The desire of summer residents to decorate their site, to make it convenient and comfortable, using improvised materials, lead to the appearance of interesting design solutions. The universal material for the realization of unusual ideas are old tires.

Funny crafts made of tires can revive any corner of a summer cottage: a flower bed, an artificial pond, a garden path or a playground. In addition to decorative design, tires can also carry out the practical functions of furniture, a swimming pool, a sandbox or a bicycle parking.

Content

1. Features of creating crafts from car tires  video
2. The use of tires in the landscape design of the cottage: decor options and a description of the work on their creation
   • flower beds and flower beds made of tires  video
   • tire tracks
   • decorating a country pond with crafts from tires  video
3. Arrangement of a children's town with crafts made of tires  video
4. Creation of practical and functional items from tires  video

Features of creating crafts from car tires

Today, a summer residence is not so much a place for work, but a place to relax from everyday city life. The unique atmosphere of coziness and harmony in the summer cottage make DIY crafts.

You can add creativity and originality to the garden with the help of unnecessary worn-out car tires. To do this, you need to make a minimum of effort, patience, time and imagination.

To create most crafts from tires you need to stock up on the following tools:

• car tires of various diameters;
• multi-colored paints;
• ropes;
• knife or jigsaw;
• paint brushes;
• shovel.

For the manufacture of crafts, imported tires are better suited, they are less thick and more flexible, which will greatly facilitate the work.

When choosing one or another tire, it is important to remember that winter tires are easier to turn out than summer ones.

Crafts from tires for the garden can be used in different ways in the country. Of these, you can make a full-fledged fence separating the site, visually divide the cottage into different zones (recreation, play, work) or diversify the landscape design with unusual elements.

Consider the options for using tires on a personal plot and analyze the main stages of work to create exclusive crafts.

The use of tires in the landscape design of the cottage: decor options and a description of the work on their creation

Most often, tires are used as the basis for creating decorative elements of a summer cottage: flower beds, flower beds, beautiful birds, hanging flower pots or original garden paths.

flower beds and flower beds made of tires

Creating a flower bed with tires with your own hands is one of the most budgetary options for decorating a personal plot. The simplest version of a flower bed from tires is available in almost any yard using the tire in its original form. Car tires are decorated with bright paint and, if desired, are built into interesting designs. To the campaign of erecting a multi-tiered flowerbed, each tire is covered with earth into which flowers will be planted.

A more complex option is to equip a flower garden. To create it, you need two types of tires of different diameters. Tires with a larger diameter will act as a flowerbed (they dig into the ground a little), while smaller tires act as a kind of hedge and are installed vertically.

In tires with a smaller diameter, a transverse section is made, and two large tires are threaded. From below, the tire is fastened with metal wire or brackets. It turns out a chain of tires.

A flowerbed swan from a tire looks very beautiful on the site.

Let's figure out how to make a flower bed from a tire in the shape of a tulip. For crafts, you need a tire with a disk.

The order of work is as follows:

1. Retreating about 1 cm from the disk, apply a drawing (contour in the form of petals).
2. Without removing from the disk, cut off the tire around the perimeter of the entire wheel following the drawn outline.
3. Separating the parts of the tire, unscrew the tire should get a bowl on the rack (car drive).
4. To give a beautiful appearance to the flowerpot to paint and decorate with patterns.
5. The flowerbed is ready for planting flowers.

From the tires you can create hanging flower pots in the form of fairy birds or decorate the wall of any room (home, summer kitchen, shower) with hanging flower beds.

Choose fairly light, small tires and paint them in a color that is in harmony with the overall design of the site. Hang on the wall. In prepared flowerpots to plant flowers for these purposes, climbing varieties of petunias or picky Chernobrivts, which will stand out against the general background of the building, are perfect.

tire tracks

Garden paths on the site can also be interestingly beaten by making them from tires from trucks. In general, tires from cars are also suitable, but it will take more time to work with them. The track will only be run from the tire tread.

Consider the main stages of work:

1. Decide exactly where the track will go, and pick up the material.
2. To prepare the tires for laying with a sharp knife, separate the side of the tire from the tread (it will be easier to cut if the knife is periodically lubricated with soapy water).
3. The cut out tread looks like a ring. It must be cut across to get the finished strip of the future track.
4. Similarly, you need to prepare as many tapes as you need to lay a garden path.
5. The ribbons should be laid out in length and nailed with nails to a wooden bar or board. Between the strips it is necessary to leave an indent of 1-2 cm in the future, grass will grow on this place, which will not allow the ribbons to shift.
6. The plot of land on which the tracks fit must be pre-moistened so that the tires are fastened more firmly to the ground.
7. Boards with tires should be carefully pressed into the ground, so that the surface of the track was without bumps.

Such a path can be laid out in the garden, in the courtyard of the house or to arrange a parking lot.

Car tires are great material for creating ladder tracks. They can be arranged at your discretion and according to the functional load of the ladder, laying out in one or more rows of tires. Such a staircase looks original, its installation does not take much time, and there are practically no expenses, because old tires can be taken at almost any service station or at a tire fitting.

decorating a country pond with crafts from tires

You can decorate the artificial pond on the site with decorative swans or crafts in the form of birds made of tires.

The work includes the following steps:

1. On the prepared tire it is necessary to draw incision lines according to a certain pattern.
2. Using a jigsaw or knife, make cuts clearly along the lines.
3. Unscrew the tire.
4. In the swan’s neck and in the body, holes must be made through which to thread the pieces of wire necessary for fastening the rigid frame of a more durable wire.
5. We attach the frame to the workpiece and give the shape of a swan.
6. Proceed to decorate the swan. The most popular color is white, but a swan of silver or gilded color will look more original and majestic.

It is better to place a swan near a finished pond or create a pond on your own from the same tires.

To create a small pond you will need:

• large wide tire;
• jigsaw;
• level;
• shovel;
• crushed stone, sand and large stones;
• material for waterproofing (film);
• decorative plants.

Under the pond, you need to select a flat area and dig a hole on it to accommodate the tire. Next, you need to level the bottom of the pit, filling it with sand, and lay the tire. Level check the horizontal position of the tire.

Cover the tire a little with rubble, after which you can cut off the upper sides of the tire with a jigsaw. Lay a layer of waterproofing and fill the tire along the contour with rubble. Lay on top of the pond with large decorative stones so that the waterproofing film is not visible, and decorate the pond with plants. The artificial pond is ready to fill with water.

Arrangement of a children's town with crafts made of tires

Especially popular are old tires for arranging playgrounds, both in the yards of multi-storey buildings and in summer cottages. There are a lot of options for their use. Let's try to give examples of the most popular.

First of all, from tires you can create a favorite for all children sandbox. You can simply limit the place for playing games with sand with vertically exposed tires, or lay one large tire and pour it into non-sand.

Well, if the improvised sandbox is decorated with a sail that would protect kids from direct sunlight during games.

Multifunctional tires make excellent swing. These can be ordinary bungee, for the creation of which you need a strong rope (rope), a tree, and, in fact, a tire. Young children will like a suspended swing in the form of horses or a simpler version of a swing, in which a part of the tread is simply cut out.

You will have to work hard to create rocking chairs. All work can be divided into the following stages:

To prepare a strong and wide tire (a domestic tire is perfect) and a wooden board seat for a future rocking chair.

1. Cut the tire across into two absolutely equal parts.
2. To the prepared board with nails, nail two bars at a width corresponding to the width of the tire.
3. Decorate the wooden seat and the base of the swing tire in bright colors.
4. Connect the seat to the tire.
5. Check that the rocker does not have gaps or protruding nails.

Young motorists will like homemade transportmade of tires: motorcycles, cars or boats. Realities can be added by equipping the car with a real steering wheel, headlight or control lever.

An interesting and useful craft from tires and bottles massage path   for children. The path can also be equipped with stones (without sharp corners) of different sizes and a plastic base for a mosaic. Such a path is a good way of hardening and healing children, which prevents the development of flat feet.

And of course, tires can be made horsesthat kids love to jump on. Given the age of the child, it is necessary to choose the optimal tire size and the distance between the horses.

You can add fabulousness and magic to the children's town by placing on the site figures of various animals (turtles, bears, hares, etc.), which can also be made from ordinary tires for cars.

Creation of practical and functional items from tires

In addition to various crafts from tires for the garden and children's corner, you can create more practical items that will be appropriate in everyday life.

On the site, furniture created from car tires will look original. Moreover, it can be made in different styles, using one or another upholstery accessories (fabric, leather, wire, vine).

For the manufacture of the most primitive designs do not require special skills. For example, you can create a cozy ottoman. This will require:

• a small tire (a tough domestic one will do);
• self-tapping screws;
• screwdriver or screwdriver;
• hammer;
• scissors;
• hacksaw;
• jigsaw;
• plywood for seating;
• upholstery rope;
• glue gun.

The procedure is as follows:

1. Using a jigsaw, cut a circle with a diameter of 2-3 cm less from the plywood than the diameter of the tire itself.
2. Attach a wooden circle to the tire with screws.
3. Starting from the center of the plywood sheet, glue the decorative rope in a circle, leading it to the side walls of the ottoman.
4. The tire must be turned over and glued over its sides with a rope.
5. Having reached the bottom of the ottoman, cut the rope, carefully hiding the edges.
6. To give the surface strength, it is better to process the ottoman with varnish on top.

Such an ottoman can be used as a table, or as a chair, you can additionally sew a synthetic winterizer or a fur lining on it. From such pieces of furniture you can create a separate recreation area at the cottage.

Stripes of tires can protect street steps, especially if they are made of metal. In winter, this will help to avoid slipping, and in summer the steps will not burn barefoot summer residents with red-hot metal in the sun.

Fans of cycling can use tires to create an original parking for bicycles. It is made in the same way as children's horses, only the distance between the tires is minimal, allowing to fix the bicycle wheel.

You can go further and build a washbasin from car tires by attaching it to the wall and making a drain for water.

Creating unusual crafts from tires for arranging a garden plot, it is important to remember that rubber lends itself to the effects of the sun and water, while releasing toxic substances into the soil and atmosphere. Therefore, making beds from tires is not worth it. It is better to use them to decorate and enhance the functionality of the cottage.

Author: Sergey and Svetlana Khuentsov

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