How to decorate a summer cottage: 12 ideas
We decorate a summer cottage with the help of improvised means. We offer 11 ideas for a beautiful and at the same time budgetary decor, which are easy to bring to life to the envy of neighbors.
There is nothing more pleasant than to meet the evening on the dacha veranda by candlelight!
Candlesticks lined with flower heads or petals will help to give the atmosphere even more romance. Or candles placed in special glass candlesticks (can be made from unnecessary containers).
What flowers you use for decoration depends on the season – it can be spring tulips, June peonies, poppies, summer lilies or autumn chrysanthemums.
In addition, many garden flowers can be used not only to decorate dishes, but even add to salads and summer lemonades.
New life for garden tools
Surely in the utility block you have a lot of old and long-unnecessary garden tools. Give them a second life!
Shovels, rakes, hoes, pitchforks, long-handled hoes, stick into the ground at an angle and fasten the structure so that it does not fall apart; you get a wonderful vintage trellis for climbing plants.
The fact that the metal parts will be in the open all the time does not matter.
Rust and peeling paint will only add charm to your decorative tapestry.
A very effective decorative solution for a summer cottage is a mirror facing the garden.
Be sure to use this technique for decorating a seating area, an open veranda or a gazebo.
Hang an antique mirror on one of the outer walls and run maiden grapes or loach along it for framing. This will visually expand the space, add depth, and at the same time increase the blooming beauty of your garden.
Any thing can be radically transformed thanks to imagination!
Even ordinary tin roof gutters can completely change their vocational guidance, turning into spectacular candlesticks for the street.
They can be easily hung on walls and poles in a seating area or on a veranda.
By the way, these drains can also act as stands for vases, where you will place summer bouquets.
By the way, did you know that it is imperative to plant blue flowers in the garden?
It is not at all necessary to spend money on modern expensive greenhouses!
If you have old window frames with glass or glass doors in your attic, take them to the garden!
A couple of small efforts, and your garden will have these vintage mini-greenhouses, in which it is so pleasant to grow greens, lettuce and radishes.
They are also suitable for planting seedlings – vegetables and flowers.
One of the most fashionable garden trends is the creation of unusual decorative flower beds.
A variety of objects are used as “seats”, from rusty watering cans, barrels and boxes, ending with garden wheelbarrows and such benches.
Place a shelf on the bench and place pots of nasturtium, petunia, pansies, roses, or any other flowering plants in it. You can create compositions to your liking and mood.
Thus, the most relevant landscape design object of this summer will appear on your summer cottage.
You can, of course, spend money on prefabricated arches that are presented in shops and garden centers, or you can get creative.
Before you is an arch made of ordinary reinforcement.
A few hand-made turns, a beautiful hanging lantern in the center – and a pretty decoration for any part of the garden is ready!
The arch is best placed over a walkway, not in a corner. There are many mistakes that gardeners make when planning their summer cottage.
Almost any interior decoration accessories can be used outside the home walls.
For example, curtain tacks can help you decorate your garden.
Place them on a wall or climbing support and they will support long stems.
It is best to use forged, vintage grips (as pictured).
Together with blooming roses, this will create a romantic tandem that will become the highlight of your flower garden.
By the way, a fashionable garden in the Moorish style will not do without roses.
Playing with any garden detail, you can make your garden truly original and unusual.
Prefabricated decorative garden fences are not only suitable for flower beds and flower beds.
With their help, you can create a wonderful fantasy trellis.
Place the sections in a checkerboard pattern or even upside down against a wall background.
But do not forget about the main thing – in the end, it should be convenient for the plants to twist the structure you have invented.
The container garden is at the height of fashion! Now it is fashionable to plant flowers not in the ground, but in a wide variety of containers.
The back of an old metal bed with a chest of drawers attached to it can also become such a mobile flower bed.
The structure can be painted in a color pleasing to the eye (use paint for external work for this!).
It is ideal for decorating a plot as it is easy to stick into the ground in any corner of the garden.
Several prefabricated arches, arranged in a row, form a pergola – a shady corridor that is twisted by a variety of plants.
However, this classic detail of landscape design can be played in a different way.
Cloth is stretched between the arches, the arches themselves are hung with curtains, and an impromptu tent is obtained.
In such a tent, you can place a chaise longue or a table with armchairs for a pleasant pastime in the shade of your favorite garden.