The beauty of interiors and adjacent areas is created not only by construction and finishing materials. They will not look so impressive if you do not complement them with decorative elements, contrasting spots and interesting shapes.
These properties are combined in decorative furniture, for the manufacture of which unusual materials are used. Furniture made from driftwood and branches is worth trying your hand at making unusual tables, chairs, armchairs and small decor.
Working with wood in its natural form requires experience and artistic vision.
Garden furniture made from branches and driftwood
A huge number of garden furniture options can be made from ordinary branches, tree roots and driftwood. Seemingly trash can turn into real masterpieces of garden decor. The cost of original works of folk craftsmen made from branches and driftwood is quite high. But, if you show your imagination, you can make similar elements of garden furniture yourself. In terms of practicality and beauty, handmade furniture will be no different from its expensive counterparts.
In order to make a beautiful bench, sofa, stand or shelf, the material must be prepared in advance. In order for garden furniture to be in the same style, it is necessary to gradually select interesting specimens of driftwood and process them.
Before you begin assembling furniture, the bark must be removed from snags and branches. The material must be thoroughly dried. In order to prevent the effects of insects and rotting processes, the wood must be treated with antiseptic and antipyretic agents.
Driftwood chair
Bench made of driftwood
The advantage of furniture made from branches is that to make them you only need the branches themselves, a screwdriver and a hacksaw. Even fragile girls can assemble the simplest furniture from branches using only twine or any other textile material.
The finished product is given the desired shade using stain and varnished. You can also use acrylic or enamel paints for coating.
Bench made of branches
A bench is an essential element of any summer cottage. Today, such structures perform many important functions: from their intended purpose to giving the garden a unique design.
Many owners of suburban areas prefer to build benches themselves, since this simple task will not take much time and money.
There are several basic materials that are used as the basis for constructing benches.
Wood
The most popular option is wood. It is believed that it is from this material that the most aesthetic designs are obtained.
Due to the universal aesthetic characteristics of the material, wooden benches fit perfectly into the landscape of any garden
It is important to consider that the benches are always in the open air. Therefore, it is necessary to choose those types of wood that are characterized by maximum resistance to atmospheric conditions.
These include: hazel, oak, cherry pine, and larch. For additional protection, the material is coated with a special varnish.
Metal
Metal is popular for the production of benches for many reasons: durability, practicality, resistance to precipitation, ease of use. As an optimal option for the garden, openwork structures with interesting patterns are most often made. As an alternative, you can stick to minimalism.
Stone
Stone benches are impressive and monumental. Main materials: granite, marble, quartzite. In some cases, rough stone is used to create a unique design, in others, stone with a smooth surface is used.
Plastic
Plastic is the most affordable, convenient option. It is considered more seasonal and budgetary than aesthetic and decorative. However, if properly designed, a plastic bench can become a garden decoration. Colorful pillows, lanterns, flowers and much more are often used for decoration.
Style for the creative
An interior containing furniture made from driftwood and branches is called rustic. Some consider it a rough, even brutal variety of country style.
The classic design features wood floors and paneling and dark beamed ceilings. All this visually reduces the size of the room, so it is rarely used for apartments. But in country houses, in the country, in a bar, sauna or as garden furniture, this is the best option. And one hundred percent exclusive that you can be proud of. Fans of everything non-standard will appreciate it. In a modern interior, such things or a wall panel with imitation of living trees claim to be conceptual.
Woodpile
How often, when walking through a forest or park, we see thick dry branches broken by the wind, snags or pieces of rhizomes. It's a shame to pass by such material. A person with imagination immediately imagines a beautiful, functional thing. Crafts made from tree branches can decorate the yard of a house or the interior of a room.
Man instinctively associates himself with nature and considers himself a part of it. Therefore, any natural material - stone, wood - brings comfort and tranquility to your home. Wood is a warm material. It absorbs moisture and creates a healthy microclimate. It’s not for nothing that in a log house you can breathe so easily and sleep well. The best bathhouse is also wooden. You can put unusual furniture made of branches in it - a bench, a hanger, stools. It smells of pine resin and birch broom. This adds vigor and strength.
What can be made from driftwood and branches? You can make pieces of furniture and decor from different parts of wood.
You can’t put furniture made from stumps in your house or on your veranda. But such an armchair or stool is well suited for a yard or summer cottage
An original solution for a table and seat made of stumps and thick branches will attract the attention of your neighbors and guests. In order to make such items, you need to have artistic taste, woodworking tools, time and patience.
The main advantage of stump furniture is the lack of materials costs. Everything can be done even without nails using a hacksaw.
Furniture made from stumps and driftwood will harmonize with the rustic style of the site. A real or decorative well made from a log house, a wattle fence made from willow twigs or a fence made from thick branches will look good.
The simplest solution is a bench made of two stumps with a thick board placed on them. You can leave it without a back, or you can equip it with a back made of sanded thick branches. It will be beautiful and unusual. This will be a combination of furniture made from branches and stumps.
Even the marks of time that inevitably appear on the tree do not spoil the appearance of garden items and look natural.
Furniture made from roots and stumps is massive and durable. From a solid tall stump you can use an ax to cut out a chair or a chair with a backrest. The root can be planted on the armrest of such a product.
The most difficult thing is to deliver the forest material to the site and load massive logs or stumps onto the truck.
Stumps are used to make stable stools. They are also sanded and varnished. You can decorate the body of the stump with carvings. The top is colorfully decorated with colored glass or flat stones. They are glued to liquid nails or epoxy resin.
Furniture made from driftwood and thick curved branches are real fairy-tale creations. Product parts are fastened together with self-tapping screws and wood glue, depending on the configuration of the items. Furniture made from branches gives room for imagination. From this material you can build something like a small gazebo. It is good to plant wild grapes near it, which will eventually entwine the tree.
The material for a garden chair, sofa or chair is cleaned of soil and dirt, the bark and top layer of the rhizome are scraped off to light wood, and impregnated with stain and varnish.
Furniture made from branches creates the feeling of openwork weaving.
The garden plot of creative owners is inhabited by fairy-tale characters - goblins or birds - products made from driftwood, gnomes made from tree roots and other forest inhabitants. Logs turn into bears, frogs - princesses and other figures.
To make furniture from branches or furniture from stumps, the wood must be well dried so that it does not rot. To protect against bark beetles, it is treated with antiseptic compounds. DIY crafts made from branches add a romantic style to the interior. You can make an exclusive thing with your own hands.
There are many varieties of such crafts. Handmade crafts from tree branches include wall decoration, various vases, figurines, candlesticks, coasters. If you want the masterpiece you made to decorate your interior for a long time, you need to choose the right material for it.
Where to get raw materials
You can find natural material in the forest, on the shore, in your own garden after pruning trees, or pulled out of the water. Depending on the location of detection, the pre-treatment of raw materials varies. Anything found on land is sanded, cleaned of rotten fragments, and rotten layers are removed down to the hard wood. What is taken out of the water is cleaned of contaminants and dried.
The jackpot is considered to be the discovery of bog oak. Furniture made from it is considered elite, and dark wood is recognized as the most durable. However, other tree species are quite resistant.
And even a stump
If a stump has formed on the site, you can use it as the center of the composition, surrounding it with logs. The main thing is that the hemp furniture has an even cut - the table and chairs will be stable. If desired, they are supplemented with backrests made of branches and pillows are placed.
You can even use an old rotten stump as a flower pot. They are placed in the rotten middle only in a pot so that the wood does not completely collapse, and if there is moss and other vegetation on the stump, this is only a plus: they will add decorativeness.
The quirkiness of roots, branches or driftwood creates endless scope for implementing the most unexpected solutions. They are fabulously beautiful and at the same time look cozy, but most importantly: they exist in a single copy.
Bench with backrest with tongue-and-groove joints
The next project is an outdoor wooden bench with a backrest. It has a fairly strict appearance and will become a functional decoration in any garden or dacha. The vertical slats of the back give the massive structure visual lightness. Shaped armrests and a curved top bar add Japanese influences to a clean, classic look. It is simply created for carefree contemplation on shady alleys, and will look even more expressive surrounded by greenery and flowers.
If in the previous two projects we talked about how to make benches using simple carpentry joints, then here we will talk about the classic tenon-socket connection. It underlies all design elements of the project. You will have to make a lot of spikes and nests, so it is advisable to think about optimizing this process in advance. The simplest and most affordable option is to use a hand router and a saw table.
Advice! For accurate and quick selection of slots, use a homemade milling template with slots of the required sizes.
Drawing of a bench with a wooden back
Advice! Decorative antique finish perfectly complements the simple design of this wooden bench with a backrest. Use the brushing capabilities to texture individual structural elements - the top crossbar, the middle backrest and armrests. The combination of smooth and aged surfaces will create an original design contrast.
Prepare the details
According to the dimensions specified in the drawing, make the main parts of the bench. To quickly apply markings, use pre-prepared templates. Duplicate parts can be mass produced. After cutting, fasten all the identical parts into a pack and process their ends with a sander, this will significantly speed up the work process.
Make spikes
On the saw table, form tenons on all tenon pieces, following the dimensions from the diagram. Using a groove disc will make this job much easier. This can be done no less carefully with a regular saw blade, followed by trimming the waste with a chisel, as shown in the photo.
Mill out the sockets
Assemble the sidewall
Perform dry assembly of the sidewall. If the joints in the structure are not tight enough, fine-tune them using one of the methods we discussed in the article “Perfectly Fit Joinery Joints.”
Carry out sequential gluing of the structure
After checking the accuracy of the fit of the connections of the entire bench, proceed to sequential gluing of the base elements first, and then the back. After the glue has completely dried, attach the seat strips with self-tapping screws.
Furniture made from stumps and solid wood cuts
Stumps are an excellent material for making stylish, inexpensive and completely unique furniture with your own hands, because in nature there are no two absolutely identical trees. Such stump furniture will fit into almost any interior, be it light classic or country, Scandinavian style or minimalism, loft or industrial. If the stump is painted in glossy or metallic shades, then even high-tech can organically accommodate such an object. A processed cut of a tree trunk or stump can become a comfortable coffee table in the living room, a bedside table in the bedroom, stools in the kitchen or a table in the bathroom. Most often in the interior, a stump is used as a cabinet or table.
How to make a table from a stump with your own hands
First, find a suitable tree stump to create a table or cabinet. This is not so difficult even if you are a purely city dweller without a dacha. Firstly, there are a lot of companies that deal with wood - logging, sawmills, and so on; you can purchase cut wood of the desired size from them. Secondly, we advise you to interview all your acquaintances and friends who have dachas or relatives in villages; they probably have supplies for firewood or uprooted stumps. And thirdly, you can take a saw, go into the nearest forest, find a fallen tree and cut it into pieces.
The stump should be dry, but not rotten. If the bark comes away from the trunk easily enough, then such a stump can be used. If you find fresh wood, you need to let it dry. Leave such a stump for a month or two in a warm and dry room.
The bark must be removed from the trunk. To do this, take a chisel or chisel and carefully, using a hammer, remove the bark.
If you plan to use the stump not just as a decorative decoration, but as a functional piece of furniture, you need to level it. Using a building level, check how level your workpiece is. If the surface of the stump is sloped, level it with a plane.
Sand the cut of the stump and the side with a sander or by hand with sandpaper.
It’s good if the stump has an interesting natural texture with knots, cracks and chips. After you have processed and sanded the entire surface of the stump, clean the cracks of small shavings and dust. To do this, you can use both plumbing tools, a cloth, and a regular vacuum cleaner.
Any stump or cut of a log is beautiful in its natural form. But you can paint the stump in any color (after a coat of primer), apply patterns with a brush or using a stencil, or, at a minimum, open it with varnish or apply a water-repellent impregnation for wood. The latter is especially true if your future table will be actively used outdoors or in a room with high humidity, for example, in a bathroom. Remember that even one coat of varnish will darken the wood a little. It is recommended to apply two or three layers of water-based varnish, and after the last layer has dried, polish with a soft abrasive fiber.
Such a table made from a stump can simply be placed on the floor. You can also use shortened legs from old tables or stools, wheels or special stands
By the way, the use of legs, firstly, will protect your floor from scratches, and secondly, will raise the stump and ensure air circulation, which is important for the long service life of such furniture
Cabinets and tables made of stumps in the interior
Look at different options for tables and bedside tables made from stumps in the interior.
Tables made of stumps in their natural form with minimal processing (click to enlarge):
Painted stump tables:
Stools and chairs and stumps in the interior
There is practically no difference between a table and a stump stool. But it is obvious that sitting on a stump is not very comfortable. In order to make the stump a comfortable stool or footstool, you can simply put a pillow on it. You can also make soft upholstery with filler and attach it to the surface of the log. The presence of a back will make the stump chair even more comfortable. Designers and carpenters cut such a chair from a single piece of wood using a chainsaw, followed by processing. Some examples of using stumps as seats can be seen below.
Choosing a table design
So, the first thing you need is time. Such crafts require perseverance, thoroughness, and, consequently, time investment. But then they will look beautiful by the fireplace!
You should decide on the appearance and purpose of the table. Particular attention should be paid to the legs when designing.
The choice of countertop is determined by its shape.
- A round one requires a lot of space. This must be taken into account. If you have enough space, the round version will look great in the interior.
- For a large family, an oval model is suitable.
At such a table the whole family can gather for lunch or spend family holidays. - Want to create a small coffee or coffee table for your living room?
For such a table you need a small oval shape. - More universal is the rectangular shape.
This shape allows you to model folding or portable models.
As you noticed, the choice of countertop is determined by the purpose and capabilities of the room.
Varieties of tables by number of legs.
- Single-support (one leg).
The optimal choice is a round tabletop. - Bipedal (two legs).
For fixation, a support is installed between the legs. - Traditional (four legs).
The most sustainable option.
There are many modeling options. It all depends on your imagination and desires. These are completely your ideas. What do you want the result to be?
Combine different shapes and types.
So, you have decided on the design. Fabulous! But now you need to prepare the materials - in fact, what the table will be made of. First of all, tree cuttings will be required.
The size and number of cuts depends only on the project.
You will also need a piece of plywood for the base, epoxy resin with a hardener to fill the voids between the cuts, wood glue and an electric sander.
Sanding machine for processing wood surfaces.
Ideal cuts: where to find?
A novice craftsman thinks that to create such a product it is enough to go out into the yard or into the forest, select a suitable log and cut “circles” for decoration. But it's not that simple.
To prepare cuts yourself, you need to spend a lot of work and time.
But if you make a mistake, you will have to start all over again, since it is impossible to work with cracked discs. You can find a supplier on the Internet. The main advantage of ready-made cuts is that they have already been processed and after purchase you can already begin to realize your dream.
You can buy saw cuts at a sawmill, which will be a budget option, and the choice of designs is huge.
The only drawback is the processing problem. The peculiarity of handmade furniture is that it is unique and exists in a single copy. When selecting a cut, it is necessary to take into account the future design of the tabletop itself.
To make it interesting, you need to select sections of different diameters and the required quantity.
The cut pattern itself also matters. After all, it is this that is the highlight of the future product. Ideally, for greater convenience, draw a layout so as not to improvise, but to know exactly the expected result. Then you will avoid disappointment in the final result.
You can use one type of wood, or combine different options.
Choosing the right material:
- The saw cuts must be dry, and preferably from a type of wood that is resistant to moisture.
- There should be no knots on the workpiece, as they can break off.
- Pay attention to the thickness of the cut.
Too thin can crack, and thick will weigh down the craft and make it rough. It is better that the thickness is from 30 to 50 millimeters. - Avoid low prices for material, since very often cost is an indicator of quality. A product made from low-grade material will not last long. Why waste energy and time?
- Each end must be well glued, so you need to purchase the optimal amount of glue so as not to save it during the work process.
- After working with a grinder, you will need sandpaper, its grit should be 120 or higher.
Glue-resin for wood.
Instructions for making a table
The design has been chosen, the tools and consumables are at hand - now it’s time for real men’s work. More precisely, let's move directly to the technical part.
- First, let's prepare the material.
We clear the bark and all irregularities. The roughness should be minimal, so this step cannot be performed carelessly. The tools you will need are a flat screwdriver or chisel, gloves (to avoid injuring your hands), a wire brush, a grinder, and sandpaper. As a result, you should get perfectly processed cuts, without knots and bark. - Let's create the foundation. Fasten to the base using furniture screws. But be careful not to damage the structure.
- Next, we fix all the wooden elements with wood glue in the desired position - both the saw cuts and the legs.
For strength, apply wood glue to the holes, and then secure each leg with long screws to the table surface. - Before filling the sections with resin, it is necessary to make edges along the edge of the tabletop.
We fill all the voids with epoxy resin, you can work with its color by adding additional elements to the composition, thereby achieving the desired shade for the table: coffee color (bronze powder and soot), white (chalk), black (soot), gray (cement ). You can buy pigments in a variety of colors. - After the resin has hardened, the surface is sanded.
It must be performed with great care so as not to destroy the result of previous work. The result will be a table with a pronounced saw cut pattern. The process uses a grinding machine and sandpaper. - And finally, all that remains is the varnish coating. You want the result of your work to last as long as possible? Then the choice is polyurethane varnish. Naturalness can be achieved by choosing a colorless varnish. Natural oils can serve as an alternative to varnish: linseed, drying oil, decorative oil.
You need to cover 7 layers with varnish, pre-treat each layer with sandpaper to form a more reliable coating.
Bringing such a project to life is not so easy. Moreover, this is persistent painstaking work, in a process that requires patience, dedication and hard work from the master. But such an element of the interior will attract much more attention than a boring piece of furniture bought in a store.
Your work will be rewarded.
Handmade furniture is a source of pride for the owner
You have created a beautiful piece of wood. But the main question you are asking is where to put it? You can place it in the living room or dining room and simply cover it with a tablecloth. But is it really necessary to hide such beauty, because the highlight is in the tabletop.
The unique structure of wood will fill any room with natural beauty.
Interior styles in which the table will look appropriate.
- Rustic.
It is also called country music. This style is characterized by simplicity, so your creation will not get lost among other furniture. - Scandinavian.
The style is distinguished by moderation of colors and solidity. A wooden table is exactly what you need.
The ideal solution would be a rustic or Scandinavian style, but you can show a little imagination and taste. Be the designers of your home. Let the style of your home be individual.
Guests will pay attention to the bright element of the interior, and when they find out that it is handmade, there will be no limit to their delight.
VIDEO: Coffee table made from an old maple trunk.
50 photo ideas of original tables made from wood cuts:
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Garden furniture made from stumps
It’s as easy as shelling pears to build soda furniture from ordinary stumps. Moreover, many stumps may remain after uprooting old fruit trees. In this case, the issue of transporting the material disappears by itself. If you show a little imagination and creativity when working, the resulting stumps can turn out to be unique, exclusive furniture that will not go unnoticed. For example, the seats of hemp stools can be decorated with mosaics made from pieces of broken dishes. Small pieces of broken saucers, cups or ceramic tiles are attached to the surface of the stump using liquid nails or epoxy glue.
Unnecessary stumps can become unusual firefly stumps, which during the day will decorate the garden or summer cottage and serve as an ordinary seat, and at night they will turn into lantern stumps. Such stools perform two tasks at once - they illuminate the garden area and expand its boundaries. Making such an element is very simple. It is enough to put a fluorescent or LED strip on a well-cleaned saw cut and cover it with plexiglass and secure it with self-tapping screws.
If you have the skills to work with a chainsaw, you can make an excellent chair from a tree stump. If the cut height allows, the chair will have a back and even armrests. For a chair with armrests you will need a tall and wide stump. It will turn out to be an analogue of the usual soft chair.
Mandatory requirements for the bench
In addition to the previous nuances in the process of designing a product, it is worth taking into account a certain list of requirements that it must meet. The following must be taken into account:
- Safety
. You should not allow an unreliable design of the product, because this can bring a lot of troubles when using it. To ensure safe use, it is worth choosing only high-quality material, as well as fastening devices and any accessories. - Convenience
. Undoubtedly, such an item in the garden as a garden bench should be comfortable so that nothing interferes with the relaxation process. To do this, you need to approach the project creation stage very competently and carefully and think through all the details in advance. - Immune to influence of external conditions
. To ensure long-term preservation of appearance and service life, it is necessary to select only solid material at the assembly stage of the product. Additionally, it is worth treating it (if made from wood material) with special means that can provide protection to the product.
Pleasant trifles
A stylish frame of small branches will radically transform a familiar attribute of your home decor:
- vase;
- watch;
- photo frame;
- mirror;
- candelabra;
- shade.
In the last two options, it is worth considering fire safety rules.
Bench options
- A bench made of logs that blends well with the surrounding nature. It consists of half a log, used for a seat, and two short round logs, which are legs.
- A beautiful wooden bench with a back and armrests, reminiscent of a sofa. Curved and cut elements make it more attractive, while leaving knots and irregularities gives the structure a natural look.
- Bench made of wood and metal. The base of the structure is metal. The wooden parts of the seat and back are attached to it. The thin metal parts make it look lightweight.
- The bench has a simple, classic shape. It is made of wooden, rather wide boards. This width allows you to sit comfortably on the bench. Armrests make the design more complete.
- An original bench made of wood with figured details. This option is well suited for a site with a natural, rural design. Carved legs and armrests, a figured back - all this gives the product originality.
- A bench with an interestingly shaped back. The curved parts gradually bend back, creating a unique design. The seat is slightly curved but has a more traditional appearance.
- A set of wood – a table with two benches. The design looks traditional due to the material used. The original solution is to fasten all components into a single structure.
- The bench is made of solid logs. A single piece is cut out of it, combining the back and seat. The legs are attached to the bottom. The log required is quite large.
- Bench with a drawer for storing toys. Outwardly it looks like an ordinary wooden bench-sofa, but under the seat there is a drawer in which you can put various things.
- A comfortable bench made of wood with a simple shape. The base is made in the form of a rectangular box. The back is also simple with a straight shape. The seat has soft cushions for added comfort.
- Wooden bench located around a tree. It is made as if it consists of four benches, each of which has one armrest. The composition looks attractive and comfortable.
- A simple bench made of wide boards. It looks solid, but its size is somewhat hidden due to the gaps between the boards and the light blue color in which it is painted.
Frequently asked questions
During the manufacturing process, home craftsmen have a lot of similar questions. You can answer them immediately:
How to finish board seats so that they blend more harmoniously with the log frame?
You can artificially age wood by brushing it with a wire brush (or using a drill attachment to remove rust). This treatment makes the material more natural and gives it a vintage look.
Do I need to sand the logs?
There is no fundamental requirement, since the trunks of some species of deciduous trees look very attractive in their natural form. It is necessary to inspect the material and determine its general condition - if it is clear that the bark will soon fall off, it is better to remove it immediately.
Is it possible to paint such furniture?
Paint reduces the naturalness of the material and hides its texture. However, there are no serious contraindications in this matter; the user decides it independently.
If there is a mixture of softwood and hardwood, can they be used together?
It is possible, but it is recommended to sand the logs immediately for a more uniform natural color.
Is it possible to finish furniture by firing it with a torch?
This is a good way, fast and gives an attractive result. You just need to remember to apply a finishing layer of clear (or tinted) varnish so that the furniture does not leave stains on clothes.
Types of benches
Garden benches are traditionally divided into several categories. The criterion for division is location.
They are usually installed near the threshold, which determines the choice of material. Design experts insist that the appearance of the front bench should match the exterior of the country house. Thus, if the structure is made of stone, then the bench, accordingly, should also be made of stone.
water bench
The main purpose is to be able to spend time comfortably near a body of water. For the construction of structures, it is recommended to choose waterproof materials - artificial or natural stone.
Can be located virtually anywhere in a summer cottage. Plastic is usually used as a base, as it is lightweight and easy to maintain.
An indispensable option for hardworking summer residents. Garden benches are installed so that the owners of the site can relax comfortably while working in the garden. To ensure aesthetic pleasure that accompanies relaxation, the structures are located next to flower beds.
This variety can also be called a “solitude bench.” The fact is that it is customary to place them in the most remote places of the garden so that a person has the opportunity to hide from prying eyes. A popular material for manufacturing is wood.
Seasonal bench
This is a foldable design that is lightweight. This greatly simplifies the task of moving the bench from one place to another: in the summer - in the shade, in autumn or spring - in sunny places. The optimal material is plastic.
Self-production
Simple options
Even a novice summer resident who does not have too much experience in working with carpentry tools can make wooden crafts for the dacha with his own hands. Naturally, you need to start with simpler options, and then you can move on to monumental products that will become the central element of the landscape design of your dacha.
The manufacturing instructions below give only general direction. Otherwise, you should rely only on your own taste and sense of style. Don't be afraid to experiment.
Perhaps in the future your wooden sculpture will be a role model.
- The simplest option is plywood garden crafts. On a sheet of suitable size, you can draw out individual parts of a pony, donkey or goblin, cut them out and tie them together using strong twine.
- Another idea is small branches of fruit trees. They are suitable for making wall or floor planters. In this way you can make pots for house plants with your own hands. In this case, it is advisable to cover the interior space with plastic film to avoid soil spillage or insert plastic containers there.
- Having gained experience in working with a manual or electric jigsaw, you can begin making more complex crafts. Carefully transfer your chosen design onto the plywood and carefully cut it out. The finished wooden sculpture is sanded with sandpaper, cleared of sawdust and coated with varnish or paint to protect it from adverse environmental conditions.
- There are other DIY plywood crafts: for your dacha you can make not only garden sculptures, but also figurines that look natural in the garden. For example, plywood bunnies will be an unexpected detail decorating a carrot bed. The procedure for making them is simple: draw an outline and cut out the shape using a jigsaw.
Complex designs
For those for whom making country wood crafts with their own hands has already become a kind of hobby, you can offer more complex options - making a mill or a wooden well. Here, in addition to your desire, an accurate mathematical calculation is necessary, otherwise the cut out parts will be impossible to fit together.
You can also offer a simpler option:
- We saw planks of the same length, which will be the basis for the mill (you can use small blocks of suitable cross-section).
- We take two sticks and place them parallel to each other at a distance slightly less than the length of the element itself.
- The next two elements are placed on the laid planks (perpendicularly) (the whole process is somewhat reminiscent of building a log house only on a smaller scale). You can fasten the parts to each other using nails or glue.
- Having constructed a structure of the required height, we begin to build the roof. To do this, take four small blocks and connect them in pairs to form a ridge. Pieces of ondulin left over from the construction of the house can be used on the roof. Then the design will fit best into the landscape design of the site.
- The material for the blades will be two or three planks, fixed at an angle like an aircraft propeller.
- You can decorate the structure with a decorative climbing plant that will entwine one of the walls.
The well is made in a similar way. In this case, you can complement the composition with a miniature bucket and a bench. By fencing all this off, you will get a beautiful and unusual playground for children.
Do not forget that the wood must be treated with antiseptic compounds, varnished or painted. This will extend its service life and make the crafts more attractive.
