Any owner of a suburban site dreams of seeing him beautiful, original, unique. For this, many ways are used – landscaping, landscaping, designing its decorative elements. You can make a plot of well -groomed and beautiful without large investment. And the main assistants in this, undoubtedly, are the creative approach, ingenuity and sense of proportion.
Unjustly forgotten concrete, as a material for decorating rooms and personal plots, has recently come out of the shadow. This is inexpensive, environmentally friendly (it includes cement, sand, crushed stone and water) The material is remarkably suitable not only for concreting paths and platforms in the garden, but also to create flowerpots and furniture. At the same time, landscape design items are not only original and exclusive – after all, they are created by the owner of real estate in a single copy, but strong and durable, resistant to environmental impact. Basons and concrete furniture are able not only to decorate the territory, but also to divide it into zones, but about their functional purpose, in general, there is no extra words.
For the manufacture of furniture and concrete flowerpots, of course, you can use the services of specialists from landscape design studios or attend landscape design courses, but you can cope with this business yourself, trusting your own taste and skill. Moreover, the creative process, especially if all family members are taken on business, gives an incomparable pleasure. So, there will not be so much work for work – concrete, paint for cement or concrete spray (today it is sold in a huge variety and allows the products to give any shade and texture – under marble, another natural stone), a cylinder with machine oil or any anti -stick on an oil basis and shape. For flowerpots, these can be plastic packaging, boxes and even served tires, buckets and barrels. As elements of decoration, children’s molds for sand, balls, shells, plant sprigs, glass objects and so on. With furniture forms, the situation is somewhat more complicated, but not so much that our craftsmen do not find a way out. Boxes and plastic packages come to the aid, from which you can form a form for a table, shops and stools. Before starting work, all the inner surfaces must be treated with oil to avoid sticking the solution to the walls of the form. A concrete solution should be such a concentration so that it could not pour out independently, but at the same time it was impossible to form any figure from it. Then it must be laid out in the form, preventing the formation of bubbles and other voids, remove the excess, smooth the surface and leave for about a day. If the product is especially thick -walled, then the time allotted to harden the solution must be slightly increased. It is better to engage in street and garden furniture in cloudy weather so that direct sunlight does not fall on the workpiece. About a day or a little more after, the workpiece must be freed from the form and, if it is small, placed in a form with water for a week. Otherwise, it is covered with a cloth and constantly moistened, preventing the fabric from completely dry.
After that, the product is subjected to further processing. It must be polished. To do this, use grinding pads. Then it is cleaned of polishing dust and covered with sealant. After this, the flowerpots and furniture made of concrete can be painted in the desired color or left natural. Garden furniture made of concrete is remarkably combined with wood, metal, other materials. Without waiting for the complete solidification of concrete to the harvesting for furniture, you can add forged and carved elements, which will add more attractiveness to the finished product, emphasize the taste and individuality of the owner.