When was the last time you cleaned out your garage? You've probably come across many an item that you thought was actually too good to throw away. If you haven't had any idea what you could make from the found object, you'll find lots of great ideas for replicating it on this page.
How to make garden decorations from scrap materials?
Old kitchen utensils, tools, chests of drawers, bathtubs or rubber boots can be redesigned creatively and sustainably with garden decorations made from scrap. For example, plant discarded watering cans, saw blades, rain barrels or rubber boots and create unique decorative elements for your garden.
Kitchen utensils
Enamel pots
A chipped enamel pot has no use in the kitchen. In the garden it is wonderfully suitable as a watering vessel. Then the tide turns and the plastic watering can goes into the trash instead.
pans
In this case, it's not the vegetables that end up in the pan, but rather the pan in the vegetable patch. Simply nail old frying pans in different sizes to the garden fence.
Cutlery
Rustic door handles are created from old spoons and forks that you bend into shape with pliers.
Old tool
Sawblade
Perhaps you still have an old saw bench that you haven't used for years. Remove the old, possibly rusting saw blade and nail it to a wooden post instead. Visually this is reminiscent of a sun.
Screws and nails
How about a pet that doesn't do any work:
- Use an old spiral as a body.
- Make the head from metal balls.
- Screws and nuts give your animal eyes, nose and mouth.
- Bend ears from old sheet metal
- Now add legs made of metal rods and a tail if you like.
Other
Is your rain barrel cracked and therefore unusable? This way it will be useful again:
- Paint the rain barrel colorfully.
- Draw her a face.
- Plant the rain barrel with upright plants (e.g. heather) so that the plant looks like a hairstyle.
dressers
What's hiding in the drawer? We know it and are happy to reveal it: Apply a weatherproof varnish to an old chest of drawers and plant plants in the half-open drawers. Overhanging growth is also suitable for this.
Bathtub
A bathtub doesn't belong in the trash, but in the middle of your garden. Colorful flowers make the sanitary flower box appear new.
Rubber boots
Discarded rubber boots can also be planted. The garden decoration looks particularly appropriate in the entrance area.
