A garden plot and a summer residence for many modern city dwellers, regardless of their age, are often the only way to plunge into a quiet village life and enjoy the tranquility in the lap of nature. It is so pleasant to sit in a wicker chair on your summer cottage on a warm morning, enjoy aromatic invigorating coffee and think over the next ideas for a summer cottage design. After all, a summer cottage is not only a great opportunity to spend time with your family in the fresh air, but also to do something with your own hands and surprise your neighbors.
From idea to action
Women love to create coziness, introducing something new, embodying original country ideas. Of course, men will create the plans of the beautiful halves with their own hands. You can go to a specialty store and purchase something for street design. But the prices of the goods offered are high. And if accessible materials come across, they will end up in every neighboring cottage. But you want individuality in everything.
In this case, you should think about how you can independently change the usual landscape design of a summer cottage. Ideas can be different, the main thing is to have a desire and, at a minimum, resources. Materials that must be disposed of can be used to create something unique, and the resulting creations will surely amaze you with their simplicity and cheapness. Indeed, from which something unique can be made, practically lies under your feet. Even the old wheel from the cart can start a new life in the country, turning into an amazing flower garden, created with love by the hands of households.
The second life of car tires
So, how to make your favorite summer cottage look creative? How to surprise the neighbors? You should think about with what materials a country masterpiece will be created. For example, car tires after the end of their service life can get a second life in the hands of summer residents. This is a wonderful material for the implementation of country ideas. Good tires for differentiating country zones and flower beds are made from tires. Craftsmen-dreamers make birds, turtles, animals. A lot of ideas for creating furniture from tires, these are tables for tea drinking, and chairs.
Small cottages, on which you want to place a lot of things, require non-standard solutions. The way out of this situation can be found in the multilevel use of tires for growing vegetables and berries. Tires laid out on top of each other resemble cones or pyramids with rounded edges. They look impressive, but simple to manufacture.
Old tire pond (tires)
You can create a neat, picturesque pond from an old large-diameter tire. The work is simple and interesting. In stages, it will look like this:
- Electric jigsaw need to cut off the top of the tire.
- Dig a hole in the ground to install a prepared tire in it. The depth of the pit should be 2/3 of the height of the tire so that the pond has a side, and during rain the ground in which the tire is buried does not fall into the pond.
- Line the bottom with a large oilcloth so that it covers the recess and extends beyond the tire.
- The edges of the oilcloth should be bent under the outside of the tire and decorated with stones.
You can install a pump in the resulting pond and create a small geyser fountain. And this will be the next idea of a country landscape design.
The video "How to make a pond with your own hands" clearly shows how to implement the idea of creating a pond.
For children and grandchildren
If the family has children, you can create for them in the country a bright sandbox from the largest tire. Easily made from small tires dug in the ground, a caterpillar tunnel. It can be painted with bright colors and glued to the upper part of the eye.
If there are plastic barrels in the country, they can be turned into funny animals or fairy-tale gnomes, painted with paints. And if you want to create a curly lamb for a child, it is appropriate to use construction foam - an excellent material for translating country ideas into sculptures. Polymer clay, gypsum and even cement will help to realize the most daring ideas. As soon as you start creating your creation, it will become clear that nothing is impossible. Especially if you do it for children.
Get into another dimension
With a little imagination, you can make a fairy-tale portal of stones for children. To do this, you need to make a frame from a rod. Holes need to be drilled in the stones so that they can be strung on a rod. The stones must be glued together to ensure the strength of the structure.
Plastic bottles
Another material for creating an unusual design in the country is plastic bottles. What can you do with your own hands from this almost free material? There are enough options. These include: decorating the cottage with hanging flower pots, borders for flower beds, an exotic oasis with palm trees, birds, mosaics from bottle caps, as well as furniture.
Plastic bottles are used in cottage decor in the form of a stockade around flower beds with herbs or herbs. To do this, pour sand into the bottles, close the lid.
Due to the sand, the bottles will become hard. It is necessary to dig a groove around the flowerbed, to put all the bottles with their neck down. To make the flowerbed look pretty, the picket fence should be painted in bright colors.
From bottles you can make greenhouses to give, however, for them you need to have a sufficient number of them. But if you set a goal, this idea can be implemented.
Decoration of a place of rest
In the country there is always a place where you just want to sit, relax, have a cup of coffee. Of course, this corner should be attractive. Not bad, if you justify it near the do-it-yourself pond. And the next country idea is as follows. There is such a beautiful tree - willow. Using its branches, you can equip a place of rest in the form of a lively gazebo. Even in winter, such a gazebo does not lose its charm, not to mention the time when the whole family is resting in the country.
Such a gazebo is a real treat for the eyes. Willow grows rapidly, so it will need to be pruned, its branches formed, creating an original shape. In the same way, you can create a fence of a summer cottage in places where the border with neighboring summer cottages passes. This fence will create a protected area with a good microclimate for planting.
If there are beehives in the summer cottage, catkins blooming in the willows in early spring will be an excellent treat for bees and other pollinating insects, and leaves that fell from the willow in the autumn will improve the humus composition and soil structure. That’s how much use it is to implement a design idea in a summer cottage as a willow arbor.
Stones in the design of the cottage
Unusual decoration of the country house will be rounded cobblestones painted in the form of ladybirds and snails. Another idea is the use of concrete blocks, popularly called concrete. They can be laid out one on one in random order, and in the voids to plant flowers.
Alpine slides are still welcome and often found design projects in summer cottages. For those who were going to make a similar construction for the first time on a summer cottage, the main thing is to stock up on large and small stones, gravel, stone chips and, of course, inspiration.
This idea can be realized in the form of a rocky cliff - with a minimum of plants planted in the niches of large boulders, or a mountain slope - a high complex composition constructed from stones of different sizes and decorated with creeping and stunted plants.