One of the options for how to decorate a summer cottage is to arrange a mini-pond on its territory. This is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. Such reservoirs are usually small in diameter: 1 - 1.5 meters. Their installation can be entrusted to specialized teams, but it is better and cheaper to do everything yourself.
The simplest mini-pond is a container dug into the ground and filled with water: a bathtub, a barrel, a trough. Greenery is planted along the edge of the pond, stones are laid out. It would be nice to put a bench nearby. Everything - a quiet corner for relaxation is ready! You can make the reservoir more complicated: with a fountain or a waterfall. This will be a whole hydraulic structure, before the construction of which it would be nice to draw up a small project and sketch out an estimate.
The dacha with the house will undoubtedly be decorated with flowers. Themyou need to arrange in beautiful flower beds, alpine slides. As a fence for florists, improvised materials are taken, for example, unnecessary empty bottles, both glass and plastic. If you lay out a circle from glass bottles with their necks inside, and put a few more such circles on top, you get something like a well, in the center of which you can plant flowers. In this case, the color of the bottles also plays a role. You can fold a solid "well" or alternate colors through a row.
Plastic bottles are used as a fence for flower beds, simply by digging them in around the perimeter. There are options here: turn the bottles upside down or use the top. Bottles are usually cut off in the middle. Before decorating a summer cottage with your own hands, prepare a sufficient number of plastic bottles - material for endless ideas. The palm tree of them looks spectacular. Brown bottles will go to the trunk, and it is better to make leaves from green containers.
Flower beds can be overlaid with stones, lay out brick or slate borders, weave a wattle fence from branches.
The solution to the problem of how to decorate a summer cottage with your own hands will be planting trees and shrubs. A hedge looks especially impressive - shrubs planted around the perimeter of the site. They will protect your possessions not only from wind and dust, but also from prying neighbors. If you decide to plant fruit trees on your suburban acres, then you need to choose a place that is sunny enough and remote from home. After all, overgrown trees can simplydestroy the structure.
With the help of ordinary natural stones, you can interestingly decorate a summer house. Large stones without sharp corners are painted with paints in the form of various representatives of the fauna: snakes, ladybugs, rabbits.
Who would have thought that the most functional summer cottage (garden), properly designed, can also be an option on how to decorate a summer cottage with your own hands! You can experiment with the shape of the beds: make them rectangular, triangular, diamond-shaped. Break a flower bed in the center of the garden, strew the aisles with fine gravel or sawdust. At the same time, this way you can fight weeds.
