Ideas for using an old bike in garden design

A creative person manages to give a unique look to the most ordinary things. For example, while in the country, he can even transform an old bicycle that is idle. In skillful hands, it can become an adornment of landscape design. In the material of this article, we will consider the ideas of using an old bicycle in garden design.

A failed bicycle that cannot be repaired can be used in many ways. For example, it can become both a part of landscape composition, and an independent accent in the garden. However, before deciding on the purpose, it is necessary to pay attention to several nuances, for example:

• type of construction;
• allowable weight;
• appearance;
• frame material.

Suitable for landscape decoration bicycles for adults and children. Ancient models allow you to create compositions with the design of carriages in the landscape. Small bicycles are compact and have 3 wheels. Good options and two-wheel type with auxiliary wheels.

It would seem to someone that a bicycle cannot bear any load, besides decorating the garden or the blank wall of a country house (cottage). However, if desired, it can turn into:

• cache-pot;
• flower bed;
• wall shelf;
• the gate;
• hedge.

Optionally, can be used to decorate the landscape of the garden and individual elements of an old bike. For example, it can be a steering wheel or wheels. Of these, you can create creative flower beds, wheels can be used as supports, for example, a garden bench. To prevent it from rolling around the territory, the wheels are fixed on a concrete base.

Depending on the design and purpose, old bikes are decorated differently. For example, products that are part of a blank wall design can be painted. Analogs, which will be the functional elements of the landscape, complement with flower boxes. They put products in different places (near the entrance, at the arbor, putting them to a tree, a fence, next to the mailbox).

Usually old bikes stained. This enhances their decorative characteristics. Before you start staining, clean off old paint. To do this, use a metal brush and coarse sandpaper. After that, the surface is degreased and coated with a primer.

Old bicycles are painted with spray paint. This saves material and avoids stains of the coloring material. After the paint dries, the color is fixed with varnish in 1-2 layers. Coverage can be varied (plain, two-tone, partial).

If you decorate an old bicycle with a basket or even a bucket, it can make an original accent in the landscape. Baskets are usually installed in front of the steering wheel and behind the seat. Their form is both the same and different. Sometimes craftsmen install baskets or pots on the frame, sometimes on the steering wheel.

Often a design decision is not limited to baskets alone. Often a bicycle with flower baskets is placed in a prominent place in the garden, surrounded by pots with flowering plants. Especially painstaking craftsmen can create silhouettes of people from flowers. When you look at such a design, you get the feeling that a floral person is sitting on a bicycle.

Someone creates landscape compositions with flowers, creating animal figures instead of people silhouettes. Sometimes in the design you can see ears of wheat, old boots, as well as clusters of berries. “Seasonal” decor made of artificial materials looks very appropriate and beautiful.

The design of the bicycle composition may be different. Sometimes they use the most unexpected additions. For example, it can be garden figures (gnomes, fairy-tale characters, birds) or even dolls. A flower bed bike can be decorated with straw, as well as stones of different sizes. In some cases, it is decorated with moss, which gives the landscape a special look.

The flight of fantasy is unlimited: you can decorate an old bicycle with clay pots, jugs. A practical solution will be the use of plastic flower pots of small size. By mixing containers of different sizes and shapes, you can create a unique version of a flowerbed bicycle. The assortment of plants depends on the location of the flower garden. You can decorate a flower bed with annuals (petunia, verbena, lobelia, begonia, forget-me-nots, fuchsia, pelargonium).

You can hang pots using special mounts and on bicycle wheels. This allows you to use an unnecessary bike as functionally as possible. The cache-pots can be different, laconic and lace, miniature and medium size, as well as large. Depending on the design, the decor may be stickers on the wheels.

You can decorate the bike with weaving. For example, a small three-wheeled version can be decorated with weaving at the steering wheel and on top of the wheels.

We offer 10 original examples of the use of an old bicycle in a suburban (personal) plot:

• a flower garden decorated with flowerpots in the same style and a man of small flower pots;

• registration of the blank wall of the house with fixing the bike to reliable fasteners, painting, medium-sized annuals;

• decorating the gazebo with an antique design suspended by means of reliable chains;

• a laconic version of the bike using buckets and old boots;

• decorative technique in the form of a flower garden using wooden boxes and climbing plants;

• the original design of the flowerbed in the country in the form of cyclists riding one after another;

• use of the old bicycle as a key element of the gate leading to the garden;

• children's tricycle, painted white and decorated with a large flower pot;

• a beautiful flower garden created using plants of different varieties and shades, as well as toys;

• flower bed made of bicycles with the design of floral silhouettes, reliable fixation to the frame base.