Let your imagination run wild with fabulous garden designs. Houses for fairies, elves and gnomes in the garden at the dacha (20 photos) Make a house for fairies with your own hands
Remember fairy tales and legends about tiny inhabitants of gardens, fields and forests - gnomes, fairies, elves? Why not add a little magic to your cottage or garden? city apartment by making a miniature fairy door on a tree or wall? Making a fairy tale come true is quite simple; you can make such a decorative door with your own hands from different materials. We invite you to watch several master classes and many ideas for such a cute garden decoration.
Master classes on how to make a door for a fairy from polymer clay
Miniature fairy doors made of polymer clay are perhaps the easiest to make. As a rule, such doors are made of a solid structure, without the ability to open and close. But you can give free rein to your imagination and create beautifully decorated stucco fairy doors using colored glass, beads, mosaics, small details and decorative elements.
Option 1
Although such decorative doors for fairies, they are most often used for landscape design and decoration of flower beds and gardens; their presence in the interior can be very original. For example, this method of creating a door from polymer clay is one of the simplest. It can be safely used as a basis for similar garden and interior crafts.
Required tools and materials:
- polymer clay (white or colored);
- optional - acrylic paints in brown shades;
- decorative door fittings;
- rolling pin;
- butter knife;
- cling film;
- parchment paper.
⇒ Step 1. Roll out the clay with a rolling pin into an oval pancake. Since you will later use this rolling pin to roll out the dough, it is better to wrap it cling film so that later it is easy to clean the surface of the rolling pin from chemical composition polymer clay.
⇒ Step 2. Using a knife, draw the outline of the door on the pancake and cut off the excess parts.
⇒ Step 3. Using the blunt side of a butter knife, cut grooves into the surface of the clay to imitate the wooden slats on a door.
⇒ Step 4. Insert decorative door hardware into the clay.
⇒ Step 5. Place the door on parchment paper and place in the oven at the temperature and time indicated in the instructions polymer clay. After baking, let the door cool completely.
⇒ Step 6. If you used white clay, now is the time to color it. First apply acrylic paint more light shade, and then in the grooves and several places - darker.
Ready! It will look beautiful rope ladder, descending from the door. The crossbars can also be made from clay or using wooden sticks.
Option 2
Second interesting option Creating a door for a fairy-tale hero involves imitating the texture of wood using layers of colored clay.
- polymer clay for the door in four (or more) colors - white, orange, light brown and dark brown;
- polymer clay for door frame;
- rolling pin;
- cling film;
- decorative door fittings (in this case, beads and a pendant in the form of a Celtic knot were used to create an ornament);
- parchment paper.
⇒ Step 1. Roll out four pieces of clay into thin sheets. Stack them one on top of the other, from light color until dark.
⇒ Step 2. Cut the resulting plate into two parts and fold them one on top of the other. Then roll everything up.
⇒ Step 3. Give it a roll rectangular shape, trim the ends. Cut a piece of it 1 - 2 cm thick. Using a rolling pin, roll it out into a pancake from which to cut out the door. Use a slab of clay of a different color to make a door frame. Place the door on it.
⇒ Step 4. To make the door seem “recessed” in the door frame, make another pancake, squeeze out patterns on it with some object, then cut out the frame with a knife and door hinges, attach around the door.
⇒ Step 5. Bake the door in the oven as directed in the polymer clay instructions. Glue the fittings.
Master class on how to make garden doors for fairies from plywood
Wooden decorative doors for gnomes and fairies look more natural and natural than clay ones, especially on the bark of a tree, an old stump or in thickets of plants in a flower bed.
Option 3
Required materials and tools:
- plywood (wooden board);
- loops;
- bead (button, button) as a door handle;
- screws;
- acrylic paints (marker);
- wood burning device;
- screwdriver;
- electric jigsaw.
⇒ Step 1. Suppose you have an old stump with a hollow on your site that you want to turn into original decoration garden Measure the hollow. Use a pencil to draw the outline of the door and door frame onto the plywood or wood board.
⇒ Step 2. Use a jigsaw to cut out the door and frame. Sand the cuts with sandpaper.
⇒ Step 3. Draw vertical stripes at regular intervals on the door. Using a Dremel (engraving machine), go over them, creating grooves. Then use a wood burning tool to follow the furrows, so you can imitate a log door. In principle, you can safely skip the step with engraving machine and immediately burn it on wood. You can burn some ornaments, drawings and even an inscription on the frame.
⇒ Step 4. Color all the elements acrylic paints or markers.
⇒ Step 5. Screw it to the door door handle and other decorative details, and then use hinges and screws to attach the door to the frame.
Garden fairies will definitely love this house!
Garden door design ideas for fairies and gnomes
Original design technique, able to amaze visitors and cause sincere admiration, especially among children - to create a fabulous mini garden with your own hands. He allows for limited space create not only a beautiful unique composition, but also create your own little inner world.
Another name for a mini garden is a fairy garden. Indeed, a fairytale landscape allows you to bring a little magic into everyday life.
The basis of this technique is the combination small plants, small houses and other elements (paths, bridges, figures of people and animals, etc.), which together tell a story and form a certain mood.
You can create such a garden in miniature yourself. Its content is determined by the author’s imagination and available materials, but certain rules exist.
First of all, prepare the container or container in which the plants will grow. For this, an old stump, a cart, a tree trunk, a small demarcated space (for example, near the wall of a house) or, as in the photo, a broken pot can be used.
The container must be filled with fertile soil and a drainage system must be considered. Consider how you will water and care for your plants. A lot depends on the decorative elements. It is desirable that miniature compositions be of the same scale and worked out in detail.
Products from natural materials. Mini flower arrangements can be very interesting. Miniature lighting gives them a special charm, especially in the evening, as if the fairy tale itself is coming to visit you.
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Fairy gardens are miniature compositions with small houses, tiny plants, trees and paths. Looking at this splendor, you get the impression that fairy-tale characters live there. Create your own beautiful garden. This piece will enhance the landscape around your home, although this arrangement can be used anywhere.
It will be more fun if children are included in the project of creating a home park area. They really like to come up with new things.
Children can use the garden for fairy parties. They can play with small flora.
The fairy garden is like a miniature courtyard with a tiny house and moss on the roof, small tools and a hedgehog.
In a fairy-tale palisade, everything should be miniature and made from natural materials. So if you want to make a table, use a mini tree stump and a piece of wood.
A colorful banner will be a great addition. The mushrooms are very cute. Look at wooden paths! It is a simple design but very well planned.
This is a fairy house, so feel free to add a few little aunties relaxing on the porch or in the yard. Wonderful decorations for a public garden.
Use any old container to create a miniature. It can be small or large. The larger the objects in which you are going to place the composition, the wider the scope for your imagination.
An old metal container would work great. Do small house fairies and surround it with small flowers. The fairies will love it and fly there every night.
Place the container on its side. Fill it with mini things like tables, pots and ferns. Take whatever you think is necessary.
Create a cozy atmosphere in the fairy house. If you are serious about this project, add to fairy house electricity.
Paint the house, fence and outdoor furniture using bold colors. Fairies are attracted bright flowers. So choose a palette and take action!
Here interesting idea: usage old book to create a mini-complex. Cut out a circle to make room for a tiny house. Use moss and plants to cover the hole.
Use a variety of colorful plants to make your magical garden vibrant. Plant them in tiny pots. Palisade – good way to welcome spring, but with its help it’s a good idea to refresh the space during winter.
You can equip the composition with different things, such as benches, rocking chairs, fountains, swings. You can create all this with the help of wood and branches.
With the onset of cold weather, do not forget to bring the mini-garden home. The snow will look interesting on the roofs of houses, but the plants will die.
Take the old one wooden barrel or a large garden seeder. You don't even need to paint them. The weathered look makes them more interesting.
Make a tree house. That would be wonderful and fun. Maybe if you design it right, birds or squirrels will live there.
If you want an enclosed fairytale park, there is no point in making it big. What do you think of this cute cup? It is filled with soil, moss and a few tufts of grass. It all looks very cute and intriguing.
For the composition, decorate a large stump. Cut a hole in the center, fill it with soil and start adding all the pieces: tiny house, plants and decorations.
This piece is made using herbs and edible flowers. This pot will fit perfectly in the kitchen.
Create a huge composition in the children's bath. Place it on the site, decorate it with whatever you want. Home is a must, then improvise.
If you're inspired by hobbit movies, turn one of the trees into a fairy house. Add a door, some windows and a path.
Are you an inventor? Make miniature elements - mini stairs, furniture, a bridge over the river and all sorts of fun things.
Buy small furniture in a store or order online. The decoration will take on a professional look. Furniture set looks like real.
An old pot is suitable for creating various compositions depending on the time of year. This is a simple project that doesn't cost much.
Make a mini birdhouse, paint it and decorate it.
Design of a fabulous palisade around a tree that acts as a house. Plant a small vegetable garden for tiny crops, install a hammock, swing and other cute things.
Compositions in pots
Use old pots for fairy houses. This is a great idea to let kids create this project themselves. Put clay pot on its side and fill everything inside.
Use broken pots too. Arrange in them winter garden, which leads to a fairytale castle.
Try making a staircase by taking broken pieces and decorating it with plants and moss to bring it all together. Don't forget to add color!
If you take two or three pots, you will get a large fairy garden. Place the smaller container at the top in the form of a house on a rock, surrounded by vegetation.
Eat different ways combining fragments. It is truly a majestic view. Beautiful flowers form a path to the pumpkin, which is a refuge for the tiny figures.
The ferns look like a mini pine forest and the pumpkin seems to be in the middle of the taiga.
You may be wondering what a fairy garden is. This is a miniature garden with tiny houses, plants, trees, paths and other details.
People of all ages enjoy this hobby because it is a great way to express their creativity and create a real fairy-tale world in a tiny space. I propose to take a look at 20 of the most stunning examples of such gardening.
20. Oz Fairy Garden
This composition is from glass bottles green color is so similar to the emerald city, as if the small country of Oz in own garden. And the “Wizard of the House” sign gives a feeling of real magic. 
19. Picnic for US Independence Day
This garden is notable for the fact that it is far from mythology and is dedicated to the 4th of July holiday. We see with you a typical picture of this holiday: relaxing in the courtyard of the house, burgers and sausages on the grill, a garland with the American flag. 
18. Bilbo Baggins' Cottage
If you are a Lord of the Rings fan, then you will definitely love this Hobbit House replica. The bonsai, the house in the hill and the fence are all incredibly accurately recreated, but such work requires a lot of effort and skill. 
17. Dwarf's house
Most often, fairy gardens are made in large pots, tubs, and barrels, but the creator of this house decided to use a tree trunk. He carved windows and doors into it and decorated it with all kinds of forest riches. This house definitely belongs to a gnome. 
16. House for a fairy in a tree stump
This fairy house was carved from a tree stump in the backyard. Stairs leading to the door, windows and a small pond, this work is not as richly decorated as the previous one, but a little girl also worked on its creation. 
15. Fairy garden for fairies in a garden wheelbarrow
A miniature garden can be created anywhere and anywhere convenient and this is a big plus. For example, this rather spacious garden in a wheelbarrow: a house, branching paths, a pond and a lot of vegetation. 
14. Fairy garden in a book
The garden can even be housed in a scrap book. Many of us learned about fairies from books such as Peter Pan, so the garden in the book is perfect way lure fairies. 
13. Cinder block fairy garden
Another interesting idea is a patio with a cinder block garden. Cinder blocks typically represent noisy modern world, an association immediately arises with a new skyscraper under construction. But this garden with moss and plants has a calming atmosphere 
12. Garden in a coffee table
All previous gardens are located in nature, even somewhat merging with it, but it is almost impossible to bring them home while maintaining the integrity of the details. Another thing is this coffee table. Just a stunning example of the existence of nature within the walls of a house. Such a garden fills the space with life and attracts attention. 
11. Hanging garden
Inspired by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, this garden is housed in a hanging basket. The design and decor of this garden is simple, but the placement makes it stand out from all others. 
10. Fairy garden in a cup
If you don't have room in your home for a wheelbarrow garden, you can even create one in a cup! The simplicity of this fairy garden makes it even more enchanting. 
9. Fireplace in the fairy garden
The fireplace further enlivens the miniature garden, which no longer resembles a work of art, but a real little world of fairies into which we can look. The fairies will be so enchanted by the fire that they will not notice your presence. 
8. Wishing Well
All you have to do is throw a coin into the well and your wish will come true! Another wonderful decoration for your miniature garden will be a wishing well. They say that from such a well you can even hear the laughter of fairies. 
7. Snowy fairy garden
Many people love snow, and winter seems like an absolutely fabulous time of year. If you are one of those people, then give your miniature garden winter atmosphere. True, the fairy Tinker Bell will no longer be able to live here in her light dress, but much less capricious elves will live here with North Pole. When you get tired of the “snow,” just remove the fluff and cotton wool and plant more greenery. 
6. Fairy Village
For some people, a fairy garden is not enough; they create entire streets, parks and even municipalities. But if you have free time, patience and means, then why don't you fulfill your dream? This large fairy garden was created by Lyn Rejabek from Buffalo.
5. Treehouses
This house has two main differences from the other house that was already described earlier. Firstly, the windows and doors are not cut through, and secondly, this living tree. The amount of detail is simply amazing, we can see how life flows on the small streets of Paris 
4. Fairy garden in a suitcase
A garden in a suitcase looks mysterious and intriguing. This combination of the soft, even silky lining of the suitcase and the earth with wild vegetation impresses the viewer. For such a garden, it is best to take an old vintage suitcase. 
3. Wooden castle
This castle, although not a copy, is somewhat similar to Hogwarts. Nothing sparks the imagination like JK Rowling's novels, and a whole generation of children grew up reading them and loved to wave a wand and whisper "Wingardium Leviosa." 
2. House in a shoe
There is a fairy tale about an old woman who lives in a shoe. And in this garden we managed to recreate that same house in a shabby shoe, surrounded by flowers and trees. Such magical gardens are able to return us to the world of childhood and fairy tales. 
1. Japanese-style fairy garden
The most best examples gardens are those that can transport the viewer into a fantasy world. Some people imagine Japan as a foggy, strange place with low houses, paper walls and screen doors. This garden, with a house on a hill near a pond, takes us to the Land of the Rising Sun and enchants with its beauty and serenity. If you also want to interest your guests, then recreate such a garden. 
The garden decorations that our supermarkets offer are fairly standard. Of course, funny gnomes, funny frogs and other plaster trinkets look very cute, but they can no longer surprise anyone. And if you want to make your garden different from everyone else’s, you will have to spend time and do a little work with your hands.
Today we offer you a small master class on creating cozy house for fairies. Like in the photo below.
For its “construction” it will be necessary following materials:
· professional wood glue;
· the basis of the future house (in our case, the lower half of the plastic five liter bottle);
· plastic plate for the roof;
· small stones such as pebbles;
· tweezers;
· polyurethane glue or shellac (bark and gel in one);
· bags made of polyethylene.
Preparatory stage
It is most convenient to work with pebbles, which can be found on the beaches. If this is not possible, then small pebbles can be bought at large construction supermarkets. Due to inability to purchase the right stone, you can take ordinary crushed stone, which is used in road construction. Then it will be varnished and will look very good.
- In principle, any stone can be used. The main thing is that it is small in size, and one of its sides is even and smooth. Such pebbles can be glued to any surface, be it glass, wood or plastic, as in our case.
- After the pebbles are found, you need to sort them. All material must be sorted by size so that the stones in each group are approximately the same. Very large ones should be disposed of immediately. We won't need them.
- Now the pebbles need to be prepared. To knock off all the adhering sand from them, if you collected stones on the street, you need to put the material in plastic box and rinse under running water running water. This procedure will wash away all the sand and remove dirt from the surface of the stones.
Before starting work, the pebbles must be dry and completely cleaned.
Let's start work
- You need to squeeze wood glue onto the surface of the bag. and distribute it in an even, fairly thick layer over the surface of the cellophane. Too much large area There is no need to spread it right away. If necessary, glue can be added.
- Now we begin to lay out our prepared stones onto the glue, flat side down. They need to be placed as close to each other as possible.
- Remaining between the pebbles small spaces also needs to be filled out. The smallest specimens should be glued here using tweezers. The result should be a cast stone platform without “gaps”, i.e. empty seats it shouldn't stay there. It is necessary to collect at least four such platforms so that the work on decorating the house does not freeze.
Now you need to wait about forty minutes. This is quite enough for the glue to set well and connect the pebbles, but its layer remains flexible.
If you can lift a corner of the stone platform and it remains intact, then you can begin the next stage of “construction” of the fairy house.
- We will need such stone platforms to decorate surfaces house in the bend area. After all, pebbles can only be glued on straight lines.
- Now prepared plastic bottle future doors and windows need to be cut out. And you can start covering it with prepared stone squares. If on back side The glue has already dried enough, you can lubricate it again. Don't worry about the pebbles falling apart or the surface peeling off. Wood glue holds very well.
- After the house is completely pasted over, for additional strengthening and as protection from bad weather, the structure must be covered with several layers of varnish. When the coating is dry, you can glue artificial moss and other decorations and the fairy house is ready to move from the desktop to permanent place to your garden.
