The trend of rational use of household waste in Lately is becoming more and more popular, especially for plastic containers. From plastic bottles, you can do almost everything with your own hands. country interior and not only. One of the main advantages of this material is its long service life, besides it is very elastic. Do not forget that plastic bottles are an affordable material that every owner or hostess always has in stock.
Cheap and cheerful - we make flower beds from bottles
The plastic container is ideal option for, since it has a great advantage over wood and even metal. Wooden fencing on flower beds or flower beds cracks or rots over time under the influence of moisture and the sun. Even metal curbs are susceptible to corrosion and require periodic maintenance, such as regular painting.
But what about plastic? It does not lose its shape and does not collapse for a long time. This means that such a flower bed will last more than one season and even more than one year, moreover, it does not require any maintenance at all. Even if a “breakage” occurs, the desired “element” can always be found in the pantry and easily replaced without resorting to long tedious shopping trips in order to find a suitable fragment.
So, what can you do with plastic bottles with your own hands?
bottle borders
If you need to protect the flower garden, plastic containers of different sizes will do just fine. This will not only limit space and prevent growth perennials, but will still retain moisture and prevent weeds from appearing.
The shape and size of the flower bed depend only on the imagination of the summer resident: it can be either equilateral or in the form of some animal or plant. Also, bottles can be divided into segments of the flower bed itself.
Even a child can build a bottle border (with the help of adults, of course):
- First of all, on the site, you should draw with a sharp object or pour the contours of the flower bed with sand.
- Release the bottles from the labels, wash them, pour sand into them and tighten the cap. If this is not available, ordinary earth or water can be used. This is necessary for stability, since empty containers will quickly fall out of the fence.
- Dig a groove along the outlined contour so that the bottle can be deepened by about 1/3 into it.
- Place the filled bottles in the groove with the neck down, as close as possible to each other, and cover with earth.
For a visual effect, you can use bottles of different color plastic (green, white, brown).
Some summer residents do without digging in bottles. For example, bottles without a bottom are simply inserted into each other, forming a circle. Finished construction you can “put on” or take in the ring the near-trunk circle of a tree. To fix the curb, it must be firmly pressed to the ground with arcs.
Multi-tiered flower bed
If you really want to have a flower garden, and there is a catastrophic lack of space, you can do it yourself from plastic bottles. The principle is the same as for the construction of the curb, only after laying the first tier, it is necessary to fill it with nutrient soil, and only then lay out the next floor.
When planting plants for the lower tier, it is better to choose moisture-loving specimens, since water will flow down when watering.
Mini flower beds
Beautiful and useful crafts for giving can be made from 5-liter plastic bottles. They will serve as miniature and cute flower beds, for example, in the shape of everyone's favorite piglets.
Group compositions in the form of trains with flowers look no less impressive.
And if instead of flowers sow lawn grass, a large bottle turns into a cute hedgehog with green spines. It remains only to attach the eyes and nose.
Those who are not afraid of small rodents will like cute mice from small (liter) bottles. They are good for planting petunias.
Flower pots and flowerpots
With a little imagination, plastic bottles can be easily transformed into small decorative pots for flowers or spicy greens. You can make them even or cut them into a marker in the shape of a muzzle. Such flowerpots will look great not only in the garden gazebo, but also in the house on the windowsill.
But if you put a fabric cover on a cropped bottle and attach ropes, you will get elegant planters for a summer veranda.
The easiest way to make hanging pots is to cut out fragments of the walls on both sides of the bottle, and fasten a string for hanging under the neck. In such flowerpots, compact undersized plants can be planted.
Making a beautiful garden path
Tracks made of plastic containers are especially popular with summer residents. The strength of such a path depends on the laying method and what part of the plastic container serves as a building material:
Paths made of plastic bottles become very slippery in winter.
Fun playground - decorate a place for children's games
Caring parents always strive to give their children a place to play in the country, where children can pass the time while adults are busy in the garden. Of course, it should be not only safe, but also colorful to please the kids. With the help of plastic bottles, it is easy to decorate the playground by making a variety of plants and animals. Ordinary paint will help to give them brightness.
In the shade under a palm tree
What is a playground without a sandbox? And where there is sand, a palm tree must “grow”. For a Tropican, you will need green and brown bottles for the trunk and leaves, respectively.
Before proceeding with the assembly, you need to take care of a solid base. For example, attach to concrete screed a metal pin, and it should be quite long so that the tree turns out high, and the children can walk freely under it.
When the base is fixed, you can start "growing" palm trees:
- cut off half of the bottle (the top with the neck is not needed) and form a jagged edge;
- make a hole in the center of the bottom, string the blanks onto the base pin, while bending the teeth to the side for a more natural look;
- cut off the bottom of the green bottle and make straight cuts along the entire contour to the place where the wall goes into the neck (if desired, the branches can be made curly - cut into 4 parts and place cloves on each);
- string fragments of the branch on the base;
- firmly attach the finished branches to the top of the stem (by welding or construction harnesses).
If after assembling the palm tree there are still many green bottles left, you can make a small (or large) Christmas tree from them. Remove the bottom from the bottle and cut it into long narrow strips right up to the very neck. Trim the edges of the strips to look like thorns. Thread the leaves onto the base.
Such a Christmas tree will look great on the site in winter, especially under snow, and will also help out in new year's eve those who in a hurry did not have time to buy a living tree.
Guests from a fairy tale - funny animals
And of course, there must be toys. Often children take their old pets outside. With the help of plastic bottles, you can easily diversify the "zoo", creating real masterpieces - from the fabulous Frog Princess and the Golden Fish to modern cartoon characters.
Take at least a handsome cat, painted in black and white paint. And you can use brown beer bottles, and you get a brown cat, also beautiful.
From the two bottoms of the bottle, form a head (connect them), while the bends on the bottoms will really look like a real head. On one of them, draw eyes, eyebrows and mustaches with white paint, and a neat tongue with red paint. From above, insert cut out small ears. For the body, string the same short cut bottoms onto the base, close the body last. Melt the edges of the bottoms. Walk along the melted contour of the ears and fragments of the body with white paint, and on the front bottom make a white speck on the breast.
Glue the head and legs - the upper parts from bottles with an elongated neck will come in handy for them. Cut them off to the point where the bottle expands, cut the edges with sharp teeth and build legs from 4-5 parts, putting them on the base wire. Screw the corks onto the upper necks, glue the paws to the body with them. For the tail, take a long wire and string the narrowest parts of the neck onto it, but without plugs. To make the tail fluffy, cut the edges into thin strips.
Beautiful animals are also obtained from large 5-liter containers. With the right combination of bottles of different sizes and with the help of bright coloring, you can place a zebra, a horse, a cow, a donkey and even a giraffe on the site.
Flowers for my daughter
In the sandbox, children not only sculpt Easter cakes. Little girls are very fond of flowers and often pick dandelions on the lawn (or in their mother's flower bed) to plant in their sand garden. But you can make a whole greenhouse of flowers out of bottles, while the girls will be happy to take part in the manufacture of the most simple options. Daisies, cornflowers and tulips will decorate the sandbox, especially since young flower growers will be able to repeatedly "transplant" them from garden to garden without harm to plants and mother's nerves.
For flowers you will need:
- stem wire;
- flat parts of bottles for cutting leaves from them;
- necks or bottoms for the most inflorescences;
- dye.
More complex options can be done by adults. Plastic roses or poppies will decorate not only the playground, but also flower beds. 
plastic design for garden
From plastic bottles have an extensive scope. So, if small animals and birds look appropriate in flowerbeds and playgrounds, then larger-scale animals can be placed in the garden, among trees and shrubs. They will give the garden a unique look and enliven it.
Amazing Garden Sculptures
Representatives of large birds made of plastic look almost alive. With the help of multi-colored paints, you can achieve a stunning realistic effect. To make them, you just need to master the technique of cutting feathers from the sides of bottles and prepare a frame on which they will be fixed.
Very impressive in the garden will look:
In the garden, you can place sculptures not only of birds, but also animals of a large enough size so that they do not get lost against the backdrop of tall trees.
Among the greenery, a bright spot will be a white sheep, which is quite easy to make if there are bottles of 2 liters and several 1.5 liters lying around in the pantry:
- Cut off the necks of two 2 liter bottles and put them on top of each other - this will be an elongated head. From the third bottle, cut out long ears, roll them up a little with a tube and attach to the head in the appropriate places with wire (or glue). You can draw eyes or glue two plugs.
- For the body, insert the whole neck into the bottle cut off from the top. Make 3 more such blanks and attach them to the first on the sides and top, thus giving the lamb the desired “waist” volume.
- A whole two-liter bottle will serve as a neck, which should be fixed on the body at an angle of about 120 degrees so that the cork is on top.
- To the neck (on the cork) set the head.
- For legs, cut off the top of a two-liter bottle and insert a whole bottle of a smaller volume (1.5 liters) into it. Make three more such blanks and attach the legs to the body with the wide part up.
- From the cut bottoms of two liter bottles make a fleece, fastening them together, and put on the body. Under the belly, tie the edges of the fur coat.
- Paint the sheep with white paint and draw black eyes.
Bird care
Plastic bottles can be used not only for decorative purposes, but also for the benefit of the garden. After all, it is always inhabited by the summer resident's little helpers - a variety of birds that collect pests from trees. In warm summer time they have something to eat, but in winter it becomes more difficult to get food. That's when the feeders hung around the garden come in handy. And if you involve children in the process, you get a double benefit: for children - an interesting activity and pleasure, and for birds - a cozy house with grains.
The simplest can be made from large 5 liter plastic bottles by simply cutting large arch-shaped holes on both sides.
So that the birds do not injure their paws on the sharp edges of the bottle, they must first be melted or pasted over with electrical tape.
For those who rarely visit their summer cottage in winter, a feeder that fills automatically is useful.
You can make it from a bottle and two wooden spoons:
- make two holes in the bottle opposite each other, while the second should be slightly lower;
- unwrap the bottle and reverse side repeat the procedure;
- insert spoons into the holes crosswise.
After the bottle is filled with food, it will be poured through the holes into the spoons as they are empty.
A cozy place to relax from improvised means
Not only birds, but also the owners themselves should have their own secluded corner among the greenery, where on warm summer evenings you can enjoy a cup of tea, inhaling the aromas of nature. Many prefer to put in the garden. They are very beautiful, you can’t argue with that, but they require certain financial investments. But from plastic it is cheap and cheerful to make not only a recreation area, but also to completely equip it.
Alcove? Easy!
Arbor - one of the largest crafts for giving from plastic bottles. But a plastic gazebo has two big advantages:
- it is easy to assemble;
- will last more than one year without damage to the material.
Perhaps the only drawback of the building is the presence of a large number of bottles that need to be stored somewhere during the collection process.
What the gazebo will look like depends only on the desire of the owner, and, accordingly, on the availability of “building materials”:
Practical curtains in the gazebo
In summer pavilions there is a lot of fresh air, but, unfortunately, also dust. Ordinary tulle requires frequent washing, while a plastic curtain does not collect as much dust, and you can “wash” it without even removing it - just pour it over with water from a hose (of course, if such a curtain does not hang in the house). 
For dreamy and romantic hostesses, delicate curtains made from the bottoms of plastic bottles, strung on a base, are suitable. 
Energetic people who love bright colors are more suitable for cork curtains, assembled according to the same principle.
garden furniture
A table, ottoman, armchair and even a sofa in the gazebo can also be made from plastic bottles. The old one from the house is also quite suitable for outdoor recreation, but, like the curtains, it will eventually become a collection of dust. In addition, it is quite difficult to take a wooden sofa outside, because such furniture is rather bulky and heavy. But rearranging a plastic chair is not difficult.
It is not difficult to assemble furniture - you just need to put the bottles tightly and connect them with adhesive tape, giving the desired shape. For ottomans, knit or sew a cape - from the outside, no one will guess what they are actually made of.
Leatherette covers are more suitable for a sofa.
Unbreakable garden chandeliers
If you plan an evening tea party, you should definitely spend it in the gazebo. To ennoble the light bulb, you can cut the bottle into two parts and make a simple ceiling lamp from the upper half and paint it or paste over it with colored thread.
In plastic chandeliers, it is better to use economical light bulbs - they do not heat up so much and will not melt the material.
In more complex versions, chandeliers are assembled from fragments of leaves or flowers cut from multi-colored bottles. 
Garden supplies for gardening
In order for the summer cottage to look beautiful and tidy, it is necessary to take care of it all the time - weed weeds, collect fallen leaves and small debris. This will require tools. Of course, it will not work to make a chopper or a rake out of plastic, but simpler specimens are quite possible.
Craftsmen have long known how to use plastic bottles for their own benefit and savings for the family budget. After all, if the scoop suddenly breaks, you no longer have to run to the store for a new one. From household waste that is in every home, you get a lot of useful things at no extra cost:
garden care
From plastic bottles you can make useful things not only for the garden, but also for the garden. These can be both small crafts in the form of, and larger structures such as greenhouses.
Greenhouses for seedlings
Most summer residents grow seedlings of garden crops on their own. Some do it in apartment conditions, but better seedlings are obtained from greenhouses - there is enough heat and light.
You can no longer talk about the cost, but as for durability, plastic bottles will certainly last longer than film shelters or glass structures.
To increase the service life of plastic bottle greenhouses, it is advisable to put them on the foundation, and use a metal profile for the frame.
The simplest version of the greenhouse involves the construction of walls from whole bottles that are put on top of each other.
It will take a little longer to tinker with the greenhouse of the plates, but it will turn out to be warmer. In this case, even parts must be cut out of the bottles and fastened (sewn) together in the form of a canvas. From the finished canvases, mount a greenhouse.
Watering "systems"
For gardeners, watering is no less a pressing issue than the presence of a greenhouse. Instead of ready-made watering systems in the garden, you can use. They must either be suspended above the bush, having previously made holes in the lower part, or dug into the ground.
In addition, the bottle makes a good sprinkler - you just need to make small holes in it and connect it to a watering hose.
Getting rid of pests
A plastic bottle repeller will help drive the summer resident's worst enemy from the site -. He not only plows the beds, digging his tunnels, but also damages in the course of action root system plants, depriving gardeners of the future harvest.
If you cut the side walls in the bottle, bend them and put the container on a steel bar, with gusts of wind the bottle will spin and make noise. The sound through the rod will go into the ground and deprive the mole of the desire to manage in this noisy place.
The list of what you can make from a plastic bottle with your own hands is quite long. These are just a few crafts that make life easier for summer residents. Agree - it is better to get the maximum benefit from bottles than to pollute the environment. Take care of nature and work with pleasure!
21 ideas for using plastic bottles - video
Helpful Hints
Products made of plastic are used everywhere, as they require less investment to create than products made from other materials.
However, discarded plastic can take hundreds or even thousands of years to decompose, which is why it is very important to recycle it or refuse plastic altogether.
The second option is very difficult to implement today, so recycling comes to the fore. Plastic can be given to special recycling plants, or you can make useful things out of it.
In this collection, you will learn how to make various useful things for your home and garden from plastic bottles.
1. Do-it-yourself ottoman from plastic bottles step by step
You will need:
Plastic bottles
Foam rubber
Knitting needles
Ruler
Scissors
Sewing machine
1. Wash and dry several plastic bottles with caps on. Gather all the bottles in a circle and tape them together.
2. Cut out two circles from the cardboard so that they cover the top and bottom of all connected bottles. Tape these circles to the connected bottles with tape.
3. Prepare two rectangular pieces of foam rubber and one round piece. With rectangular pieces you need to cover the side of the collected bottles, and with a round piece the top. Secure everything with tape.
4. From any fabric, make a cover for your seat. If you like knitting, you can knit a cover.
2. We make a do-it-yourself faucet extension from plastic bottles
It will be more convenient for children to wash their hands.
3. Products from plastic bottles with your own hands: a pocket for a rag / sponge
1. Cut out the desired shape from the bottle.
2. Finish the edges with sandpaper.
3. Hang on the faucet.
4. How to make a plastic bottle bag
Photo instruction
Video instruction
5. What can be made from plastic bottles: cups for storing cosmetics
6. Plastic bottle feeder for a cat or dog
There are many ways to make bird feeders, but this bird feeder is designed for cats and dogs.
You will need:
2 large plastic bottles
Scissors
1. In the middle of one bottle, you need to make holes slightly larger than the neck of another bottle.
2. The second bottle must be cut in half across.
3. Fill the bottom with food.
4. Connect the parts and open the cover.
7. Vase for sweets: a master class crafts from plastic bottles
You will need:
Record, round plastic or thick cardboard
6 two-liter plastic bottles
Wooden or plastic rod (you can use an even branch of a suitable diameter and length)
Super glue
Spray paint and glitter (optional)
1. We make the basis for crafts. To do this, you need a plate, ceramic or glass plate. In the middle of the plate, you need to increase the hole to 10 mm with a drill.
2. The drill will also need to make holes in the center of the three plastic bottle pieces you will be using. It's easier to drill from the inside out.
3. Cut off the bottom of each of the 6 plastic bottles. Put 3 parts on the rod and secure with glue. Glue the remaining parts to the base (plate) around the rod. If desired, you can paint everything with spray paint.
It is worth noting that the rod is held on the base thanks to the plastic part, which is glued to the plate, as well as to the rod itself.
4. If you wish, you can decorate your vase.
8. DIY wicker baskets from plastic bottles (master class)
And here is a variant of a wicker basket made of plastic cocktail tubes:
9. Crafts for the garden from plastic bottles (photo): broom
1. Remove the label from the plastic bottle.
2. Use a utility knife to cut off the bottom of the bottle.
3. Start making cuts on the bottle, leaving 1 cm between each.
4. Cut off the neck of the bottle.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 for 3 more bottles. Leave one bottle with a neck.
6. Place all cut bottles without a neck on top of one bottle with a neck. You will get a blank for a broom.
7. Cut off the top of one bottle and put it on top of the resulting blank.
8. Make two holes through all the bottles and insert the wire into them and wrap the ends.
9. Insert a stick or rod into the neck and secure with a nail. You can also use glue.
Video instruction
10. Modular boxes: a description of crafts from plastic bottles
You will need:
Several large plastic bottles or canisters
Stationery knife
Scissors
Marker or pencil
Strong thread.
1. Use a utility knife and/or scissors to cut a suitable hole from a bottle or canister. It shouldn't be too small for everything to fit, or too big for the plastic structure to fall apart.
2. Start connecting the bottles with a strong thread. Start with two, then add two more already connected to them, and so on. Tie strong knots. You can also try using hot glue or super glue (Moment glue).
3. Assemble the design that is convenient for you. You decide how many rows and "floors" to make. However, it is worth knowing that the higher the design, the less stable it is. You may need to once again secure the entire structure with a rope.
4. It's time to clean up the scattered things on the shelf.
It would seem that a plastic bottle is such an ordinary thing, but once it was worth its weight in gold - our grandparents carefully folded precious containers on the balcony to use instead of a milk can or a jar for storing compote. Now PVC bottles- a dime a dozen, so humanity thought about it, because soon, because of plastic containers, there will be nowhere to step. How to adapt all this abundance of plastic for the benefit of the business? The most amazing ideas using the costs of the food and chemical industries are floating islands and huge installations, residential buildings and energy-saving systems created from a lot of waste plastic containers. We invite you to join the global plastic bottle boom. Rate original crafts for a garden from used packaging, which we offer you as an ideological basis for further creativity on the way to creating an amazing and unusual country design.
The burning problem of all summer residents is the laying of a house and ancillary buildings on a garden plot in the conditions of a small area of land allotment and limited funds. In addition, the seasonal purpose of the dacha does not imply the construction of capital buildings "for centuries."
So, the enterprising people decided to adapt a prosaic plastic bottle as a building material. The walls of houses, gazebos, greenhouses, and other garden structures are laid out traditionally - in a checkerboard pattern using cement mortar, only instead of a brick, an unnecessary plastic container filled with sand is used.
To maintain this not quite familiar eco-style, you can make a variety of garden bottle crafts so that the design of the site is decided in a unified way. Let's take a closer look at how you can make your life easier and more comfortable with the help of PVC containers.
Country house
Despite the seeming simplicity of building a building from plastic containers, there are some nuances that you need to consider if you decide to build country house with my own hands. Here are a couple of helpful tips:
- Lay a reinforcing mesh between the rows of masonry - the adhesion of the solution to the surface of the bottle will improve.
- Do not forget that plastic does not come into contact with cement, like brick, so make small holes in the container - this way the mortar will begin to interact with the sand inside the bottle and the wall will become stronger.
- During masonry work, fix the bottles with a rope or wire so that the rows do not move apart.
Keep in mind that plastic tends to break down under the influence of frost and heat, especially from temperature changes, so be prepared that after some time - 5-10 years, the walls of the building will begin to “countdown”.
Using PVC bottles as a building material, you can build an economy house in the country
The cylindrical shape of plastic bottles allows you to build houses and gazebos, round in plan
In addition to the supporting structure of a house made of plastic containers, this versatile building material, as it turned out, can be used for roofing. We offer you two options for a roof made of used PVC containers:
- Plastic tiles. For the manufacture of this simple roofing, it is necessary to compress plastic bottles. If this process is carried out without light heating of the plastic, then the containers will simply crack, so the easiest way is to put the raw material in the sun and then flatten the containers. PVC installation modules is carried out with ordinary self-tapping screws to the frame with laying the material in several layers. From such tiles, you can easily form a cone-shaped roof for a gazebo or bath.
- Plastic slate. It is easy enough to make something like a slate roof covering from the cylindrical part of a plastic bottle. To do this, it is necessary to cut off the bottom and neck from the container, cut the middle part of the container lengthwise and in half, connect the resulting PVC elements with glue, forming a wavy surface.
If you decide to build a house of wood, brick, or there is already a residential building in your summer cottage, pick up a plastic bottle, show your imagination - decorate the facade unusual decor from plastic tubes. Complex geometric patterns, floral patterns or slightly naive "cartoon" animals - choose for yourself any style that suits your spirit.
It is quite affordable to make a roof for a summer residence from plastic bottles - either in the form of tiles, or in the likeness of slate
Bright plastic lids from used containers will give the facade of a country house an expressive flavor
Decor from bottle caps for the facade country house give the building a personality
Gazebos, greenhouses, pergolas
The most rational use of plastic bottles for the garden is not only crafts designed to decorate it, but also more significant things, such as greenhouses or. Why buy expensive polycarbonate for building a greenhouse if the PVC from which the container is made is practically the same material?
Why equip the greenhouse with even more expensive glass than laminate if there are unnecessary bottles? By refracting the sun's rays, PVC packaging performs the same tasks as glass with polycarbonate, moreover, it is the most economical option for building a greenhouse that you can find.
An economical option for arranging a gazebo or greenhouse in the country - building from plastic bottles
If you are bored with the traditional rectangular gazebo, make it in the form of a hemisphere using a metal frame and plastic bottles
Having built a frame of wood or metal, arm yourself with a red-hot knitting needle, a drill or a hammer with nails. In one of the ways, make holes in the bottom and cork of a plastic bottle and put plastic vessels on a fishing line or wire, the length of which will be slightly more than the height of the building. Stretch the resulting elements and fix them on the crossbars of the frame - this is how you will form the walls of the greenhouse or gazebo. Additionally, you can fix the vertical modules in the transverse direction by tying the bottles within one row with wire. Using containers of different colors, try to create some kind of ornament - this is how you diversify the colorless mass of walls made of transparent plastic.
What else can be built from plastic bottles for the garden? The most easily erected version of a small architectural form from plastic bottles in the garden is a lightweight gazebo, which usually serves as a frame for climbing plants. However, despite the fact that in spring and summer the structure of the pergola will be hidden by weaving roses or ivy, in winter its frame will be exposed and will not look very good. To avoid this phenomenon, you can ennoble the design of the pergola with plastic bottles of a natural shade - brown or green. The brownish colors of PVC vaguely resemble wood, and the grassy ones will enliven the appearance of the garden in the cold season.
Fences, railings, gates
You can save a lot of money if you use plastic bottles to equip the fence. garden plot. Using the same principle that was described in the construction of the gazebo, instead of corrugated board, chain-link mesh or polycarbonate, use plastic containers to fill the space between the fence posts.
A little creativity and diligence - the border of your garden will become not only impassable, but also extravagant, attracting attention. If the fence has already been erected earlier, a new sound will give it floral decor from plastic bottles - the most natural option for the garden.
In support of summer cottages from plastic bottles, build a fence using the same containers for the integrity of landscape design
Multi-colored flowers cut out of plastic bottles will refresh and decorate an old fence or country house
carport
The eternal problem of car owners is the allocation of space for land plot for parking a car or several vehicles - bicycles, scooters or ATVs. Not always the project of a compact private or country house involves a room for a car, so it becomes necessary to build a detached garage or shed. The construction of these structures is expensive and many cannot afford, so the car is standing under the scorching sun, open to winds, rain and snow. Ordinary plastic bottles come to the rescue in this situation - junk, useless containers that allow you to experiment without fear, without fear of spoiling the building material. If something does not work out and the bottle becomes unusable, you can always take another one and not lose a penny.
Also, material on parking options for a car in the country will be useful:
A canopy for a car made of plastic bottles will not only fulfill its immediate function, but will also bring an original accent to the country landscape
So, from plastic bottles you can form a plastic structure, unusual in its configuration and performing several functions at once - it will create a protective plane from precipitation, the sun and, at the same time, decorate your garden. There is nothing difficult in forming a canopy from bottles - it can well be made by hand.
First, in plastic containers you need to do through holes, more precisely, it is best to burn them with a hot rod, and then put the bottles on a fishing line, rope or wire, connecting them in rows. Between themselves, the sequences of bottles are fastened with perpendicular bonds by means of another pair of holes and the previously selected material for “firmware”. Thus, a movable surface is obtained, resembling a “bottle cloth”, which remains to be attached to a metal or wooden frame using suspensions of different lengths to create a wave-like effect.
It's important to know! Considering that a plastic bottle is a kind of lens that refracts light like glass, it is advisable to paint over the bottom of the container to block direct sunlight.
Useful devices for the garden
solar collector
Surely you have come across the fact that there is no central water supply in the country house, you did not have time to get a boiler, and after a hard day of caring for the garden, you really want to take not an ice shower, but wash yourself with warm water. We suggest you try to do for your site Summer shower with an energy-saving system - a solar collector made of PVC bottles. The principle of operation of such water heating is based on the so-called "thermosyphon" - a denser hot water moves up, less dense cold - down. The developer of the system, a Brazilian engineer who received a patent for the invention, claims that 1 m 2 of the solar panel will be enough to bathe 1 person.
From plastic bottles you can assemble a solar panel and forget what ice water is in a summer shower
Cold water coming from the tank to the solar collector is returned already heated
Consumables and tools for making a collector from plastic bottles:
- 2-liter plastic bottles - 60 pcs.;
- 1-liter milk bags - 50 pcs.;
- PVC pipe 100 mm - 70 cm;
- PVC pipe 20 mm - 11.7 m;
- PVC corner 20 mm - 4 pcs.;
- Tee 20 mm PVC - 20 pcs.;
- Plugs 20 mm PVC - 2 pcs.;
- PVC glue;
- Black matte paint;
- Brush;
- Emery;
- Scotch;
- Rubber mallet, wood jigsaw.
Plastic bottles need to cut off the bottom and insert one into the other. 100 mm PVC pipes used to form a rectangular frame of the solar panel, 20 mm pipes are cut into segments of 10x1 m and 20x8.5 cm and assembled into a single structure using tees. One meter long pipes and milk bags are painted with black paint, which are placed under the bottles to improve heat absorption.
Solar panels made from plastic bottles should be located at least 30 cm below the water storage tank on the south side of the wall or roof. To optimize heat absorption, the panels must be installed at an angle calculated as follows: add 10° to your latitude. It is recommended to replace plastic bottles in panels with new ones every 5 years, as after a while the plastic becomes opaque, and this reduces its thermal conductivity.
Another energy-saving idea "sailed" to us from hot Brazil called "1 liter of light." The essence of this engineering thought in terms of how to illuminate a room without windows on a sunny day is striking in its simplicity - it is enough to hermetically integrate a plastic bottle into the roof - but not empty, but with water. It is water, refracting the rays of the sun, that will fill the room without natural light with bright light.
By pouring water into a plastic bottle and crashing it into the roof of the house, you will always have a bright source of light in rooms without natural light.
Growing and watering plants
Plastic bottles will be useful in the garden not only for buildings or decor, but also directly in growing plants, flowers and vegetables. By cutting a hole in the container and filling it with earth, you can use a plastic container for growing seedlings. Just don't forget to drill holes in your new pots for drainage and take care of water drainage.
Glue corks to a plastic bottle - you will get funny little men instead of boring pots for growing seedlings
Pots for growing plants can be given a little color by painting them with stained glass paints or decorating with bottle caps. If your dacha is small in size - try to create vertical gardening - hang plastic pots from bottles on a fishing line under the wall. So you decorate a deaf, inexpressive plane and save space.
To create pots for seedlings and flowers, not only plastic bottles from drinks are suitable, but also multi-colored containers left after use household chemicals
Make multiple holes in a plastic bottle - this will allow you to get a drip irrigation device in the country
PVC bottles also come in handy in the process of watering the garden, if you poke miniature holes in the bottom of the bottle and attach the container to the hose, you will have a good tool for drip irrigation. Equipping a home-grown bottle water sprayer with wheels from an old baby car or stroller, you can move the watering machine around the garden.
Garden and home furniture
A lot of trouble for summer residents is the care of furniture in garden house and on the street - the constant proximity to the ground negatively affects appearance sofas, beds and armchairs. Having built country furniture made of plastic bottles, you will forget about what a sloppy upholstery is, which is so hard to put in order outside the city, away from the services and dry cleaners. The containers and corks themselves are a unique material for the production of furniture with your own hands - durable and easy to clean.
From plastic bottles you can assemble quite practical furniture for the garden and at home.
Chairs and a table for summer cottages made of plastic corks are an economical solution for outdoor furniture
A convenient ottoman for giving will turn out from unnecessary plastic containers wrapped with foam and covered with upholstery fabric
A couple dozen plastic bottles metal carcass- and comfortable armchair for the garden and cottage in front of you
garden lamps
Lighting fixtures for the garden plot is another expense column that gardeners often ignore. With a plastic bottle, the lighting problem is solved in a minute. Take a colored canister from household chemicals, cut off the neck and fill the cartridge with a light bulb inside - the dacha lamp is ready. Create a more complex ceiling configuration by deforming plastic bottles by heating, melting the edges and painting in different colors. original lamps containers made of PVC will perfectly replace industrial analogues, as well as decorate both your home and garden plot.
To create original design lamps for giving, it is enough to paint them with stained glass paints or deform them a little
From plastic bottles you can get unusual street lamps for giving - both electric lamps and candles serve as a light source in them
Landscape decor from plastic bottles
When creating garden decorations from plastic bottles, everything is used - the whole container, the bottom and neck, the middle part and cut out fragments, and corks are especially popular. They make a very expressive decor for the garden - paths and decoration of empty planes of the house or fence. Another unforgettable decoration of the site can be installations made of PVC containers - three-dimensional and planar figures of animals and plants. Flower beds and borders limiting planting different types colors, can be successfully made from the same plastic container. And so that your ears are always delighted with the singing of birds, hang feeders and drinkers for birds made with your own hands from PVC bottles on the trees.
Multi-colored corks from plastic bottles serve as an excellent material for creating planar compositions in a country landscape
Examples of flower beds
Without a doubt, the main decoration suburban area- These are flowers formed into flower beds or growing in a picturesque mess. A special “cutting” of the flower bed is given by low borders that outline its shape and complete the flower arrangement.
In the absence of stone or brick, traditionally used to form a border, bury plastic bottles upside down along the border of the flower bed - you will get a simple fence for flower planting. A good solution for the shady areas of the garden plot, where nothing wants to grow - original flower beds from PVC containers, various in shape and color.
Arrange with the help of a flower bed made of plastic bottles shady or swampy areas of the garden
A small flower bed in the form of a ladybug looks bright and unusual
Green plastic bottles are perfect for forming a border for a flower bed
garden paths
Gasket question garden paths it’s always difficult - and you need to strengthen the soil, and buy decorative material - as a result, you get a considerable amount. And you don't want to walk in the mud. While you are accumulating money and looking at the pavement for the tracks, we offer you a temporary option for arranging them at minimal cost. Fill the paths in the country with a thin layer of cement mortar and immerse plastic bottle caps in it - due to the corrugation along the side plane, they will be well fixed in the building mixture.
A prosaic cement walkway can be turned into a picturesque mural thanks to multi-coloured plastic covers
Decorative installations
A fairly popular direction for decorating a garden landscape is the creation of voluminous installations from various improvised materials, including plastic containers. However, here you need not just some skill and patience, because you need to lay out either whole containers or parts cut out of them according to a certain pattern.
The most expressive decor for a garden landscape is voluminous installations from plastic bottles
We suggest you make a not very complicated installation of plastic bottles in the form of a Christmas tree in the country. Though New Year still far away, as they say, prepare a sleigh in the summer - think in advance about. Of course, the Christmas tree is the main attribute of the winter holiday, without which it is impossible to create a truly upbeat, New Year's atmosphere. What if there are no coniferous trees on your site, and you do not welcome traditional logging on the eve of the New Year? An excellent solution in its simplicity and environmental friendliness is the creation of a Christmas tree from plastic bottles.
The basis of such a composition is a rigid rod, to which the bottles can be hung or put on a wire and wrapped around, create tiers of circles, tie or install auxiliary supports and form a tent tree shape.
It is not necessary to make a Christmas tree from standard green plastic bottles - it can be assembled from containers in any shade
Whole plastic bottles, and bottoms, and chopped parts of the container will be used. The bottles themselves can be deformed, melted, painted in unusual colors - in general, there is room for imagination and ingenuity to roam. Do not discount bottle caps either - they will make unusual garlands and miniature decor.
By the way, the Christmas tree does not have to be hidden or dismantled for the summer season - if you choose a cone-shaped tree, then inner space designs will serve you on hot days as a gazebo or become a place for children's games. From used green sprite bottles, you can make a miniature Christmas tree for the house, you just need to cut the curved planes of plastic containers with “noodles” and stick them on the base.
Bird feeders and nests
One of the types of garden decor that combines many functions - feeders, nests and drinkers for birds. A feeder made with love will decorate the garden and attract birds - they will repay you for your kindness with cheerful chirping, destroying garden pests at the same time.
Create nests, drinkers and bird feeders from plastic bottles and paint them in natural colors
Bird nests and feeders will be a useful decoration for your garden
Decor for a country interior
In addition to garden decor, a plastic bottle is good for creating an extravagant interior design for a country house. Bright panels for walls and furniture, partitions and screens, even curtains - you can do all this yourself from PVC containers. Such decorations for the home look quite original and original, at least you won’t see anything similar in anyone else’s. Putting your soul into decorating a country house, you will enjoy both the creative process and the results of your imagination, combined with skill.
By cutting the bottoms of transparent plastic bottles and connecting them with a thin wire, you will get air screens for separating the space of a country house
rainbow curtain for front door assembled from ordinary bottle caps and looks very original.
Coloring the interior of a country house in all shades of the rainbow will help you plastic lids from bottles
Entertainment, recreation, games in the country
Playgrounds
Playgrounds on the land are not only a pleasant thing for organizing leisure time, they are also a certain element of garden decor. Bright swings and slides, mini-golf courses and fabulous houses will create a pleasant atmosphere for a child to stay in the country.
Plastic bottles will help separate the area for children's games, and will also serve as the basis for creating interesting toys.
Equip a field for playing croquet in your country house, and make gates from plastic bottles
Boats and watercraft
Surely there is a river or a lake near your garden plot. If so, then your vacation on the shore of the reservoir will become more exciting if you have a means of transportation on the water. Getting to a deserted island, going on a boat trip or fishing - nothing is easier when you have a boat. You can easily build this simple transport from plastic bottles.
A narrow boat similar to an Indian pirogue with a capacity of 1-2 people or a larger boat for 3-4 passengers - there are a lot of options. The simplest watercraft is a rectangular raft, from which it is convenient to fish, having sailed a little from the shore.
From plastic bottles you get a boat or raft that is quite stable on the water.
To make a boat in the form of a kayak, cut the bottom of the bottles, thread one into the other one after the other and form something like long tubes. Glue the joints with furniture tape - it is wide and will not peel off when in contact with water. From separate tubes, connecting them together, glue the sides and bottom of the boat with the same adhesive tape to get a wedge-shaped shape. Here it is important to correctly calculate the ratio of the width of the vessel and its height - trial launches and a little engineering will help you to turn a mountain of unnecessary containers into a useful thing.
A non-trivial approach to decorating a pond in the country - delicate daisies from bottles on the surface of the water
More complex structure at the boat for the whole family, which involves the connection of vertically standing bottles in two rows and additional sealing of the ship's hull with bags. Nothing prevents you from installing a motor on the boat, which will significantly improve its driving performance and range. So, using the unsinkable properties of plastic bottles, from which, by the way, entire islands are built in Japan and Taiwan, you can surf the surrounding water bodies with breeze and comfort.
Haven't you embraced the idea of a plastic boom yet? Do something extraordinary for your garden and you will not have time to look back, as you will immediately join the ranks of admirers of a plastic bottle.
For many people, ordinary plastic bottles do not play a big role. Of course, because now everyone has such containers and in large enough quantities, so they are simply thrown away as unnecessary. However, as today's craftsmen with golden hands show - in vain. From them you can make wonderful crafts from plastic bottles, which will be not only useful, but also beautiful decorative elements. These things will be able to decorate your personal plot, changing its appearance beyond recognition.
Crafts from bottles for a garden (+ photo)
As a rule, various crafts are made, the material for which are plastic bottles, for garden plots or vegetable gardens. After all, every summer resident wants to equip his site in such a way as to create comfort and coziness on it, and making crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands is not so difficult, it’s more correct to say quite simply. Yes, and materials for products do not require large cash costs, everyone always has it at hand.
Products made from bottles do not require the use of any special tools, and skills are also not required to create something unusual from such a material.
Tired of spending money on clay pots that are constantly beating - the original plastic hanging pots will be a real salvation for prudent owners
A little ingenuity and an ordinary plastic bottle turns into a wonderful bird feeder
What can be made from a plastic bottle
Plastic bottles can be an excellent material for the manufacture of decorative items intended not only for the site, but also for the home. After reading this article, you will find many different examples of the successful use of this material. So, a little more about everything ...
Greenhouse or gazebo
It can be built from bottles. Such buildings will not require large expenditures for various building materials, and the result will please any avid gardener.
Having a large number of PVC bottles, you can safely proceed to the construction of the building, giving it any desired shape. Using this material, you can build not only a greenhouse or, but even.
For the construction of this structure, you will need to adhere to the following instructions:
- Before you start building a gazebo or a greenhouse, you need to build a frame made of metal or wood;
- After the frame is ready, holes should be made at the bottom of the bottles. Covers also need to be drilled;
- Further, through the holes, the bottles are threaded onto the wire. Next, you need to fix the wire on the frame, thus the process of building walls is carried out;
- You can use the vertical and horizontal methods of threading bottles onto a metal wire. When these methods are mixed, the structure is much stronger. To create patterns on the future walls of the building, you need to use multi-colored bottles.
PVC bottles can be applied as cultivation of plants as well as vegetables. To do this, cut off the top of the bottle and make holes in its bottom. After that, you can pour soil into the resulting container and plant seedlings or flowers.
You can make original crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands, absolutely on different topics. Having shown imagination, you can make a comfortable chair or table for your garden, which will harmoniously fit into the overall design of your summer cottage. You can also build an original birdhouse or bird feeder that will not only decorate your garden, but also be useful.
As a material, you can use absolutely any items, which are always in abundance in any household. It can be an old unnecessary bucket, a cast-iron pot, worn-out car tires and much more.
Used for decoration original decor- from plastic bottles you can get excellent containers for storing various small items
How to make an original decor from a bottle
As mentioned above, plastic bottles can be an excellent material for the manufacture of decorative items intended not only for the site, but also for the home.
To make the design of the site more beautiful, you can use bottles to create flower arrangements. It can be daisies, tulips, roses, cornflowers, asters, begonias, carnations and many other flowering plants.
Daisies from plastic bottles (+ photo)
For example, to create daisies, you will need green and white bottles. The sequence of work is as follows:
- For white bottles, you will need to cut out the base for daisies. To do this, it is necessary to cut the side walls in the shape of a circle. The diameter of the circle should be 7 centimeters;
- In the resulting circles, cuts should be made without leading to the center. Get future chamomile petals;
- Next, you need to give the petals the shape of an oval. After that, you need to warm the future flower over the fire. Thus, the chamomile will seem real;
- A small circle of yellow plastic is perfect for making the core of a future chamomile. The green bottle will play the role of leaves and stem;
- The final step is to combine all the elements into a single composition.
Lilies of the valley from plastic bottles (+ photo)
To make the garden look more beautiful and attractive in spring, you can also create lilies of the valley from plastic bottles. This craft will look very unusual in the garden.
To create lilies of the valley, you will need all the same plastic white and green bottles:
- The top of the white bottles is cut off. Cork in this case will play the role of a bud;
- Holes are made in the covers;
- Leaves and stems should be made from green bottles;
- The buds are attached to the stems with a wire.
After the lilies of the valley are ready, they must be carefully placed in the ground; you can place such flowers in a small flower bed.
Vase from a plastic bottle (+ photo)
From unnecessary bottles, you can create an original vase, which can be used as decoration not only in the garden but also at home. To do this, we need a regular transparent bottle and sharp scissors.
- The first step is to cut off the neck of the bottle. This must be done so that the cut is even and without burrs;
- Next, cuts are made in strips having the same width;
- The resulting strips need to be bent outward;
- After that, the strips need to be bent, giving the vase a shape. To do this, you can use all the same scissors.
When working with plastic bottles, you need to do everything carefully and slowly, otherwise your work may be in vain, and all efforts are nullified. You should also be extremely careful when using a sharp tool, which can cause severe injury.
Beautiful vase - only for beautiful flowers
A white stork and a pink flamingo together is a picture that you probably never see in wildlife
For the manufacture of a flower vase are also suitable and glass bottles. It is desirable that they have a wide neck and be made of thick glass, so they will be more convenient and practical to use.
You can decorate them with multi-colored woolen threads and special glue. The bottle is wrapped completely, from the bottom base to the very neck, where the end of the rope is securely fixed to the glue. As decoration for finished products it is best to use beads.
As practice shows - everything ingenious, simple !!!
Broom from plastic bottles
From the bottle you can make a broom, which will be convenient to clean up the trash. It is done quite simply.
- To do this, cut the bottom, cut the bottle into strips to the base of the neck;
- After that, the resulting broom should be put on a handle, specially selected for the width of the neck and securely fix the attachment point with a nail or self-tapping screw.
Bottle crafts for kids
Whom to a greater extent than small children will be pleased with various crafts from plastic bottles, especially if they are made by hand. The most important thing in this matter is to find time and desire, but there is nothing to worry about the material, as the summer resident says, it is always in abundance.
The limitless possibilities of this universal material, allows you to translate into reality even the most daring ideas and fantasies.
There is probably nothing better than the mischievous children's laughter, their joy and delight. Therefore, by making various funny decorations for your kids, you are guaranteed to provide them, and yourself, with a good and fun pastime at their summer cottage, which will give you a storm of positive emotions.
Sometimes you can take a break from plastic bottles and try to create something from other improvised materials.
Take a look around, turn on your head, ingenuity and imagination - this is just the right occasion when you need to show your real ingenuity and creative skill.
There are many more ideas related to the use of plastic bottles that are easy to make. And the result can please everyone.
Yes, and the functionality of crafts can be directed to various areas. The main thing is fantasy, and then plastic that no one needs will become a real work of art.
We hope that this article was useful for you and you were able to emphasize something for yourself personally. Good luck in your endeavors!
