Ideas for a do-it-yourself dacha (photo) from unnecessary things: landscape ideas, step-by-step photos

Usually, a lot of unnecessary things are brought to the dacha, which sometimes simply gather dust in the attic or take up space in the house and barn. What if you give them a second life and come up with an unusual use?

More and more people are thinking about how to reuse something. And not only for savings, but also to preserve the environment. At home, we are often limited in the use of unnecessary items. But at the dacha there is more space, and the range of tasks is much wider.

Basically, old things are used to decorate the site, create original flower beds, we will share such ideas with you. But there are still many garden jobs for which unnecessary things will do. So, let's find out how you can reuse 20 ordinary things in your garden.

Basins

Have you long dreamed of a small country pond? Look, maybe you have a worn out rusty basin lying around! First, paint the inside of it black to increase the reflectivity. Then dig a hole, concrete the bottom of the basin, and fill the voids between it and the soil with clay. It is advisable to choose a place for the pond in the shade to avoid excessive blooming of the water. And don’t forget to decorate the composition with pebbles, shells and aquatic plants.

A simpler option: place the basin near the house or dig it along the garden path.

It is worth making such a pond from an old bathtub, but it will require more time and effort.

Chairs

If it’s a pity to throw away broken, shabby chairs, give them a second life. Cut off the legs, reinforce the bottom with a board, attach strong ropes or chains - the swing for the playground is ready! Cut off stems can be used as stakes for staking plants or as a base for a small greenhouse.

And you can easily make a garden bench out of several old chairs. For a detailed master class, see the link.

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Beds

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We tell you how to give a second life to old furniture.

Make a cute garden bench out of an unwanted or broken bed! It will become a decoration for your site and a favorite place for communication.

The mattress trellis can be easily adapted as a support for climbing plants. You can also make a flowerbed out of an old bed by planting low-growing flowers on it. Or make a fence for garden beds from a wooden frame.

Decoration of flower beds

For amateur flower growers, this question is always relevant. After all, if a rock garden, formed within 1 - 2 months, then only requires maintaining it in proper shape and minimal modifications, then simpler options can be modified at least every year.

Flowerbeds framed with large stones or bricks of natural color or painted with bright colors look aesthetically pleasing. The frame made of wooden saw cuts adds a touch of home comfort. A fence made from buried bicycle wheels looks original. And the tires give the flowerbed a monumental look.

Crafts for a flower bed will allow you to turn an ordinary flower garden into a fairy-tale composition, a symbolic installation, or a flower allegory.

To make them, you can use plastic bottles and mayonnaise jars - figures from them can be either an independent decoration or serve as stands or flower pots; products made from cement and concrete mixtures - openwork “filler” or frame stucco flowerpots - this is a ready-made flowerbed; frame structures, both filled with an earthen mixture for planting flowers and herbs, and serving as a stand for pots with plants.

Wooden pallets

An excellent garden bench or swing can also be made from wooden pallets, which are used for transporting goods. Some country craftsmen even make hammock chairs and cute tables for the veranda from them.

Wood crafts for the garden

No less creative crafts can be made from ordinary wood. This is a handy material that can be found at any dacha. The first thing that comes to mind is the design of the table and benches. Note that they don't have to be classic. Furniture crafts made from stumps or logs of wood can look quite interesting.

Basic but very useful crafts that can be made from wood include:

Birdhouse.
Swing.
Box for storing materials.
Fence.
Candlestick or flashlight.

It is clear that there are a lot of ideas for crafts from scrap materials for the garden, the main thing is to start and do it!

Barrels

Giving a barrel a second life is not so easy, but the result will be amazing. For example, by cutting off part of a barrel with a grinder and placing a pillow on the bottom, you can turn it into a cozy chair.

The highest class is to make a barbecue from a barrel, cutting it in half and installing it on supports. To process fish or meat, it is worth making an original smokehouse. You will need two barrels and a piece of metal pipe.

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If all this is too labor-intensive, simply plant flowers in a barrel, filling it with soil. Hanging plants will look especially beautiful: saxifrage, sedum, fuchsia, etc.

Flowerbed made from old boots

The next idea for a garden is to create or decorate a flowerbed with your own hands using unnecessary things - flowerpots made from old holey shoes, a photo and description of the creation process of which is attached.

To design a flowerbed in this way, you can use any shoes or boots that are already out of order, torn, or simply tired. For work you only need boots or shoes, paint and primer, flowers.

You need to make a pot like this:

You should first drill holes in the sole of the shoe so that moisture does not stagnate inside the improvised flower pot.
Then you need to cover the entire outside of the boot with soil. Dry.

Now you should decorate the pot. To do this, you can use acrylic paint and apply any designs. If desired, you can decorate shoes and boots with appliqué using the decoupage technique.
Afterwards, dry the resulting flower pots thoroughly.

All that remains is to correctly plant the plants in such creative flower pots. To do this you need:

Pour some sand or expanded clay onto the bottom.
Then fill the boot or shoe with soil.
Plant the flower in a flower pot and cover with soil.

Advice

! Flowers such as petunia, snapdragon, and lobelia are ideal for such pots.

One of the pots can be used to mount the lighting. This way the flowerbed will look bright even in the dark. To do this, you can insert a solar-powered flashlight into the ground inside the boot. During the day it will be filled with energy, and in the evening it will illuminate the creative flowerbed with soft light.

This design option is good for an above-ground flower bed. But there is another idea for decorating a vertical flowerbed in a dacha or a front garden fence with your own hands using unnecessary things - old shoes, rubber boots or boots, photo of the process below.

Pipes

Turn the remaining pipes into a support for cucumbers or tomatoes. To do this, fasten the fragments together and dig into the ground. The design will be stable and reliable.

Near your country house you can make a beautiful gazebo out of pipes by planting climbing flowers. By fastening several short pipes together, you get a practical gate. Use the pipes as a frame for a greenhouse or greenhouse. They also grow strawberries in pipes!

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Newspapers

Mostly, summer residents use newspapers as packaging material. But the use of the press is not limited to this. Newspaper is a suitable material for the bottom layer in raised beds. But they perform best as mulch. Place newspaper near each plant and weeds will not be able to break through it. Over time, the paper will become wet and become natural compost for the soil. To prevent newspapers from being blown away by the wind, secure them with stones or wet them with water. Don't like the way your garden beds look now? Just sprinkle them with earth or mowed grass - it will turn out more natural.

Try not to use color publications, because... the paint in them contains substances harmful to the soil.

You can also use old newspapers to make economical containers for growing seedlings.

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Design of fences and fences

What will first of all tell a passerby that this dacha belongs to a creative and extraordinary person? Of course, a fence! Boring gray or neatly painted boards can indicate little about anything other than how diligent the summer resident is.

But a mosaic panel made from bottle caps or bottoms is a completely different matter. The plot may vary. But whether it is a geometric pattern or a folk ornament, a landscape or a picture with a children's cartoon character, it will certainly cause delight and surprise.

The decor of discs sparkling in the sun looks fabulous, and the ornament of vinyl records brings back memories of childhood. A fence or enclosure can also be decorated with flowers made from disposable cups, spoons or forks - this encourages outdoor recreation and creative work.

Of course, in a dacha you can simply grow potatoes, carrots, onions, but in order not to feel like a slave working on a hacienda, you still need to decorate it at least a little. And then you can not only admire pictures from the Internet, but also show off your photos of crafts for your dacha.

System unit from a computer

It’s so nice to receive newspapers and gardening magazines directly to your plot! Why not come up with an original mailbox for this purpose? Remove all the “stuffing” from the computer system unit, clear the holes where the disk drive used to be (they will put mail there). Dig a strong stick into the ground and secure the system unit to it.

If the dacha is located in a gardening partnership or other dacha association, they will not bring you mail. Therefore, it is better to install such a box in a village or town where the postman comes.

You can also make a compact shelf out of the system unit by hanging it on the wall using self-tapping screws or dowels, and placing several boards inside.

Cutlery

Cutlery can easily be turned into wall hooks. To do this, carefully bend them and secure them to the wall with dowels. You can get creative: bend the tines of forks or decorate the scoops of spoons.

Tired of looking for your keys? Make an original key holder from old forks and spoons! Place them on a board, having previously painted it with paints or decorated it with a burnt pattern.

You can also use an old unnecessary rake as a key holder.

If the handles of your kitchen furniture break off, cutlery will come to the rescue here too. Cut them into pieces and attach them to drawers and cabinets. The kitchen will take on a vintage look.

Ladybugs in a flower bed made from old balls

Flowerbeds or a yard at the dacha can be decorated with bright and stylish ladybugs, which, according to legend, bring good luck and prosperity. You can make such beauties yourself from plaster or cement, and to make them smooth and even in shape, you can use old unnecessary balls.

Therefore, if a rubber ball that children played with has become leaky, you should not despair and throw it away; you should use your imagination and use the damaged toy for the right purposes.

In this case, a damaged ball can act as an ideal form for pouring ladybugs. To do this, you need to cut the ball exactly in half with scissors or a sharp knife, after drawing a line with a marker.

Also useful for work:

Cement and sand in a ratio of 1 to 3.
Water.
Plastic bag.
Acrylic paint in red, white and black.

Next you need to do this:

Mix sand and cement, dilute with water to a homogeneous slurry, which in consistency resembles pancake dough or sour cream.

Place half a ball in any tray and put a bag in it to make it easy to remove the workpiece.
Pour cement into the mold. For strength, add any stone to the mixture.

Leave to dry for a day. You can fill several molds at once and make a whole family of ladybugs.
When the workpiece is dry, you need to carefully remove it from the mold.
Then you should outline the muzzle, wings and spots with a pencil. First, paint the wings red and leave them to dry. Then you should paint the strip between the wings, spots and muzzle black. Paint over the eyes with white paint.

Ladybugs will decorate any flowerbed, as they are bright, cheerful and stylish.

Plastic bottles

Summer residents use plastic bottles mainly for decorating flower beds or creating mini-greenhouses. But we found another interesting idea - designing a broom for spring cleaning. This simple tool is convenient for sweeping away leaves and debris and cleaning garden paths. One panicle requires six bottles. The whole process consists of simple steps:

wash bottles, remove labels;
cut off the necks and bottoms of four bottles, cut each into 5 mm strips, starting from the bottom to the neck;
cut off the bottom of the fifth bottle, leave the neck, cut into strips, as in the previous point;
place the prepared four bottles on the fifth bottle, you should get something like a pyramid;
Cut off the top part of the sixth bottle and place it on the entire resulting structure;
secure everything with wire and install the stick.

A few more ideas from plastic bottles are waiting for you at the links below.

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Country furniture made from scrap materials

The benefits and aesthetic advantages of such crafts for landscape design are undeniable. A sofa, assembled from many plastic bottles, allows you not only to take a break from righteous labors, but also has a unique massage effect due to the bottom bulges that form the seat.

A table set made from car tires is not only an impressive piece of crafts for landscape design, but also a place for pleasant family tea parties and gatherings with friends. Tin barrels and tanks, complemented by tabletops and seats, also fit well into the picture of country life.

Nylon tights

Torn or worn tights will make convenient bags for storing garlic and onions. It is enough to hang them from the ceiling, after making a knot on one side.

Use the elastic material of tights to tie plants to supports. Just cut a fragment and twist it - the lace is ready!

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Hanging flowerpots for the garden made from old shoes

With old worn shoes or boots you can decorate a vertical flower bed or front garden fence as follows:

Carefully and carefully prepare the base of the vertical flower bed - a fence or any supports. They should be painted and dried.
Attach a board to the fence or supports with screws or clamps - the basis for the pots.
Paint the boots with acrylic paint. You can draw a picture or write any words. Rubber boots are ideal for these pots, but you can use any other.
When the boots are painted and dried, they should be attached to the base with self-tapping screws. You can screw the pots from shoes and boots randomly, some higher, others lower.

The flowerbed or decorative fence is ready. All that remains is to fill the pots with soil and plant the plants.

Cloth

Turn old clothes into scarecrows for birds! You will need two sticks, rope, straw and a little imagination. Connect the sticks crosswise, tie them and dress them in any clothes, stuffing them with filler. Then dig in the garden or garden. If desired, make a head by drawing a face on it.

You can hang a lot of unnecessary things on the scarecrow that will scare away birds, for example, cans rattling in the wind, pieces of rustling polyethylene, cheap beads, ribbons, bells, etc. Just attach them securely so that the wind does not scatter things around the area.

Books

Original flowerpot for succulents
New life for old books - a cozy haven for succulents.

Using books for other purposes may seem blasphemous. But, nevertheless, some find use for unnecessary or damaged publications and make original flower pots from them. Make such compositions for a veranda, summer kitchen or other room where books will not be damaged by rain.

To make a flowerpot, cut a deep hole in the book with a sharp tool, such as a knife or file. The plant is usually planted directly into the hole, but we recommend that you place it there in a small pot. This will make it easier to care for him. A variety of succulents are best for planting, but you can try decorating the book with another flower.