Ideas and tips for gardeners: gazebos and design of the garden and veranda

A rare owner of a summer cottage perceives it solely as a place where you can grow potatoes, vegetables and fruit crops. Most of the summer residents try to improve their corner, make it beautiful and as graceful as possible. Therefore, it is important to know how to decorate the garden and terrace, gazebo and how to reconcile the various decorative techniques.

At cottages the same styles of space design can be applied as on any other land plots. However, there are specific features caused by the fact that most of them are not so large. Accordingly, landscape techniques that take up too much space or visually absorb it are categorically unacceptable. Those who are just beginning to develop a newly acquired piece of land should take into account the level of illumination and its distribution in space, the type of soil and the characteristics of the cultivated crops, existing or planned buildings.

Ideas to give can be very different, sometimes it’s enough just to think about how to beat this or that economic or any other building. Look what the neighbors have done. You can repeat their approach or, starting from it, create something original, completely new. You can create very interesting jewelry with your own hands, spending quite a bit of money or even tinkering with old items that have ceased to be necessary. Broken toys and broken furniture, lamps and boxes, household appliances, fragments of building materials and decorative elements often help decorate the landscape.

Interesting flowerbeds are obtained, if you do not just pick up beautiful flowers in large quantities, but also carefully prepare the places for their planting, come up with an original container, it is not even necessary that it should be round. Rectangular, diamond-shaped, triangular designs look very good.

The device of a recreation area with a brazier will make staying at the cottage more attractive and will allow you to relax and gain strength. Even if the available space is quite small, there is no need to abandon the use of barbecue. The advantage of this solution, compared to open fire, is greater safety and protection from smokeno matter how close you are to the hearth.

Often, a big problem is finding a solution for expanding a house that would not violate the key principles of zoning, especially in a limited area and with high aesthetic requirements. An original and modern way out is the addition of an existing building with a rectangular box with walls with glass inserts. It is important to observe, to reproduce in the new room the structure of the wooden elements of the former building.

Belaya Dacha looks very beautiful in winter when there is soft and fluffy snow around it. But this does not mean that the building will look unpretentious and inexpressive on warm days. On the contrary, with the skillful use of white paint and with the use of several shades at once, the house becomes quite attractive.

Interior decoration for the second floor can be arbitrarily original, but should not differ from the decoration on the first floor. Otherwise, an unpleasant aesthetic dissonance arises.

Container garden is an excellent way to organize space, especially since you can use any kind of container as a container. If you have a punctured or leaky soccer ball, it becomes a good base for hanging pots. Tanks look attractive even where there are a lot of landings. Using the container, it is easy to close the voids that occur in the flowerbed when the flowers stop blooming or become ill.

In addition to vegetation, there are other ways to decorate the yard of the cottage, but we must clearly define what function they will perform in the first place. This can be a family leisure area or a party or party corner (patio).

Do not forget to agree on the type of house and gardenOtherwise, the view of an individual bed out of the general concept can disrupt all your plans and create an uncomfortable atmosphere on the plot.Thoroughly think over not only what crops to plant, but also how to locate them.

As for the country house itself, it is quite possible to beat the low attic using original design methods. For example, they often make a storage system at the lowest sloping wall, which saves important things and at the same time avoids the feeling of a “tiny closet”. Also under the lowest parts of the ceiling can stand beds.

Once again entering the courtyard, we can find there two-story gazebos. An important feature of them is the placement of open terraces on the upper tier. On these terraces, sunbathe, drink tea or simply enjoy serene tranquility. Having equipped a reliable wall, you completely will cover yourself from supervision. Most people prefer to leave the area for meals at the bottom, and just relax at the top. It is not necessary to install a lot of furniture, it will be quite enough to use a table and several chairs.

If you still do not know what kind of furniture to buy or make with your own hands for a summer house arbor, Feel free to focus on the classics and the "antique" motifs. This is a win-win. Even if the rest of the country house is ultra-modern in spirit, a corner of calm and silence will still be very necessary from time to time. Since, even in summer houses, sometimes there is a need to make handwritten notes, mark something in a notebook, and so on, it is worth buying or making your own stand for pencils.

The fantasy of designers when creating this item has almost no boundaries - you can use imitations of stones, sea animals and birds. A great option, while certainly ecological, is a wooden deck with a hollow inside.

The number of decorative elements that you can do with your own hands is much more than it might seem. Rare cottage has no sheds that protect from the scorching sun and rain. Attached design is different in that it has one closed side, and all the others are completely open.Placing such a canopy at the entrance door, you organize an improvised veranda. And if you put it on the opposite side of the house, you get a nice covered patio.

A freestanding canopy, equipped with a solid roof, is also useful for outdoor picnics, and even for parking a car or motorcycle during the warm season of the year. We do not recommend to builders who are too prepared to use a straight roof, since it is easier to build and requires only a small expenditure of building materials. For the decoration of the roofs, it is recommended to use a professional sheet, slate or metal tile. If these options do not suit you, you need to choose between polycarbonate and plexiglass.

The canopy can cover the well, reliably protecting it from dirt and debris brought by the wind. It is equally important to equip such a house with locks in order to impede access for strangers and to prevent accidents with children. If you plan to use water from a well even in the cold season, make a warmed construction.

The choice between metal and wood in this case is not as simple as it seems: Wood too quickly loses its external attractiveness, if you do not care for it properly. If, however, preference is given to a wooden product, think about its shape - most often it is round, tetrahedral or hexagonal.

Not only specially created buildings, but also creative solutions that allow putting old things into business can bring great benefits. At every cottage regularly appears and then thrown a lot of such property. Corroded bicycle wheels will look great if you build an open fence from them. In this case, no one will be able to blame you for the lack of originality.

When unnecessary pipes are found, for private gardens and flower gardens they can be used as a frame. Some home craftsmen even build the basis for gazebos and other structures from such elements. And having discovered that the water valve has failed, do not rush to throw it away or hand over to the collection point for ferrous metal, the simplest actions will turn the “useless trash” into an elegant hook for hanging various items on the street.Hoses, work clothes, individual tools, packages - all this can be easily placed on it.

Shoes also wear out, and especially among summer residents, because it constantly contacts with the ground, often in dampness.

Modern approaches to the design of cottages are different from those used a few decades ago. Each time the space should be formed strictly individually, and not according to a pattern. But at the same time, as soon as a style is chosen, it is required to observe it as strictly as possible. An important feature of most approaches is repetition, when the same element is used 2 to 4 times, thereby letting others know that it was not made randomly.

Whatever the decor, it should be themed, according to his passion and personal preferences. So, for those who like to rest near the water or at the hearth, the approaches should be different.

Merry decorations at the cottages can also be used, moreover, it is these elements that can finally dispel the idea of ​​it as a boring, unpretentious part of life. Using for the design of the fence bird figures of various sizes and colors, or putting them on the poles, you will create only the original entourage.

Self-made mosaic is also a good move. It looks original and allows you to make a visual division into zones. For the manufacture of such structures can be used not only natural stones and gravel, but even fragments of battered ceramics, granite chips, caps from plastic bottles.

Mosaic paths are often laid out of pebbles of various colors, which is good because there is no danger of getting injured, the formation of rain puddles is excluded. Also quite widely paved with original coating with a pattern of recreation areas around the pools and artificial reservoirs.

Applied for registration on the site may be flowers. Hortensia is very diverse, each variety has its own specific features that need to be considered.Thus, the large-leaf variety forms bright motley "balls" of various colors - bluish, pink, mixed. Panicled varieties should be used next to a doubtful type of fences and near small ponds. In both cases, they allow you to gracefully beat problem areas.

Few people can be surprised by examples when the same hydrangea or other flowers are planted in plastic bottles. And you can do otherwise, and turn the plastic itself into flowers and insects, into ornamental plants that will please the eye in any weather. There is another way: when a light is inserted inside, an original lamp is obtained.

It is a mistake to think that plants in a flower pot always look worse than in open space. There is a very attractive move for their placement - a certain stylization under the “flying saucer”. And if you are not too fond of mystical motifs, you can use just flowerpots of stones fastened with a solution.It turns out amazing in its configuration thing.

The unusual arrangement of the attic and gazebos can also be expressed in the fact that they make it a full-fledged living room. The photo shows just such an example with a rounded roof through which sunlight penetrates. A sleeping and recreational zone is organized, the room is decorated with a vase of flowers, the floor is covered with boards of a noble dark shade.

Repairing a veranda in a country house for trained male hands is not a problem. Home masters will easily cope with the construction of such an extension made of wood. If the carved figured elements will cause difficulty, you can always buy ready-made blocks.

And here the professionals have obviously worked: the room outside is sheathed with siding, stylish windows are installed, separated by vertical dark partitions.

If you want to use the cottage only in the summer months, this solution is suitable - an open terrace with a dining group, which is led by a wooden staircase with pretty white railing. The color of the railing is the same as that of the floorboards.

For more information on the design of the terrace, see below.