People who have a harmoniously landscaped plot at their disposal are the happiest gardeners in the world, regardless of the chosen landscape strategy. After all, gardeners are a very diverse, motley crowd and everyone has their own vision of how to arrange a garden with their own hands. Many are introverts who find joy and solace in connecting with nature. Private spaces tend to reflect their solitary nature, whether they are artists, philosophers, or travelers. They invite only carefully selected, one might even say selected, people into their space. Some of them, however, are true extroverts who create vibrant, functional spaces based on the principle of “bigger is better.” Here the small ones rule architectural forms, A plants become the main characters. Every aspect of these gardens has its own function and purpose. Let's see how to design a user-friendly garden, matching all your needs and temperament.

How to arrange a garden: entrance

Create a cozy entrance. Every good novel has a chapter that sets the mood for the entire work. Like this, everyone nice garden should have an entrance that should be the starting point for the story. While the entrance to an artist's or philosopher's garden may be a tightly locked gate, the entrance to an extrovert's garden may be transparent and inviting. If possible, leave gates slightly open - this is only for the better. This creates a cozy invitation that doesn't require the recipient's signature.

The right solution for a path in the garden

Preparation: the wider the better. Good garden design suggests that once a guest enters the garden, he or she can easily navigate the space. The width, shape and substrate of the trail continue to tell the story. A narrower, more winding path invites exploration, creates mystery, intrigue and slows down the visitor's pace. Thus, attention to detail is paid. Straight, wide paths more utilitarian in relation to the movement of visitors from one point to another.

An acceptable width for a typical garden path is generally 3 ½ - 4 feet, although paths intended for solo walking can be as narrow as 2 feet. An extrovert's garden, however, can boast paths that are 5 or even 6 feet wide. The extra width allows more than two visitors to walk side by side and have conversations.

All dacha owners one day think about decorating it, adding something special to the atmosphere. Of course, you can go to specialized stores and buy whatever your heart desires. But if summer residents want their vacation spot to be unique and inimitable, then it will be much more interesting to make the decorations with your own hands. Jewelry made independently will give the owners both a creative mood and aesthetic pleasure.

Choosing original ideas for a summer residence

Each dacha owner, if desired, can find a lot of the most different ideas to decorate your site. To make most of the decorations, only improvised means and minimum costs. And old, unnecessary furniture and interior items will inspire creativity even more. Often seemingly completely useless and forgotten things can come in handy. Country designers use in their work everything that comes to hand: broken old furniture, unnecessary toys, various bottles and dishes, car tires, remaining building materials and much more.

No dacha decoration is complete without intricate, interesting flower beds. You can add uniqueness to flower arrangements by planting them in old containers. These can be barrels, pots, and even carts. Many summer residents build various picket fences for flower beds.

They will always add comfort original tracks on a summer cottage. They are made from timber or stone. And leftover materials can always be used to build another composition.

Bottles and plastic jars are especially popular among country designers. From them it is easy and simple to build many interesting sculptures, decorations for flower beds, and borders. There are no limits for imagination here.

You should definitely place a bird feeder in your dacha. Children usually love to watch birds. And with a feeder, birds will be a frequent visitor to your summer cottage. It can be made from a plastic bottle, from an unnecessary block of wood, or from twigs.

Without much difficulty, you can make a variety of figures that will bring comfort and individuality to the countryside atmosphere. To make them, you can use a variety of design solutions and materials. For example, polymer clay, leftovers polyurethane foam, gypsum and other building materials. You just have to start creative work and it will immediately become clear that nothing is impossible.

Crafts from improvised materials

The most popular among available materials for crafts are bottles, various plastic jars and boxes. Before starting work, you should definitely think through the details so that the result is truly beautiful and does not resemble a pile of plastic waste.

Plastic bottles are easy to cut and it is easy to shape them the required form. And if you cover the result of the work with suitable paints, you get bright, unique decorations for your dacha. For example, you can make figures of animals (pigs, cows, bees) or fairy-tale characters. By making such decorations, you can unleash your creative potential, and each time the crafts will become more and more perfect. With a large amount of unnecessary plastic, not only crafts, but also furniture are made from it.

If you have a glass cutter among your tools, you can make original pots from glass bottles. Such crafts look very stylish and easily fit into any design. Candle stands can be made in the same way.

Bottle caps can also be useful for decorating furniture, decorative fences, creating compositions and even curtains. You can also use containers from chocolate egg toys.

Leftovers natural stone Perfect for decorating a pond in your country house. A small pond will add unique comfort to the atmosphere of the dacha. Flower beds, crafts or a recreation area will look good around. If the pond turns out to be large enough, then it can be decorated with an interesting bridge.

Every motorist always has old tires. You can simply paint them and make bright bases for a flower bed, or you can show your imagination and cut out various shapes.

Arrangement of a play area at the dacha

Doing landscaping and decoration summer cottage, don't forget about the children. They need their own territory for games and entertainment. Children of any age love swings. They can be made from ordinary boards and ropes, or use metal chains and old tires painted in bright colors. It’s easy to build slides and swings from scrap materials. The main thing is that everything is strong and reliable.

For kids, you will definitely need a sandbox. Its borders will look interesting from multi-colored bottles or wooden frames. A sandbox in the form of a ship or car will look original. It is recommended to make an awning over the sand to protect from the bright sun.

Children will definitely love having their own playhouse on a summer cottage. Benches, a table or other furniture can be placed inside. It all depends on your imagination. The house can be decorated with a bright flower bed or homemade decorations. Usually the children themselves are happy to take part in decorating their territory.

Ideas for decorating a fence at the dacha

The uniqueness of the dacha plot is best emphasized by its fencing. A fence is not only the protection of the territory, but also the so-called calling card of the owners.

Simple wooden or iron fence– it’s banal. It definitely needs to be decorated. You can decorate the fence with a variety of materials: flower pots, crafts in the form of animals, painted landscapes and everything your imagination allows for. For example, unnecessary brightly colored rubber boots will look original as pots.

You can decorate the fence with old disks. They reflect sunlight and look interesting in any lighting. You can also apply different patterns to the discs.

A fence made of round timber, painted to look like colored pencils, looks impressive. This fence can also be used to fence off a children’s area in a dacha.

Any fence will look cozier if some climbing plants grow along it. There are various species that grow very quickly. For example, decorative beans or morning glory. You can plant vines. They grow much slower, but also look more expensive. There is no comparison in this case with wild grapes. Grape leaves gradually change their color and retain their beauty until frost. It looks original when the “grape fence” turns into a canopy. This design gives the fence an antique look.

Beautiful decorations for a low fence will be flowering shrubs, planted along it. You can combine plants with different colors and flowering times.

IN evening time The different lanterns on the fence look beautiful. It’s also possible to make them yourself from scrap materials. Or you can simply place candles in painted glass jars attached to the fence. The main thing is that the flame does not reach the fence.

Lovers of drawing will have a lot of room for imagination. You can draw anything on the surface of the fence: nature, scenes, cartoon characters, ornaments, small patterns in the form of flowers, butterflies, ladybugs. It’s easy to draw on any fence, but it’s easier on a fence made of corrugated board.

Compositions made from lids, shells, stones, and dishes look original. It’s easy to make plastic flowers from the bottoms of bottles and paint them in rich colors - they will look beautiful on a wooden fence.

We design flower beds and flower beds

Flower beds will help transform your dacha plot and add color to its atmosphere. When choosing plants, you should definitely take them into account individual characteristics. First of all, you should decide on the “soloist” flowers, that is, the main plants in the flowerbed. The choice can be made of three or four types.

Decorating flowers with ornamental grasses and interestingly shaped leaves looks beautiful. With them, the flowerbed will be original, even when the flowers are not blooming. But you shouldn’t try to place a lot of different plants. The territory of the site should look holistic and harmonious.

Of course, it’s not enough just to plant flowers beautifully. Flowerbeds also look more original if they are decorated around them. The composition must be complete.

Flower beds can be decorated using any unnecessary items. The article already mentioned that it is not difficult to make small flower beds from old tires painted in bright colors. You can use a wheelbarrow, cart, an unwanted beehive, or even an old car. The main thing is that everything is done carefully and aesthetically. If desired, you can add decorations to the flower garden in the form of homemade bees, butterflies, and interesting stuffed animals.

You can make a small fence around the flowerbed. For its manufacture it is possible to use plastic bottles or cups, fences made of tine, stones. The flower bed looks beautiful and smoothly turns into a lawn.

Setting up a relaxation area

The dacha must have a comfortable place to relax in the fresh air. This issue must be approached very responsibly. It all depends on the preferences and desires of the owners. This could be simply a laid out area with a table and comfortable chairs or hammocks placed in the shade.

A gazebo, which can be made from the remaining building materials, will look impressive on any summer cottage. Gazebos whose walls are decorated with climbing plants look beautiful. Bright soft pillows or blankets look cozy as decorations.

Swings can be not only for children, but also for adults. It won’t be difficult to build a wide wooden swing for relaxation or make a hanging one somewhere in the shade of trees. For convenience, they can be decorated with soft pillows.

You will definitely need a barbecue in the recreation area. It can be made, for example, from old barrel. For evening and night time, flashlights can be provided.

When designing and decorating a dacha plot, it is worth remembering that a dacha is a place of rest from the everyday life and bustle of the city. It should be comfortable and calm here, and the environment should be pleasing to the eye. It is important not to overload the area with crafts or some design solutions; everything should be in moderation. Imagine, create, surprise!

Gone are the days when everyone at their dacha plot was busy with the beds and fruit trees, but didn’t think about decor. Once upon a time the best decoration The courtyard had unpretentious flowers along the fence or a small flower bed. Today, the dacha is becoming a place for country holidays, and many owners hire a landscape design specialist. But if your hands are in place and you have a few worthwhile ideas, you don’t need to spend a lot of money. The original design of a summer cottage is made with your own hands from scrap materials, which are abundant in every garage, on mezzanines, balconies or storage rooms.

Decorating a cottage with your own hands

Mill at the dacha made of stones

Decorating a flower bed with wood

The main advantage of homemade country decor is that it is possible to attach everything that was a pity to throw away. Every thrifty homeowner has long-term deposits of all sorts of goods stored in the garage and on the balcony, mezzanine and pantry, which will soon become an adornment of the landscape.

You can adapt many items that have served their main life to your dacha design with your own hands:

• bald car tires;
• plastic bottles, containers and containers;
• ropes, tarpaulin, burlap, camouflage net;
• cutting boards and thin cuts of wood;
• unnecessary plastic pipes;
• thick wire, chain-link mesh, metal scraps;
• old shoes and sports equipment;
• plywood boxes and wooden containers;
• empty barrels and other containers;
• leaky teapots, bowls, pans;
• unnecessary carts and bicycles;
• old plastic and wooden furniture;
• remnants of building materials and polyurethane foam.

First of all, you need to evaluate the “reserves” in order to distribute them for the arrangement of the dacha as needed. Some of the materials will be used to make fully functional devices.

In any yard, a “Moidodyr” (washbasin) in the barbecue or grill area and a sofa swing in the shade of the garden under a tarpaulin canopy will be useful. From other old things, make flower stands and flowerpots, all kinds of original garden decorations with your own hands.

Boar's head from a pile of earth at the dacha

Decorating a flower bed with flowers

You will need a detailed site plan for proper zoning and marking. Even in a small yard country house or in country garden needs to be distributed functional areas, which will differentiate:

• curbs;
• sides made of plastic bottles;
• hedges;
• decorative stonework;
• original fences.

A well-maintained estate does not require redevelopment; all you need is creative design ideas for your dacha. On the new site, places for a comfortable pastime are determined:

• outdoor cooking fireplace;
• children's playground with decorative sandbox;
• gazebos, benches, swings;
• parking under a canopy for cars, motorcycles or bicycles;
• a playground for a children's pool;
• decorative beds, flower beds, flower beds and alpine slides.

By working on your own country house design, you have the opportunity to realize long-standing dreams and plans of the whole family. Free areas can be covered with small stones and sowed lawn grass, low-growing border plants and flowers, as in the photo.

Do-it-yourself gazebo in the country

Flowerbed at the dacha

DIY border at the dacha

Garden paths

Discussions about whether paths are needed in a dacha last until the first rainstorm. In some regions, the soil is so viscous that you can’t pull your feet out of the mud - it sticks to your shoes in a heavy lump. The only way out is to provide aesthetically pleasing paved passages between summer cottages.

Paths made of different materials will help you decorate your dacha with your own hands:

• bricks or foam blocks;
• cutting boards and round cuts;
• sea ​​pebbles and wild stone;
• compacted fine gravel and sand;
• homemade paving slabs;
• marble chips and others bulk materials small fractions;
• concrete paths with a mosaic of broken glass and ceramic tiles.

The country alley leading to the garden will be functional and attractive in itself when it has original borders or rows of annual flowers on the sides. But the original idea of ​​laying it will make it a real decoration of the garden with your own hands from scrap materials.

Decorating a summer cottage with plants

Flower beds at the dacha

A paved path can be lower than ground level or slightly elevated, and have a flat or slightly convex surface. Alleys will last for many years if done according to all the rules.

You need a shallow trench, which is marked and the boundaries are fixed using a rope between driven pegs. This is the only way to make the path the same width.

The bottom of the trench is compacted with gravel and sand, regardless of the type of paving material.

Next, you need to organize formwork for concrete with filler or sides for large blocks. Low log pegs and rows of glass or plastic bottles of the same size dug upside down are suitable as decorative borders.

Sandbox with flowers

Flowers in pots at the dacha

Flowerbed made of stones at the dacha

Between the formwork, the compacted trench is filled with a concrete base under the recessed Decoration Materials. Between the pieces of mosaic path tiles, you need to carefully fill the seams.

Alleys made of bricks, blocks and solid tiles (without joining with a cement mixture) are sprinkled with sand along the seams.

When laying tiles or bricks on sand, use a rubber or wooden hammer for adjustment and leveling.

The horizontal is adjusted using the building level.

If the site is located in a lowland, be sure to organize drainage, otherwise the alleles may turn into drains during a rainstorm. The situation will be saved by a shallow drainage ditch parallel garden path paved with ceramic fragments or filled with cement.

Design ideas for the dacha will be implemented the best way, if all stages of the path construction and its decoration are done slowly and efficiently, following the laying technology. The easiest way is to use ready-made lattice templates for homemade cement walkways with filler, as in the photo. The template is step by step moved into the prepared trench with a bed of sand and gravel, filled with base material.

Forms for paving slabs and “Euro fences” of various sizes and shapes are available for sale. You can organize an entire production for your summer cottage or start your own business.

Gardening the border at the dacha

DIY border at the dacha

Decorative hedges, fences and borders

According to the technology described in previous section, make decorative sides to strengthen the levels of a sloping summer cottage and the walls of a cascading flower bed. The picket fence method is also suitable as a decorative fence.

The edge of the low side can also be used as paths between flower beds and sandboxes. Children love to run along the rows of buried stumps.

Hedges are a great way to save money on zoning your summer cottage with your own hands. Shrubs for pruning, ordinary or standard roses in the form of a tree are suitable. Low-growing border roses are planted between them, creating a two-row flower wall.

The simplest side is made from plastic bottles. Containers of the same color are filled with sand, gravel or soil. Bottles are dug halfway into a small trench and covered with earth or stone chips. They may be empty, but they last longer when filled with something.

Attention! Plastic bottles cannot be filled with water - lenses form under the sun's rays, which burn nearby plants. There might even be a fire.

DIY flowerbed

Castle made of stones in the country

Do-it-yourself barbecue made of stones in the country

Flower arches and arbors made of climbing plants

Climbing roses and other climbing flowers are a great way to decorate a homemade summerhouse or arch made from scrap materials. A metal rod, angle or channel, which can be assembled into a structure with a welding machine or bolted, is suitable as a base.

Ready-made supports for arches must be securely fixed in the ground. Do-it-yourself dug holes with columns for country decor are compacted well with crushed stone and sand, after which they are cemented and covered with stone chips. Depending on the climatic conditions of the region, grapes or fragrant flowers may spread along the top of such a gallery.

In hot climates it is better to make an indoor gallery. Remnants of light-transmitting ones will also work. roofing materials. Canopies along decorative paths can only be on the south side, but at an angle to provide more shade. A wire trellis is stretched between the posts where the plants will climb. Most economical way– grow cucumbers, decorative beans or pumpkins along the arch.

Flower lovers can use various methods to decorate their dacha with their own hands using scrap materials. They make vertical flower beds in holes from wide plastic pipes, wooden or openwork metal shelves for pots, as in the photo.

Flowerbed made of stones at the dacha

Decorating a cottage with your own hands

Garden sculptures and decor from scrap materials

Do-it-yourself garden design from scrap materials is mainly associated with the following materials:

• car tires (bald tires);
• templates from plywood scraps, from which it is easy to make the missing elements for the “smiling characters” of country decor;
• plastic containers;
• ceramic flower pots;
• unnecessary shoes;
• metal and wooden barrels etc.

Some homemade garden sculptures are so good that they can compete with real masterpieces. For example, foam frogs or plaster swans.

But most role models are made from car tires - cut and turned out. Acrylic paints will transform any material to make characters recognizable for country house design with your own hands. Depending on the skill and style of garden and patio design, you can choose any idea. This is what swans and parrots look like made from rubber, palm trees made from plastic bottles.

Decorating a flowerbed with snails with your own hands

Decorating a cottage with improvised materials

Table and chairs made of hemp in the country

Original flower beds and mini-beds

Mini flower beds with succulents and cacti (others) look original small plants) inside large shells. No less interesting to many will be the idea of ​​using shoes as flower pots or old hats on the wall.

Small containers are suitable for succulents and indoor plants, exhibited in the open air for the summer. But before you decorate the dacha with your own hands, keep in mind that you will have to bring them into the house during rain, hail and gusty winds. It is better to make original shapes and flowerpots stationary, and insert flower pots for the season or upon arrival at the dacha on weekends.

Traditionally, broken vehicles are used as original DIY garden decorations. Trolleys and bicycles, large car body parts are suitable for a small flower garden. Musical instruments fit too. Creative idea– a piano with flowers and a waterfall.

Fountain, artificial pond

A mini-pond is an excellent solution for decorating a summer house with your own hands. A small tank can be equipped using available materials:

• old rubber boat;
• large metal barrel;
• excavator bucket;
• tub;
• tank trim.

Bottom homemade pond made in a small pit, with a compacted bed of gravel and sand. The top is lined with tarpaulin and thick film in 2-3 layers, the edges are secured with stones in the form of sides. All that remains is to fill with water and decorate with the raised plants.

Advice. To maintain eco-balance, you need to monitor the condition of the water, which is periodically drained or circulated. A fountain requires a pump and a filter. To complete the “lake” design, add homemade frogs, swan or crocodile.

Flowerbeds at the dacha with flowers

DIY flower bed at the dacha

Landscape design with a children's playground

So that children don’t get bored at the dacha, and they don’t waste time while working in the garden and beds, there is a solution - a children’s playground with a sandbox and funny homemade figures.

An important condition is that the place for children’s games should be clearly visible from different angles of the summer cottage in order to observe what is happening.

The sides of the sandbox can be easily built using available materials:

• palisade made of logs;
• painted boards;
• wide wooden box;
• big tire, etc.

With any type of sandbox, children need a place to sit and lay out the molds. A country children's corner can be fenced off from neighbors with a fence in the shape of pencils or decorated with other homemade decor - paints to the rescue!

If you have enough space, you can build a more interesting sandbox on the site - in the form of a ship, car or mansion. Somewhere nearby you can build a tree house with rope ladders and a slide for descending into a sandbox or a tent city made from old blankets. Stretch ropes between the trees, give them clothespins and fabric, they will happily build houses for themselves.

Original garden furniture

The imagination of folk craftsmen is limitless - from plastic bottles, awning materials and wood waste do garden furniture on the verge of masterpieces. After pruning the garden and removing dead wood, there is a lot of material left that is easy to use to make:

• armchairs;
• swing;
• rocking chairs;
• tables and stands.

For comfort, soft seats are made, and natural-shaped material is used on the sidewalls and frame of the products. It is very convenient to use ready-made pallets or pallets as the basis for a sofa or a corner under a canopy. Poufs and banquettes, tables and armchairs are made from plastic bottles. If you have time and experience, make an entire sofa for your dacha out of plastic bottles, but you will need many containers of the same shape and volume. A cover or cover for a homemade sofa is sewn from old curtains.

More original ideas will be suggested by photos from our gallery.

The areas allocated for planting vegetables are becoming smaller and smaller. More and more, owners are beginning to pay attention to the beauty of appearance and a comfortable stay in the fresh air. How to arrange a summer cottage with your own hands?

Classic options

Decoration with flowers - a classic of the genre

Decoration with flowers - not invented by us

The easiest way to start landscaping a summer cottage with your own hands is with flowers. When creating flower beds, it is important to pay attention to the used color scheme. Flowers can be planted both in the form of flower beds and in the form of a border. At the discretion of the owner, perennial or annual plants are selected, as well as ornamental herbaceous plants and flowers that vary in height. We described what flower beds are and how to arrange them correctly in separate thematic articles. Today we are talking specifically about ideas for garden styling.

Plants and flowers planted along the lawn and forming a flowering border will look appropriate. The center of a lush, bright lawn can be decorated with a flower bed with colorful plants of varying heights. There are a lot of options for designing flower beds! You can frame them with a wooden fence or picturesque stones, make a fence from plastic bottles, sow the edges with ornamental plants or decorate them with wooden saw cuts. Even unnecessary household items and a wide variety of improvised devices are suitable for decorating a site with your own hands.

Alpine slide: without snow, but with flowers

The Alpine slide always attracts attention

Landscaping a summer cottage is possible by installing an alpine slide with your own hands. Alpine slides are now very popular even among novice garden designers. It is important to remember that their creation will require a change in the topography of the earth, as well as the selection of the necessary stones. By folding an alpine slide on a flat surface and decorating it with cobblestones and flowers, you are unlikely to see your dream in the end. Such a slide will not add any aesthetics, but, on the contrary, will only add foreignness to it.

When the entire plot is already occupied and it is difficult to find a free corner, pay attention to the space next to the house. This place would be an excellent option for creating a blooming front garden.

Mobile solutions - for decoration

When there is no time and opportunity to fully improve the garden, you can use tubs, flowerpots or flowerpots. Having planted them unpretentious species plants, you can easily distribute all the beauty throughout the territory, and if necessary, you will rearrange it, thanks to the mobility of such a solution.

Flowerpots made from decorated buckets are a great option

By showing your imagination, you can elevate even an ordinary wooden box. By painting it in an unusual manner or hanging it from ropes that look like hands, you will add some humor and fun to the design.

Flower pots are great for creating sculptures. Having selected pots of different sizes, they are fastened with wire, refreshed with paints, flowers are added and woo-a-la - you have very cute and unique figures in front of you!

Ponds visible from afar

What else do they like to decorate summer cottages with, besides flowers? Of course, bodies of water. Ponds and little ponds in combination with green plants will become a piece of paradise in your garden. On hot summer days, sitting here will be a real pleasure. Ponds can be decorated in different ways; here an immense horizon of possibilities opens up for your imagination. Along the shore of the pond you can build a deck from wooden planks, which, in order not to have to worry about their impregnation and painting, can be replaced with composite ones. The advantage of this material is that it does not rot, does not change color and is very reminiscent of wood. The correct name for this coating is decking. It is also perfect for building a veranda or terrace, or for the side areas of a swimming pool.

Even small pond will bring the charm of water

Stone slabs will also do an excellent job as banks. The time spent will be justified, because as a result you will get a stunning and reliable pond. To better fix the stones, you should prepare the soil. Part of the soil is removed, crushed stone is poured in, thoroughly compacted and covered with a layer of sand on top. Stone slabs are already laid on top of the sand layer. For greater reliability, sand and cement in the form of a mixture should be poured into the gaps between the slabs. You need to remove the excess and wait for the rain, which, by wetting the blind area, will allow the cement to fasten the slabs to each other.

The owners, whose house is located not far from a quiet river, can collect suitable boulders on the shore and decorate the pond with them. However, it is quite possible to buy such stones at a garden center.

Made from paving stones garden paths It would be appropriate to move it to the shore of the pond. Then all the garden decoration will be decorated in the same style. The technique is similar to what we already mentioned above.

Lawn - beautiful music

Arranging a summer cottage with your own hands will be half finished if you create a well-groomed lawn on a small area. Maintaining green beauty is not easy. Consider the following lawn care tips:

• seeds for planting must be of high quality and suitable for the local climate;
• the edges of the lawn should be neat (you can use border tape);
• regular mowing of grown grass is necessary;
• Don’t forget about weeding, watering, fertilizing and repairing lawn imperfections.

How to use a lawn to make your property unique and inimitable? Plant it in an unusual shape. This landscaping technique will add zest to your garden.

Lawn as the basis for the wealth of green spaces

Arches and pergolas so that the flowers are not naked

When thinking about how to improve a summer cottage, one cannot help but think of pergolas, arches, and trellises. You can decorate the path to your home by installing a pergola or decorative arch. A durable, but at the same time elegant structure, entwined with a variety of bindweed, will be the ideal conductor to the recreation area. By installing the arches at a short distance from each other, you will eventually, after some time, get a shady corner where it will be so nice to sit and read on hot summer days.

The arch at the entrance lifts the mood

Selecting plants for landscaping decorative arches very wide: it can be ivy, grapes, honeysuckle, or climbing rose, which have very beautiful buds when flowering. If you choose virgin grapes as a plant, you won’t go wrong either. The color of the leaves will change from time to time: in early spring You will be pleased with the soft green fresh leaves; in the summer the foliage will acquire a rich green color, and in autumn you will enjoy the sight of bright red leaves.

Decorating the toilet as if it doesn't exist

The first building in a dacha is usually not even a change house, but a toilet. A necessary thing, I must say. How can a toilet become a decoration, you ask, since our conversation today is about transforming the site? We'll tell you how to turn a very prosaic thing into a source of pride for the owner.

Of course, putting the toilet in a visible place is not the best best idea, but it can be perfectly decorated. For example, make it from logs in the form of a birdhouse. Such a cute hut in itself evokes sympathy, and if you do some landscaping and plant flowers or low shrubs around, and even decorate a stone path, then the building will sparkle in a new way. See the photo below for an example.

A royal toilet for a royal owner

When we arrange a site, it is important to pay attention to style, where the priority is the appearance of the house. That is, when choosing a toilet design, you need to coordinate it with existing buildings.

If you want to make a toilet out of stone, show your imagination and depict it in the form of a knight’s castle. My home is my fortress, but don’t overdo it, otherwise neighbors and passers-by will consider it a rarity and want to visit it.

Original options

Dacha is a small country for creativity and limitless design. For beautification own plot the owner can use the most different means and materials. We'll tell you how to transform and landscape a boring garden patio and help it become cute, cozy and unforgettable. Sometimes you don’t even need to buy anything, just look around and you will find a lot of useful, but, alas, unnecessary things. We offer ideas for the design of a summer house, garden and vegetable garden that are easy to implement with your own hands.

Flower bed but can't sleep

An old unnecessary bed will be an excellent base for a flower bed. Fill the base with soil and sow with perennials. This design solution will certainly fit perfectly into the garden landscape. The photo below shows one of the interesting options.

If only all dreams were like this

Fairytale straw goby

Your house is so reminiscent of your native village, where your grandmother kept a cow, pigs and other animals. How to bring back nostalgia into modern landscape design? A hay bull will be very appropriate, and most importantly, not much labor will be required. A frame is tied from wire and covered with hay on top. Be curious how great it turns out.

The touching charm of something made by hand

The stump feeder is not a rattle at all

It is not necessary to uproot the old stump that remains on the site. Make a bird feeder out of it. In cold weather, your yard will become a haven for titmice, sparrows and other birds looking to refresh themselves. Everyone: both children and adults, will enjoy watching the birds' meal. The inside of the stump should be hollowed out, leaving intact side surfaces. Place some grains inside, and your feeder is ready to receive its first guests. Having made it from a tree stump, you can hang the product on a branch near the house.

Birds on a homemade feeder always sing beautifully

The grass figures are right in their own way

Something similar happens if the figure is trimmed with linen on top artificial grass. The coating is reliable, weather-resistant and does not require watering. The frame can be made from almost any material, taking into account, of course, exposure to moisture and sun. Wonderful example garden sculpture- rhinoceros in the photo below.

A donkey from the grass drags a mass of beauty

Mesh figures are just sweets

Mesh garden figures are becoming increasingly popular. It could be a jug, a bird, a donkey, etc. Of course, you need to tinker a little to tie a beautiful figure made of mesh with a green PVC coating with wire. Such products are complemented by weaving and climbing plants. Internal cavities can be lined with fine plastic mesh also green, and then filled with soil. Then you can plant any plants that do not require moisture.

The weight of responsibility from flowers will not allow the peacock to fly away

Decorative well - landscape miracle worker

Flower wells look beautiful, from which various flowers seem to spill out. Availability of a well or a well at the dacha concrete rings, will allow you to create decor on an existing base. Choose brick or stone to clad the walls. Such materials are most suitable, because they tolerate dampness well, and, therefore, will be a reliable “shelter” from rain, sun and frost. When to disguise frameless installations, choose any material for decoration - lining or boards, siding, plastic panels or tiles. The photo shows one of the options.

Decorative well goes well with the decoration of the house

Cart for decoration - support for vision

Such an unusual design solution solves two problems at once: it serves as a flower bed on which you can place the volumes of two flower beds at once, and it will also be a very original decorative element. Today you can choose the most different variants carts Both sizes and styles will vary. Classic version– cart in rustic style, but some prefer to choose a cart in the style of the Wild West or from Provencal streets for their garden. Carts can be made of wood or metal, or have combined parts.

The old cart scatters beauty

Small confusions and ways to solve them

Let's look at the most common site problems that worry owners the most. We improve uncomfortable and inconvenient areas:

1. Lack of space for a flower bed. An excellent solution would be to select beautiful stylized pots, flowerpots and flowerpots in which you can plant any plants. Such point decorations are very mobile and can be easily moved from one point in the garden to another.
2. A simple chain-link fence has no decorative features and does not protect from prying eyes. The problem is solved by planting next to the fence climbing plants, which, wrapping around the mesh, will create not only protection from prying eyes, but also give aesthetic pleasure. For plants, choose climbing rose, virgin grape or ivy.
3. Lack of space for arches and pergolas. As an alternative, choose any vertical object available in the garden: an old tree, a fence, walls of house buildings. Thus, you will get a blooming garden with climbing plants and decorate unsightly objects.
4. An unsightly pillar on the place of execution, spoiling the view. Decorate it with flowers that can be planted in cans. You can also plant bindweed at the bottom of the post and let it brighten up the ugly object.

If you tickle your heels, you'll laugh

1. You can beat up a boring vegetable garden with shrubs and plants that can be trimmed, such as boxwood. Thanks to this find you will decorate garden plot original greenery figures.
2. Places that require camouflage, such as a crack in the foundation, can be decorated with cushion-shaped plants with a pleasant shade and three-dimensional shape. Such plants are usually shade-tolerant and can be planted in both shade and sun.
3. The compost heap has unpleasant smell and does not add aesthetics to the landscape. Having created a green barrier around the perimeter from berries or decorative ones, but fragrant shrubs, You can solve both of these problems at once.
4. The untidy appearance of the area is created by fallen autumn leaves. Due to the abundance of work, you don’t have time to remove them, and they spoil the whole look. Plant it in the garden ground cover plants, which perfectly decorate fallen leaves.
5. The existing path made of concrete slabs can also be used. It is worth removing the slabs in a checkerboard pattern and planting low ones in their place. ornamental plants. So, the appearance of the path will become more attractive.
6. Children run shortcuts across the lawn, and new paths appear that do not look very aesthetically pleasing. Fill them with gravel and it will look like it was intended.
7. You can refresh the faded and dull colors of buildings and fences by painting. Wall painting will give the garden a bright, unusual and attractive look.

Every dacha owner wants to decorate it and do something unique. The easiest way is to go to the “Garden Goods” store and choose the accessories you like.

If the owner of a dacha wants to see a vacation spot unlike others, he will have to rely on his own strength and make items to improve the area with my own hands. Then, in addition to beauty and aesthetics, he will also receive the joy of creativity.

Making the site unique - ideas for interesting crafts

All summer residents are able to pick up original ideas to decorate the area. Most often, it is enough to use the things and means at hand, and put in a little effort and material expenses. There will be outdated furniture and other unnecessary items that need to be creatively used.

It would be useful to remember long-abandoned things in the form unnecessary furniture, old toys, empty containers, worn-out car tires, leftover building materials, etc. Country crafts made from such things are the most interesting and best decorate the site!

Registration of a summer cottage is impossible without beautiful flower beds. Yours flower arrangements can be diversified by adding old containers: barrels, pans, carts. The construction of original picket fences around flower beds will make them intricate and interesting.

If you add skillfully designed flower beds made from timber or stone to your flowerbed decoration, this will add originality.

Many garden design masters use plastic containers to construct sculptures, accessories for flower beds, and borders. Fantasy in this area is limitless.

Before starting work, you need to think through the idea well to get the desired result. Plastic is easy to cut, giving it the intended shape. It is suitable for making figurines from fairy tales. It will be especially impressive if you paint them with bright colors.

In the country house interior there will be not only beautiful object, but also useful. The children will have something to watch, and the birds will have a permanent dining area. There will be materials at hand for it.

It doesn’t require much work to make various figures from polymer clay, polyurethane foam, or plaster that can create coziness and uniqueness in your dacha. It is enough to awaken your imagination, and design solutions will come on their own.

Having a glass cutter on hand will help you work with glass bottles. They make interesting pots or candle stands.

Bottle caps and plastic packaging of chocolate eggs are suitable for creating unusual compositions.

It would be nice to decorate a small pond at the dacha, surrounding it with flower beds, sculptures, and crafts. As a decoration, you can complement it with an elegant bridge.

Unnecessary car tires, after painting, will become a platform for flower beds or material for cutting out figures.

Arrangement of the play area

Children can be given not just an area to play, but also a comfortable play area. All children will be happy. Simple boards and ropes are enough for them. Metal chains and the same painted tires will do. The remains of building materials will become a slide, old furniture will turn into rocking chairs.

Kids love to play in the sandbox. They will be delighted by colorful borders made from bottles or wood scraps. The sandbox can be given an interesting shape and protected from sunlight. One of the options with a slide is shown in the photo below.

Another creative one country idea- wooden house. If the guys get a small house at their disposal, especially furnished, there will be no end to the delight. They themselves will dream up how to decorate it.

Design of flower beds and flower beds

When breaking down, you should consider the selection of colors. On each of them you need to identify 3-4 main types of plants; this idea will allow you to paint the flowerbed, giving it an interesting look.

Adding ornamental grasses and plants with beautiful leaves will decorate the flowerbed not only in combination with flowers, but also during the non-blooming period. It is important to know when to stop and not to plant flower beds with too many types of flowers.

One the right choice there will be few flowers. Flower beds and flower beds need to be decorated. Old tires, beehives, a cart, a wheelbarrow, even a car body will come in handy. It is important to think about their placement and do everything harmoniously. Carved figures of bees, butterflies, and stuffed animals will also fit in.

Enclosing the flower beds with low fences, made in the author’s version, will only add originality to the dacha area.

How to design a fence at the dacha?

The idea is to surround your plot not just with a fence, but to come up with a kind of individual business card will allow you to avoid the banality of ordinary wooden or iron fencing. If no other option works out, you can even apply your imagination to them.

Decorative items to create interesting and unique design There may be attached flower pots, catchy crafts, or decorated decorations on the surface of the fence.

The creative imagination will come up with ways to use old rubber boots and discs to give the fence an effect.

Plants climbing along the fence will also create their own charm. You can buy ornamental plants with fast growth. If you plant vines that grow slowly, you won’t have to regret it either - they look more colorful. And the best choice would be wild grapes.

The ability of the leaves to change color allows it to remain beautiful until the winter cold. A good idea would be to move the grapes from the fence to. Lovers of ancient views will really like it.

Country fence not very good high altitude can be decorated with a variety of shrubs with beautiful flowers. It is advisable to choose them so that there is a variety of colors over time.

And in the dark, any fence will be enlivened by lanterns. Ideas at hand will prompt their implementation from painted glass jars with candles inside or something similar.

Arranging a relaxation area

Adults also want to have a cozy place in their summer cottage to enjoy fresh air about complete. This means that it is necessary to think about the arrangement of a recreation area. The choice of elements for it will be dictated by the tastes of the owners.

You can choose from the following options:

Shady area with table and chairs.

Constructed from surplus building materials. Hidden in the shade of trees or climbing plants, brightly colored, equipped with soft cushions on the benches, it will allow you to forget about the hustle and bustle of city life.

A barbecue will most likely be required. The most in a simple way will have four walls and a bottom. Connect them by inserting the ends into the cuts made by the grinder, without using bolts and nuts. Such collapsible grill Made of metal, it is very easy to assemble and disassemble.

A swing or will allow adults to relax and even take a nap, this country house idea is simply a must for every area in summer time of the year. It is better for them to make a wider swing than for children. The hammock can be hung from trees.

Setting up a pond on your own is not difficult. Draw a contour according to the chosen shape, dig a pit along it, cover it with 10 cm of sand, and fill the pond with water. All that remains is to decorate the area around it as you wish.

When designing a summer cottage, follow the proverb “The eyes are afraid, but the hands do!” Feel free to trust your imagination. Everyone will love turning creative ideas into reality with their own hands.

Photo selection of new ideas for a summer residence