The presence on the territory of a summer cottage or garden of a place for cultural recreation or creativity, just a picturesque corner, is very important. There are plenty of options for translating your own ideas and ways to implement what you have planned. A gazebo, a children's play area, a decorative fence, a decorative well created by oneself, which serves as an aesthetic object, complementing the landscape design of the site, are designed to make a personal garden or garden cozy.
Today we have to talk about how to make a decorative well with our own hands and how, following a simple drawing, to assemble a structure that is useful in more than one respect.
Why is there a decorative well on the site
With a normal well, everything is simple - it is made for the purpose of autonomous water supply. Variants of decorative wells, created with their own hands, do not make up for this goal. Their purpose is to decorate a storm well, install a borehole pump, watering barrel, and other utilities. This is a great element of landscape design. Particularly popular are flower beds, planted with multicolor plants.
Important! Do not forget that the main goal of a decorative well is the aesthetics of the local area. To recreate direct communication, you need to build another structure.
A simple decorative well model: a budget option
Among the elements of the landscape of the summer cottage, from the point of view of economy, this option of hand-made crafts, is the leader in demand among alternative methods of decorating the cottage.
During the construction you will need:
- Substandard materials: a block house about a meter and a half high with imitation of logs, class C lining, non-planed timber.
- Moisture-resistant plywood, edged board, 40x40 cm bars, thin slats for layout.
- Furniture corners, screws, bolts and nuts for fastening parts.
- Decorative coating. You can choose the material that is most accessible, or the one that you like.
DIY well construction instructions
In the presence of competently folded and informative instructions, you can assemble a decorative well in just a couple of hours.
The work begins with the construction of the foundation of a decorative well with your own hands - a cube of timber. The crowns are connected in several ways:
- through washed down in a paw;
- strengthening with screws;
- using steel corners for furniture.
The finished “box” is sheathed by block houses using self-tapping screws. First, grooves are prepared by drilling holes of a smaller diameter than the thickness of the self-tapping screw, otherwise the sheathing will be covered with longitudinal ugly cracks. Then tighten the screws.
Roof racks made of boards additionally strengthen to the sides of the well by screwing bolts on top and bottom.
For the manufacture of the frame of the rafter system and the ridge, a thin beam is used; to strengthen the slopes - wooden corners carved from plywood. The roof is sheathed with lining.
The cylinder for the bucket is formed from a finished deck made of scraps of lining or any other material that you like. At this stage, the rack layout, fortified on two wooden circles, will not be superfluous.
The sides of a wooden decorative well with their own hands are decorated with a board or clapboard. Externally, the well can be painted or decorated as you wish. Variants of execution of flowering wells, furnished with house plants, flower pots, planted with bushes are frequent. Such a house-well will definitely become an adornment of your yard.
Options for decorative wells
A well or shaft made of concrete rings is faced with stone or brick. This material is ideal for environments with high humidity, as it is unpretentious to dampness coming from the earth, the natural manifestations of moisture - rain and snow; possesses strength and durability. If the need for decorating a well arises not systematically, then in the absence of a “workpiece” use the material that is available. Often this wood - timber or logs pre-processed. Also suitable metal, tile, plastic and everything that you find on your site and will be able to use it as a decoration for a decorative well in the country with your own hands.
Important! To achieve the harmony of the elements of landscape design and the main structure - the house, use the same raw materials.
What will be needed during the design of a decorative well made of wood
Alternatively, use wooden planks or timber to make the well , if it is assumed that the structure will be massive. Immediately purchase a special protective composition for wood species, with which neither rot nor mold is afraid of the well. It will not do without a decorative coating - varnish or stain. The choice of it depends only on your preferences.
For construction, you will need to prepare:
- saw;
- jigsaw;
- milling cutter;
- a chisel;
- screwdriver;
- drill;
- fasteners;
- roulette wheel;
- gon.
Important! Remember that the list of tools will depend on what material for making the well you choose.
In addition to materials and tools, it is important to prepare a drawing. Do not forget about it. Visualize any structure you are trying to do. Design it in a program or make drawings on paper. This will help to save not only money during the procurement of materials, but also reduce the time, because the process is faster than it could be when you had a pre-calibrated dimensions for each part. See how a partial drawing (below in the photo) of a decorative well made by yourself looks like.
DIY wooden well assembly instructions
The prepared material is first marked out. Each board / bar is marked according to the drawing, along which grooves and holes will be cut later.
Important! Remember that sawing wood and knocking out grooves must be perpendicular to the fibrous structure. Then it will be possible to avoid splitting of wood, the formation of barbs or chips.
Head - bottom of the well: how to make
So, how to make a decorative well with your own hands? Start from the bottom. Take the beam and make slots on one side according to the scheme you developed. Make holes in the top and bottom of the workpiece to connect with the following. Cut the rest on both sides.
From the prepared boards, chamfer using a milling cutter. So you get parts with beautifully crafted edges. Pre-assemble the structure, fit it, remove the excess to achieve a snug fit of the base parts to each other.
To give the tip stiffness, screw a sealing board or timber to the upper edge. A collar will lie on this final part of the box - a board previously sawn at the ends at an angle of exact fit.
In addition, in the places of installation of the racks you will need to cut out the grooves of the appropriate size.
How to make racks for a decorative well
It remains the case for small - the manufacture of racks. This work is not so much in skill, but in the creativity and imagination of the joiner.
A bar or a board is marked with smooth transitions, lines, circles, as you see the future design. Contours are cut out with a jigsaw and polished with a grinding nozzle for a drill.
Self-tapping screws are used to fix the racks of a decorative well for the garden with their own hands in the places suggested on the head.
The ends of the racks are filed, suggesting further installation of the roof in the form of an incomplete angle. Above, at the place of installation of the deck and decorative bucket (if this is assumed), the supports are fastened with jumpers. For these purposes use wooden chop.
At will, a deck and a bucket are made, but if it is supposed to place a stand with fresh flowers growing from a well inside, then the production of such details can be abandoned. The design will look complete anyway. See how a decorative well created in the country created in the country looks like, in the photo below.
How to make a roof for a well
Prepare separately all roof elements:
- rafters;
- holding plate;
- roofing strips.
Following the outline or drawing, file the parts at angles. Perform grooves in the dome, and strengthen the rafters in pairs. Do not use self-tapping screws, replace them with glue, applying it to the grooves of the holding plate.
Formed “umbrella”, decorate with wooden planks, starting from the bottom edge. Do not forget to strengthen the structure with bolts, nails or self-tapping screws. Lay the second row so as to hide the previous fasteners. At the final stage, strengthen the decorative poppy.
So, now you know how to make a decorative well with your own hands. Step-by-step instructions describe in detail each of the moments of the work. Having figured it out, you will understand that making your own version is not as difficult as it seems.