The owners of suburban acres always had the thought at least once: “How to decorate a summer cottage with your own hands? What small architectural forms should you own? How to make a summer cottage a vacation destination?”
One of the options for how to arrange a summer cottage is to install a mini-pond on its territory. It is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. Such reservoirs are usually of small diameter: 1 - 1.5 meters. Their device can be entrusted to specialized teams, but it is better and cheaper to do everything yourself.
The simplest mini-pond is a container dug in the ground and filled with water: a bathtub, a barrel, a trough. At the edge of the pond, greenery is planted, stones are laid out. Nearby it would be nice to put a bench. Everything - a quiet corner for relaxation is ready! You can make a pond more complicated: with a fountain or a waterfall. This will be a whole hydraulic engineering structure, before the construction of which it would be nice to draw up a small project and outline a budget.
A summer cottage with a house will undoubtedly be decorated with flowers. They need to be issued in beautiful flower beds,
alpine hills. As a fence for florists, improvised materials are taken, for example, unnecessary empty bottles, both glass and plastic. If you put a circle with glass neck inside out of glass bottles and put a few more circles on top, you get something like a well in the center of which you can plant flowers. The color of the bottles also plays a role. You can fold a monophonic “well” or alternate colors through a row.
Plastic bottles are used as fencing beds, just digging them around the perimeter. There are possible options: turn the bottles upside down or use the top. Bottles are usually cut off in the middle. Before you decorate the cottage area with your own hands, prepare a sufficient number of plastic bottles - material for endless ideas. The palm of them looks spectacular. Brown bottles will go to the trunk, and the leaves are best made from green containers.
Flowerbeds can be overlaid with stones, laid out brick or slate borders, from the branches to weave a fence-wattle fence.
The solution to the problem of how to decorate a summer cottage site with your own hands will be planting trees and shrubs. A hedge looks especially impressive - shrubs planted around the perimeter of the site. They will protect your possessions not only from wind and dust, but also from curious neighbor's eyes. If you decide to plant fruit trees on your country acres, then you need to choose a place quite sunny and remote from home. After all, overgrown trees can simply destroy the structure.
With the help of ordinary natural stones, you can interestingly arrange a cottage. Large stones without sharp corners are painted with paints in the form of various representatives of the fauna: snakes, ladybugs, rabbits.
Who would have thought that the most functional summer cottage area (garden), properly designed, could also be an option on how to decorate a summer cottage with your own hands! You can experiment with the shape of the beds: make them rectangular, triangular, diamond-shaped. Break a flowerbed in the center of the garden, sprinkle aisles with small gravel or sawdust. At the same time, weeds can be controlled in this way.