Dacha ideas that you can make with your own hands A dacha is not just a piece of land with vegetable beds and a summer house on the site. This is also a place where you can relax your soul and body, forgetting for a while about the bustle of the city and pressing problems.
And in order for your vacation at the dacha to be as comfortable as possible, it is necessary to create all the necessary conditions for this.
Agree, it is much more pleasant to spend time at the dacha when everything around is beautiful and well-groomed, and everything is pleasing to the eye.
At the dacha, you can bring to life a variety of ideas for designing a site, using simple and affordable materials. The main thing is desire, but opportunities and time will be found.
For example, paint your garden house at the dacha in your favorite colors, and every visit here will lift your spirits. It would seem so simple, but often we forget that happiness is in the little things.
On our website you will find not only cool ideas, but also pictures and images of possible decorative options that will certainly inspire you.
Choosing original ideas for a summer residence
You can easily make many beautiful things for your dacha yourself from scrap materials. This opens up wide opportunities for the implementation of a variety of ideas.
On our website you will find tips and tricks that will help make your dacha beautiful, unique and, most importantly, as comfortable as possible for relaxation and a pleasant pastime.
How do you like, for example, a flower bed made from rubber boots, old jeans and cement? Agree that such an unusual decor looks very cool. And it’s very easy to make!
We bring to your attention interesting (sometimes non-standard and very bold) solutions for the home, including options for decorating the interior space, as well as fresh and original ideas for arranging the territory.
Unusual decorative items, which are not at all difficult to make with your own hands, will help make the surrounding landscape cute and attractive, and even a little fabulous.
Take, for example, decorative flower beds made in the shape of hedgehogs. Isn't it really cute? But all you need for this is plastic bottles and cement, and a little time.
Don't be afraid to experiment - anything is possible in the country! Bring to life the ideas you like and have fun doing it.
Garden crafts made from cement
One of the simplest and most affordable ways to decorate a summer cottage is to use all kinds of cement crafts.
In the countryside, such products can be found very often. Firstly, because they are easy to make with your own hands. Secondly, they are durable and look beautiful, especially if painted.
You can make a lot out of cement in your dacha. For example, these could be some unusual decorative figures or flower beds or pots.
Flower beds for flowers and plants in the country can be made both large and small, stationary and portable, and even hanging: on chains or ropes.
All these ideas will certainly come in handy if you are planning to arrange a garden with your own hands.
Various decorative cement decorations can be made using drawings downloaded from the Internet as a basis. As you can see, creating a beautiful environment at your dacha is not so difficult.
Paths on the site
Cement is a universal material. From it you can not only create various crafts for decorating a summer cottage and flower beds, but also paths for the garden.
There are a lot of options. For example, you can make a path out of cement that will imitate decorative stone.
Even though the process is quite labor-intensive, all the effort is worth it. This path looks very cool, and you can’t immediately tell it from natural stone.
You can also make a path from cement mortar and bricks. This option is a little simpler in terms of labor costs, but it also looks original.
Well, and most importantly, this is one of the budget options, especially if you have stocks of old bricks on the site. In this case, you only need to buy sand and cement.
Country decorative paths can be very different - and on our website you will find only the best ideas. Be sure to check it out.
We design flower beds and flower beds
Various flowers and garden plants can be grown not only in pots, but also planted in open ground. In such cases, you can make decorative fences.
To make fences for flower beds and flower beds at your dacha with your own hands, you can use a variety of materials.
For example, decorative fences can be made from cement and plastic boxes for vegetables and fruits. The texture can be different: in the form of bricks or tree bark.
With the help of such fences you can limit the territory of small gardens and at the same time decorate your summer cottage.
And from the same cement mortar and plastic bottles you can make very beautiful decorative figurines in the form of mushrooms with your own hands, which are ideal for decorating flower beds on the site.
To help the hostess
It is not always possible to financially buy, for example, some new furniture in a furniture showroom or place an order for its manufacture. But you can always get out of this situation by making the right thing with your own hands, and at the same time making it attractive and unique, using improvised means for this.
Kitchen apron made of corks
The kitchen apron is the surface of the wall located between the countertop and wall cabinets. Usually this part of the wall is tiled. But it is possible to use many other materials to cover it, for example, gluing wine corks to the wall.
This exclusive decor looks quite magnificent.
Before sticking, each cork is cut lengthwise into two halves with a sharp stationery knife. It is advisable to paint the wall black, which will highlight the seams between the plugs.
Corks are glued to the wall using liquid nails in a checkerboard pattern or with a certain pattern, since it is unlikely that they will be laid out perfectly evenly, and curved rows will visually look disgusting.
The plugs themselves are not afraid of moisture, but they quickly get dirty and are difficult to wash, so it is best to cover them with a glass screen made of tempered glass. True, you will have to spend a little money on it and order glass from a special workshop, where they will cut it to a given size and make holes for sockets and fasteners.
The glass is secured to the wall with anchor dowels , which can be purchased at almost any hardware store.
Although an apron decorated with wine corks may be an expensive pleasure, the result achieved will be worth it.
The surface of the tabletop, as well as the wall, can be decorated with corks and covered with tempered glass.
Hanging folding table
A folding table mounted on the wall allows you to save some space in the apartment. When folded down, it can protrude from the wall at a distance of no more than 10 cm and does not bother anyone at all, but when unfolded it can replace a full-fledged table.
There are many options where you can use a wall-mounted folding table. Here are just a few of the most basic:
- Balcony. Naturally, on the balcony the table should be small in size and attached to the screen fence. It can be used for drinking tea in the fresh air, working with a laptop or doing some handicrafts. In other words, you can provide yourself a place to do creative work without disturbing other members of your family.
- Kitchen. If the kitchen is small, a wall table will be just a godsend for the hostess. It can replace a dining table that cannot be placed due to lack of free space. In addition, it can be freely used for cooking, since its size is much larger than a balcony table.
- An ironing board is usually large and heavy, and when unfolded it can take up a lot of space. In this case, the housewife often has to pull it out of the place allocated for it, lay it out, and after ironing, repeat all the steps, only in the opposite direction. A folding table will save the hostess from these problems.
Shower for the cottage
There is probably nothing better than cooling off under running water on a hot summer day, especially if it was spent working in the garden. Naturally, only a shower will solve this problem and relieve the fatigue that has accumulated during the day.
You can install the shower yourself without involving outside help; the main thing is to choose a place for it and decide on the type of shower stall.
Among the summer showers, there are three types of cabins , which you can freely build on your own:
- Base. Consists of one shower stall, water tank and other accessories needed for a shower.
- A shower cabin, additionally equipped with a dressing room, where you can leave clothes, things and a towel, and after taking a shower, you can calmly change clothes.
- Shower cabin with dressing room and toilet. This is a good solution for a summer residence if there is no sewerage system. This saves money on the additional installation of a separate sanitary system.
Installing a simple shower is done as follows:
- A shower cabin frame is made, which can be assembled from metal, wooden beams or other available materials.
- A metal or plastic water container, which can have a volume of 50 to 200 liters, is installed on the roof of the assembled frame.
- It is advisable to paint the metal container black for better heating of the water. Additionally, several heating electric heating elements can be installed in the container, then you can take a shower even in cloudy weather.
The booth can be sheathed with boards, plywood, slate, or simply covered with tarpaulin or cellophane film with folding curtains.
Shower at the dacha
A cottage and garden are not only a place to relax. To make your surroundings beautiful and cozy, you need to constantly work on this: take care of the plants, maintain order in the area, etc. And after work, of course, you need to wash off the sweat, dirt and fatigue.
Therefore, a summer shower for any summer resident is one of the mandatory attributes that helps improve comfortable conditions. There are many different options: a classic shower in the form of a closed booth, for example.
However, it is not always possible to allocate a permanent place for a shower stall on the site. Therefore, in such situations, you can use mobile structures.
You can, for example, make a portable summer shower with your own hands from plastic (polypropylene) pipes. This design is good because you can use it as needed and store it in a shed.
You can also make an outdoor shower from an old wooden pallet. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that the stream of water does not pour from above, but comes out from below. A little unusual, but overall quite convenient.
Chain saw sharpener
Awesome thing for chain saw owners! Thanks to it, you can easily and simply sharpen the blades and teeth of the tool, practically without being distracted from the process.
Admit it, it really infuriates you when an old blade becomes dull and you have to look for a service that can sharpen it. And in the case of this device, you will be spared the hassle - put this sharpener on the end of the saw, rest it against it to fix it, and voila! – your blade will become as good as new – shiny and sharp.
I recommend it to all owners of petrol and electric saws, and besides, its cost is less than 600 rubles.
