Build a castle with your own hands from stone. A small castle with their own hands. Figurines for the garden from pots
On the Internet you can find many photos of sand castles from different beaches of the world. There are real masterpieces, and it's a pity that this beauty has only a few hours to live.
Member of our portal Eleksys has a long-standing weakness for sand castles, this is firstly. Second lucky circumstance: garden plot it has long been used as a testing ground for creative ideas, where “under the influence of FORUMHOUSE” a lot of truly amazing things have been done.
Eleksys made various compositions, but it was mini-castles that took root best of all, because they could be entered in any place on a site of any relief and with any features. And at some point, he decided to give his favorite sand compositions longevity by mixing them with cement.
The best proportions for the construction of castles were identified empirically: sand - 2 parts, cement - 1 part. Also, empirically, there was an understanding that sand should not be mixed with cement immediately, but be sure to dry it in the sun. In addition, the sand must be sifted - a small amount of debris can ruin the building, especially for small parts.
The garden castle is only called “mini”, in fact it is a three-dimensional building, and it is unrealistic to build it in one go. That's why Eleksys developed his own scheme: he first prepares individual modules, and then, in a few days, assembles his masterpieces of small architecture, like a designer. So, the last, most complex castle, he assembled in just two days.
Eleksys Member of FORUMHOUSE
Neighbors thought he fell from the sky.
Eleksys I am sure that everyone can build such castles, . But in many ways, the users of our portal owe this detailed instructions, wherein Eleksys told how to make the main modules (components) of a typical design.
towers
To make a turret, you need to roll a cylinder of a suitable radius from a sheet of iron, for example, 25 - 35 cm, and fix it with screws or wire. Further trick: to reduce the consumption of the solution, unnecessary cans or bottles are placed inside the cylinder, you just need to make sure that the thickness to the ballast is at least 5 centimeters. Further it is clear: we pour a thick solution into the iron cylinder and wait for several hours for it to seize. That's it, he grabbed it - just enough so as not to crumble after removing the formwork.
This one, as it is called Eleksys, a slightly seized solution, we begin to immediately cut. The technology of work is the same as when cutting parts sand castle. For cutting, any tools that are at hand are used: screwdrivers, carpentry chisels, various strips of tin to form various architectural elements etc.
A tower in the form of a simple cylinder looks too ordinary and even somehow dull, so it makes sense to make a variety of grooves.
Eleksys
I wrap the cylinder with a long strip of tin, use this strip as a guide, and use a screwdriver or chisel to select the annular recesses.
We take a knife and make a deepening of windows and loopholes in the cylinder. Teeth are the easiest to cut hacksaw blade for metal. It's easy, you just need to make cuts of the desired depth and choose a solution between them.
In the lower part of the tower, you can make an imitation of masonry, and if we make an “old” castle, then there are traces of destruction and decay: cracks, chips, crumbling plaster, etc.
The inventor of sand-cement technology says that aging is the most interesting job for him.
The tower is almost ready, we are making the roof. It may be a cone rolled from tin. The same cone can also be a form for pouring the solution. When the mortar sets, we knock out the finished roof from it. Thus we do right amount towers, roofs, put somewhere for storage and proceed to the construction of walls.
Walls
We make walls in two versions: fortifications and building elements.
Now Eleksys regrets that he did not photograph the stages of construction, so we have to be content with the description. So, to make the wall - part of the building, we knock together a frame of a suitable size (the width of the boards is from 5 cm), put it on flat surface, covered, for example, plastic wrap. In the lower part, you can place a small arch bent from a tin strip -. We fill the frame with mortar (to save money, you can pour broken bricks or pebbles under it, but only where you do not plan to dig through windows or doors). At the bottom of the wall, you can mark the foundation by sticking small flat gravel there, so that it protrudes by five millimeters. You can, again, imitate the foundation by “drawing” it with a scalpel or sharp knife. Until the mortar has set, flat stones of a suitable size can be used to mark future windows.
If we are making a fortress wall, then at this stage we simply fill in the frame and that's it.
Now we are waiting for several hours, remaining vigilant: the mortar should seize, but it cannot be overexposed, because the walls will be difficult and inconvenient to handle. In general, we are waiting right moment and disassemble the frame.
To make a fortress wall, we mark the teeth and remove the gaps between them with any flat tool. Eleksys performs this work with an ordinary metal ruler. We draw loopholes and windows, take out the solution from them, removing its remnants with a soft brush.
Eleksys
Probably everyone has seen in the movies how archaeologists work.
Ready walls, without moving, we leave to lie in place for about a day, then you can safely take them away for temporary storage.
Lock installation
Having made the necessary number of details of the castle, we are waiting for a clear, sunny day and proceed to the construction of the foundation, which, in essence, will be an ordinary pile of stones laid on a thin layer of mortar.
Eleksys
The castle looks more beautiful on some elevation, on a pile of stones.
Having prepared the foundation, we again apply a layer of cement mortar on it, and then proceed to the assembly. We install a tower, attach a fortress wall to it, a tower again to it, then a wall - an element of a building, again a tower.
We attach several bricks to the wall - an element of the building, this will be the rectangle of the castle itself. But this is if the inside of the castle is hidden from view. If not, then you will have to make another wall, as well inner part fill with solution.
How to make your site or garden unique is the dream of many owners. Many people love to decorate their own estate, cottage, yard, but not everyone has extra money that could be spent on decorative figurines. But this is not a problem for those who at least know how to do something with their own hands.
It does not even require special costs.
So, for example, a fairy-tale kingdom on a garden site will become a good gift both small and adult dreamers.
Even a mini-castle built in the country will add mystery to the site.
Mini-castles in the yard or for the garden are large enough in volume, and building it completely is a bit difficult.
You can try to make some parts of the castle separately, so that later in any part of the garden, in the country you can assemble it from finished elements like cubes.
An example of a design for building a castle in the country
easy to disassemble. To reduce the consumption of the solution, cans or bottles can be placed inside the cylinder, but the thickness of the solution around the ballast must be at least 5 cm.
The solution for pouring should be thick enough. He needs to be given several hours to grab to such a state that the formwork does not crumble when removed. The height of the cylindrical formwork should be chosen as follows: it should be approximately equal to the height of the tower, with a smaller size, the formwork will need to be disassembled and assembled a little higher than the already seized lower part.
Making a castle for a summer residence is easy if you have a couple of “golden hands” available.
The main material is sand and cement for the longevity of the composition. 2 parts sand and 1 part cement.
Elements of a typical design.
Let's start with the towers.
A cylinder of the desired radius is rolled up from a sheet of iron (I have about 2-30 cm). The cylinder is fixed with wire or self-tapping screws
Anything is placed inside the cylinder - bottles, cans - to reduce the consumption of the solution, but the thickness to the ballast must be at least 5 cm. Fill with a thick solution.
We give him several hours to set to such a state that when the formwork is removed, it does not crumble. 
We immediately begin to cut the raw, slightly seized solution.
The cutting technology is the same as that of the sandboxes. For cutting, use a set of tools available to everyone.
Do not forget to make windows, loopholes, picking out the desired recess with a knife.
The mold is poured with mortar and after partial setting, carefully remove the cylinder formwork and make the required number of windows, teeth - as fantasy tells. 
The roof can be made from tin cones, and this tin cone can also be used as a mold for pouring mortar. After complete setting, carefully knock out our roof from the mold. Do not forget that we are still preparing individual elements of the castle. We'll put it all together later.
Let's start building walls. Our walls will be either fortress (1) or an element of the building (2).
There is no difference in their production.
We assemble a rectangle of the right size from boards 5 cm wide. We put it on a flat surface, having previously placed either a film or a piece of roofing material so that the solution that is then poured is not absorbed.
You can place a metal arch in this frame - this will be a door or gate. Pour the solution into the frame. Where no windows or doors are planned, gravel or broken bricks can be poured to the bottom to save mortar.
After the mortar is poured to the desired height, you can take pretty pebbles from gravel and poke them at the base of the foundation so that they protrude with flat edges above common plane solution about 5 mm.
Next, loopholes and windows are made. Draw whatever your fantasy tells you. To remove the remnants of the solution, I use a soft brush (probably seen in the movies how archaeologists work). In the end, you will have something like the following on your table.
Leave the finished walls for about a day on the table. When the foundation is prepared, we proceed to the assembly.
First install on cement mortar, previously applied to the foundation, for example, tower No. 1. We attach wall No. 1 to the tower for mortar. Then we install the tower number 2.
The castle is already beginning to take shape. You are filled with excitement. Next, add wall No. 2 and finish with the installation of tower No. 3.
Assembly diagram:
When this structure grabs, form over the building gable roof.
So, from the main basic elements, slightly changing them depending on your imagination, you can make a complex castle - like this for example.
Or a very simple one:
I, like some of you, had an idea-fix to do something pleasing to the eye against the backdrop of a country landscape. The choice fell on a mini-castle, since it is the easiest to enter it anywhere in the site, taking into account its geological features. Moreover, you can build creatively, adding or changing its elements on the go.
The main material is sand and cement for the longevity of the composition. After experimenting, I settled on a composition of 2 to 1 (i.e. 2 parts sand and 1 part cement). Sand is best dried in the sun, then it is easier to mix with cement, and also sifted for use in elements with fine detail, as debris can ruin the part.
The castle has a fairly decent volume, so building it all at once is unrealistic. To do this, first I make separate parts of the castle, so that later I can build it from cubes in a couple of days. The last, third castle was assembled in two days. Neighbors thought he fell from the sky when they saw him.
So, consider the elements of a typical design.
Let's start with the towers. A cylinder of the desired radius is rolled up from a sheet of iron (I have about 2-30 cm). The cylinder is fixed with wire or self-tapping screws so that it can be easily disassembled later. Anything is placed inside the cylinder - bottles, cans - to reduce the consumption of the solution, but the thickness to the ballast must be at least 5 cm. Fill with a fairly thick solution. We give him several hours to set to such a state that when the formwork is removed, it does not crumble. You can choose the height of the cylindrical formwork yourself. It can be equal to the height of the tower, or less, but then the formwork will have to be disassembled and assembled above the already seized lower part.
We immediately begin to cut the raw, slightly seized solution. The cutting technology is the same as that of the sandboxes. For cutting, I use a set of tools available to everyone. I have these screwdrivers, chisels, a medical scalpel, a hacksaw blade for metal and various strips of tin to form various architectural elements.
A simple cylinder is boring, and this is where the flight of fancy begins. I make various grooves by wrapping a cylinder with a long strip of tin, using this strip as a guide, with a screwdriver or chisel I choose annular recesses. Then, in the lower part, you can imitate masonry, destruction, plaster chips, cracks - after all, the castle is ancient.
For me, aging is the most exciting part of the process. At the same time, we do not amuse ourselves with making windows, loopholes, picking out the desired recess with a knife. If there is a desire to make a turret in the upper part of the tower, then we turn off the cylinder with a diameter of a couple of centimeters more and a height of 10-15 cm, insert it inside plastic bottle to save the solution (after complete setting, it will be removed).
We fill the form with a solution and, after partial setting, carefully remove the cylinder formwork and make the required number of windows, teeth - as fantasy tells. I cut the teeth with a hacksaw blade for metal - I make cuts of the required depth and pick off the excess solution between the cuts.
The roof can be made from tin cones, and you can use this tin cone as a mold for pouring mortar (I do this). After complete setting, carefully knock out our roof from the mold. Do not forget that we are still preparing individual elements of the castle. We'll put it all together later. So we figured out the tower. We have all the elements ready and stacked somewhere in the corner.
Let's start building walls. Our walls will be either fortress (1) or an element of the building (2).
There is no difference in their production. We assemble a rectangle of the required size from boards 5 cm wide. We put it on a flat surface (I have an old kitchen table) having previously placed either a film or a piece of roofing material so that the solution that is then poured in is not absorbed. You can place a metal arch in this frame - this will be a door or gate. Pour the solution into the frame. Where no windows or doors are planned, gravel or broken bricks can be poured to the bottom to save mortar. After the mortar is poured to the desired height, you can take pretty pebbles from gravel and poke them at the base of the foundation so that they protrude with flat edges above the general plane of the mortar by about 5 mm.
If there is no gravel, then after partial setting with a sharp knife or scalpel, you can imitate the foundation. You can also mark future windows with pebbles. Thus, your task is to make such flat elements. To speed up, I make 2-3 such rectangles at the same time. Having made such a wall once, you will understand that they are made easily and very quickly. As a rule, we are interested in the outer side of the castle, the inner part does not represent anything, because it is not visible.
So, after a few hours, the solution of our future walls seized very (!) This moment so that it was malleable, but did not collapse, and if it was overexposed, it would be difficult to process. We carefully disassemble the frame and we are left with a flat rectangle on the table. If you are making a wall with teeth, then we make the gaps between the teeth by gradually removing the solution with a flat tool (I use a metal ruler for this). Next, loopholes and windows are made. Draw whatever your fantasy tells you. To remove the remnants of the solution, I use a soft brush (probably seen in the movies how archaeologists work). In the end, you will have something like the following on your table.
Leave the finished walls for about a day on the table. Then they can safely be removed from the table and also put in a corner. When the required number of elements has already been made, we select a sunny day for mounting on suburban area. There is another important point here. The castle looks more beautiful on some kind of elevation, on a pile of stones. So prepare a foundation for it. If you use stones, always place the stones on a small layer of mortar first. If this is not done, then the stones will move over time and destroy your beauty.
When the foundation is prepared, we proceed to the assembly. First, we install on a cement mortar, previously applied to the foundation, for example, tower No. 1. We attach wall No. 1 to the tower for mortar. Then we install the tower number 2.
The castle is already beginning to take shape. You are filled with excitement. Next, add wall No. 2 and finish with the installation of tower No. 3. My towers were heavy, so men need to tinker. Thus on this stage Here is the design (top view)
But wall #2 will be part of the building, so I take some bricks and form a rectangle of this building. In order to prevent the solution from getting into windows or doors from the inside, I close them from the inside with something flat (I use pieces flat slate or fragments of flat tiles).
I have the inside of the castle hidden. But if you want her to have beautiful view- you need to make both wall No. 3 and pour the inside for the monolith concrete mortar Or fill it with construction debris.
When this structure grabs, form a gable roof over the building. It takes me two or three bricks to do this (a mortar is thrown with a spatula and leveled under a cone).
So from the main basic elements, slightly changing them depending on your imagination (for example, you are tired of round towers - make rectangular formwork and the towers will be square, etc.) you can make a complex castle - like this for example.
A castle made of concrete is not very beautiful. How to decorate it?
About imitation. The boulders at the base of the foundation are made very easily as they are of arbitrary shape. Imitation brick requires more patience. Under the ruler, I scratch a series of horizontal lines and then make vertical notches at characteristic intervals. We brush off the debris with a brush. Where the surface is very rough, it can be smoothed by moistening with water from a spray and ironing with a soft brush. When the assembled castle is completely dry, you can tint it a little. Roof to give the appearance of tiles. I use acrylic paint with the right color, for painting the imitation of brick, I purchased such colors for acrylic - black, red, brown, yellow. Green can be taken to imitate moss. With a soft brush, lightly touching the masonry different colors I color the surface. In this case, only the convex surface is painted, while the recessed part remains gray. The effect is amazing. From half a meter it seems that everything is made of small bricks. In one place of the castle, I even imitated a destroyed brick wall. I did not expect such an effect. For a year the castle survived the winter and the paint is like new.
Can you make parts at home? I work in a garage. But in principle, you can do it at home if you don’t litter too much. In this case, the details can be broken down into even smaller ones. Those. for example, make a wall in two parts - the upper one where the teeth and the lower one where the gate. Similarly, make a tower from two or three cylinders or cubes. Then it's easier to transport. This allows you to prepare the castle even in the winter-spring time, and in the summer to assemble it in a couple of days. This is how I prepare dry mix. I fill half a bucket with dry sand, add cement and it mixes very easily with a small children's spatula. I pour all this into a small tub and do the next batch until I fill it. Thus, the dry solution is always in sufficient quantity.
I wish you all success in your work. And be sure to share your results.
First mini castle
The first castle-flower bed was made about eight years ago. The rest is recent - last year and the year before last. The lighthouse is real - it glows at night.
