a pumpkin bird house, and do-it-yourself garden figures. How to decorate a summer cottage? Many gardeners ask themselves this question, because you want everything you need to be located on this small plot of land and please the eye. Do-it-yourself sculptures, flower pots, decorative stones and many other useful little things will help this.
DIY flower pots decor
Flowering plants can be grown both outdoors and in beautiful containers. Moreover, even old pots can be easily turned into new irresistible ones.
Speaking about how to decorate a dacha with improvised materials, it should be noted that if you have made repairs, you have a little tile left, do not throw it away. It will come in handy to decorate the pots. If you have old tiles in bright colors, use them as well.
To decorate flower pots you will need:
- clay pots;
- glue;
- grout;
- multi-colored tiles;
- acrylic paint;
- ticks;
- sandpaper;
- brush;
- pencil;
- hammer;
- Scotch;
- brush.
The tile must be broken into pieces with a hammer. To prevent them from hurting you, cover the tiles with a translucent material. Draw petals of the desired size and shape on scotch tape, stick these patterns onto tiles.
Now, with the help of nippers, you need to remove the extra ones so that the blanks of the petals remain.
You have a great decorative flower pot. Draw petals on it with a pencil, then glue tile blanks on these places.
Glue pieces of tile of a suitable size between the flowers, for this you also need to grind them with nippers.
Take a grout of a suitable color (in this case, green was used) to make a beautiful flower pot, fill in the gaps between the pieces of tile with it. If, as in this master class, you have an un-decorated space at the top, cover it with paint to match. When it's dry, apply acrylic varnish.
If you want to do the job even more professionally, then you need to buy small squares of tiles and flowers from this material. You will glue them onto the oil-free surface of the flower pot.
Fill the voids between the tiles with grout, and paint the pot with acrylic paint of the appropriate color.
There are other options for decorating a summer cottage with such items. Decorate other flower pots with your own hands, the photo will help with this.
To decorate such a pots, the craquelure technique was used, this is an artificial aging of the surface. To make such beautiful flower pots, you need to take:
- clay pots;
- green and white paint;
- roller;
- decoupage varnish;
- thinner and wider tassels.
Mix green with white paint and use a roller to coat the surface of a clean, dry pot with this mixture.
When it's dry, apply decoupage varnish. After drying this layer, paint with a thin brush the branches of lavender, and with a thicker one - the flowers of this plant.
Add some finishing touches. Highlight the light parts of the blossoming buds in white, and the golden ribbon with which you will tie the bouquet.
If you liked such garden decorations in the form of flower mosaic pots, then see how to make the following.
For them you will need:
- trimming of asbestos-cement pipes;
- tile adhesive;
- tile;
- ticks;
- grout;
- seashells;
- pebbles;
- glass drops.
Grind the tiles in the same way as described earlier. Glue these pieces, laying out a certain pattern from them. This light-colored tile will look great with blue glass drops. Make the next pots on a marine theme, gluing blue tiles up as a sky, a little lower - various shells and pebbles that imitate the sea coast.
These are wonderful decorations for a summer residence in the form of a flowerpot you can make yourself. Garden figurines will also come in handy here, especially if they can be made from plastic bottles, foam, cement.
How to make a swan, stork from scrap materials?
This skill will also come in handy when you think about how to decorate the dacha with scrap materials. The feathers of such a bird are made from dried grass that can be collected along the coastline of the river. Someone calls it reed, someone sedge. You can see what this weed looks like in the photo.
Here is a list of everything you need:
- boards;
- jigsaw;
- dry grass;
- glue for wood;
- self-tapping screws;
- white spray paint;
- red and black acrylic paint;
- two black buttons for the eyes.
You will also need a template, it is presented below.
Here's how to make a swan. Attach its parts to the board, cut them out with a jigsaw.
The beak is made from a thicker board, it needs to be sanded with a typewriter or sandpaper. Assemble the bird parts with screws to turn them into a swan blank.
With the help of PVA, begin to glue the grass first to the tail, then along the entire back.
So gradually cover the body of the swan with these feathers, leaving only the beak free.
You will paint it with red acrylic, and the junction with the head with black paint. Glue 2 buttons in place as eyes. But first, it's best to cover the bird's body with spray paint.
Here's how to make a swan so that you can decorate your summer cottage with it. Place another bird next to this figure. The stork will certainly bring you happiness.
To create it take:
- wire;
- five liter plastic bottle;
- Styrofoam;
- nail;
- Scotch;
- used electrodes (for feet);
- feathers of birds;
- polyurethane foam;
- knife;
- acrylic paints;
- brush.
Attach the wire at an angle to the back of the 5 liter canister. Slip a long, thin piece of Styrofoam over it to become the neck. Cut out an oval for the head from the same material, stick a long nail here, which will become a blank for the bird's nose.
Fix 2 used electrodes as legs on the back of the canister. Here's how the stork figurine is made next. Place it with your "feet" in the ground. In order for it to acquire volumes, cover with polyurethane foam. This will take about one large cylinder.
When the mass dries, cut off the excess, hide the flaws with a knife.
Since polystyrene is a porous material, apply a primer to it before painting it. Now you can paint his body white, and the part closer to the tail with black paint. For the tail, use bird feathers, stick them here, and also on the tips of the wings.
A small block will turn into a nose, string it on a nail that sticks out of the foam head. The beak, like the legs, must be covered with scarlet paint.
Such a figurine of a stork can decorate your summer cottage. If you are more into other animals, then see how to make them. You can also make crafts for giving from waste material.
How to make a frog out of cement, a turtle out of clay?
To make such a frog craft, take:
- a large saucepan;
- cement;
- sand;
- water;
- a plastic bottle and 2 stoppers from this container;
- wooden stick;
- screw;
- acrylic paints;
- brush.
Instructions for creating:
- Mix 4 parts sand with 1 part cement, dilute with water. Spread the mixture over an inverted saucepan. When it dries, dilute the next batch of concrete, mold a head with thick cheeks, paws, eyes and mouth out of it.
- Using a suitable tool, make a depression in the upper part of the eyes, insert eyelashes from a plastic bottle here, which must first be covered with black acrylic.
- Bottle caps will act as pupils. Attach a tip from a plastic bottle to the end of the stick to make an arrow.
- When all this dries up, you need to paint the garden sculpture. After which the frog craft is ready.
If you want guests who come to you to think that a large turtle has crawled into the garden, then make one. For this venture, you can use not only cement mortar, but also clay.
To implement the last idea, you will need:
- a suitable bowl for creating a shell;
- bandage;
- clay for modeling;
- lace fabric;
- brush;
- stack.
Roll a sausage out of clay, divide into identical pieces with a knife, form balls out of them.
Place bandages or cheesecloth and lace in the bottom of the bowl. Flatten each circle in your hands, put them here so that each subsequent one goes a little on the previous one.
Now use the stack to smooth out the inner surface. Sometimes you can moisten it with a little water.
Cut off the edges of the workpiece. Roll other elements of the figurine out of clay, attach the head, legs, tail in place.
For better adhesion of the two clay parts, make notches with a toothpick or a stack on the turtle's body at the attachment point of small elements.
When attaching, parts of the parts in the places of contact are moistened with water.
Carefully remove the turtle from the mold, smooth out various cracks and unwanted irregularities in the places where the parts are attached with a stack.
Now you can make a ribbon out of clay, attach it as a frill of the shell to decorate the turtle.
Make her a bonnet too. After the workpiece has dried, you can decorate the garden with this figurine or pre-paint it in the desired color.
How to decorate a summer cottage with a plastic bottle fence?
Such a decorative thing will also help to decorate the dacha with improvised materials.
White dairy bottles are perfect. From one you will cut four pickets. Cut one out first, use it as a template so that these parts are identical.
Put the workpiece on the board, using a clerical knife, make paired cuts at the top and bottom of the picket so that a connecting strip can be drawn through them.
As it, you can use plastic corners, cutting each in half along the fold.
Now pass one strip of plastic through the top cuts of the picket fence and the other through the bottom to connect the pieces.
Then you need to connect the two ends of both flax with scotch tape to get such a round fence, which will become a wonderful decoration for the summer cottage and flower beds.
If you want to make a small fence to decorate your home flower garden in the country or in a city apartment, then watch another master class.
Take:
- a sheet of cardboard or a box made of this material;
- scissors;
- glue;
- white paint;
- brush.
Draw wavy edges on a rectangular piece of cardboard based on the photo guide. Here you can see that you need to cut out two cardboard strips, the length of a fence.
To keep the pickets the same size, draw them using one template before cutting out their edges.
Assemble the workpiece, gluing from the inside with paper tapes, fastening them at the ends.
After the glue dries, paint your product in the desired color, white looks beautiful and elegant.
How to make a bird house with your own hands?
When decorating a summer cottage, see how to decorate a tree in order to attract your feathered helpers to the garden at the same time.
This bird feeder will be a great decoration for any tree.
To make such a bird house, take:
- gourd pumpkin;
- a small saw;
- acrylic paints;
- brush;
- pencil;
- ruler;
- sandpaper;
- acrylic lacquer;
- MDF for the roof;
- chain with attachment.
Dry the pumpkin gourd, saw off its upper part, drill a hole in it in the front.
Sand it with sandpaper, cover your creation with white paint.
When it's dry, go over the surface of the pumpkin with light olive paint.
Outline the circular bird entrance with a square to turn it into a makeshift door.
We begin to decorate the bird house. Cover it with brown and black stripes, apply white in between.
Draw various branches with beautiful leaves here using a fine brush.
Cut the roof out of MDF, cover it with brown paint. If you want to make this detail of the birdhouse unusual, then squeeze red, brown, yellow, green paint onto the palette and, using a sponge, mixing tones, apply them over the brown paint on the roof. Glue it with a hot gun at the top of the pumpkin.
But first, the vegetable itself must be varnished with a roller. Attach the chain to the roof of the pumpkin, hang the birdhouse on the tree, thus decorating it and the cottage.
In conclusion, we suggest looking at other ideas that will tell you how to decorate the dacha with improvised materials.
If you are interested in how to make a garden figurine in the form of an owl with your own hands, then watch the master class.
