The presence on the territory of a summer cottage or garden of a place for cultural recreation or creativity, just a picturesque corner, is very important. There are plenty of options for implementing your own ideas and ways to implement your plans. A gazebo, a children's play area, a decorative fence, a hand-made decorative well, which acts as an aesthetic object that complements the landscaping of the site, are designed to make the backyard or garden cozy.
Today we will talk about how to make a decorative well with your own hands and how, following a simple drawing, to assemble a structure that is useful in more than one respect.
Why is there a decorative well on the site
With an ordinary well, everything is simple - it is made for the purpose of autonomous water supply. Variants of decorative wells, created with their own hands, do not fill this goal. Their purpose is to decorate a storm well, install a borehole pump, irrigation barrels, and other communications. This is a great element of landscape design. specialwells-flower beds, planted with multi-colored plants, are popular.
Important! Do not forget that the main goal of a decorative well is the aesthetics of the local area. To recreate direct communication, it is required to erect a different structure.
Model of a simple decorative well: a budget option
Among the elements of the landscape of a summer cottage, in terms of cost-effectiveness, this version of DIY crafts is the leader in demand among alternative methods of decorating a summer cottage.
During construction you will need:
- Substandard materials: a block house about one and a half meters high with imitation logs, class C lining, unplaned timber.
- Moisture-resistant plywood, edged board, bars 40x40 cm, thin slats for layout.
- Furniture corners, self-tapping screws, bolts and nuts for fastening parts.
- Decorative coating. You can choose the material that is the most accessible, or the one that you like.
Instructions for constructing a well with your own hands
With well-folded and informative instructions, you can assemble a decorative well in just a couple of hours.
Work begins with the construction of the base of a decorative well with your own hands - a cube of timber. The crowns are connected in several ways:
- through washed down in the paw;
- reinforcing with self-tapping screws;
- using steel corners for furniture.
The finished "box" is sheathed with block houses,using self tapping screws. First, grooves are prepared by drilling holes of a smaller diameter than the thickness of the self-tapping screw, otherwise the skin will be covered with longitudinal ugly cracks. Then the screws are screwed in.
Racks for the roof, made of boards, are additionally strengthened to the sides of the well by screwing bolts from above and below.
For the manufacture of the frame of the truss system and the ridge, a thin beam is used; to strengthen the slopes - wooden corners cut from plywood. The roof is sheathed with clapboard.
The cylinder for the bucket is formed from a finished deck made from scraps of lining or any other material that you like. At this stage, the rack layout, reinforced with two wooden circles, will not be superfluous.
The sides of a wooden decorative well are decorated with a board or clapboard with their own hands. Externally, the well can be painted or decorated as you wish. There are often options for the execution of flowering wells, furnished with house plants, pots of flowers, lined with bushes. Such a house-well will definitely become a decoration of your yard.
Options for decorative wells
A well or a shaft made of concrete rings is lined with stone or brick. This material is ideal for environments with high humidity, as it is unpretentious to dampness coming from the ground, natural manifestations of moisture - rain and snow; has strength and durability. If the need to decorate the well does not arise systematically, then in the absence of a "blank" use the material that is inavailability. Often it is wood - timber or logs pre-treated. Metal, tile, plastic and everything that you find on your site and can use as a decoration for a decorative well in the country with your own hands is also suitable.
Important! To achieve harmony between the elements of landscape design and the main structure - at home, use similar raw materials.
What will be needed during the construction of a decorative well made of wood
Alternatively, use wooden planks or timber to make the well if the structure is expected to be massive. Immediately purchase a special protective composition for tree species, with which neither rot nor mold are afraid of the well. It will not do without a decorative coating - varnish or stain. Choosing it depends only on your preferences.
For construction you will need to prepare:
- saw;
- jigsaw;
- cutter;
- chisel;
- screwdriver;
- drill;
- fasteners;
- roulette;
- gon.
Important! Remember that the list of tools will depend on what material you choose to make the well.
Besides materials and tools, it is important to prepare a drawing. Don't forget about it. Visualize any structure you are trying to make. Design it in the program or make drawings on paper. This will help save not only money during the purchase of materials, but also reduce timework, because the process is faster than it could be when you have pre-verified dimensions for each part. See how a partial drawing (below in the photo) of a decorative well, made by yourself, looks like.
Instructions for assembling a wooden well with your own hands
The prepared material is first marked out. Marks are made on each board / bar according to the drawing, according to which grooves and holes will be cut in the future.
Important! Remember that sawing wood and knocking out grooves must be perpendicular to the fibrous structure. This will prevent wood splitting, burrs or chips.
Head - the lower part of the well: how to make
So, how to make a decorative well with your own hands? Start at the base. Take a bar and make cuts on one side according to the pattern you developed. Make holes only in the upper and lower parts of the workpiece to connect with the following. Cut the rest on both sides.
From the prepared boards, chamfer using a cutter. This way you will get parts with beautifully finished edges. Pre-assemble the structure, adjust it, remove excess to achieve a snug fit of the base parts to each other.
To stiffen the head, screw a sealing board or beam to the top edge. A collar will lie on this final part of the box - a board, previously sawn at the ends at an angle of exact fit.
Besides, inwhere the racks will be mounted, you will need to cut grooves of the appropriate size.
How to make decorative well stands
The only thing left to do is to make racks. This work lies not so much in skill as in the creativity and imagination of the carpenter.
A bar or board is marked with smooth transitions, lines, circles the way you see the future design. The contours are cut with a jigsaw and polished with a grinding nozzle for a drill.
To fix the racks of the decorative well for the garden with your own hands, self-tapping screws are used in the places suggested on the head.
The ends of the racks are filed, assuming further installation of the roof in the form of an incomplete angle. At the top, at the place of installation of the deck and the decorative bucket (if this is supposed), the supports are fastened with jumpers. For these purposes, wooden chops are used.
At will, a deck and a bucket are made, but if inside it is supposed to place a stand with fresh flowers growing from a well, then the production of such parts can be abandoned. The design will look complete anyway. See how a do-it-yourself decorative well looks like in the country, in the photo below.
How to make a roof for a well
Prepare all roof elements separately:
- rafters;
- retaining plate;
- roofing strips.
Following the diagram or drawing, file the details at the corners. Make grooves in the dome, and strengthen the rafters in pairs. Do not use self-tapping screwsreplace them with glue, applying it to the grooves of the retaining plate.
Decorate the formed "umbrella" with wooden planks, starting from the bottom edge. Do not forget to strengthen the structure with bolts, nails or screws. Lay the second row so as to hide the previous fasteners. At the final stage, strengthen the decorative dome.
So, now you know how to make a decorative well with your own hands. Step-by-step instructions describe in detail each of the moments of the work. Once you figure it out, you'll realize that making your own is not as hard as it sounds.
