Winter classic. Bleached Pine Cones and Other Pine Cone Ideas

Everything related to pine cones is more than relevant for me now) Sister Melissa collected a whole bag of them for me, knowing how I lamented their absence last year. I found an idea that really interested me: bleaching buds in liquid household bleach or bleach. I’ll definitely try it one of these days and share my impressions) In the meantime, I suggest you look at a few ideas for using pine cones to decorate autumn and winter interior. Below you will find two photos of a master class on creating Christmas trees from cones. Enjoy watching)

First I want to show you this one fairy house, I really liked him. The house is made of cardboard, with decoupage imitating wood, and the roofs pitched roofs here from pine cones

And these cones are not bleached, but coated with gold spray paint. Very stylish option, suitable for any interior, under any furniture, it will look great both in the living room and in the office, even if you place it on a safe) By the way, you can buy a safe and any metal furniture in the PROmets store. Here you will find a wide range of safes, which are divided into several categories: burglar-resistant, fire-resistant, and so on. For your convenience, the online store website has a unique search system based on specified parameters, including: price, size, weight, lock type, key type, presence or absence of a cash drawer, warranty and manufacturer... Wow!)

But I will definitely make deer like this!

White cones have a more aesthetic appearance, but not as rich as the gold version. But although... depending on the interior of the house

And this is what bleached buds look like, before and after. And also... it turns out that a closed cone can be placed in the oven, and it will open. I never thought about it...)

Every owner wants to make their summer cottage special and unique. But there are not always unlimited material possibilities for expensive landscape design. This does not mean at all that stylish, modern and original country house beauty with your own hands is impossible. At a minimum cost it is quite possible to create paradise for relaxation and get maximum pleasure not only from the result, but also from the creative process.

When starting to decorate, it is advisable to immediately decide on the style of the intended decor. To be in line with the latest fashion trends landscape design, and choose the original and unusual decor garden, let's pay attention to the options for the latest popular styles of decorating suburban areas.

Popular Landscape Design Styles

How to make a beautiful dacha with your own hands, without the services of expensive specialists, and is this possible? Popular trends in garden design allow you to create a miracle with a minimum of cost, even without special construction skills.

Rustic style decoration can be found in almost any country house, but you want something original and modern. What if you try to refresh your knowledge of geography and design a plot in the style of a corner of our Planet that you dreamed of visiting, but, unfortunately, did not have the opportunity?

Variations on the theme of “country” or traveling without leaving home

Depending on the architecture country house and the terrain of the site can be selected rustic style in the spirit of a particular country.

What features are characteristic of the most popular and fashionable:

• Exquisite "Provence" - distinguished by refined simplicity and characteristic lavender, blue colors with all shades white. Welcome to use natural materials– wood, stone, sandstone.

Advice. The French countryside is characterized by the use of a wide variety of antiques.
Why not get creative in your dacha with your own hands - an old sideboard converted into a flowerbed and painted blue and white?

• Cowboy ranch - decorative features will emphasize attributes from the life of the shepherds of the Wild West (horse harness, old wooden wheel, bright flower bed in an old wooden cart or barrel). All farmers South America preferred whites and brown flowers, played out in contrast. Features of the style are deliberate simplicity and functionality;

• Warm breath of the Adriatic - The Mediterranean style is characterized by the use of natural light stone or warm sandstone in landscape decoration. They can be used to lay out paths and the bases of gazebos. You can use a statue or a decorative antique stone fountain as the main accent. An abundance of tropical greenery or stylization “like palm trees” and evergreen cypress trees is welcome;

• Decorating a dacha with your own hands in the Slavic style is not difficult at all. It is enough to erect a wicker fence, decorated with bright sunflowers and inexpensive ceramics, and lay out several round flower beds with bright summer flowers.

Advice. For beautiful decor, any old utensil painted in bright, cheerful colors can serve as a versatile flower bed.

Decoration in the style of minimalism of Asian countries

Very popular in recent years They use landscape design in a very symbolic manner, characterized by restrained simplicity and deep content of the Japanese and Chinese style. It is interesting that, for all its simplicity and simplicity, this decor requires careful thought out of every detail.

This design is ideal for plots located in the southern regions or for gardens with poor sandy or clay soils. Japanese gardens are ideally located on an uneven, hilly landscape, which can be interestingly played out in original composition from scrap materials, the price of which is minimal.

Filled with meaning and peace beautiful dacha DIY in Japanese style necessarily implies the following landscape elements:

• A dry stream is water, one of the four main elements of Eastern philosophy, and therefore must be present in the design of the garden. But if it is not possible to organize a small pond or fountain, then the solution is a dry stream. This composition is performed on a surface covered with river sand, imitating ripples on the surface of the water using wavy lines.

Advice. A dry stream or pond looks very interesting in combination with evergreen trees, decorated in the spirit of “Bonsai”.

• Rock garden - fascinating creative activity on hot summer days. The stones in the garden are arranged from left to right, according to the principle of any artistic composition, and the architecture of the garden depends only on the author’s imagination;
• The basic principle Japanese style is asymmetry and winding lines merging into a single harmonious composition;

• Country houses made from block containers can easily be styled as an oriental pagoda in restrained brown and white tones;
• A fence or arch for climbing flowers made of bamboo will highlight the features of the style;
• All lines in the design of fences, paths, flower beds and lawns are characterized by the absence of strict symmetry and rectangular shapes. Ovals, circles, and intricately curved lines are welcome.

Advice. Plants for the oriental garden do not require special care, since they are mainly conifers trees and shrubs, ideally evergreen (pine, spruce, cypress, juniper).
Herbs - calamus, rosemary, all plants with small white-blue or light pink flowers.

Simplicity and naturalness of harsh Scandinavia

If the owner of the site prefers the strict simplicity of the classics and values ​​​​comfort with minimal use of decor, then the style of harsh Scandinavia will suit perfectly. This design will especially appeal to people who do not have the opportunity or time to spend a long time caring for the site.

Do-it-yourself Scandinavian dacha landscaping:

• Strict correct geometry of flower beds and lawns, strict delimitation of recreation areas and gardens;
• Minimum plastic, metal modern attributes decor;
• , mostly coniferous;
• Paved, level paths covered with gravel or decorated natural stone gray tones;
• As the main accent, you can use an alpine slide of stones or one large boulder stone;

• Instead of wooden fences and picket fences, green hedges made of evergreen shrubs are used, which are designed in strict geometric proportions with sharp corners;
• How can you decorate your dacha with your own hands? Scandinavian style– set up a small garden of unpretentious heather with one square or rectangular flower bed.

Advice. For northern latitudes, it is typical to plant flower beds not in flower beds, but in pots or flowerpots, due to the harsh climate.
Such plantings can be easily brought into warm place with the onset of cold weather, and caring for them is much easier.

Original exotic

It’s possible to be transported to distant hot countries for a weekend in the Moscow region and Sakhalin. It is enough to create a Garden of Eden on summer cottage in an exotic way.

This is very easy to do with your own hands:

• Materials that are always at hand - stone, crushed stone, sand, dark wood(can be darkened with stain), intricately curved roots and branches, varnished, African dolls for the garden with your own hands or totems of wild African tribes;
• Vegetation and flower beds should be arranged in tiers, as in a real jungle, giving preference to climbing vines and bright exotics, for which you will still need to rent a diesel generator for the summer cottage for the winter;
• Fences and metal fences are excluded, only living, wildly flowering thickets that form chaotically;
• Homemade figurines of bright southern birds and unusual animals, which can be created from ordinary wood or even straw, are welcome;
• The color combinations are bright and contrasting.

Important. The exotic decor style does not accept strict lines and “traces of cultivation” of nature.
Only natural jungle habitat.

Unstoppable, rebellious high-tech

A modern, fast-paced and technologically advanced decor style that will appeal to people no older than thirty, and children will simply be delighted with it. This design also does not recognize any rules or restrictions, but has its own nuances.

How to decorate a dacha with your own hands in a modern, fashionable and shocking style:

• Combination of the incongruous - a combination of the most unexpected materials (plastic - glass - wood, metal - stone - old building from a computer, tin - glass);
• As a main accent, you can, at your leisure, invent your own metal architectural composition from scraps of tin, and build a fantastic lunar landscape around it;

• Plants should also be in keeping with the modern spirit. Unusual leaf shape, bent trunks, preferably cool blue and white shades of flowers;
• There is practically no limit to experiments in this direction.

Important. Cannot be combined modern direction in decoration with rustic accessories or romantic carved decorations.
Only unexpected asymmetrical lines and original designs.

Where to start with creative handicrafts for your dacha with your own hands, and what criteria for choosing a design style should be followed in a given case.

• In order for the decor to look harmonious, it is important to think through the entire design concept in detail; for this, a preliminary plan - a sketch - will be useful. On the plan you can optimally arrange all objects, depicting the whole picture;
• When choosing a design option, it is important to take into account the terrain, soil composition and average temperature regime in the region. Depending primarily on the relief, the design style is chosen. Almost any design is suitable for flat terrain, but for a site on a hill it is better to choose a decor in Japanese or Mediterranean style;

• To make the garden look harmonious, there is a technique called “choosing the main axis”. We need to direct the viewer's gaze to the object we need or the central element of the composition. To do this, select the center of the composition, for example a fountain or sculpture, and with the help of paved paths, borders and hedges we direct attention to the center;

• Symmetrical paths, flower beds and decorative items allow you to organize the overall composition. Symmetry is most often used in classical English version site design;
• Undesirable shape of the area, for example narrow, can be visually corrected. If you plant plants of the same shape and color along a straight path, the area will appear wider. If you plant bright, colorful plants at the end of the alley, they will seem much closer and this will also expand the alley;

• Don't be afraid to experiment. Sometimes it is the lack of funds to purchase expensive decor that allows you to create true works of art from improvised means, as can be seen in the photo;
• When choosing a style, it is important to focus on natural features that can be emphasized. For example, a small pond can become the center of the entire composition. Even a cottage located on a slope can be designed like a Sicilian ranch, with spectacular Mediterranean-style terraces.

Advice. If you have chosen a certain design style, then you should stick to it, without mixing decorative options that are opposite in meaning.
For example, in Japanese garden A wattle fence with ceramic caps will look ridiculous.

Conclusion

There is nothing more pleasant than becoming a real Creator and Creator on your six hundred square meters. If there is a desire, a family vacation will become much more interesting if each of the household members takes part in organizing the living space in the country. The video presented in this article will introduce the reader to some original ideas in landscape design.

I would like to present to you my design work personal plot, which brought me great pleasure.

When ordering a landscape project, great value has a mutual understanding between the customer and the contractor. IN in this case such mutual understanding was almost at the subconscious level. A young family, my neighbors, built a house. One winter, over a friendly tea party, as if jokingly, a neighbor offered me a job. As if jokingly, I agreed, only warned that I would demand strict implementation of all planned ideas. They shook hands and parted ways... until spring.

In the spring, a neighbor reminded me of our agreement, I had to quickly get to work and do the project.

I have long noticed: when you do work for a person you like, the work goes easily and quickly. A few days later the project was ready and agreed with the neighbor.

The plot area is 5 acres, the house is quite impressive in size, leaving not much space for all sorts of things. designer stuff. Moreover, the owner of the house categorically demanded that part of the territory be allocated for a vegetable garden.

We made part of the area in front of the house in classic style, having arranged a raised flower bed, in the design of which stone was used. Conifers, roses and sedums were planted in the flowerbed. More work will need to be done on the design of the flowerbed, as it summer option I didn't really like it. But this is already a task for the fall and next spring.

The material for the fence was stone. My neighbor, like me, has a weakness for stones, and not only precious ones. Such a strategic reserve has been collected near the house that it is possible to build not only a fence, but also a Great Chinese wall. The owner took on the masonry work; he really likes this work. He matches stone to stone with such gusto that he reminds me of a child putting together puzzles. Therefore, the completion of the fence can be expected in the distant future.

They decided to decorate the area behind the house in country style. This is where my design imagination ran wild!

The highlight of the program and the main decoration of this part of the site was the terrace. The material for it was wood. The terrace is adjacent to the back wall of the house. The kitchen door and window open onto it, which is very convenient for the hostess when there are guests. A large oak table and beautiful comfortable benches.

Terrace interior in rural style can be assessed from the photo. Many antique things from rural life were used to decorate it. All of them have taken their rightful place, and sometimes even quite unexpected applications.

Lush petunias in containers and unusual pots successfully complemented and decorated the terrace.

A beautiful, rather unusually arranged flowerbed was placed in front of the terrace, guarded by a gnome. I think it turned out great.

An unusual sandbox house was built for the little girl, where she plays for hours.

After righteous labors in the garden, the owner of the house can sit on a bench (which, by the way, was also made by the owner of the house with his own hands) and bask in the rays of the sun going beyond the horizon. The terrace turned out nice. How nice it is to sit on it on a warm summer evening!

Our work together did not end there. On next year planned:

a) construction of an outdoor fireplace. It will be located next to the terrace, in the place where the firewood is now located;

b) a fence made of birch poles, such as a bench. It will separate the garden from the rest of the area. A stuffed animal should take its rightful place in the garden;

c) arrangement of a lawn and an artificial pond and alpine slide;

d) arrangement of a flower garden at the entrance area.

There is a lot of work. You can do the kind of work that brings you pleasure for the rest of your life.