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, being in the country, he can transform even an old bicycle that is idle. In the right hands, it can become a decoration of landscape design. In this article, we will look at ideas for using an old bicycle in garden design.

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

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

Bicycles for adults and children are suitable for landscape decoration. Antique models allow you to create compositions with carriage designs in the landscape. Small bicycles are convenient for their compactness and the presence of 3 wheels. Two-wheel-type options with auxiliary wheels are also good.

It will seem to someone that a bicycle cannot carry any load, in addition to decorating a garden or a blank wall of a country house (dacha). However, if desired, it can turn into:

• pots;
• flower bed;
• wall shelf;
• wicket;
• hedge.

Optionally can be used to decorate the garden landscape and separate elements of the old bike. For example, it can be a steering wheel or wheels. From them, you can create creative flower beds, the wheels can be used as supports, for example, a garden bench. So that she does not roll around the local area, the wheels are fixed on a concrete base.

Old bicycles are decorated differently depending on the design and purpose. For example, items that are part of a blank wall design can be painted. Analogs, which will be functional elements of the landscape, are complemented with boxes for flowers. They put products in different places (near the entrance, near the gazebo, pointing to a tree, a fence, next to a mailbox).

Usually old bicycles paint. This increases their decorative characteristics. Before you start coloring, peel off old paint. To do this, use a metal brush and coarse sandpaper. After that, the surface is degreased and covered with a primer.

They paint old bicycles with spray paint. This saves material and avoids sagging of the coloring material. After the paint dries, the color is fixed with varnish in 1-2 layers. The coating can be varied (one-color, two-color, partial).

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

Often the 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 looking at such a design, it seems that a flower person is sitting on a bicycle.

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

The design of a bicycle composition can be different. Sometimes the most unexpected additions are used for this. For example, it can be garden figurines (gnomes, fairy-tale characters, birds) or even dolls. The flowerbed 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 imagination is unlimited: you can decorate an old bicycle with clay pots, jugs. A practical solution is to use small plastic flower pots. By mixing containers of different sizes and shapes, you can create a unique version of a flower bed bike. The range of plants depends on the location of the flower garden. You can decorate a bicycle-flower bed with annuals (petunia, verbena, lobelia, begonia, forget-me-nots, fuchsia, pelargonium).

You can hang the pots with special mountings and on bicycle wheels... This allows you to use an unnecessary bike as functional as possible. Planters can be different, laconic and lacy, miniature and medium-sized, as well as large. Depending on the design, the decor can be stickers on wheels.

You can decorate the bike with wickerwork. For example, a small three-wheeled version can be decorated with weaving in place of the steering wheel and over the wheels.

We offer 10 original examples of using an old bicycle in a summer cottage (backyard) plot:

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

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

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

• an option for a laconic design of a bicycle using buckets and old boots;

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

• an original design of a flower bed in the country in the form of cyclists riding one after another;

• using an 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;

• a flower garden made of bicycles with a design of floral silhouettes, secure fixation to the frame base.