If you have a garden plot that is quite many years old, then from time to time you probably have to deal with issues with stumps on the plot that remain from trees.

We suggest that you don’t rack your brains over what can be made from a tree stump in your dacha, but simply plant flowers in it. And you will not only be original flower bed from a stump, but also magnificent unusual decor summer cottage plot.

Don’t rush to uproot stumps on your property, but look at how to decorate a stump in the garden with your own hands. We are sure that you will definitely like one of the ideas.

How to make a flower bed from a stump

To make a stump in your dacha look beautiful, remove the core from it. It will be good if the core is rotten enough. If not, use a drill to make several holes and pour stump remover (potassium or sodium nitrate) into it. They fill it up in the fall and tie it with polyethylene. But here you need to not overdo it with dosages, otherwise you will destroy not only the core of the stump, but its entirety.

After removing the core, cover it with fertile soil and plant flower seeds. It can be either , or . Tulips in stumps look great.

Children will be very interested to find out which gnome lives in a stump at their dacha. Such a stump garden plot they will be very pleased.

Mushrooms will create excellent site decor and a forest atmosphere.

Any ornamental green plants are great idea how to decorate a tree stump in the garden.

Decorate the stump from big tree Can be in different colors.

Any succulents in the country or stone roses will feel great in a flower bed made from a stump.

Spring irises are always welcome.

They plant it in a flower bed made from a stump in the fall, and enjoy the beauty in the spring.

There comes a time when the tree that for many years if it bears fruit or simply pleases you with its spreading crown, it has to be cut down. As a result, an unattractive stump forms in its place, with which something needs to be done. You can, of course, uproot it, but often such work requires serious physical effort. After all root system old tree remains branched and very strong. If you also don’t want to dig a pit to extract the root, all that remains is to figure out how to decorate the stump in the garden with your own hands.

Of course, the old stump will not bloom on its own, but this does not mean that flowers cannot grow on it. This will actually happen if you plant low annual flowers, herbaceous or even ornamental plants. Their presence will greatly ennoble and enliven the cut of the tree.

All these modest flowers look very impressive in a single bouquet, which, like a vase, is held by the simplest stump

To bring this idea to life, minimal costs are required. We level the surface of the stump, after which we make indentations in the stump. They should be such that the root system of your chosen plant can develop unhindered. A reference point could be, for example, flower pot.

You can simply make one depression in the stump by removing the core from it. This is not difficult to do when we are dealing with rotten stump. As for the tools, we will need a saw or a chisel with a hammer. If the stump appeared on your site relatively recently, it is better to use the method of burning the core.

Surely such a stump will become a real decoration of your garden at the very beginning of the last spring month and on the eve of summer

In the center of the stump you need to drill enough deep hole so that kerosene can be poured into it. Lateral surface at the same time, it should not be less than 7 cm, so that after removing the core our structure remains intact. Pour kerosene and plug the hole in the hemp with a stopper.

After about half a day, add kerosene and close the hole tightly with the plug again. Leave the stump alone for one to two weeks. Then remove the plug and set fire to the core of the stump. When it burns out, the resulting flowerpot should be treated with an antiseptic so that the flowerbed lasts longer.

Drill holes inside the recess to prevent water from stagnating. Now we place garden soil mixed with nutrients, after which we plant seedlings or bulbs. When a lush head of flowers forms on the stump, it will not look old and unsightly at all.

If you are not sure about the strength of the walls of your new stump flowerpot and are afraid that they may begin to crumble, they can be reinforced with mesh

The most different options You can see what you can make with your own hands from a tree stump in your dacha in this video:

Idea #2 - stump as garden furniture

To make something out of an old stump interesting thing, for example, a piece of furniture, is needed good tool and some skills for similar work. But tools today are not a problem. And as for skills, we can say this: all great masters were once apprentices. So let's at least try. What are you ultimately risking? Only an old stump.

Option #1 - tree stump as a chair

Let's say you just marked a tree to cut down. It would be nice if it had a thick trunk. We remove branches, moving from the thin upper ones to the stronger lower ones. Now that the trunk is in front of you, you need to mark it.

If we want to make a chair, it is more convenient to place the seat at a height of 40-60 cm from the ground. Let's say it will be 50 cm. We put a chalk mark at this height. But the chair still has a back. We add another 50 cm to it. At a height of 100 cm, we also put a mark with chalk. The cut will follow this mark, which is best done with a chainsaw.

It is difficult to say to what extent the chair depicted in this photo is of natural origin, but it is one that well illustrates the result of the work described in this section

Now we will form the back of the chair. To do this we need to make a horizontal cut at the seat level. That is, where our first chalk mark is located. We make a cut to a depth of 2/3 of the trunk. We saw through from the side in which the chair will later be turned.

To form the back, we will make a vertical cut from the top until we reach the previous, horizontal one. We remove the piece of trunk cut out in this way.

The foundation has been created, you can start decorative finishing. For this work we will need various devices from grinder to the chisel. It all depends on how exactly you decide to decorate the resulting chair. In any case, this will no longer be a stump sticking out in plain sight, but comfortable chair, sitting on the seat of which you can have a good rest.

Option #2 - original table

When you made the chair, you preferred not to part with the tree bark. Now we have to do garden table, the leg of which will be the stump itself. And this time it’s better to get rid of the bark. For this we can use a chisel or chisel. We will work as carefully as possible: we don’t want to damage the wood at all.

This photo clearly shows how exactly you need to nail the holders to which the tabletop will be attached in the future.

We place two perpendicular wooden planks on the side of the stump. We attach four holders perpendicularly fastened to each other on them in pairs. We make the tabletop from boards, and fasten them together with planks.

The tabletop can be made round. To do this, it is enough to draw a circle, using for this purpose an improvised compass from a pencil, rope and nail. We drive a nail into the center of the tabletop, to which is tied a rope with a pencil at the end. We draw a circle and remove everything that goes beyond its boundaries.

The tabletop, mounted on a leg that was once a tree stump, needs mandatory processing special protective compounds, but it’s better to close such a table for the winter

We nail the finished tabletop to the holders with nails or screw it with self-tapping screws. Finished product should definitely be done, which will prolong his life.

Idea #3 - funny compositions

Implementing the following idea is not at all difficult. And now the dry frame of your tree is being sawed by little men who look like green grasshoppers. It’s easy to make these babies yourself, using wire, pieces of tin or plastic for this purpose. Similar fairy-tale characters can also be purchased in a store selling souvenirs and toys.

The figures are made very cleverly, and the whole composition leaves an amazingly positive impression: the little men must be secured securely so that they are not damaged by bad weather

These funny figures can be screwed to the trunk using self-tapping screws, wire or clamps. Such a comic composition will decorate your garden and attract the attention of your friends and neighbors.

Option #2 - decorative fly agaric

If you think that making a fly agaric from a stump is easy, then you are absolutely right. All you need for this is an old enamel or iron bowl and an aerosol. The bowl needs to be cleaned and painted with red spray paint. After it dries, we draw white circles on the red background, exactly like the spots on the fly agaric cap.

Next to the handsome fly agaric, you can place numerous other objects that help revive the composition and make it complete

The stump also needs to be painted white. It would be nice to draw a cheerful grinning face on it. But here it’s up to your imagination to tell you. All that remains is to put a smart hat on your leg and boldly declare that the fly agaric is ready! By the way, you don’t have to make a fly agaric. It could also be a white mushroom. The fly agaric just looks more elegant.

To complete the picture, we suggest that you place pebbles, for example green, at the foot of your mushroom. They, like a picture frame, will create an edge to your work. However, you can do without them.

These porcini mushrooms are also made from stumps, only in a completely different way: both the stem and the cap of the mushroom are cut from the wood of the stump itself and painted in the appropriate colors

Option #3 - fairytale tower

If a person is not deprived of imagination, then even from a dry stump he is able to make a whole work of art - a fairy-tale castle or mansion inhabited by the most amazing fairy-tale characters. Such a craft can become a source of pride for the owner of the site if you work on it with all your heart.

Cute house made in Japanese style, supplemented by a small hut, most likely intended for holding a traditional tea ceremony

The stump itself can serve as the main part of the castle, onto which all additional decor will be attached. In order not to miss anything, we suggest making a sketch of the future structure and subsequently trying to follow it.

Decorating parts can be cut from a piece of fiberboard or plywood. They should be attached to the stump using self-tapping screws. All components must be impregnated to protect them from rotting. In addition, they can be painted in the desired color.

This material on creating crafts from plywood for garden decoration may also be useful:

Such cute house with figurines, children will really like it, who will undoubtedly immediately adapt it for their fun games

Sometimes in the trunk of a dry tree, very low from the surface of the earth, there are hollows and growths. All these details, despite their natural origin, are easily used in the composition. For example, small toy ladders with funny gnomes on them can hang from a hollow. And on the growth you can place a toy piano with a squirrel-pianist.

Don't forget to pay attention to the roof of the structure. An old leaky bucket will do just fine for her. By the way, artificial or live plants coming out of a hole in the roof of such a structure will look very attractive.

This video is dedicated to a variety of characters made from tree stumps:

Idea #4 - decorate the stump with flowers in pots

We have already told you how you can decorate a stump with flowers that are grown in it, but there is another option for this decoration. If there are several branches left on the stump, you can hang the same flowers on them, but grown in pots. They can look very impressive.

Even if there are no branches, a flower pot can be placed on the stump itself or around it, creating a special aura of flowering and ongoing life. Hemp looks great as a decorative stand under flower pots with plants, if they are thoroughly sanded, allowing the wood to show its texture.

Despite the simplicity of this composition, it looks very impressive and distinctly rustic: it is perfect for country style

But we should not forget that a tree located in an open area needs protection - impregnations that will resist rotting.

Idea #5 - garden sculptures

Create garden figurines Anything can be made from stumps, only real artists end up with wonderful works of art that amaze with their realism. If you are driven by the desire to simply decorate your area, then you can create a simple image that does not require special skills.

Of course, this magnificent deer calling out in the spring forest was skillfully carved from an ordinary stump by a high-level professional

Making a simple figurine from a stump is not at all difficult. Those who made snowmen in childhood can apply their accumulated experience in this case. The role of hands will be played by twigs, instead of the nose and mouth we will attach twigs, Eyes can be made from brown bottoms from plastic bottles. The role of the pupil will be played by the cork from the same bottles.

All this is attached to the stump with self-tapping screws. On the horizontal surface of the cut, you can simply lay out pine cones, which will imitate hair. This is the garden guard we made at a quick fix, ready.

But any schoolchild can make such a funny guard for a dacha, and this is precisely why such a garden sculpture is valued

If it happened that you had to cut down a whole row country trees, don't be sad. This situation also has its own positive side. But now you have large number stumps located close to each other. And this is not bad at all. Make them into a fairyland for your children, putting into practice all the information that you have already received in this article.

It will be just a wonderful place to play. First you have to clear each stump of bark. For this you will need a chisel and a hammer. The chisel must be inserted between the bark and the tree trunk, then gently tap it with a hammer. The bark will move away from the trunk and soon the stump will completely lose it. Now it can be thoroughly sanded using for this purpose sandpaper with medium grain.

Such an owl could easily become the companion of Baba Yaga herself and settle in her hut, flying out from time to time to hunt

Be sure to remove wood dust formed during work with a damp cloth. The wood prepared in this way should be treated with an antiseptic, which will protect it from rotting.

Now you can start decorating the stump. Let's choose a large stump to turn it into Baba Yaga's real house. Let's take chalk and outline the location of the future windows and doors of the grandmother's hut. Recesses in wood for doors and windows can be made using a chisel and hammer.

We will need pieces of boards from which we will make doors and window shutters. These parts of the future structure can be painted right now, while they are not yet nailed into place. Doors and shutters should be nailed to the places marked on the stump using nails whose heads have been bitten off. When finishing decorating the hut, you can collect branches and driftwood of unusual shapes from the area to stick them around Baba Yaga’s house. Let them portray dense years.

On smaller stumps you can depict a variety of heroes folk tales or funny cartoon characters. You can decorate these stumps and draw your intended characters on them using paints for outdoor work. The images outside will wonderfully complement the flowers planted directly inside the stumps. How to do this was described in detail at the beginning of the article. You can limit yourself to pots with plants.

Another wonderful composition, made by a professional artist and sculptor, creates great mood, inherent in a small fairy-tale corner of your garden

We'll turn a couple more stumps into children's chairs. To do this, we won’t even cut out the massive back. If you have old chairs, use their backs for this job. They should be carefully freed from varnish, and then, using ordinary nails, nailed to the stump seats. All that remains is to paint the finished chairs in bright colors that children will definitely like.

Simply turn the small remaining stumps into a flock of fly agarics, using bowls or basins of the appropriate size as their caps. Now you know exactly how such fly agarics can be made. That's it, the improvisation on the theme of the fairy tale is ready.

Idea #6 - “green monster”

Another idea on how to refine a stump may also interest you. For this purpose, you need a hefty stump with a powerful root system, which is hidden in a shady place. If you have one on your site, you can consider yourself lucky.

Big stump, covered with moss, looks mysterious, as if it came straight into your garden from Twilight or some other saga

Buy a variety of moss suitable for your climate at the store. You need to plant moss on a stump. To get it to work, you will have to spray it with water periodically. Now it is important that the moss grows. When this happens, you will be able to fully appreciate the enormity of the resulting creation.

Specialists who are professionally involved in landscape design know that it is impossible to create your own unique style in the garden using only purchased decorative elements. There must be some unique, inimitable details. A decorated stump is just that. You can’t buy it in a store, you can only make it and decorate it with your own hands.

Uproot stumps or use them to decorate the garden?

The appearance of stumps on summer cottage- the most common thing. Sometimes they are located in the garden initially: they remain after deforestation. Over time, as the garden grows and matures, it is necessary to cut down old, diseased or damaged trees. Not everyone is capable of heavy uprooting with their own hands. In addition, there is a danger of damaging neighboring plants, underground communications and even the foundations of buildings. This service from invited specialists is quite expensive.

Every stump in the garden can become a source of inspiration and find new life as a stylish art object of landscape design or useful device for summer life in the country.

Bright hat ampelous petunia, blooming in a flowerpot from a large stump, can decorate a dacha for more than one month.

Flowering stumps

The very first idea that comes to mind after deciding not to uproot the stump is to decorate it with flowers. Use stumps and tree trunk cuttings for garden design and the planting of ornamental plants began in the 19th century in Victorian England. The fashionable hobby has turned into a landscape design style and even received its own name - stumpery (from the word stamp - stump). They tried to complement and decorate the compositions with various driftwood, roots, and lying tree trunks.

Making a flowerpot out of hemp with your own hands is especially easy if the core of the tree has rotted or crumbled. The cavity inside the stump is cleared and, if necessary, enlarged. Dense wood can be removed by burning. It is best to place a pot filled with fertile soil with hole for drainage. Or you can line the inner cavity with a thick film, pour a layer drainage material And fertile soil, ensuring the removal of excess water.

What plants will be comfortable growing in flowerpots made from stumps? First of all, these are succulents that are resistant to drying out of the soil - sedum, saxifrage, and juveniles. You can decorate the stump with hanging varieties of annuals: petunias, nasturtiums, lobelias. Elegant spring compositions in stumps can be created by forcing bulbs: crocuses, galanthus, muscari, tulips. They will enliven and decorate the garden and will successfully compete with purchased landscape design elements.

You should not plant in such pots flowering perennials. Most likely, their root system, located in the stump above the ground level, will not survive winter frosts and will die.

In shady areas of the dacha, collectors can adapt stumps for growing mosses, lichens, and ferns.

A young plant planted directly into a stump is not afraid of lack of moisture.

Green and silver shoots of sedums are in harmony with the texture of the bark of an old stump

After flowering, tulip bulbs should be removed, dried and stored until autumn planting.

Fairytale houses

A stump can become a center of attraction for the younger inhabitants of the dacha. If it is located near a children's playground or, conversely, in a corner of the garden hidden from prying eyes, you can make your own magic house in which gnomes, princesses or other characters from children's fantasies will live. The interesting thing about this work is that you can make and decorate a house or castle together with your children, turning this activity into a great exciting game.

Around fairy house built from a stump, a new one can form amazing world with its own miniature landscape, which will gradually fill with life. It is possible that some new buildings will arise - windmill, well, suspension bridge or something else, new inhabitants will appear.

An ordinary stump will serve as a real workshop for awakening and developing children's imagination.

Fairytale house with a roof planted with ground cover plants

Dwarf's home. And here he is, standing on the balcony and looking around the garden

A real watchtower with a door and a ladder inside

Fairytale castle built over a small tree stump

Garden sculptures made from stumps

If any of the inhabitants of the dacha have at least some skills in using chisels, you can make a real sculpture with your own hands from ordinary hemp. Depending on tastes and skills, various animals and birds, mushrooms, fairy-tale creatures and abstract figures can live in the garden.

For better preservation, the sculpture must be processed protective equipment, and for the winter it is advisable to remove or cover it to isolate it from contact with snow.

Adorable little owlets peek out of a hollow carved into a tree stump

Under the tool of a skilled craftsman, the stump turned into a family of cute mushrooms

Garden furniture

Large stumps with healthy wood left after felling big trees can be turned into chairs, armchairs and even entire sets garden furniture With unique design. If the size of the hemp allows, it is advisable to make backrests and comfortable armrests.

Having necessary set carpentry tools, it is easy to give the workpiece the desired shape with your own hands. Having made a preliminary sketch of the future landscape design object, use a chisel, saw, or ax to remove everything unnecessary, then thoroughly clean and treat the surface. In order for a stump chair to serve for a long time, it is impregnated with an antiseptic and coated with varnish for outdoor use.

The stump from which the chair is made is processed and polished with special care. Light tinting and matte varnish revealed and emphasized the beautiful wood grain

A strong board inserted into the cuts of two stumps will serve as a bench. You just need to sand the rough edges and round the edges of the board

Without a back and armrests, but with soft, waterproof seats, stumps can turn into comfortable stools. A large tree stump can serve as the base of a table. You can make a tabletop of the most unusual design with your own hands:

• glass;
• mosaic;
• from stone slab;
• from a beautiful cut of wood;
• from porcelain stoneware.

Bird houses, feeders, drinking bowls

If you leave a tall stump when cutting down a tree, you can make many interesting structures to attract birds to the garden.

1. You can attach several birdhouses various designs. In this case, the bark should not be removed. The place will become even more attractive to birds; under the bark they will enthusiastically search for insect larvae.
2. A small platform with sides and a canopy, mounted on a high stump, will become a real bird canteen. If you organize convenient access to it, you can feed the birds not only in summer, but also in winter.
3. A flat bowl, installed on a stump and filled with fresh water daily, will serve as a drinking bowl and bathing basin for the feathered guests of the garden.

Under the bark specially left on the stump around the intricate birdhouses, birds can get their food

Birdhouses are expertly carved from well-preserved wood from a tall stump

A small canopy will protect the bird food in the feeder from bad weather

On a small stump from old cherry or an apple tree housed a birdbath/drinker

Hives

It is not often possible to meet on a summer cottage, and even in village house, this unusual use of stumps is as hives for bees. In fact, boards (blocks) made from tree trunks have long been used by people to maintain bee colonies. Few people today decide to use this method of beekeeping. But you can make stumps with your own hands, not real ones, but decorative hives. They will fit easily into landscape design V rustic style. It is quite possible that they will be chosen by the garden’s friends – bumblebees.

Elements of antiquity and ethnicity will be brought into the garden design by hives hollowed out in stumps

Design exercises with tree stumps have one very important advantage. Even a novice master does not risk anything, because he does not use expensive purchased materials. The object of application of his creative powers is just an old stump that can decorate the garden.

An interesting and rather unusual trend - the use of tree stumps in interior design - appeared just a couple of years ago. It was rapidly gaining momentum, and today stumps are no longer easy current trend, but a sign of style and taste.

Today, stumps are an incredibly popular, and at the same time inexpensive and environmentally friendly material.

Tree stumps are often used as furniture for the home, not only helping to update the space, but also evoking thoughts about our place in nature. As a rule, the result exceeds all expectations and turns out to be inexpensive, beautiful and unique.

Coffee table made of driftwood

DIY stump table

Especially often, stumps are used in interiors as tables, bedside tables, coffee tables, and also as bathroom furniture.

The stump is natural. The easiest way is to use the stump in its original form as a table, just sand it a little so as not to get a splinter.

Stump painted

Stump painted with gold paint (from a can)

The stump looks great in its natural form, but you can give it even more originality by painting it in any color, applying patterns with a brush or using a stencil.

For the bathroom

If you treat the stump with water-repellent impregnation, it will also be suitable for the bathroom

The stump for the bathroom will become very original decor. It can be used as a table, placing bath accessories on it near the bathroom, or candles when you want to have a relaxing evening.

Table with glass

The simplest use for a stump is to make a coffee table out of it. Top can be adjusted glass table top for more elegant looking. The stump can also be placed on legs or wheels, resulting in a very convenient mobile table.

An ordinary tree stump will look great as a bedside table. You can decorate it at your own discretion.

Table with glass

Table on wheels

Stumps as chairs

Stumps make excellent stools. You can put small pillows on top of them to make it softer to sit on. Hemp can also be used as decorative chairs, which will be an excellent addition to the interior. The presence of a back will make the stump chair even more comfortable.

If you go to a workshop, you can make an original designer chair or bench.

How to treat a stump for the interior

To create a table or cabinet, you need to find a suitable stump and process it correctly. The bark can be removed with a chisel, or you can leave it on.

Cut to the required size

Removing bark from a stump

The sections of the stump must be sanded using sandpaper and then the stump must be cleaned of dust. Treat with a layer of primer and open the stump with several layers of wood varnish.

Sand the stump using sandpaper

Apply water-repellent impregnation

If the future table is intended for the bathroom, you need to apply a water-repellent impregnation.

Other methods of using stumps in the interior

Small stumps can be used as a flower stand, so your home greenhouse will look very aesthetically pleasing.

Rotten stump for flowers

Flowerpot

Flowerpot made of birch stump

Vases made from stumps will be a wonderful addition to any interior. Moreover, the tree bark can be left for a more natural, natural appearance.

Hemp can even be used as unusual lighting fixtures. You need to place it inside the stump led lamps emitting warm light.

You can decorate the wall with sections by sawing stumps into many rings. You can decorate the entire wall with saw cuts, or a fragment of it, and the result will be a unique panel. To do this, the saw cuts are simply attached to a clean flat surface, for wood glue.

Great solution for the living room

Wall decor with wood cuts

You can glue a mirror processed with a cutter onto smooth layers of wood, and thus get an original mirror.

In the garden it leads to the appearance of rough and not very attractive stumps. You can solve the issue in two ways - study the uprooting and get down to business, or decorate the stumps after cutting them down and liven up the quiet garden a little.

We decided that summer residents, who are always busy difficult work, it will be interesting to take a break to tidy up the garden without spending physical effort on it. Today we will look at the problem of stumps in the garden without uprooting and organizing tree stumps, which we have already discussed earlier. We will simply decorate the stumps with improvised objects and means, improve the area and give it an even more interesting and cheerful look.

Decorating and decorating stumps is in a great way rid yourself of the worries of uprooting, especially if there is no opportunity for this.

So, we forget about working with an expensive chainsaw, exclude cutting down roots and physical fatigue, and just consider the most interesting ideas that will help transform stumps and cuttings of old trees.

Decorating a cut tree with homemade figurines

We have a great idea that absolutely anyone can bring to life. In the photo below you can see an interesting picture - little fairy-tale woodcutters working over a tree trunk. You can make these babies from plastic or tin, or you can simply buy figurines in a toy and souvenir store.

You can place the figures and their accessories on the barrel using screws, nails, wire or clamps. As a result, you no longer get a bare tree trunk, but a truly soulful picture.

We decorate the stump with pots of plants

Surely, many of us grow flowers not only in the palisade or specially equipped flower beds, but also in pots, on vertical beds. Our next proposal will be to decorate the stump with just such flowers, in pots. You can install several nice clay or plastic pots with already grown flowers around the stump, or you can plant them again. In addition, there is always the opportunity to decorate a stump with moss, to play with it in a fairy-tale version, for example, by adding ferns, bright flowers, animal figures nearby, turning a small space into a real forest.

Finished decorations

Landscape designers, sellers of garden and vegetable stores, as well as ordinary entrepreneurs who want to earn a little money, have long come up with. They are intended for partial or complete decoration of the garden, lawn, and area as a whole. It is these colorful and funny products that are perfect for decorating a stump.

The image below shows a cheerful plaster frog that majestically “conquered” a stump and remained on it forever. In addition, the stump of an old tree is decorated with improvised objects, ordinary country trash, and painted in cheerful colors. To tell the truth, this is only for two hours of free time and for an amount that could be spent on just a few chocolates.

How to make a mushroom from a stump

Classic shape transforming an old stump in the garden - a mushroom. It could be a white mushroom or a fly agaric – it’s your choice, but we start from a more cheerful mood.

A little lower simplest option, which is great for summer residents who do not want to spend money on such fun. Yes, it is an old and dilapidated basin, which no longer holds water and cannot be used around the house, that becomes a mushroom hat. The stump itself forms the leg.

The inverted basin is secured with a pair of nails to the saw cut, painted in the color of the mushroom that you have chosen, and the stump is tinted in a color corresponding to the name of the mushroom or your mood. You can add decor, plant flowers nearby or herbaceous plants, but you can leave the mushroom in this form.

DIY stump chair

Here we will take a little break from fun and games, and move on to serious, and even adult things. The example we presented can only be done by real professionals with a certain amount of time and the availability of tools.

We propose to convert the stump into a chair that can be used in the garden for relaxation. How to do this, read now!!!

Correct cut

If there is an old and thick tree in the garden that needs to be cut down, it is perfect for our idea. Immediately you remove the upper branches, then the thicker ones below, and so on, according to all the rules for cutting down large trees. But once you reach the main trunk, you should stop and work with the dimensions a little.

A comfortable sitting height will be between 40 and 60 cm, but do not forget that each chair has a backrest. Therefore, the seat is at a height of, say, 50 cm from the ground, and the back and cut are at a height of 100 cm. It is at this mark that the chainsaw is cut.

Now a vertical cut, all the way to a horizontal one, to remove a piece of the trunk from the place where the seat of the chair is formed.

Naturally, all such work takes place with preliminary markings and compliance with all safety regulations.

Decorative finishing, seat formation

Now the chair is subject to decorative finishing, since we have only a rough version in front of us. Finishing occurs using special tools - chisels, mallets, hammers, hacksaws, grinding machine, and possibly with the use of professional devices. The result depends on your efforts, desire and time, but this is what we got interesting option.

Fairytale castle made from a stump

One of these is already available in our previous article on design dacha area, but today we decided to install the lock a little higher. How to make it, decide for yourself - with your own hands or purchased. But installing the lock (or maybe an ordinary house or forest hut) happens simply. You need to nail or screw the base under the structure with self-tapping screws. This can be a figured board or a piece of chipboard impregnated with protective varnish.

Afterwards, using glue or screws, we install all parts of our structure, slowly and confidently moving towards the result. Upon completion of the work, you can get something similar to our example!

Decoration with live plants

Agree, it is much more pleasant to observe on the territory of a summer cottage, from plants, rather than forms and compositions, which cause more surprise and misunderstanding than joy and delight. That’s why we suggest trying the option of decorating a cut tree with live plants. These can be herbaceous plants, small annual flowers or even some ornamental plants. These are the ones we will plant in the stump.

On the cut of the stump we make a hole, which, according to agricultural technology, is sufficient for the root system of the selected plant. This may be a hole the size of a flower pot. Next, pour a little nutrient substrate or garden soil with fertilizer inside and plant the plant inside. See below what it will look like after a while!

Garden figure from a stump

Craft garden figures, sculpting or carving is very interesting, but today our task is less creative. We just need to come up with an image for the stump that will match the design of the garden or flower bed. Often colorful characters, famous cartoon characters and so on, but doing something like this with your own hands is quite difficult. And this means only one thing - we will simplify everything as much as possible, paint the stump, create an elementary image that will not require investment.

The result is a wonderful image of a face on one half of the stump, as well as a decoration for the cut.

The simplest decoration of the cut and trunk of a stump

If you don’t have time or money for grandiose ideas, you can do it as shown in the photo below - simply paint the stump in cheerful colors, install flowers made of plastic bottles on the cut plane (we studied products made from plastic bottles not long ago), and plant plants nearby.

Funny figure from a stump, garden scarecrow

This completely non-scary scarecrow can be made from the trunk of an old tree. A stump is not suitable for this, but when cutting down, you can make the cut a little higher, then everything will definitely work out. To create an image we use imagination, old clothes and accessories, perhaps some additions. As a result of pleasant work, we get a wonderful creation that will amuse your guests and relatives.

If you have similar ideas or are ready to surprise us with something more exclusive and even exotic, please leave your thoughts in the comments, for which we will be very grateful.

Flower pots made from wooden saw cuts (video)

Today we looked at another way to have a pleasant and useful time at the dacha, but there is more to come more ideas, interesting ideas and implementation of decorating plans with your own hands!!!

Decorating stumps and saw cuts in the garden (20 photos)

Reviews and comments

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Kot 02/18/2014

Ahaha) Looks very nice! Of course, I didn’t think of that. In my yard I simply painted all these stumps in bright color and drew all sorts of faces. Well, so that I can get at least some benefit from them :) Now I want to do it as in the second photo, i.e. put it on a stump beautiful flower and stab him with branches with berries, etc. Looks really nice!

Vershinin Nikolay. 26.06.2014

At my dacha there grew a large and very ugly gnarled birch tree, and at the very bottom there was a growth very similar to a nose. I cut down a birch tree, and near this nose I made eyes from DVD discs, a mouth and even a protruding tongue from a piece of red plastic. A decorated basin was also placed on his head. It turned out to be a very funny bug-eyed creature that everyone passing by laughed at, especially the kids.

Olga 03/03/2015

I also planted flowers in the stump :) I really like how they look there, I just need to water them more often. And so, it’s very nice, I love building all sorts of compositions around tree stumps, I immediately want to plant some residents next to each other :)

Marina 03/03/2015

I really liked the idea of ​​decorating the stump with flowers. And the chair turned out good. But a mushroom made from a hemp and a bowl looks bad; some people make these in our yards. You can experiment with fun options, but I think that such a creation will quickly get boring

Irena 03/14/2015

Fly agarics from an inverted basin are annoying. It's some kind of official stuff. But I like the chairs - there were a couple of stumps at the dacha, so they made chairs for children and built a small table out of them. Well, the flower garden of their huge maple stump - I planted climbing flowers along the edges, and “sticking out” ones in the middle.

Sashka 12/09/2015

And when we cut down the tree, we made a table from the stump, nailing a board, and placed chairs made of logs around it. When it's cool, put cushions on the seats and enjoy drinking tea. In the summer there is also a barbecue here, next to it there is a barbecue made of bricks - a nice thing.

Sergey 07/14/2016

And I went a little further and saw on the Internet how a sculpture of a deer was made from a felled trunk. I had just such a tree that, at a distance from the ground, it leaned to the side. Here is the finished neck, and I made the head out of plaster, just like I used to make figurines for the garden. I fastened the whole thing together with metal rods and painted it along with the wood. It came out as one whole. Antlers can also be made by covering branches or wire with plaster or other material.

Natalie 08/02/2016

Creative, interesting solution problems with tree stumps. I really liked it. It’s beautiful and appropriate. I wouldn’t have thought of making such beauty myself. A flowering stump under the window pleases the eye and lifts the spirits. It’s nice to relax in such beauty. Now I know how to make my dacha extraordinary and pleasant for relaxation .

Svetlana-Karpova-vkontakte 11/23/2016

In our village we have two stumps on our property. One is from an apple tree, there is a small trunk. Therefore, we simply decorated it with flowers; when everything is in bloom, it is practically invisible. One stump is just standing there for now. We do not have the ability to make, for example, the figure of a deer, as in the previous comment. It's a pity, some animal would look very beautiful. A chair made from a stump is interesting, but the stump is not always in a convenient place for the chair to look harmonious with nature.

Alena 08/10/2017

For me, the coolest option for using old stumps in a garden plot is when the stump is evenly cut down and decorated with only fresh flowers, adding artificial materials or the coloring is not at all appropriate.

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