Decorating Garden Walls

Series Summary

Landscaping your front or back yard doesn't have to be a professional job. Home gardens provide a tranquil area for reflection and relaxation. Tending and enjoying a garden can lower blood pressure, ease anxiety, and provide diversion in which to ponder various thoughts that have been lingering in your subconscious. Even if you don't have much yard space, planting a small corner garden is a simple task you could complete in just an afternoon.

In this free video series, our expert will show you how to make your garden feel more welcoming with some simple garden decorations. Our expert, Cooie Grey-Lavin, is a professional mosaic artist. She shows you all kinds of crafts for garden. Learn how to make mosaic stepping stones. Also, get tips for decorating a garden wall. So, take some time, and learn simple garden crafts today.

Video Transcript

"I'm Cooie Grey-Lavin, and in this clip I'm going to show you how to decorate a bare wall or fence in your yard. In my yard I had an old shed that the side needed painting, it was weathered. And before I painted it, I realized I also had a collection of bird baths just, or bird houses, I'm sorry, just sitting around. A lot of times, when there's just one of things, one of things sitting there, it's not as eye catching as if there's a collection. So, rather than paint the wall, I decided to hang all of my bird houses on the one wall and give it more of a dramatic effect. So, I've sort of placed the nails where I want them, playing around with the different colors and the different shaped of the bird houses. A friend of mine makes the bird houses and ends up putting spoons and old pieces of molding, and old roofing on it. Put on there. I like some with a little color just to add a little something different. There are some great little shapes. A simple wood one with old nails in the side of it, old square nails. Door knobs. Another painted one. And some of them are harder to hang, so I just added a little chain to the back, makes it easier. Another guy right here; one more little one. And now my old, unpainted side of the shed has, is interesting and houses all my bird houses. I used bird houses in this particular instance, but you can use stained glass, ceramic, pieces of old plates or pot lids anything that you have a collection of."