Personalise Your Outdoor Space – If you’re to feel truly at home in your garden, then you’ll want a space that’s tailored to your tastes and personality. This might mean spending time combing through catalogues and visiting garden centres. But perhaps a better approach might be a creative one.
With the help of a few choice creative projects, you can set your garden apart. The good news is that these creative projects don’t have to involve a great deal of effort and skill. Just a few subtle touches can inject all of the personality that you need.
Personalise Your Outdoor Space
DIY Painted Garden Rocks
Rock painting is something that everyone can get involved with. You can occupy the kids for a few hours, or yourself. All you need is a few suitably smooth rocks, some acrylic paint, and the sealant required to protect your work against the elements for years to come.
You can take a museum-esque approach, and write out the names of key plants on your rocks. Or, you can be artistic, and go for a multi-coloured collection. Whatever you come up with, make sure that they’re properly sealed.
Homemade Birdhouses and Feeders
A birdhouse is basically a small box attached to a wall. If you’re just getting started with woodworking, then you might find this quite a straightforward way to build up your skills. If you don’t want to use wood, you can repurpose things like old bottles and jars to create exactly the required shape.
Birds are extremely light, so your birdhouse doesn’t need to be all that robust. Mount a hidden camera inside, and you can watch the birds come and go! Bird feeders and houses come in a variety of shapes and sizes, so pick the one that matches with your garden space.
Personalised Garden Signs
Coming up with a sign for your garden can help visitors to find their way around, while reminding them of your distinct voice and personality. As with the painted rocks, it’s a good idea to seal your signs so that they’re protected against snow, sleet and rain. Create colourful signs for your flower bulbs, and you’ll never forget what you planted, or where!
DIY Garden Trellis
A few climbing plants can make your garden feel that much more vibrant and alive. With the help of a trellis or two, you can direct these climbing plants. You can buy these ready-made, or you can construct your own with the help of timber strips and paint.
Choose colours that match the rest of the space, and accent it with fairy lights and hanging planters.
Homemade Stepping Stones
If you really want to make a bespoke garden path, then a few homemade stepping stones might be exactly what’s required. You can mix the concrete and allow it to set in moulds before decorating it with glass beads, tiles, and shells, just before the concrete fully sets.
Mosaic Garden Art
You can get a similar effect with broken tileware on a concrete or wooden base. Create a work of art in your garden! If you know what you’re doing, and you’re willing to take a by-numbers approach, you can achieve truly stunning results.
Debz Louise is a plus-size blogger based in Yorkshire. Behind many nationwide campaigns such as #WeaAreTheThey & winner of Best Blogger at the UK Plus Size Awards, she talkas about life as a plus-size 40-something woman in South Yorkshire.
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