At their summer cottage, perhaps, everyone has boards of various sizes left over from past repairs or construction. Do not rush to throw them away or burn them, because you can make exclusive decorative elements for home and garden from wood with your own hands.
Door mat
In order to make such a rug with your own hands, you will need two boards of the same size. A frame is made of them, on which boards are planted with the help of a screwdriver at the same distance from each other. The edges can be decorated with a thick cord, and the surface can be painted in any color or varied with drawings or inscriptions. Do not forget to coat the tree before starting work so that the rug will serve you for more than one season.
Garden swing
Probably everyone remembers from childhood a swing made of one board and ropes. We suggest you improve this design by increasing the seating area and adding a backrest with armrests. Before work, the tree must be properly sanded so as not to get a splinter. Do not make the swing too massive, safety comes first!
Garden sofa
A modular wooden sofa fits perfectly around the round table, which will repeat its shape and accommodate all guests as comfortably as possible. The tree must be pre-processed, paying special attention to the legs, which are more susceptible to destructive processes from contact with the ground. To make a sofa, you will need a saw, a plane, nails with a hammer, or a screwdriver. You can paint the product in any color you want.
Bench
If the sofa requires a lot of effort and time, then there is nothing easier than building a bench. It is best to make it stationary, placing it on brick or stone foundations. So the product will last a long time, only the boards themselves will have to be replaced as needed. It is best to build an additional wooden frame and attach planks to it, which should be sanded and painted in advance.
Shrub cover
From low wooden planks, a beautiful round planting fence is obtained. For its manufacture, a frame of the required radius is made, depending on the width of the bush, and planks pre-processed from rot and mold are already nailed to it. It turns out a kind of bush in a barrel. The remaining space between the bush and the sheathing walls is filled with earth and mulch. If you wish, you can build not just a fence, but a whole flower bed.
Summer kitchen table
Best of all, if you still have the iron frame from the old table - the iron is durable and your table will last for many seasons. To make it, you only need to update the tabletop by picking up the boards of the right size.
A wooden plank is attached to the old frame using a drill and corners, and boards are mounted on it. They must be treated from rot and mold, and the surface must be well sanded. The resulting countertop can be painted in bright colors using printed stencils or left monophonic, only with a special composition.
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Shelf table for garden tools
How convenient it is when all the tools - shovels, watering cans, hand hoes and other small things - are stored in one place! We suggest you make a wooden shelf table. It is very simple to make it - you need 4 boards for the legs, 4 smaller ones for the frame and several for the table top.
Make horizontal shelves under the table. Their number depends only on your desire. You can leave only two tiers and store buckets, watering cans and other high accessories at the bottom, or you can make more shelves for small things.
Wall garden
If the area of the site does not allow your imagination to roam and fill it completely with greenery and flowers, we suggest building a wall garden from wooden planks. Pin boards in the form of boxes to the wall of the shed or house.Secure their base with special construction corners. Arrange the boxes in a checkerboard pattern so that the plants do not interfere with each other. Cover the bottom and sides with a special breathable fabric. And your garden on the wall is ready! There you can plant your favorite flowers, edible herbs, medicinal herbs.
Seedling and greenery rack
For dinner, even in the cold season, it is nice to have fresh herbs on the table. You can grow it on your own windowsill. And for convenience and aesthetics, we suggest making a beautiful neat wooden rack. It is made as easy as shelling pears - shelves-crossbars are stuffed between two wall-boards. On them are placed plastic pots with onions, arugula and other favorite varieties of greenery planted in them.
On a note! A hose compartment can be made from an old wooden cabinet. And build a flower garden on top by cutting out the top. You saw the photo at the beginning of the article.
Hot coasters
Products made from natural materials easily fit into any interior. Wooden coasters for hot dishes will look very impressive. For their manufacture, a small wooden stump with a diameter of 15-20 cm is taken, the height of future cuts is marked on it, and then the saw is used. Chopping the stump into several circles of the same size, we get a beautiful hot stand. Additional treatment with impregnations of noble dark shades of wood will help to give it a gloss and extend its service life.
