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There are few summer residents who are only interested in material interest - a house, outbuildings, crops. Most love and appreciate the beauty in their land, which does not promise commercial benefits. But the number of rich people who are able to pay for expensive materials and the work of professional gardeners for the sake of a spectacular open-air is also not calculated in gigantic numbers. Hence the simple conclusion: you can make excellent flower beds on suburban area from waste, in fact, material, such as the old wheel tires by doing all the work with my own hands.
Old tires - new design
Walk through the city courtyards and appreciate their design. Car tires have long been an almost indispensable component. modern design. They are dug halfway into the ground, laid out in the form of a lower frame of trees and other vegetation, children's paths are made of them, hung as a swing, painted in different colors.
If the urban environment, significantly limited by public interests and tastes, has adopted such design tricks, then God himself ordered summer residents who have a personal space for fantasy, as they say.
Tire selection
When choosing tires for a future flower garden, you need to take into account not only their size (weight, by the way, too - there are such giants that you can’t budge), but also other features, of which the most important, in terms of facilitating subsequent processing, are the following:
- winter tires are preferable to summer ones;
- foreign tires are softer and thinner than domestic ones.
Important! Another important point -the presence of a disc that will perfectly serve as the bottom of the "tire" flower vase. Without this element, we can only talk about a flowerbed of tires taken off the wheels and equipped with our own hands.
Plant selection
Starting planning flower beds and flowerbeds, which will be made with our own hands in the country, we hope that later we will not only admire them ourselves, but also show our friends photos of these spectacular tire structures, inviting guests to our place and satisfying our little vanity. 
As for plants, the choice is rich:
- flowers different varieties, including those replacing each other in terms of flowering;
- small (although this is optional) trees.
Important! General rule one thing: the flower bed should be beautiful and match the overall style of your site. It is possible that the style itself can be built on the basis of the flower and plant layout.
Making a flower bed with your own hands: the easiest option
Now the most important thing is to create beautiful flower beds (if you decide that one is not enough) from tires with your own hands in the country: the result should be such that the photo is not ashamed to be shown to people, acquaintances and strangers. 
The processing of the selected (this was the first step) tire begins with marking it for subsequent cuts (this will be the second step). There are lowly landowners who use tires without pre-treatment, but it is still recommended to combine the beauty of living plants with a purely technical aesthetics. 
The intended cut should be like this:
- the upper tire part is removed (not completely) and the lower part is left (completely);
- having shown imagination and ingenuity, the cut line can be made wavy, broken, with teeth, with fringe, etc.
They will be the cutting process itself: 1. The tire is divided into two parts along the drawn line.
Important! If the disk is available, then during the procedure it is not necessary to remove the tire from it.
2. The lower part is turned inside out - this part of the process is the most time consuming, since it requires physical stress. The mechanism is as follows: with a cut, this conditional half of the tire is placed on the ground (or on the coating), its edges are pressed by the legs (and, accordingly, by the whole body weight), and then turned inside out, starting from one place (this is the most difficult) and, gradually accelerating, making full circle. 
It turned out either a vase (if there was a disk), or a future flower bed. 
zealous owner and the upper part of the cut tire will not be ignored. He will cut it across with it several times. inside(10 centimeters) and make another flower bed, digging the resulting cuts into the soil.
Finally, the fourth step in creating a country flower garden will be the transformation of a car tire, albeit already processed quite skillfully cutting tool, into a beautiful decoration for garden flora. 
This final step involves:
- Painting (who prefers enamel, and who prefers oil paints).
- Adding additional decorative elements(glasses, pebbles, etc.).
Did you know? In African Kenya, local shoemakers got the hang of making excellent slippers from end-of-life tires, the demand for which spread throughout the continent.
This site provides material on the manufacture of a car wheel. It turns out the original and beautiful product, but that's bad luck, the number of wheels at my disposal is limited. But there are much more waste tires in automotive history. It's time to dispose of them. Since there are a lot of tires, I decided to try to speed up the process of converting them into flower beds, cutting a dozen tires with a knife is still a laborious task. Then than to cut car tire? For cutting, a manual jigsaw was used. I want to say right away that working with two different units, best result showed a jigsaw with a power of 800 watts, the more powerful, the better. So below is the answer to the question of how to make a flower bed out of a tire quickly.
The procedure for making flower beds from tires
1. Choosing a tire Of course, if there is a choice. The recommendations are simple. We choose the lightest and with maximum tread wear - this will greatly facilitate subsequent eversion.
2. We prepare the tire. If the tire is heavily polluted with sand and earth, we clean it. Files on dirty tires dull faster.
3. Marking up felt-tip pen cut places, such as petals. Here it is convenient to use ready-made sector markings on some domestic tires. Petals should not be more than 12-15 centimeters, otherwise the flower bed will not turn out to be round, in these places the rubber will not bend.
4. We cut through in the place of cutting with a knife, a tire for inserting a jigsaw file.
5. We fix the file in the jigsaw As mentioned above, the jigsaw for cutting must be taken to the maximum available power. When cutting, I used various files. All work pretty much the same. It is convenient to cut with a figured sawing file, but they often break when sawing errors. We clamp the file, insert it into the cut and start sawing.
6.sawing, in places of thickening of the rubber, the feed is very difficult, to speed up the work, you can round off the petal in the thin part of the side surface of the tire. Approaching the base of the petal, it is necessary to cut until it bends, and preferably before reaching the tread plane - this will facilitate eversion. After sawing one petal, you can rearrange the jigsaw for sawing in the opposite direction, or if you have a figured file, you can also make a rounding at the base of the petal. So sequentially according to the markup, we cut out all the petals.
7. We cut out back side, you can also cut out the petals or cut off part of the side wall and make radial cuts on the remaining part of the side surface, reducing your work. Important, cuts to the protector from the side of the petals, should correspond to the cuts with reverse side, if this is not observed, then when turning out in these places there will be an unevenness. Experience has shown that even a very hard tire can be turned out if it is completely cut off side wall tires opposite the petals.
One of the most simple ways to ennoble a suburban area - to arrange it flower arrangements. Colorful flowerbeds, mixborders and blooming rabatkas transform the territory, making it elegant and cozy at the same time. To emphasize the natural beauty of flowering compositions, they need to be framed in a decent frame, which can be flower beds made of tires. Do-it-yourself flowerpots will serve not only as a functional design element, but will give the site exclusivity.
Wanting to decorate the site, supplementing it with picturesque multi-level containers, it is not at all necessary to spend a lot of money on the purchase of ready-made flowerpots in gardening stores. You can make beautiful and durable flowerpots from used car tires. The main advantage of this material is its resistance to adverse weather conditions and the ability to maintain an attractive appearance over several seasons.
Decorative flowerbeds from old tires allow not only to emphasize the splendor of colors flowering plants, but to complete the compositions
To make a flower bed from tires with your own hands, you can use tires of both imported and domestic production. But if there is a choice, preference should still be given to imported products, since they are made of softer rubber, which is much easier to work with. Choosing between summer and winter tires, it is better to prefer the second option.
Since in the manufacture of such a flowerpot the most difficult question is how to turn out the tire for the flower bed, because the rubber is quite a hard material, to facilitate work, it is better to choose tires with maximum tread wear.
Tires with a diameter of R12-R17 are suitable for arranging flower beds. Products required size You can always get hold of any tire shop.
Using tires different size you can make original multi-level flower beds that will become spectacular decoration front area or area for recreation on suburban area
How to make a flower bed from a tire: from simple to complex
The easiest option for arranging a floor flowerpot from a car tire is to create a flower garden from a tire, in which the side rubber surface was cut off and filled soil mixture.
It will take no more than half an hour to make such a flowerpot. It is easy to decorate the outer sides of the flowerpot by painting the surface oil paint various shades
But in order to make an original flowerpot on a leg, bordered with a fringe, or designed in the form big flower, it takes a little more effort.
A do-it-yourself flowerbed of tires can look like a flowerpot with smooth edges or a bowl with a wavy cut line, or even an outlandish flower framed by curly petals
Before you make a flower bed out of the wheel, you need to thoroughly clean the base. Contaminated car wheels are cleaned of sand and dirt. This procedure is necessary in order to facilitate the work in the future: the blade of a file or knife becomes dull much faster when cutting edges on dirty material.
Drawing a contour line and making cuts
Having decided on the shape of the future flowerbed of tires, it is necessary to apply a contour on the side of the prepared tire using chalk or a marker, along which the cut line will subsequently be drawn.
When planning to arrange a flowerpot in the shape of a flower, the contour of the petals should be applied in such a way that the size of each of them does not exceed 12-15 cm.
If you make petals bigger size, then after the tire is turned inside out, the flower bed may not take the desired round shape, but will have angular joints of the sections.
To make cuts, you need to prepare a well-sharpened shoe knife. You can increase the slip of the knife blade during the cutting process by lubricating its surface. liquid soap. The use of a jigsaw will greatly facilitate the cutting process, with which it is convenient to perform any curly sawing.
All cuts are made on soft rubber, the boundary of which is a metal cord located under the tread inside the tire
tire eversion
For arrangement decorative flower bed on a stable leg, it is necessary to turn the prepared tire with cut edges inside out. The process of turning a wheel is one of the most time-consuming stages of work, and for many craftsmen it often becomes a real stumbling block. Knowing a little trick will help you cope with this difficult job: you need to make every effort and turn only a small part of the tire inside out, and then the work will go “like clockwork”. The tire is turned over with cuts down and placed on flat surface. The part of the tire where the rim goes into a hard tread is pressed with a foot, and the rubber is turned outward at an angle of 45 degrees from the center.
One of the examples that clearly demonstrates the process of turning the wheel.
How to paint a flower bed from a wheel: design options
The vase is almost ready. It remains only to correct the shape of the edges and arrange it in the same style with other elements. landscape design. Until the outer walls of the inverted floor flowerpot are covered with a layer of dust, they must be painted. For these purposes, you can use enamel, oil, or nitro paints. A layer of paint applied to a clean, fat-free surface will last more than one season. Leftovers can also be used to decorate a flowerpot. car paint in aerosol cans, which can be sprayed on the side walls and the leg of the flower bed in just a few minutes.
It is desirable to paint not only outer part flowerpot, but "capture" the upper 10-15 centimeters of the inner surface.
When making flower bed it is better to use paints of light shades, which will partially reflect Sun rays, preventing overheating of the soil in the container
Colorful flower beds, painted in contrasting shades and decorated with outlandish patterns, look original.
An unusual addition to the ornament can be glued glass pebbles that look like frozen dew drops. But when decorating flower beds, you should not be too zealous, since the planted climbing and creeping plants will cover most of the walls of the flower bed.
Unusual flower beds made by hand from leftover materials are becoming more and more popular. Such crafts for decorating a garden can be found in almost every summer cottage, in private and multi-storey buildings. Used car tires, pieces of bricks, stones, wood residues - everything that is no longer needed on the farm can be used to create original flower beds. In order for the flower garden to become a real decoration of the site, it needs to be given an attractive decorative look. Black tires or other containers for flowers look unattractive and too simple. But if you paint them beautifully in bright saturated colors, you get original flower beds, which will become a central element in the design of the territory.
Painting a flower bed from tires or other household residues is not difficult even for inexperienced craftsmen. To work, you will need the following materials and accessories:
- solvent, acetone or other means intended for degreasing the surface;
- a primer (for example, GF-021 is quite suitable for a rubber surface) - if the flower bed is pre-primed, the coating will lie more evenly and will hold on tighter;
- paint - any paint that remains on the farm is suitable for coloring flower beds;
- brushes (depending on the complexity of the drawing) - it is recommended to prepare several types of brushes of different thicknesses.
Of course, there are no strict rules for painting flower beds, and if you want to save money, you can completely get by with a minimal set consisting of a brush and coloring matter. But if there is a desire to make a high-quality flower bed, which for a long time will decorate the territory and create a unique comfort, you need to consider some tips:
- a tire or other object intended to create a flower bed, before painting, must be washed well with any detergent, then degrease with acetone, white spirit, or other similar liquids;
- further, the tire should be treated with a primer - this will hide the bumps and reduce the consumption of dyes (experts advise adding a little PVA glue to the primer for strength);
- if the tire is to be painted light or bright color, then before applying the color scheme, it is better to cover the future flower bed with a white base;
- the tire should be painted on both sides: outside and inside - the soil tends to sag, and over time, the beauty of the flower garden can be spoiled by the protrusion of the unpainted part of the tire.
Based on these recommendations, it is easy to determine what materials, and in what quantity, are needed to color each of the flower beds. But it must be borne in mind that flowerbeds made of tires are deformed under the influence of frost and sun, and with economical painting, the surface may simply crack.
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What paints to use
In general, any paint that is on the farm is suitable for painting flower beds:
- special paints for rubber are ideal for this case- perfectly mask cracks and irregularities, do not crack in the cold, but their cost is quite high;
- spray paints in cans are easy to use, penetrate well into hard-to-reach places in addition, when painting flower beds, they allow you to create smooth transitions between colors;
- car paints (including aerosol ones) - they keep well and for a long time on a rubber surface, dry quickly, are great option under the base;
- acrylic - applied to a fat-free surface for a long time, do not fade in the sun, do not crack;
- water-based - also suitable for outdoor work, fit well on a clean surface, but burn out over time;
- enamel with oil base- interact well with rubber, hold for a long time;
- nitro paints - dry quickly, do not wash off, do not fade, fit well on the rubber surface.
All these coloring materials are good as a base, but for application small drawings it is better to purchase a special set of paints resistant to weather factors in an art store. Each set contains several jars of different colors and small volume - just what you need to draw small details.
Painting options
The easiest option for coloring flower beds is a plain bright coating, contrasting with plants, the general background of the garden, lawn and other landscape elements. Flowerbeds of several tires painted in different colors look more impressive if they are assembled into a composition, for example, a tiered pyramid, chamomile, frog and other interesting combinations. In this case, the pyramids can be painted in a variety of colors, the chamomile - the middle (middle bus) in yellow, the petals in white, the frog in green, and so on.
If you connect your imagination, you can turn a homemade flower bed into a real work of art. Various geometric figures, flowers, butterflies and other simple patterns even a child can draw. For a more complex design, or in the case when it is not possible to paint the flower bed in an original way on your own, you can use stencils, ready-made or made by yourself. To make the flower beds bright and unusual, the colors of the coatings should be selected contrasting.
With the help of aerosols, you can make interesting transitions from one color to another (gradient), paint a flower bed in the color of the rainbow, sea and sky, come up with a variety of unusual color schemes.
The most standard and familiar version of a tire flower garden is a flower with petals of different lengths. We first paint such a flower bed in two colors smoothly turning into each other: the middle is light, the petals are in the same tone, but the color is more intense, for example, lilac - purple, lemon - orange. Below you can apply an ornament in a contrasting dark color. For lovers bright elements petals can be painted in different colors - it all depends on imagination and taste. Flower beds decorated with multi-colored pebbles, shells, beads look luxurious and stylish. This design requires a lot of time and patience, but the result is worth it. Bright ornaments look advantageous on a light, blue, red and black base.
Beautiful and original look flower beds and alpine slides, decorated with multi-colored mulch, covered in the aisles. Small stones can be used as mulching material, wood chips, sawdust. Using wood waste to decorate flower beds, you should be aware that not all sawdust is suitable for decoration. Many tree species, such as conifers, contain resins that have a bad effect on plants and shift the pH of the soil to the acid side. Therefore, only sawdust and chips of deciduous trees can be used to decorate flower beds.
To give decorative look sawdust is dyed in different colors. Painting wood waste is not an easy process, but doable. They can be dyed with aerosols. In this case, the mulch should be well dried. First, the material must be evenly scattered on paper, then gently spray the coloring matter. During the drying process, the sawdust must be stirred periodically so that it does not stick together. It should be said that the painted mulch looks very decorative, protects the soil from drying out, but is of little use for plants, while untreated wood waste over time, they turn into humus and improve the quality of the soil.
Tires that are small in size can be used to create hanging flower beds in the form of planters that will look spectacular at the entrance, on the terrace, balcony. Painted in White color, they can become stylish element decor both in the house and in the backyard.
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"What paint to paint the tires for the flower bed?" - one of those questions that inevitably arise when creating a flower garden from tires. Decorating your own backyard or garden plot is one of the main tasks facing the owner of the house. At the same time, each of us selects the style and placement of various elements based on individual preferences and our own capabilities. Recently, due to the deteriorating economic situation in the country, decorating and creating elements with your own hands has become especially popular. One of these solutions is to create a flower garden from improvised means. This process contains many nuances and even more questions to be answered.
Creating your own flower garden is a rather complicated and time-consuming task. At the same time, it requires from us a good knowledge of the matter and the manifestation of extraordinary talent, which is the basis of future construction. Any construction, be it a residential building or an ordinary flower bed, requires a significant study of all the details and the creation of a plan for future work. You can, of course, buy ready-made version flower beds and not suffer with its creation and decorative trim. However, such a solution requires significant financial costs, and this may not always be appropriate, especially in today's reality. Based on this, the best option is to create a similar object with your own hands.
When making such a decision, the question inevitably arises, what material to choose for the work. The answer to it is quite simple, since absolutely any waste material, available, is quite capable of concisely merge into such a building. wooden beam, metal sheets, plastic bottles and even car tires- all these materials can harmoniously fit into the project of creating a flower garden and serve as its basis. Wherein Special attention car tires should be given attention, since they are the ideal material for creating an impromptu flower garden, which allows not only to significantly save money, but also to achieve excellent visual characteristics of the object.
The very process of creating a flower bed using a car tire is quite simple, but its decoration requires a responsible approach. After all, the visual perception of the object depends to the greatest extent on the external characteristics of the flower garden and the plants inhabiting it. Giving an aesthetic appearance to a similar building can be carried out both by painting the materials underlying the flowerbed, and by cutting out various figures and images from the surface of the products. Each of these options is enough good decision, and all of them can be used both in aggregate and separately. The resulting images will significantly diversify the garden, as well as give it individuality.
The progress of painting the flower garden
The choice of the main coloring agent is quite an important task, which makes it possible to experiment with the shades of the object and choose the best combinations. At the same time, painting tires is not so difficult. To implement such a solution, it is enough to perform just a few simple steps that will make the finished building unique. In addition, carrying out similar work requires a minimum amount of materials:
- solvent;
- primer;
- dye;
- set of brushes.
This small set is sufficient, it allows you to completely paint everything necessary details future flower bed. At the same time, the processing of the material itself with paint requires compliance with a certain sequence, which makes it possible to obtain a high-quality surface, characterized by a long service life and excellent external data. The very sequence of processing each tire separately is presented below:
- 1 First, the product must be completely free of dirt: its surface must be clean and free of the smallest particles of any contaminants.
- 2 The next step is to degrease the surface. To do this, use a solvent or any similar agent (white spirit or acetone). This step allows for additional cleaning of the material and helps to better fix the paint on it.
- 3 The use of a primer is not prerequisite. However, its application contributes to better fixing of colorants on the rubber surface. The result of its application is that the painted product will retain its original appearance for a long time without deforming or cracking.
- 4 The actual process of applying paint to a tire is quite simple. However, you will need brushes to create drawings. various sizes and shapes, but a monolithic coating can be created using only one brush in the shortest possible time.
As can be seen from the above sequence, the work on painting a flower garden is not particularly difficult, with right approach You can do all the manipulations in just a few hours. It does not take much time to create a flower bed.
Material options and their properties
Schemes for creating flower beds can be varied. For example, one of the most common wheel placement options is a slide. It is this arrangement that makes it possible to obtain optimal external characteristics of the flower garden and make it incredibly practical. In addition, the slide involves the use of a large gamut of colors, which makes such placement one of the brightest and most colorful among similar configurations.
The choice of paint for surface coating is an important and responsible decision, since the visual characteristics of the finished object depend on it to the greatest extent.
To date, there are several types of materials that can be used to paint the structure.
Among them are the following:
- aerosol;
- automotive;
- nitro paints;
- acrylic;
- water-based;
- oil.
The above types of coverage can be used to fully color the flower garden. Moreover, each of them has its own specific properties. Thus, aerosols have a high degree of penetration: they are able to penetrate even the most inaccessible places.
Automotive enamels and nitro paints allow you to achieve excellent external performance, but require special care for the treated surface. Water emulsion and oil varieties coatings have the shortest service life compared to other options, but can also be used to paint flower beds from tires.
Creating a flower bed with your own hands requires certain skills and creativity. One of the best options material for the flower garden are car tires. This solution allows you to get a magnificent and colorful object, as well as save a lot. However, the use of such products is associated with the need for their decorative processing. Not everyone can say with confidence: “I don’t paint car tires,” since the result of a similar decision will be dull images and faceless textures. It follows that painting such material is still worth it. After all, it is not so difficult to do this, and the result of such work will delight everyone with its beauty and brightness for a long time to come.
