Original landscape decorations are always very expensive if you buy them in stores or order them from craftsmen. By showing your imagination and putting in a little work, you can make unique decor yourself. It won't cost a penny. Moreover, you will finally get rid of unnecessary things and dispose of leftover building materials after renovation. All in your hands. If they are gold, then even trash will turn into charming and completely functional country decorations. Give your junk a wonderful new life!
You can start with the simplest thing - crafts from old things that have served their purpose. Surely everyone at their dacha has a lot of items about which they say: “There is no need to store it, but it’s a pity to throw it away.” These can be various containers - buckets, watering cans, rusty barrels, as well as children's toys, old clothes, shoes, furniture. Each of these things can become cute landscape decoration and “work in a new specialty” for at least one, or even several seasons.
The easiest way is to make flower beds from trash. Let's look at a few ideas.
For example, a small flower pot made from a children's ball. All you need is an old ball, a tool that will be convenient for cutting it, and a little patience.
To make such a pot, you just need to wash the rubber ball, carefully cut it in the middle and make small holes in the “bottom” of the new container. Option - do not make holes in the ball, but use it as a stand-pallet for a small flower pot
The second option is flower beds in old containers. For small flower beds, aluminum and plastic basins and watering cans are useful. If you find a barrel, it is a real treasure. You can make a funny figurine out of it. In addition to the barrel itself, you will need paints and brushes.
This non-trivial decoration is very easy to make. old barrel you need to clean off the rust, paint, paint, fill with soil, plant flowers in it. All!
Another option for designing a container is fabric or burlap. Basins and barrels do not need to be painted, but covered with old fabric. If it is monochromatic, then a funny pattern would be appropriate.
These figures are made from ordinary barrels covered with burlap. The container is simply “placed” in a bag of a suitable size, the canvas is pulled and secured. It looks like a tall pot. To bring it to life, just paint a face and put a “belt” made of old rope on the figurine
Stands for flowerpots can be made from old furniture– chairs with backs, small armchairs or regular stools.
Thus, a chair with a back gives plenty of room for imagination. It can be used as a stand for climbing plants or flowerpots. To do this, a hole of the required diameter is cut in the seat, the “frame” and back are painted, and a homemade or ready-made flowerpot is installed
The seat can be replaced with geotextiles, where soil can be poured and mosses and climbing plants can be planted. Long stems will braid and hide the back and legs. The result is an interesting floral decoration that can be placed in a gazebo, next to a pond or in the middle of a broken flower bed. In the same way, you can use the headboard from an old bed or other similar object.
Unnecessary clothes and shoes can also be used as flower pots. All you have to do is sew the legs of old jeans, fill them with soil and hang them up - you’ve got a ready-made flower garden. True, it will not last long, but it will be useful. An excellent garden decoration would be a “flower pot” made from an old sneaker or boot.
Torn sneakers don’t have to go to the landfill. Fill them with soil and plant bright flowers. They will please the eye all season long
Use old clothes For ! Stuffed animals have not been used to scare away birds for a long time, but they may well become the highlight of the landscape. To create such a figurine, you will need pants, a shirt, any headdress, a small packing bag or pillowcase, stuffing material, and sewing supplies. The frame can be made from two bars - long and short.
On a long bar you need to fill a short one at a height of 1.7 m (you will get something like a cross). A white packaging bag or pillowcase should be filled with straw or nitron and shaped into a ball. This will be the head of the scarecrow. She is impaled on the top of the pole.
All that remains is to attach it and paint it with markers to make a face. Hair can be made from ropes or straw. Now all that remains is to “dress” the stuffed animal in a shirt and pants, pin them together with pins and stuff them with stuffing. On the head - a hat.
If not suitable materials to create scarecrow hair, you can use regular plastic bags. They are simply cut into strips and attached to the fabric head with sewing pins
To complete the look, you can make a scarecrow “hands” from old gloves or mittens. If a stuffed animal is made not just with decorative purposes, and to combat birds pecking at the crop, you can add a “scare effect” by attaching old CDs to the hands of the figure. When the wind blows, they will rotate, shine and drive away birds.
The video presents the best decorative stuffed animals that can only be found on the Internet. Perhaps you will be inspired by the ideas of their creators:
How to make a pond from an unnecessary bathtub?
All or almost all summer residents dream of having a pond on their property. Even the smallest artificial pond seems like an oasis of coolness in the summer heat. You can buy a ready-made container at a specialized store, or you can use old bath, remaining after repair. By ennobling her natural stone and by planting greenery around the pond, you will create a real masterpiece.
If you simply bury the bathtub in the ground and decorate it with flowers, it will look relatively nice, but will not cause delight. But if you collect the stones left after constructing a well or pit, and line unnecessary plumbing fixtures with them, you can simultaneously get rid of the bathtub, not remove the stones from the site, and at the same time get luxurious landscape decor. As a binding material for laying stone, you can use a cement frost-resistant mixture for outdoor work.
Work order:
- You need to dig a hole the size of the bathtub, install plumbing and cement it.
- When the cement platform with the container is ready, a decorative stone slide is laid.
- The remaining stones are placed around the makeshift pond and cemented.
- When the cement dries, water is filled into the bath or left empty to collect rainwater.
After all, the area around the stone pond is decorated with vegetation, flowers, benches are installed, or left in its original form.
The finished pond retains the shape of the bathtub. If desired, it can be modeled using stones. It is best to choose a shape that will allow you to conveniently clean the pond from debris and dirt.
Swan flowerpot made of bottle and putty
Near the stone pond you can place a pair of wonderful swans, for the production of which you will need construction waste and two 5-liter plastic bottles.
The frame for the swan's body will be a cut square bottle, which is filled to make it heavier. cement-sand mortar or any other filler. The neck is made of a metal rod. It is bent in the shape of a number 2, inserted into the neck of the bottle and secured.
The neck is one of the most difficult parts. To securely secure the rod, you can use tile adhesive. And to properly finish the neck with putty, a regular medical bandage will be useful. It is wetted and wrapped around each new layer, pressing it to the base
Pieces of mesh, cut to the shape of the wings, are attached to the bottle. The finished frame is finished with putty. The most difficult thing is to form the neck and head from putty; you will have to be patient so that they turn out beautiful and smooth.
The tail is made from a piece of the same mesh and putty. When the craft is completely dry, it needs to be sanded sandpaper and paint, and take the weighting material out of the bottle to create a depression.
A swan figurine is not a simple decoration for a garden or artificial pond. You can plant plants with a shallow root system in it. The result will be a beautiful flowerpot, ideal for installation near a stone pond from a bathtub
What can be made from construction waste?
After the renovation is completed, there is always a lot of different waste left. Almost all of them can be used for landscaping the site. Even construction waste is not useless.
For example, from tiles removed from the wall in the kitchen or bathroom, you can lay out beautiful garden paths or curbs. Used drywall or plastic is quite suitable for creating useful and aesthetic crafts.
Option #1 – drywall and plywood
Drywall, plywood, OSB boards are universal materials. Cutting them into pieces the right size and fastened with a mounting profile, you can create amazingly beautiful flowerpots, arrange them, make useful things for decorating a gazebo, durable ones.
This charming little cow is made of plasterboard. To make it, you just need to form a square flowerpot from plasterboard, attach a muzzle, paint it and install it on the legs of an old stool
Option #2 – tin and stainless steel
You can create a mass from tin and stainless steel interesting crafts. Pieces of material are suitable for making garden lamps, ashtrays, urns, hanging containers for seedlings or flowers. They will even use cans from paints and adhesives.
You can see what a lamp made from a jar looks like in the video:
Option #3 – lumber
Anything will do on the farm, especially if that “everything” is leftover lumber. Timber, slats, boards are perfect for creating containers, boxes, shelves, racks, systems vertical gardening, stands.
Previously used parquet board can become a charming horse container if you add a funny horse face and a mane of twigs. The figurine can be painted or varnished
Option #4 – thermal insulation materials
Remains of foil insulation are useful when creating. They can be used to decorate the outside of sculptures. The foil surface reflects beautifully in the sun and makes the craft stand out against the background of the garden. However, there may be a more practical application for insulation - thermal insulation of greenhouses and utility rooms.
The video below shows ideas for crafts made from foil or foil insulation:
Option #5 – battle and remaining bricks
Brick and building blocks can be used even if they are split. These are ideal materials for the construction of fences, borders, and flower beds.
Fairytale castles and columns and lamps will look great in the garden. Brick can be used to lay the foundations for durable table, benches in the gazebo.
Brick can be used for zoning the territory of the site. A fence separates flower beds from garden plants to accentuate decor
Even more decor ideas: video examples
Human imagination is limitless, and many summer residents have learned to usefully use the most unnecessary, at first glance, materials. Check out their experience:
Has junk accumulated in your apartment? Don't leave it alone square meters, take it to the dacha! Bottles, tiles, old pants, construction waste, waste - there is a place for everything here.
Bulk materials will become wonderful sculptures, and bottles will become real palaces. Even garden decor It will only last one season, you will be pleased to look at it. If he lives longer, you will have a reason to be proud of your golden hands. Don't miss this chance!
Every time we throw something old and seemingly no longer needed into a landfill, we cannot shake the feeling that we are doing it in vain. They say that people differ from animals in having imagination. I suggest you dream a little, rummage through attics, closets and sheds, and breathe new life into old things.
The first thing that comes to mind is our favorite flower beds. It’s almost impossible to imagine a dacha without a flower garden! Correct classic flower beds already seem boring and uninteresting? Let's make them bright and unusual.
Flowers in boots
Tired or slightly damaged rubber boots, Crocs from which children's feet have grown, and even worn-out shoes can turn into a wonderful container for flowers.
Rubber boots are ideal as a potty. They will not suffer from frequent watering and will retain their original appearance even several years after use. And the bright and unusual color in combination with green foliage and colorful flowers will look just wonderful.
No less original in quality garden pot bright children's crocs will look like...
...or gardening boots.
Flower garden in a chair
An old, outdated chair or armchair can easily be turned into a beautiful and bright mini-flower garden. It is enough to work a little, so that the chair does not look like trash, replace the seat flower pot, any other suitable container or geotextile, fill them with nutritious soil and plant any plants with a shallow root system. A few will add a special charm climbing plants when they wrap around the legs and back of the chair.
Ladder for flowers
It's interesting to try to breathe new life into an old, unnecessary staircase. You probably have one of these lying around in your closet or garage. Strict geometric shape wooden stairs It will contrast favorably with the green plants chaotically suspended on it.
And by placing horizontal shelves on stepladder steps pre-painted in a bright color, you can get a wonderful rack for flower pots.
For decoration garden plot Almost any will do useless thing, be it a watering can, a clay pot, a teapot or old fence. A little imagination, a little creativity and some free time will turn your site into the most comfortable and unique in the world.
Anyone can plant flower beds on their own property or just near the entrance. To do this, it is not necessary to go to the store, buy quite expensive garden decorations. With a little imagination and in capable hands You can create flower beds from any things that have fallen into disrepair.
Making an original flowerbed from old and unnecessary things photo
Flower beds made from old tires
Using leaky tires to plant flowers is perhaps the most common way to set up flower beds. You can just paint the tires multi-colored paints, randomly placing them around the site, or you can create a small pyramid-flower bed. To create the greatest effect, tires should be taken different sizes.
A simple DIY tire flowerbed 
Flowerbed-swan from a car tire
In addition to the usual round flower beds, if desired, you can make a flower with bent petals from tires, the core of which will contain fresh flowers, you can make a bird, snails, or a crocodile.
We decorate flower beds with figures made from tires
Flowerbed from a car
If you have an old one and absolutely not the right car, you can use it to make a custom flowerbed for your garden. Here detailed instructions“how to make a flowerbed from an old car,” where the whole process is described in detail. Here are ideas for inspiration that you could implement at your dacha or in country house:
Original flower bed from an old car 
Flowerbed from a car 
Flowerbed from a car 
Flowers in the car 
Car with flowers
Flowerbeds from an old sink, bathtub or toilet
An old bathtub can easily be used to create a small pond on your property. To do this, you should first dig a hole the size of the bathtub and dig it into the ground. You can grow aquatic plants in a pond.
Flowerbed from the bathroom photo
If you don't want to bury anything, place the bathtub in the center of the area, paint it brightly and plant it with colorful flowers. You can take not only upright plants, but also creeping plants that will hang beautifully along the edges. The same fate awaits an old sink or toilet. Believe me, your guests will be delighted with your creativity.
Shell flower bed photo 
Flowerbed from a toilet photo
Flower beds made from old shoes and clothes
Do not rush to throw away shoes that are leaky or simply out of fashion. In women's dress shoes high heels Low-growing flowers, such as daisies, look great; shoes can be placed on small elevations (for example, stumps) throughout the area.
Miniature flower bed made of women's shoes
Brutal men's boots, ankle boots or boots with laces will look good at the dacha in an ethnic style, and the older and scarier the boots, the greater the contrast with beautiful flowers You'll get. Attach your shoes to the fence wooden wall at home or in a barn, place pots of petunia, begonia, and marigolds inside.
Rubber shoes of different sizes and colors can be hung in a row on wooden fence, a prerequisite is that the flowers in the boots must also be different.
Small flower bed made from old shoes 
Flowerbed of shoes 
Flowerbed of rubber boots 
Hanging club
If you don't want to scatter your shoes all over the place, you can collect old shoes, sandals and boots together, place them on an old bench or shelf, and paint them in contrasting colors. The more different the shoes are from each other, the better the effect.
Flowerbed of shoes on a bench photo
Hang an old hat upside down, plant a climbing plant in it, and you have a stunning vase. An old leather bag hung by the handles also looks great with flowers inside.
Flowerbed from an old woman's bag
Flower beds made from old furniture and equipment
The use of old furniture for setting up flower beds is limited only by your imagination and the size of the dacha.
Old beds with metal or wooden slatted headboards look unusual; you can build a large flower garden on them, all the plants will be in one place and play a major role in decorating the area.
DIY funny flower bed from an old bedside table 
Flowerbed from a chest of drawers 
Flowerbed from a bed 
Flowerbed bed photo
Flowerbeds of chairs and benches
Old wooden benches or benches will serve as an excellent stand for colorful flower pots.
Colorful climbing plants can be grown in old wooden chairs. For these purposes, you should remove the seat and place a large pot of soil inside (round or square - see for yourself). Plants will fill not only the space above the seat, but also climb along the back and legs of the chair, forming a colorful carpet. Another option is to hang the chair with its legs up, securing it to the wall of the shed. This way you may end up with one or two shelves for climbing plants, depending on the design of the chair.
Flowerbed from a bench photo 
Making a flowerbed from a chair 
Flowerbed on a bench 
Flowerbed from a chair photo
Musical flowerbed in the piano
An old piano looks very original, with pots of flowers nestled under its lid.
Old chests of drawers and cabinets will find a second life on your site. Pull the boxes halfway out and place potted plants in them or plant them directly inside. The same thing awaits speakers, a typewriter, an old stereo system, and a computer keyboard.
Making a flowerbed from an old piano with a waterfall 
Flowerbed made from a typewriter photo
Flowers in old buckets, basins, barrels and watering cans
Old watering cans, buckets and barrels, painted in bright colors and planted with plants, look very organic at the dacha.
DIY flowerbed from an old basin 
How to make a flowerbed from a barrel photo
Flowers on wheels: a flowerbed made from a cart, wheelbarrow and bicycle
Flowerbed from an old wheelbarrow or cart
Using old carts to decorate your garden has long been a classic. In combination with a wicker fence and clay pots, they will give the garden a Russian flavor.
Flower bed from a cart 
Flowerbed from a wheelbarrow 
Flowerbed from a cart 
Red flowerbed-cart
To create more modern style A bicycle will do. Place baskets of flowers on the trunk, seat and steering wheel, and your dacha will look a la Provence.
Flowerbed Provence 
Flowerbed made from a bicycle 
Bike flower bed 
Bicycle with basket
Flower garden from bottles
Not only plastic bottles are suitable for decorating a dacha; craftsmen cut out all kinds of animals from them. Glass bottles arranged in a circle in several rows will create a unique flowerbed, the main thing is to secure them tightly together. It’s easier to bury the bottles halfway into the ground with their necks down; with their help, you can fence off an area for flowers of any shape.
Flowerbed from glass bottles do it yourself photo 
Bottle figurines for flower beds 
Bottle palms for flower beds 
Bottle flower bed fencing 
Flower bed made of plastic bottles
The ideas for creating flower beds are endless. Look at your site with a new look, show your imagination, and you will succeed.
Flowerbed swan 
Flowerbed of old things 
From old pipe
Wicker flower bed
If you have old things that are lying around without any use, do not rush to part with them. They can be used to create DIY crafts that will decorate the interior of your summer cottage.
An old suitcase will make a wonderful table that can be placed near your bed or sofa. You can also make an unusual chair from this item. To do this, you need to use two open halves of the suitcase. For the ottoman you will only need one part of the item.
We attach a seat frame to the surface of the suitcase, add foam filling and decorate it with fabric upholstery. We make legs, and unusual item interior ready for use.
An unwanted suitcase can become a pet's favorite place in the form of a crib. Place the mattress in it; the cover should be removable.
You can make it out of an old suitcase small lockers for the kitchen or bathroom, as well as make shelves for dishes or books and a lot of other country furniture with your own hands.
In order for a pond to appear on your site, it will be useful for this old bath or pelvis. Prepare the chain-link, pebbles, cement, wire and crushed stone.
Dig a small hole; it should be 40 cm deeper than the edge of the bathtub. Process the edges of the hole. Close the bathtub drain and place it in the hole.
Lay reinforced chain-link over the entire surface near the bathtub. Apply cement mortar to it. Decorate the cement with pebbles, tiles or gravel. Pour water into the bath, your pond is ready.
Old cutlery is suitable for decoration and transformation country interior. Forks and spoons will serve as hooks for bags and clothes.
Fork hangers for the cottage Bend the items and attach them to wooden surface or against the wall.
forks and spoons as furniture handles 
cutlery candlesticks 
Chandelier decor with forks and spoons 
Flower beds made from old shoes
DIY flower beds made from old shoes 
Don't rush to throw away your old shoes. Boots and boots will play the role of a flower bed. Hang these items on the fence, place them on the veranda and steps, and plant plants in them.
A failed chair will turn out to be an original flowerbed, which can be moved from place to place.
Do-it-yourself flower beds using improvised materials are a great way to landscape your site, making it an expressive and amazing element of landscape design.
An unusual idea for a flowerbed in the form of a stream from an old vase.
You can turn an old cage into such a flowerpot. To do this, simply fill it with soil, plant hanging flowers - their shoots will look beautiful, entwining the thin metal bars of the cage. 
Old galoshes can also come in handy if you decide to creatively decorate your yard. 
I was surprised by the idea of a flower garden made from painted plastic bottles. 
I’m also delighted by the flower garden in the shape of a butterfly. To create such a flower bed you will need thick waste wire from which you can make a frame. Soil is poured into it and plants are planted. 
An old barrel should not be thrown away! It is ideal for creating flower arrangements, the main thing is to show your imagination. You can cut the barrel in half or lengthwise, and pour soil into the resulting parts. Even if you just put it up and plant it with bright flowers, it will look impressive. 
A flowerbed in a log looks very stylish. In order to have enough space for flowers, you will need a log large diameter- 50 cm or more. There is also an economical version of such a flower bed, when wooden box they are sheathed along the length with a slab, and two cuts of logs are glued to the ends of the box. 
From plastic PVC pipes can be done vertical flower bed. The depth of such clubs is quite small. Only plants with a shallow root system will feel good here: purslane, succulents. But where will the excess water drain? If you make holes at the bottom, then dirty water will stain the wall. You can make an irrigation system with tubes for drip irrigation each module or it’s easier to do it - use a design like a flowerpot for cups with small flowers. 
The original version of a garden container for flowers is obtained using soft forms, such as a bag. We fill the original pot with something heavy and press it into a plastic bag filled with a solution. When the mold hardens, put a bag moistened with liquid over it. cement mortar, wrap the edges of the bag inward and coat it with the solution. Important detail- rope tie. 
In the garage of any car enthusiast there will definitely be a couple of tires that have served their purpose. The “lazy” option for a flower bed made of tires with your own hands is to choose a place that is level, lay the tire, fill it with fertile soil and plant flowers inside. And to add attractiveness to the flower bed, you can paint it in the color you like, because tires hold paint perfectly! 
Or you can use a broken bicycle and place containers with plants on it, firmly securing them to the handlebars and trunk. It is better to choose climbing petunias. 
An excellent option not only for the garden, but also for the home. A plastic cup and three old CDs - and you have a miniature flowerpot ready for your desktop or kitchen. 
The use of old furniture for planting flowers is limited only by your imagination and the size of the dacha. Old beds with metal or wooden slatted headboards look unusual; you can build a large flower garden on them, all the plants will be in one place and play a major role in decorating the area. Well, I really like the flowerbed from an old bedside table, which was created by my mother’s friend, Aunt Rose. 
A musical flowerbed in a piano is my dream! 
Plastic bottles surround us everywhere. We throw them out every day, but who said we can’t use them in the country! From big plastic bottle and plaster can be used to make a swan or another garden figurine. Looks quite unusual, doesn't it? 
There are a huge number of ideas of what can be made from pallets, but the option of a flower garden and at the same time a doghouse looks unexpected. The pallets need to be carefully sanded, protruding nails should be drowned and painted so that your beloved pet does not get hurt on the untreated surface. 
Another one interesting idea using plastic bottles. 
A vertical flowerbed is a magnificent decoration for a country house! 
And one more idea that I will definitely implement on my own summer cottage, - chest with flower treasures. Amazing magnificence! 
