Do-it-yourself house design - ideas and photo examples

Design cottages with their own hands: make the fairy tale a reality. What can be done to decorate a country house and a plot adjacent to it, so that passers-by folded their necks, and visiting guests instantly lit up with the idea of ​​acquiring a hacienda and arranging on it the same corner of paradise, peace and quiet, like yours? Making a house design with your own hands means telling your life history with natural materials, carrying out a project with a bright personality, colored by tremendous impressions, favorite stories and a joyful attitude to country life.

We look into the house or from home

First you need to decide what is required: decorating the interior of a country house or an interesting design of the entire site? It is necessary to highlight the elements of the decor, characteristic of the internal and external space, and then decide which of them can be made by hand.

If the interior decoration items of the house cannot be too large, basically this is a textile design, wall decor and small accessories that are accents of the premises, then the dacha décor can be divided into large, medium in size and very small - the "highlight" of any corner the garden.

It is worth decorating the whole area, starting from its features (shape, division into zones, height difference, prevailing verticals, existing groups of green spaces), taking into account the view from the window of the central room or favorite room in the house, based on one’s own hobbies and financial possibilities.

Tips from more experienced craftsmen, books and workshops will come to the aid of a beginner self-made artist, and "advanced" decorators should use the results of their hobbies to decorate the surrounding space from scrap materials, and can learn something new from knowledgeable people.

Wooden decor plot

For decorating the cottage, all parts of the tree are suitable, starting with its branches and ending with stumps with remnants of roots. In various versions, wood materials are subjected to various processing: soak, sawn, sand, grind, spread on boards, cover with wood stain, hollow out.

Braided decor. In its manufacture, specially prepared willow vine or cut-off branches of deciduous trees of small diameter, which are suitable along the length, are used. The main indicator of the material used is flexibility. The method of weaving create:

• fences, doors in the garden area;
• framing high beds;
• baskets and boxes, as a storage place for garden supplies;
• bulk containers for disembarkation of magnificently flowering letniki;
• garden sculptures;
• balls of different diameters, as an element of decor of strict minimalist gardens, replacing stone ones.

Council When creating beds and containers, lay the inside of the object with a geotextile or thick cardboard so that the ground does not spill out of the gap.

Decoration using natural forms. In this variant, the used pieces of logs with butt and thick roots are used to make garden benches, bird feeders, bases of children's houses in the style of Russian folk tales and design playgrounds.

To create the flower girl the inside of the stump is taken out, leaving a few centimeters of the outer layer, a layer of drainage and soil mixture are laid in the recess, then flowering flowering plants are planted. In order to enhance the effect of naturalness, in some cases, the relief bark of the tree is left intact, and from the plants they choose long-weave, for example, nasturtium.

Country wood decor

Covered with stain or paint for exterior woodwork, boards and bars are allowed on benches, small garden forms such as gazebos, arches, pergolas, and sheds for grapes.

Special craftsmanship will require the creation of a slightly inclined cart for plants and decorative pumpkins, from which blooming petunias or pumpkin "lanterns" are poured on the ground with a bright waterfall.

Throwing a small bridge over a small stream, made as an interesting accent of a romantic corner of the garden, makes it possible to stand and look at the running water - one of the three phenomena that, according to the wise men, can be observed endlessly.

Novice home craftsmen can start making garden decoration items with items that require less effort, time and woodworking skills.

1. The plank framing of flower containers made from any plastic, tin or enamelled containers will remove the inconsistency from the garden and bring the entire decor to one style denominator.
2. The use of wooden pallets left over from a large construction site will clear the area of ​​debris, turn it into garden tables, benches, stools, compost boxes or a seedling table next to the cottage for gardening equipment, on which the gardener can comfortably dive and replant plants.
3. The simplest way to decorate garden elements with a tree is to create straps from textured ropes and wood slats (trimming door trim panels of the desired length are well suited), making plastic barrels for collecting rainwater not a foreign object that you want to take away from your eyes, but a full-fledged participant in decorating.

Houses for domestic animals: decoration and use at the same time

Together with people in the summer, those who walk on four legs move to the dacha. Getting "on free bread", they refuse to constantly be in the house, and require a free range. Also, if the owners have a certain courage or desire to eat environmentally friendly, natural products, layers, ducks or rabbits may appear in the home farm.

For a single-handed construction of a chicken coop or a doghouse, which, besides practical use, can become worthy decorations of the economic part of a summer house, it will take much more skills and free time. However, the pleasure that the master receives from the admiration of other people and the awareness of the level of his own mastery is worth it.

The projects of modern buildings for pets are castles, cottages, mansions and towers in miniature, hiding behind a beautiful facade full-fledged rooms for comfortable living for those who guard, feed and relieve nervous tension of family members. In such houses, in different styles, it looks interesting to have a flat grass roof, windows with painted shutters, a decorative balcony on the pediment, or carved pillars that support the shed over the terraces for everyone's pet.

Paths made of stone and concrete

Materials of increased strength - stone and concrete, capable of taking any form, are suitable for creating decorative elements of a country area of ​​various sizes.

Horizontal planar decoration occurs by lining the site with pedestrian paths, platforms and driveways. If you look at the hacienda from above, the correct lines of the tracks should be woven into a simple but harmonious pattern. In small cottages, it is not recommended to make the route straight or with sharp turns.

Track options available for personal production:

• concrete (solid casting, the creation of individual blocks by tin casting);
• stone with gravel framing (stones are laid on a dense base, gravel is packed into the gap with compaction);
• stone with lawn framing (lawn grass is planted on the ground layer around the main flat stones, which is cut along with lawns);
• gravel (in the bed of the track gravel is poured);
• stone blocks (granite blocks or concrete analogue of the old street masonry are used);
• pebble (a large pebble set on an edge is pressed into the cement mixture with a dotted pattern).

By selecting materials in color and shape, mixing different techniques, changing the direction of installation, a true artist can create tracks that cannot be repeated. The chain of routes, laid out according to the wishes of the owners, connecting different parts of the garden, organizes the space, demarcates it into zones and makes it not look like neighboring cottages.

Council When excavating to prepare a garden path bed after placing curbstones, lay a high-density geotextile (used for road paving) on ​​the bottom of the groove with the plant on the walls. It will not allow the base to go into the ground (sand and gravel layers), and will prevent weeds from germinating. Only then do the filling and laying of the front material of the track.

Small concrete forms

Plastic concrete can be used to create small-sized decorative elements that can intrigue into the peaceful flow of suburban life and revive the monotony of distant green corners.

The main thing in the process: the choice of quality mixture, accuracy in the performance of pouring, removal of internal air bubbles and careful subsequent processing, including decorating with different materials, if the master doesn’t like his own concrete color.

You can make original decorations for a summer cottage from concrete:

• the base of the fountain or a small waterfall;
• garden table and "eternal" chairs, decorated with stone, tiled, faience mosaic;
• sundial on a stand;
• birdbaths;
• Man-made stones with moss grown in grooves, stonecrop.

It looks very interesting bird water bowl, cast from concrete, where the form served as a sheet of burdock or rhubarb. The combination of the natural pattern of leaf veins with technological material will successfully decorate the cottage in a modern style.

The main task of any owner is to make his country plot attractive, comfortable for living. Even in nature, not everything is perfect, and when a person intervenes, performing construction work and disrupting harmony, decoration is required.

It is necessary to hide some zone of the local area, and to emphasize the most successful perspective or a cozy corner, to present to the viewer so that he will not pass by any means. By applying diligence, patience, and also some efforts, you can turn an ordinary summer cottage into a fairy-tale world with your own hands.