When there is little land and a lot of imagination: interesting ideas for a summer residence

How FORUMHOUSE members decorate their sites: flower beds, garden decor and an original barbecue palace

On the eve of the new summer cottage season, we offer garden design lovers a selection of ideas for improving the site. Our craftsmen manage to turn the standard six acres into a piece of paradise. Without spending cosmic sums on professional design and decor. We show that you can be creative with minimal investment, if you wish.

Eclecticism in a simple way

rokdana

Participant FORUMHOUSE

I have a dacha in the Yaroslavl region, the usual 6 acres, there is a greenhouse, a vegetable garden, lawns, and also flowers. I believe that the main thing is not quantity, but quality, in a small area you can grow a sufficient amount of vegetables with proper care. You can really do a lot with your own hands, here are several options for the improvement of different areas in the garden.

Tracks do not have to be regular.

An original flower bed is obtained from an old machine.

Small but effective accents.

Stones are always good.

Flowerpots and even vegetable crops also help diversify the design.

Spring in the garden.

The vegetable garden is perfectly adjacent to flower beds.

There are never too many flowers.

Naturally, nothing grows by itself.

rokdana

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Among our gardening, few have a garden and flowers. Potatoes everywhere, etc. All 6 acres are plowed up. They walk past my site and say all the time: what are all the flowers and lawns, potbelly stove, sit and rest all summer, and so on. But in fact, in order for the garden to look like this, you have to work from morning to evening. Taking care of flowers is much more difficult than taking care of tomatoes. It is much more pleasant for me to grow an unusual-colored rose than to collect a bucket of cucumbers from one lash. But my garden is in perfect order, I have everything. I harvest good, albeit from a small area. For example, I never plant carrots in a whole ridge. I plant it along the edges of the beds with tomatoes and peppers, cabbage. The same goes for beets. Onions and garlic in strawberries, cabbage. Zucchini and pumpkins in barrels and garbage. I make mixed vegetable beds, and even plant flowers there. Nice and takes up little space, but everything is there!

Bamboo fountain, stream with diode lighting

Although against the background of a log house, picket fence and raspberries, lovingly covered with slate, oriental motifs cause dissonance, if the soul asks, why not.

Alexander159 asked for an original bamboo fountain - two weeks and it's done.

Alexander159

FORUMHOUSE member

In the water, a mini-pump delivers water to the upper barrel, from which the water flow diverges to the wheel and another barrel, then another barrel and a rocker, it is filled, and then overturns. Here you need a mathematical calculation of the water flow rate at the corner of the tube and the required distance of water falling. The rocker pours water every 12 seconds, the wheel rotates non-stop.And in the evening, how everything looks, in each barrel, of a different color, an LED is hidden, a battery is powered, and even an LED is in the rocker. And the rocker makes such a sound when it is full, overturns, returning, hitting bamboo and bamboo. The whole structure is glued with epoxy, therefore it is not separable, I will hope that the LEDs will last a long time.

Although bamboo is heavy to work with, the set of tools for making a fountain is minimal:

• hacksaw;
• drill with a victorious drill for wood;
• a clerical knife, preferably two, because they break;
• round file for finishing holes.

From materials, bamboo itself, epoxy glue and yacht varnish (for every fireman). The holes should not be drilled to the end, the remaining thin layer is cut off with a knife and processed with a file.

And I also managed to persuade my mother-in-law to make a waterfall, a stream and a bridge instead of an ordinary flower garden.

Original braziers

At first glance, this castle can be mistaken for a children's house, but in fact - such an exclusive barbecue.

slipetro

FORUMHOUSE member

I represent the artistic version of the barbecue stove. Graduated this week. The chimney is sufficient, the draft will be. The brazier is placed inside. Firewood or coals are stored in the lower compartment. I thought I would build it quickly, in three weeks, but it took three months. Not every day of course. Now the weather, now the business, etc.

Used materials:

• Cement M500 (15 bags);
• Sand (proportions 1: 1);
• Steel reinforcement;
• Metal grid;
• Fiberglass;
• Primer;
• Alkyd paint;
• Alkyd varnish;
• Insulated wire.

The height of the barbecue is about three meters, the weight is about 1600 kg.

At first slipetro drew a sketch with a pencil, then welded a power frame from reinforcement, covered it with a mesh, applied a power layer of concrete (with fiber). Then he applied a layer of decorative concrete (without fiber), until it hardened, formed a relief according to the sketch. Then I fixed the pre-cast decorative elements. "Stem", painted wire, in flowers and leaves (78 pieces), when pouring, laid the wire for reinforcement and to fasten it was convenient. The decor is collected first on the stem, and the stem is already dowels to the palace. The structure is also mobile and can be easily moved around the site.

And one more exclusive "cover" for the barbecue using the same technology.

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