Landscape design is a real art. Professionals create such beauty that it captivates the spirit. In creating the appearance of a garden plot, not the last point is the decor, which also includes garden furniture made of metal. In addition, it performs household functions. If you choose it correctly, your site will become beautiful and functional.
Features of metal furniture
Using metal structures in the garden is associated with some difficulties, but there are also advantages.
Beautiful forged metal chair and bench
The main points that are important to pay attention to:
- First of all, potential users are attracted by the strength characteristics of the metal. If we are not talking about cheap products, then they last a long time and cannot be broken even by heavy loads.
Advice! The service life of a product largely depends on the quality of its care. Metal requires periodic renewal of protective coatings, as it begins to corrode in atmospheric humidity.
Set of table and chairs
- Metal garden furniture looks beautiful and elegant. It goes well with living plants, especially if forged elements are added to the design.
- Homemade amateur models, like those made from any other material, are distinguished by their angularity and discreetness. They cannot be called elegant, but by using ready-made decorative parts, you can achieve a good result.
- The material can be dyed many times, due to this you can maintain its attractiveness for a long time. Some metals do not require any treatment, since they practically do not oxidize - aluminum or stainless steel.
- Metal is often used as a durable frame, and seats and backrests are made from other materials - wood, plastic, WPC, etc. This allows us to combat the obvious disadvantage of designs.
Country metal bench with soft seat
- Any metal has high thermal conductivity. Because of this, it quickly cools down or, on the contrary, gets very hot in the sun, which makes tactile contact with it unpleasant, but in the summer you really want to sunbathe, so you won’t see such furniture near the pools.
Simple and stylish - frame made of rectangular profiled pipe and soft stuffed pillows
- Metal is easy to care for, apart from annual painting. It is wiped with damp cloths at some intervals.
- Protected products easily withstand moisture and do not suffer from ultraviolet radiation. There is no biological threat to metal - mold, bugs, rodents.
Metal garden furniture set
- Another drawback is the heavy weight, especially of structures made of cast iron. Only physically strong and healthy people can move furniture. Therefore, it is installed in place once and is not moved anywhere else.
Metal products are combined with many landscaping styles. They are desirable for classics and modern. You cannot do without such attributes in modern trends, for example, loft or hi-tech. The external shape and appearance of the furniture will be strikingly different.
Alpine slide as a design solution for a garden landscape
The Alpine slide is one of the most spectacular landscape design options. The composition is based on stones and low plants, which are laid out in a certain order in the shape of a mountain.
An alpine hill is a man-made hill with stones, planted with flowers or low plants
It is recommended to locate the rock garden in a place that is visible from all sides. It should also be taken into account that it requires sunlight, so the alpine slide is not installed near large trees.
To create a rock garden, you must first draw a sketch of it, which will allow you to determine:
- required number of stones and tiers;
- the volume of drainage and soil required to form the embankment;
- number of seeds or plant seedlings.
The height of the slide should correspond to its area. Typically, the rise for each meter of diameter is 0.2 m. When arranging a rock garden, you should not neglect the preparatory stage, which includes creating drainage, selecting suitable soil and stones. It is not recommended to use stones of the same size and shape. For rock gardens, a wide variety of plants and flowers are used that are unpretentious to environmental conditions.
A small alpine slide made of flat stones
Alpine slide with an artificial pond
Rock garden made of natural stone with a waterfall
Thus, you can create a unique garden home decor yourself and without much expense. To do this, use any available materials and your own imagination. There are many options for designing the territory, among which you can choose the most suitable style.
Metal for making garden furniture
Garden furniture is made from different metals, each of which is good in certain situations.
Steel
Steel pipes are the most versatile solution, since this material allows you to construct products in many styles. Plus, it has good strength characteristics and elasticity.
Simple, reliable frame for wooden cladding
- Steel is useful in creating large structures. They mainly use rolled pipes and rods. In forged products, the main material is plates. Steel is suitable for furniture in the dining area. The material is elastic, so it can be forged.
Work of art – forged products
- The appearance of steel depends entirely on its grade and processing method. For example, stainless steel shines brightly in the sun - such surfaces are desirable for many modern styles, including hi-tech or minimalism.
Unusual ideas for a cottage-style garden
When creating a landscape on your personal plot, you can use a wide variety of unusual decoration options:
- painted old shoes as flower beds;
- balls of yarn or fabric;
- paths made of multi-colored stone;
- birds and animals made from plastic bottles or other material;
- using old furniture as decorative elements.
When choosing wooden or other decor for the garden, you should remember that it is an extension of the house, its external part. Therefore, when creating a landscape, it is recommended to use home decoration elements or suitable colors and shapes.
Old shoes can be turned into original flower pots
An old cast iron bathtub will also serve as a pond with a fountain.
Wooden fence decor with plastic bottle caps
Types of garden furniture
Now let's look at the main structural differences between metal furniture. It comes in the following types.
Frame furniture
This is the simplest solution at an affordable price. Frame construction allows you to create durable models with different functionality.
Light frame products
When creating similar products, they use steel or aluminum. The following details are used:
- round pipes of different diameters;
- rectangular and square pipes;
- metal plates;
- corners;
- Decorative forged inserts can be used for decoration.
Complicated frame made of bent elements.
The parts are connected to each other mainly by electric welding, bolts and rivets.
The frame is covered with different materials, so the product can be adjusted to any landscape design. The most common choice is wood.
Heavy duty stainless steel and wood construction
When purchasing products, look at their reliability. Today, stores often sell frankly low-quality products. It is better to make frame furniture and sheath it yourself. The installation procedure will be described below.
Frame furniture drawings
We brazenly insert assembly information into this chapter, since the remaining options will not be possible to implement on your own.
DIY garden furniture - drawings
The work definitely requires a drawing on which the dimensions of all parts and their position will be marked. You can draw up a drawing yourself, or choose a suitable one on the Internet. Let's consider several options.
Park bench without backrest
- A simple park bench consists of just a few parts: two bent brackets made from round or rectangular pipe; 4 heels in the form of small square plates; 2 main jumpers for laying the flooring. The brackets are supporting elements connected only by boards. The design can be complicated by adding longitudinal beams and a cross member to avoid sagging of the flooring. The elements are connected by welding.
How to decorate a summer cottage
To decorate garden and summer cottages, a variety of decorative elements made of wood, stone and other materials are used. They can be purchased in specialized stores or created independently. When making it yourself, you can realize the most daring ideas that will make your site more attractive.
A little imagination - and an old coffee pot will turn into an original decorative element
There are many arrangement options, including the following:
- Garden paths. They shape the appearance of the entire site and allow you to move around it comfortably. To create them, tiles, pebbles, tree cuts and other materials are used.
- A pond with which you can create an entire artistic composition: throw a decorative bridge across it, plant aquatic plants and surround it with stones along the contour.
- Garden fountain. It is made in various styles, so it looks great on any site.
Unusual fountain from an old metal kettle - Flower beds. They can be of various shapes and sizes and are the main decoration of the site. You can arrange a classic flower garden or use any original option.
- Garden swing. Available in stationary or portable versions.
- Alcove. It is most often made of wood and decorated with flowers. The size of the gazebo depends on the area of the site; it may have a canopy and lighting.
A small pond can be made from a cast iron bathtub or other suitable container
Currently, car tires are used to make decorations for summer cottages. You can use them to make flower beds and other crafts. Plastic bottles are also actively used to create crafts of animals, birds and plants.
Garden swing made from old car tires
You can make small barriers from tree branches that will help separate the functional areas of the site or simply serve a decorative function.
You can create gorgeous sculptures from tree branches and roots
Beauty captured in metal
It is impossible to imagine country estates without reliable and durable metal structures.
Owners of private estates lovingly furnish their homes and constantly purchase various metal products for their home and garden. professionally produces unique items for cottages and gardens. Modern material and technical equipment allows us to create non-standard metal products for a country house according to customer drawings or according to our own designs. Our work is known throughout the North-West region, where we successfully cooperate with many regular clients.
Bottom line
Wrought iron gates, wrought iron tables, swings, barbecues, stairs and steps for the porch, lanterns and other products can become the main aesthetic elements of landscape design. At the same time, they carry not only decorative, but also practical functions.
Metal structures with original patterns will always attract the attention of guests and testify to the good taste of the owner of the house.
Of course, such products are expensive, but given their durability, this cannot be considered a disadvantage. Otherwise they have only positive aspects.
