Cottage is a great place to relax, active pastry and the implementation of creative fantasy. Here you can bring a lot of things unnecessary in the apartment and give them a new unique "image".
From the old bath you can make a huge number of original structures that will be useful not only in the farm, but also on the household plot. So you can build a pond, alpine slide, unusual sofa, flower beds, etc. The main thing is to be patient and attach the maximum imagination.
Pond on the cottage from the bath
Artificial reservoir from the old cast-iron bath is a wonderful way to design a summer cottage. It brings a special harmony into the general atmosphere, allows you to use the most unusual elements for the decor.
Features:
- pond, created from an old bath, quickly and easily installed;
- engaged in its design does not need to use expensive building materials;
- for decor, aquatic plants, stones, fish, etc are used;
- water in the container does not change, but simply fills as needed;
- in winter, the pond is left in the same form without covering the film.
Where to locate:
- choose a dry area with durable soil;
- prefer the place where the shadow and sunlight are present;
- the best zone for the pond - next to the trees.
Installation of the bath in the country area as a reservoir
1. The first thing to be done is to dull the pit. The depth of the pit must be slightly larger than the size of the tank (about 30-40 cm).
2. Then around the pit remove the turf (on the same 30-40 cm). Width of the removal of the soil - 0.5 m.
5. We drag the tile glue, process them the inner surface of the bath. The solution can not be aligned - so the bottom of the pond will look natural.
6. We leave the container well to dry about a day.
7. We take a chain grid and cut it into parts. We close the upper perimeter of the bath, walls (for 1/3).
8. In the corners of the grid, fix the rings from the wire. They must perform perpendicular to the walls of the bath.
9. We divorce cement mortar, process them with a grid. From above, we have a crushed stone or small stones.
10. Put on the bottom of the bath dry clay layer in 5 cm. Pour water. The solution should be converted to a semi-liquid (creamy) mass. This composition is facing the walls of the bath.
11. Drink clay for several hours. Then proceed to the bay of water (the jet should run a small trickle).
12. Type a pair of water buckets from a natural reservoir and pour into the bathroom.
13. At the perimeter of the pond plant plants, place major stones.
Notes:
- water in the pond does not change, but only fills as needed;
- before frosts, place a pair of plastic bottles filled with half water in the pond - they will not give the water to frozen and spoil the walls of the bath;
- if there is no desire to bother, leave the bath to stand in the garden or next to the patio. Reduce it with bright paint, fill with water, plant the pond plants on the bottom (they can be placed in containers).
Bath in the garden as an alpine slide
Progress:
1. Take the old bath and take a smooth surface. You can do this with an electric drill with a nozzle in the form of a disk.
2. Deliver the tank with paint or glue, and apply the composition from sand, cement and peat (1 cm thick).
3. Give the product to dry well.
4. After all the events, proceed to disembarking plants.
Notes:
To give the "hill" of the natural species, to dear the walls of the bath with rice decoction or kefir - it will speed up the development of moss and algae.
Flowerbed from bath
Basic principles:
- the soil for flower beds is recommended to prepare in advance;
- always watch the drainage, carry out the plant feeding by humus;
- the flowerbed needs to plant plants with a different period of flowering - so it will delight the eyes for a whole season;
- high plants place closer to the center, and lower at the edges;
- select flowers follows the color of buds and foliage.
How to make a bed of flower bed?
1. Color bath in green, gray, black or any other bright color.
2. Fill her fertile land.
3. Plant (in the middle of the average or high, along the edges of the curly).
Notes:
- if the bath is half to bury, then the original low flower bed will be;
- if it is standing on the legs, re-adjust the facade of stones, tile pieces, apply a bright image.
Sofa for giving from an old bath
Progress:
1. Note on one of the lateral sides of the bath line.
2. Remove the unnecessary part using the Bulgarian.
3. The edges of the bath are treated with a special tool that will smooth irregularities and sharp corners.
4. Cover the product paint (outside).
5. With liquid nails, install decorative linings on the legs, fasten the edge on the cropped edges.
6. Place the mattress, bright pillows on the bottom of the bath.
Taking a bath at the cottage: photo
New life of old things: video
When the apartment is long-awaited overhaul, many moves a single desire - to get rid of old things in the house, as a result of which most of them begin to move safely to the balcony, in the garage or to the cottage. When it comes to the queue before repairing the bathroom, an urgent question arises - what to do with the old cast-iron bathroom? It regularly served so many years that it was a pity to throw it and storing such a heavy large-sized attribute of Plumbing and there is no need. Ideas from this article show this problem will be solved, showing how you can make the so-called upgrade and give a new life with an old bath.
Little reservoirs and ponds are always perfectly harmonized with landscaped design of the country area. To build an independently small pond will not work if you have an old bath. The most naturally such a pond will look if the bath is almost up to the very edges in the ground. In the place where the pond is planned to be organized, it is necessary to make marking on the basis of the sizes of the bath, dig a hole corresponding to its parameters. Next, you should shut down the side and lower drain holes with a wooden plug, wrapped with a cloth. From the inside the bath is better to paint into black, so that the bottom of the bath does not shine anti-abnital white. However, if you do not plan to periodically merge water out of the pond and clean the surface of the bath, then a certain amount of the bathroom, the bath itself will acquire a natural look due to the nanile dirt, plant residues and insect vital products. And here are still ways.
You can lay out stones around the pond, plant such plants like a shipyard, bells, iris, ferns, Badan. You can also make a pond lanterns and a variety of animal and bird figures.
Cozy sofa for giving from an old bath
Applying some efforts and creative approach, you can turn the old bath into a stylish and original sofa. It can be put on both the dacha and in the house. To implement this idea, you need to outline on one of the lateral sides of the bath line of the cut and remove the bulgar from the excess part. The edges should be smoothed and then paint the bath outside and from the inside into any colors that are suitable for the interior of the room. After painting on the cropped edges, lock the edging. On the legs with liquid nails should be glued with decorative lining. Mattress and pillows are stacked on the bottom of the bathroom. The sofa is ready.
Beautiful flowerbed from old bath
Make an excellent flower bed for flowers from an old bath will not be difficult. In addition, it is practically ready. You can dry the bath completely into the ground, as in the case of a pond, then fall asleep the earth and plant plants. And you can leave the bath stand on the legs or insert only legs into the ground. In this case, the bath should be painted and you can even turn on all your imagination and paint the bath with beautiful patterns. Also, with the goal of the decor you can lay out a mosaic on the outside of the bath from the tile of the tile. And a few more ideas for your cottage.
Old bath as a water storage for watering
Many dackets use an old bath as a container for water storage in the country. But in order for the old bath does not spoil the appearance of the country area, you can easily build a funny cow from it as in the photo that will give a smile and a good mood to all family members and neighbors. Such an excellent cow can also be used as a mini pool for children.
In general, in any old thing you can breathe a new life, to embody it in another form, to use in a different intended purpose. The old bath is an excellent material for creating truly amazing and main decor functional elements for the country area, whether it is a picturesque flower flower bed, a quiet pond in plants, a stylish sofa, an original water storage capacity or even a mini pool.
Elvira Goli for the site
To begin with, it is necessary to remove the legs (if any) and consider the pesting paint and enamel with a grinding machine.
2 step
Then turn the bath to mark the neckline for the future sofa. The shape of the cut can be smooth, acute, semicircular, it all depends on your imagination and wishes.
Cut stands with a grinder with a cutting circle for metal. Work this tool very carefully, take care of the protection tools in advance.
3 Step
After the neckline is ready, the cut should be stuck from sharp edges and burrs. After that, you can proceed to painting the future sofa. To do this, use any paints intended for metal (enameled paint, nitrocracy, aerosol, etc.) You can apply multiple colors for the decor of the sofa, draw any pattern or pattern applied by itself or using a stencil.
4 Step
The legs can also be painted in any color and set to your previous place. You can use stones or wooden beams (or stumps) as a stand.
5 step
For soft and amenities, you can make a sinuster of a foam rubber cut in size and shaped bath. Wrap the resulting form by syntheps. You can sew a cover for foam sewrs or simply wrap it with cloth and put on the bottom of the bath. You can also sew or purchase pillows under the back, which will make stay on such a sofa even more comfortable.
If you are the owner of an old and unnecessary bathroom, do not hurry to throw it away. We will tell you how to make a soft and comfortable sofa from your cast-iron bath.
Marking and cropping
1. Measure and place the place where you would like to cut part of the bathroom for the sofa. We advise you to make lines direct, it will be easier to cut.
2. Draw along the lines of the grinder. Do not forget to wear safety glasses. Be careful, because the fragments are very sharp. When the trim comes to an end, hold the cropped sheet so that it does not fall and damaged enamel inside the bathroom.
3. Stick the edges with a grinding machine. They must be smooth and smooth for safe use.
Grinding
1. It is necessary to clean the lower part of the bath from the old paint. Take advantage of the grinding skin, a manual scraper or any other tool for your choice.
2. Use the solvent to remove the residues of the paint. Obviously, all the paint does not tear, but this is normal. A little provence does not hurt.
3. The edges of the bathroom can be seal with a painting ribbon or film. 4. The drain hole can be removed or left. At your discretion.
Grinding - Responsible and Long Process
Painting
1. Scroll. A couple of primer layers does not hurt.
2. Bathroom legs, unscrew and drive. Skure them a couple of times.
3. Paint the bath. Paint and her color on your choice. You can take any facade paint.
Design of sofa
1. Take the foam rubber - it will be a bottom of the sofa. Measure the inner width and the length of the bath and cut the desired size for the bottom.
2. Take the pillows and wrap them into the blanket from batting. Cover the cloth. Turn the edges and shove them around the edges of the foam rubber.
3. You can sew the case.
Sofa do it yourself from the old bath is ready. Now you can sit and relax.
If you have an old bath, do not hurry to throw it away. From it you can make a good chair, or even two. It's still quite simple, you need to attach the greatest amount of strength to cut the bath and welcome support. Consider the manufacturing process in more detail.
Materials and tools for homemade:
- Old bath;
- support from the old armchair;
- bolts with nuts for attaching support;
- paint;
- sandpaper for grinding the metal surface;
- Bulgarian;
- welding;
- spanners;
- a piece of steel plate;
- LED tape (optional).
Chair manufacturing process:
Step one. We prepare bath
First you need to clean the bath from the mud. The author with a bath drank domestic cattle, so it was quite a lot of dirt. Pour dirt, mine so that with the material it is convenient to work and not to smear into the dirt.
Step second. Place the locations of the cuts
Take a pencil or marker and spend the line of the future cut. As for the sizes, then decide here yourself. The bath must be cut at an angle, as the author did.
Step Three. Cut the bath
We take a grinder with cutting discs and cut the bath. It is not worth a hurry in this business, make the front, use safety glasses and gloves.
Step fourth. The base of the chair
As the basis for the chair, the author used support from the old office chair. The chair is old, so the support is not made of plastic, as modern, and from metal. Cut off the extra and prepare the plate for fastening the chair.
Pitch fifth. Fresh support for seat
We weld the fastening nuts to the metal seat. Thanks to him, the support can be removed if necessary, that is, the chair is collapsible. In the metal plate, the support drill four holes, they will turn out bolts.
Step six. Cut off the bolts too much
For bolts you can fasten the support, they need to be shortened. Take the grinder, clamp a bolt in a vice and cut off excess. Cover the cut edges so that the screws are screwed into the nuts without problems.
Step seventh. Trial assembly
At this step, you can already collect a chair. You need to make sure that the chair is assembled smoothly and reliable.
Step eighth. Align the place of bending a bath
So that in this chair no one can see the bath, you can close the place of bend. Take two steel plates for such purposes and breed them in the right places. First grab the welding, and then finally weld.
Step ninth. Metal preparation to painting
You are not so easy to paint the bath, because it is not every paint to enamel. The essence of the preparation is to make the surface matte. This can be achieved using a grinding disk. Also working can be sandpaper and other means. At the end, the entire surface was rubbed steel wool.
Step tenth. Primer and painting
First of all, we appline the primer, the author and paint and the ground in the cans. Well, further, when the primer dries, we apply two layers of acrylic paint on the surface. You can use gloss or matte paint.
Step 11. We clean and polish the support
Support from the old chair The author polishes to the brilliance.
Step 12. Enchaater Edging
So that the chair does not cut and looked more solid, the author starts the author along the edge.
Step 13. LED Tape
Since the author made the chair for his son, who is fond of computer games, it was decided to equip it with LED backlight. The author for such purposes used LED tapes. We glue it to the chair, as well as connect the power supply to which batteries protrude.