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Make a castle out of stone. Decorative castle for the garden with your own hands. Details, photos, drawings. Painting the castle walls

Manufacturing decorative castle with your own hands is a fascinating and time-consuming process. This building will interesting decoration at your dacha.

The fairytale kingdom on the garden site will become a good gift both small and adult dreamers.

Before you start making the castle, prepare necessary materials and tools.

Materials:

1. Foam sheets.
2. Insulation for pipes.
3. Crumbs of stones or marble.
4. Set of acrylic paints.
5. Construction adhesive.
6. Screws.
7. Polyurethane foam with a gun.

Tools:

1. Curly screwdriver.
2. Thin hacksaw.
3. Set of felt-tip pens.
4. Brushes.
5. Construction spatula.
6. Insulating tape.
7. Mass for modeling.

The process of making a decorative castle for the garden with your own hands

First of all, you must decide on the number of walls and towers of your structure. It is best to use a scheme with 3 walls and 6 towers. After this, you can start making walls. To do this, take two sheets of foam and several plastic pots.

Draw sketches of the walls on one of the foam sheets. Please note that the height of the towers must correspond to the height of the sheet. The width of the towers should match the width of the roof of the decorative castle. If you want your building to be in a medieval style, you can make battlements on the tower. Leave a small gap (4-5 cm) along the edges of the walls. You will have to hide it directly under the turrets.

On the second sheet, draw sketches for the towers. Don't forget to cut out the windows. Next, use glue to attach the blanks to the walls. As a result of the operations performed, you should receive a wall with two turrets. Windows can be painted using black acrylic paint. Also, don't forget to paint the castle arch and gate. If you notice that the side walls of the towers have small protrusions, trim them with a hacksaw. Then wait for the paint on the walls to dry and paint the lattice.

After that, start painting the walls. It is best to start with the teeth. First, paint them the same color as the plaster. However, you can paint the teeth using regular spray paint. After this, let your design dry. Next, cover the entire surface of the wall. decorative plaster. The side walls of the turrets do not need to be painted; they should be dealt with last.

The next stage is the production of round towers. In order to make them, it is best to use small diameter plastic pipes. If you don't have pipes, you can use four pieces of foam. From each of the scraps, cut off a cylinder 10-12 cm long. You can cut teeth and glue them to each of the towers, and while the glue dries, secure the seams with electrical tape.

After the operations have been completed, make longitudinal cuts along the entire length of the workpiece. While the glue is drying, you can paint the tower windows with black paint. Then cover the workpiece with plaster.

If the tower configuration is rectangular, masonry elements can be added. To do this, use a modeling compound. If you don't have it on hand, use regular plasticine. When the towers and walls are completely dry, you can begin assembling a decorative castle for the garden with your own hands.

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In what order to assemble a decorative castle?

To make a castle you will need: 3 pieces of pipe, stones, broken tiles, 1.5 l dark bottles and cement mortar.

First of all, you need to make a platform on which the decorative lock will be installed. Undoubtedly, it is best to level it with cement mortar. Before assembly, do not forget to tighten the walls with rope and apply foam to the joints. After that, start installing the round turrets. To do this, insert the walls into the cuts. The missing parts of the towers can be made using construction foam. Press the ends of the cuts tightly against the walls and fill the towers with foam. WITH inside Fortress, form the missing parts in the same way, but do not forget to cut off the excess parts of the foam using a hacksaw.

After assembly, you can start making the backlight. It should be made from diffused light lamps. They need to be placed inside the fortress.

If you consider this method of making a lock too labor-intensive, you can resort to another. To do this, you need to acquire an asbestos-cement pipe and concrete mortar. Alternative method has the following sequence:

1. First, dig the pipes into the soil and concrete them for good stability. Then lay stones around the entire perimeter of the castle. After making several rows of masonry, let the mortar set.
2. Next cut plastic bottle into 2 parts. Windows can be made from them.
3. After this, proceed to making the cone-shaped roof. It can be made from concrete mortar. If desired, you can lay a mosaic on top.
4. Then install the roof on the tower.
5. If desired, make an arch. Use a foam form as a support, which should be removed after the concrete solution has hardened. For better stability of the arch, it is advisable to make grooves.

After the decorative mini-castle for the garden is ready, a flag should be made from old fabric and attached to the observation tower.

There are a lot of beautiful and original crafts for the garden you can do it yourself. And it is not necessary to buy any materials for this; old lids, basins, plastic bottles, tires, barrels, boxes, etc. can be used. Today I want to show you very interesting master manufacturing class DIY castle from waste materials and polyurethane foam. The author of this master class is Nadezhda Gulak, she showed us and told us how you can make a very nice castle with your own hands for the garden from foam, cement and waste material. On the site you can also find many interesting and original garden crafts made from scrap, unnecessary materials. I think that each of you will definitely choose for yourself the right job. Now let's start making the castle and find out what we need for this.

To make a castle we will need:
* Self-tapping screws.
* Wire.
* Insulation.
* Rabitz.
* Cement mortar.
* Polyurethane foam.
* Unnecessary basins, barrels, etc.

Method of making a lock:
We collect everything that we don’t need to make the castle, various barrels, basins, boxes, etc. and let's start manufacturing.

And now the new residents have come to try out the fairytale palace)))

We take the wire and wrap it around our workpieces and tighten them with self-tapping screws for strength. We do this so that the concrete solution will hold up better later.

To make a castle, we will need everything, including buckets.

I think the cat is starting to like our castle)))

We don't take the right box and wrap it with insulation, then coat it with concrete mortar and wrap it with chain-link mesh.

We pour cobblestones and clay into the boxes and put them in place. The work here is very hard. We also coat everything with concrete mortar and give it time to dry.

We draw bricks, windows, and basically everything your heart desires on the castle blank.

We take iron and cut a cylinder out of it, from which we will make a roof with a lock.

We take the chain-link mesh again and wrap it around the central tower.

Now we’ll make a balcony for the castle, otherwise what would a castle be like without a balcony)))

We sculpt the frame of the balcony in the place where it will be located.

We make a canopy as desired.

There are also railings on the balcony; we will make them from polyurethane foam.

We paint everything in the right color, we decorate, at the end of the work you can cover it with yacht varnish. Castle for the garden ready with your own hands.

The cats really liked the castle, so it can also be called a cat house)))

All that remains is to improve the area around the castle. Add gravel.

The castle with your own hands is ready for the garden; you can place a princess in it.

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Beautiful garden decor makes the site special - it is pleasant for both adults and children to be here, and guests admire it with skillful hands and the imagination of the owners and take notes of ideas to implement them in their own backyard. We offer 25 crafts and decorations for the garden, which are easy to make using available materials.

Butterflies – painting on stones

You can paint any natural stones, both small and large. They look more impressive if the painting area is large - in this case, several images can be made on the stone. The butterflies in the photo above are an example of this. We first wash and dry the stone surface, then apply a primer to it. When the coating is dry, paint it with a light background paint. So - creative work. If suitable stones can't find it, let's do it

Rainbow butterflies over a flower bed

We cut out such butterflies from plywood - for this you will need a jigsaw (or better yet, a jigsaw). To turn the blanks into beautiful butterflies:

• sand the edges with sandpaper;
• We apply wood impregnation to the workpieces on both sides to protect them from moisture;
• apply a primer;
• paint with wood or acrylic paints;
• after the paint has dried, apply varnish for external work;
• We fix the butterflies on long rods.

In the same way you can make large fancy flowers - they will greatly enliven the lawn.

Decorative balls or lamps

Let's make spectacular hanging balls to decorate the garden or lamps with round lampshades. The manufacturing principle is simple:

• inflate big balloon or take a soft ball;
• wrap the ball or ball with twine (twine), secure it with PVA glue.
• You can paint the twine before treating the workpiece with glue, or when it hardens.
• We pierce the ball/ball inside and take it out.
• Cover the ball with varnish.
• If instead of twine you use thin and flexible colored wire. the work will be done even faster, and decorative ball will serve for a long time - despite the wind and rain.

Figurines for the garden from pots

Garden decor from flower pots- a separate direction. How incredible interesting crafts for the garden can be made from inexpensive plastic flowerpots (although ceramic ones are also suitable)! Here, and here – You can fasten the pots into figures for the garden with rope/twine/wire, which we thread through drainage holes. Then - painting. We choose paint depending on the type of material of the pots. If the pots are plastic, use acrylic paint or paint specifically for plastic. If you are making a figurine from ceramic pots, oil paint or oil enamel will do. Acrylic paint is universal, we also use it.

Cloud on the drainpipe

This kind of rain can be made if you cut a cloud from a sheet of metal or plastic and attach it to in the right place.

The first photo is almost a sculpture. It will require a panel made of cellular concrete - it is easy to cut.

In the second photo there is a flashlight made from a piece plastic pipe and plugs. We paint it with acrylic paints.

Flowers on pedestals

A luxurious corner in the garden can be created using high stands under flowerpots. we make them from pillars, blocks, or even just pipes - it can be round, but always of large diameter. Climbing flowers are desirable - we will plant them in wide flowerpots or sulfinia.

Fairytale castle made of pipes

We fasten several sections of pipes of different heights in which holes are made (for example, with a crown drill). Roofs for turrets can be made from watering cans.

Garden crafts made from plywood

These figures peeking out from behind the fence are very funny. But once they were ordinary plywood.

Concrete slab platform

Decorative paving, in which the slabs are made on site.

• We prepare the surface - tear off small pits in the shape of the slabs;
• We lay a tape along the edges of the recess - it can be made of polyethylene or roofing felt.
• At the bottom of each pit we pour a little crushed stone with sand;
• Fill it with concrete.
• We sow lawn grass between the slabs.

Spiral lawn

Spectacular spiral of grass and stones:

• use a shovel to mark a spiral across the grass or ground;
• tear out the spiral groove;
• we place stones in the ditch;
• we sow grass between the lines (if it is not there).

Garden of sand and stones

Exotic corner. But it’s just stones and sand of two colors – yellow and white.

Flower hose

A watering hose can also serve as a garden decoration. We drive hooks into the wall of some building, onto which we wind a hose in the shape of flower petals.

Elephant from tires or from pots

We cut the old tire with a regular hacksaw, if available. circular saw cutting will be easier. We paint oil paint or rubber/bitumen.

The elephant in the photo below is made from flower pots. For the head we use a ball, plastic or foam ball. The trunk is made of wire, here it is fluffy (chenille).

Sun made of tires and towers made of pipes

Tire sun – the decor is simple, but bright and pleasant. The tower complex is made from pipe sections.

Dogs made from bicycle chains

Everyone wants to make their site original and special. But how to do this? Various will come to the rescue here decorative figures, only they require costs.

Therefore, you can build a castle with your own hands on the site. This will not be a problem for those who do at least something with their own hands. In addition, this does not require any special costs.

Decorations for the site

To decorate its territory now exists many options:

• Entire zoos are literally being built from old tires. There are swans, cats, giraffes and elephants.
• You can make flower beds and flower beds from unusable logs and stones.
• You can create figurines for the garden from polyurethane foam and bottles.
• And if you use cement and have some skills in working with it, you can create simply magnificent sculptures that will decorate any area.

You can also build a castle with your own hands from scrap materials or even build a whole kingdom that will delight not only children, but also adults. This building will add mystery to the garden, and to make it look more alive, you can make a rock garden or rock garden.

To obtain a more durable and long-lasting structure, you should use cement-sand mixture . For the composition it is better to use 2 parts sand and 1 part cement. Before starting, it is advisable to dry the sand - the drier it is, the easier it will be to sift and subsequently use.

Most often, castles turn out to be quite large in size, and besides, their construction is a little difficult. challenging task. To deal with this, you can try to line up some parts separately, after which they can be easily assembled in the right place, like using cubes. Here's how to make your own castle.

Construction for building a castle

To build a tower from an iron sheet, you need to roll up a cylinder of the required size and fix it. It must be fixed so that it can be easily disassembled after use. To reduce solution consumption A bottle or jar should be placed inside the cylinder, but it must be taken into account that the thickness of the solution around the ballast should be about 5 cm.

When pouring the solution inside, make sure it is thick. After which it needs to be allowed to harden for several hours so that the formwork does not crumble when removed.

The height of the formwork should be chosen in this way: it should be approximately equal to the tower; if it is smaller, it should be disassembled and assembled above the already set part.

You can cut the solution after it has set. To perform such work, the following tools are used:

• chisel;
• screwdriver;
• scalpel or similar blade;
• blade from a hacksaw for metal;
• strips of tin that will help form the elements of the castle.

A castle made of simple cylindrical shapes will look a little boring, to avoid this you should experiment and use a chisel to imitate stonework, chips or cracks at the bottom of the castle to give the castle the effect of antiquity. Using a knife you can make windows and loopholes.

The roof is constructed from tin cones, and they can also be used as a mold for mortar. The roof should be knocked out of the mold only after the solution has reliably hardened.

Making walls

To make walls, a rectangle of the required size is assembled from boards, after which it is placed on flat surface, which is pre-covered with a piece of film or roofing felt. The solution is poured into the resulting frame. To make a window or door in the wall, you should pre-position the frames in the desired location.

After the solution has been poured to the required height, stones or crushed stone can be inserted into the lower part to create a kind of imitation of the foundation, or using a knife, draw grooves - characteristic gaps between the foundation stones.

When the solution has hardened, the frame is removed and, if required, details are added: windows, loopholes, etc. After this, the walls are left to dry for another day.

It is better to choose a sunny day to build a castle.. It is best to place it on a hill, which can be a pile of stones. To ensure that the walls stand securely, a foundation is built for them, on which a thin layer of cement is then applied. And only after that is it worth installing the walls. They can also be strengthened in another way, for example, the internal cavity is filled with stone, rubble or mortar.

Since simple concrete castles look gray and dull, many people paint them. For this they use acrylic paint. This decorative element It will become a real decoration of the garden, and both children and adults will be happy with it.

I had an idea to do a fix under the tree for garden pleasing to the eye, with your own hands. The choice fell on mini lock , since it is the easiest to fit at any point of 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 2 to 1 composition (i.e. 2 parts sand and 1 part cement). It is better to dry the sand in the sun, then it is easier to mix it with cement, and also to sift it for use in elements with fine detail, since debris can ruin the part.
Lock has a fairly decent volume, so building it all at once is unrealistic. To do this, I first make individual parts of the castle, so that I can then build it out of cubes in a couple of days. Last, third lock was assembled in two days. The neighbors thought he had fallen from the sky when they saw him.
So, let's look at the elements of a typical design.

Let's start with the turrets. A cylinder of the required radius is rolled up from a sheet of iron (mine is about 2-30 cm). The cylinder is fixed with wire or self-tapping screws so that it can be easily disassembled in the future. Anything can be placed inside the cylinder - bottles, cans - to reduce the consumption of the solution, but the thickness to the ballast should be at least 5 cm. Fill with a fairly thick solution. We give it several hours to set to such a state that when removing the formwork 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 dismantled and assembled above the already set lower part.

We immediately begin to cut the damp, slightly set solution. The cutting technology is the same as that of sandboxes. For cutting I use a set of tools available to everyone. I use screwdrivers, chisels, a medical scalpel, a hacksaw blade for metal and various strips of tin for forming various architectural elements.
A simple cylinder is boring, this is where the flight of fancy begins. I make various grooves by wrapping a long strip of tin around the cylinder, using this strip as a guide, and using a screwdriver or chisel to select the annular recesses. Then in the lower part you can imitate stonework, destruction, chipped plaster, cracks - after all, the castle is ancient.

For me, aging is the most exciting part of the process. At the same time, we don’t bother making windows, loopholes, using a knife to pick out the required recess. If you want to make a turret at the top of the tower, then roll up a cylinder with a diameter a couple of centimeters larger and a height of 10-15 cm, insert a plastic bottle inside to save the solution (after it has completely set, it will be removed).

Fill the mold with the solution and after partial setting, carefully remove the formwork into a cylinder and make required quantity windows, battlements - as your imagination dictates. I'm sawing out the teeth hacksaw blade for metal - I make cuts of the required depth and pick off the excess mortar between the cuts.

The roof can be made from tin cones, or you can use this tin cone as a mold for pouring mortar (that’s exactly what I do). After complete setting, carefully knock our roof out of the mold. Don't forget that we are still preparing individual elements of the castle. We'll put everything together later. So we sorted out the tower. We have all the elements ready and stacked somewhere in the corner.

Let's start building the walls. Our walls will be either fortress (1) or a building element (2).

There is no difference in their production. We assemble a rectangle of the required size from boards 5 cm wide. Place 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 poured later 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, you can add crushed stones or broken bricks to the bottom to save mortar. After the solution has been poured to the desired height, you can take nice crushed stone pebbles and stick them into the base of the foundation so that their flat edges protrude above common plane solution approximately 5 mm.
If there is no crushed stone, then you can after partial setting sharp knife or use a scalpel to imitate the foundation. You can also use pebbles to mark future windows. Thus, your task is to create such flat elements. To speed things up, I make 2-3 of these rectangles at a 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 outside of the castle; the inside does not represent anything because it is not visible.

So, after a few hours, the mortar of our future walls has set very (!) at this point, so that it is pliable, but does not collapse, and if it is left too long, it will 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 make the gaps between the teeth by gradually removing the mortar with a flat tool (I use a metal ruler for this). Then loopholes and windows are made. Draw everything your imagination tells you. To remove the remaining solution, I use a soft brush (you’ve probably seen how archaeologists work in the movies). In the end, you will be left with something like the following on your desk.

Leave the finished walls on the table for about a day. Then they can be safely removed from the table and also placed in a corner. When the required number of elements have already been made, choose a sunny day for installation on summer cottage. This point is still important here. The castle looks more beautiful on some hill, on a pile of stones. Therefore, prepare the foundation for it. If you use stones, always place the stones on a small layer of mortar first. If you don't do this, the stones will move over time and destroy your beauty.
When the foundation is prepared, we begin assembly. First, we install it on a cement mortar previously applied to the foundation, for example tower No. 1. We attach wall No. 1 to the tower using mortar. Then we install tower No. 2.

The castle is already beginning to emerge. You are filled with excitement. Next, add wall No. 2 and finish by installing tower No. 3. My towers were heavy, so the men needed to tinker. Thus on at this stage This is the design we got (top view)

But wall number 2 will be part of the building, so I take some bricks and form a rectangle of this building. To prevent the solution from getting into the 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 inner part for a monolith, fill it with concrete mortar or fill it with construction waste.

When this structure sets, form it over the building gable roof. It takes me two or three bricks (spread the mortar with a spatula and level it into a cone).
This is how you can make a complex castle from the basic basic elements, changing them slightly depending on your imagination (for example, you’re tired of round towers - make rectangular formwork and the towers will be square, etc.).

A castle made simply of concrete is not very beautiful. We need to decorate it.

About imitation. Boulders at the base of the foundation are made very easily since they are of arbitrary shape. Imitating brick requires more patience. Under the ruler, I scratch a series of horizontal lines and then make vertical notches at characteristic intervals. Use a brush to brush away the debris. Where the surface is very rough, it can be smoothed by moistening it with water from a spray and ironing it with a soft brush. When the assembled castle is completely dry, you can tint it a little. Give the roof the appearance of tiles. I use acrylic paint with the desired color; to paint imitation brick, I purchased the following colors for acrylic - black, red, brown, yellow. Green can be used to imitate moss. Using a soft brush, lightly touching the masonry different colors colors I paint the surface. In this case, only the convex surface is painted, and 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 didn't expect such an effect myself. The castle has already survived the winter for a year and the paints are like new.

Is it possible to make parts of the house? 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 of two parts - the upper one where the battlements are and the lower one where the gates are. 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 winter and spring, and assemble it in a couple of days in the summer. This is how I prepare the dry mixture. 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 make the next batch until I fill it. Thus, there is always enough dry solution available.

I wish you all success in your creativity. And be sure to share your results.