Homemade Ideas for Outside Decor
One of the best and most cost-effective ways to enhance your outdoor living space is to make your own custom projects. From furnishings to focal features, homeowners can make their own additions to their yard. These fun projects take less than a day to create, from supply purchases to completion. Does this Spark an idea?
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Copper Plant Markers
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Decorative copper plant markers will add a creative touch to your landscape. Your new flower or herb garden deserves more than a wooden stick with black marker to identify the plantings. Set 1/4-inch copper tubing in a foundation of premixed mortar. Once the tubing is bent into a vertically-oriented spiral or a shape that resembles a doorway, mix premixed mortar to the consistency of cookie dough and spoon it into a plastic tub. Insert the copper tubing into the mortar and decorate the mortar top with glass beads, rocks or other weather-resistant items. After 24 hours, the mortar will be set. Then add a seed packet or a piece of copper flashing with permanent marker lettering to the copper tubing support.
Hose-Reel Hideaway
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Camouflage an unattractive hose-reel assembly with a trellis-inspired hideaway. Craft a camouflaging home for your hose reel with 1-by-4 framing covered with latticework. Built in the form of an arch with peaked roof and straight sidewalls, this hose reel hideaway becomes a shady hideout for children and pets. Set this trellis structure next to vines growing in your landscape that you attach to grow over it and to soften the hideaway.
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Low Country Bench
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Paint your bench to coordinate with your outdoor decor. Low Country benches sit outside storefronts on Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina. To bring that southern touch to your landscape, build this rocking bench yourself. These benches can be any length you wish. Each end of the 8- to 12-inch-wide seat board is attached to a set of double rockers on each end so that the seat jogs back and forth along its length.
Backyard Spring
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Install your spring at the top of a water-spilling feature in your yard. Fashion a small spring for your landscape for relaxing sound and a cooling effect. The base of the spring is a large, shallow plastic tub set into a hole in the ground. Place a small fountain pump on a brick at a height where the pump is submerged and the fountain head rises out of the water's surface. Set heavy gauge hardware cloth across the top of the plastic tub after a hole is cut to accommodate the fountain spout. Pile about 40 pounds of round rocks around the spout to conceal it. The pump runs on electricity supplied though a cord draped over the side of the plastic tub and is partially buried for a neater look.
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