How to make a flowerbed from tires
One of the easiest ways to ennoble a suburban area is to decorate it with floral arrangements. Variegated flowerbeds, mixborders and flowering flowers transform the territory, making it elegant and cozy at the same time. To emphasize the natural beauty of flowering compositions, they need to be framed in a decent frame, which can be played by flower beds from tires. Do-it-yourself flowerpots will serve not only as a functional design element, but will give the site exclusivity.
Content
- Flowerbeds from wheels – a new use for old things
- How to make a flowerbed from a tire: from simple to complex
- Draw a contour line and make cuts
- Invert tire
Flowerbeds from wheels – a new use for old things
Wanting to arrange a site, supplementing it with picturesque multi-level containers, it is not at all necessary to spend a lot of money on the purchase of ready-made flowerpots in gardening stores. You can make beautiful and durable flowerpots from your old car tires. The main advantage of this material is its resistance to adverse weather conditions and the ability to maintain an attractive appearance for several seasons..
Decorative flower beds from old tires allow not only to emphasize the magnificence of the colors of flowering plants, but also to give the compositions completeness
For the manufacture of flowerbeds from tires with their own hands, you can use tires of both imported and domestic production. But if there is a choice, preference should still be given to imported products, since they are made of softer rubber, which is much easier to work with. Choosing between summer and winter tires, it is better to prefer the second option.
Since in the manufacture of such a flowerpot, the most difficult question is how to turn out the tire for the flowerbed, because the rubber is rather hard material, to facilitate work it is better to choose tires with maximum tread wear.
Tires with a diameter of R12-R17 are suitable for arranging flower beds. You can always get hold of products of the required size in any tire workshop.
Using tires of different sizes, you can make original multi-level flower beds, which will become a spectacular decoration of the front zone or recreational area on a suburban area
How to make a flowerbed from a tire: from simple to complex
The simplest option for arranging a floor vase from a car tire is to create a flower bed from a tire, in which the lateral rubber surface is cut and filled with soil mixture.
It will take no more than half an hour to make such a flowerpot. It’s easy to decorate the outer sides of the pot by painting the surface with oil paint of various shades
But to make the original flowerpot on the stem, fringed with fringe, or decorated in the form of a large flower, it takes a little more effort.
A flower bed made of tires with your own hands can take the form of a flowerpot with smooth edges or a bowl with a wave-like cut line, or even an outlandish flower framed by curly petals
Before you make a flower bed from the wheel, you need to thoroughly clean the base. Contaminated car wheels remove sand and dirt. This procedure is necessary in order to facilitate the subsequent work: the blade of a file or knife dulls much faster when cutting edges on dirty material.
Draw a contour line and make cuts
Having determined the shape of the future flowerbed of tires, it is necessary to apply a contour to the side of the prepared tire with a chalk or marker, along which a cut line will be drawn in the future.
When planning to arrange a flowerpot in the shape of a flower, the outline of the petals should be applied so that the size of each of them does not exceed 12-15 cm.
If you make larger petals, then after turning the tire, the flowerbed may not take the desired round shape, but will have angular joints of the slices.
To perform slices, you need to prepare a well-sharpened shoe knife. It is possible to increase the sliding of the knife blade during cutting by lubricating its surface with liquid soap. Significantly simplify the cutting process will help the use of a jigsaw, with which it is convenient to carry out any curly cutting.
All sections are performed on soft rubber, the boundary of which is a metal cord located under the tread inside the tire
Invert tire
To equip a decorative flowerbed on a stable leg, it is necessary to turn the prepared tire with cut edges inside out. The process of turning the wheel is one of the most time-consuming stages of work, and for many craftsmen it often becomes a real stumbling block. Knowing a little trick will help to cope with this difficult job: you need to make every effort and turn only a small part of the tire inside out, and then the work will go “like clockwork”. The tire is turned notches down and laid on a flat surface. The part of the tire where the rim goes into a hard tread is pressed with the foot, and the rubber is turned out at an angle of 45 degrees from the center out.
How to color a flowerbed from a wheel: design options
The flowerpot is almost ready. It remains only to adjust the shape of the edges and arrange it in a single style with other elements of landscape design. Until the outer walls of the inverted floor flowerpot are covered with a layer of dust, they must be painted. For these purposes, you can use enamel, oil, or nitro paints. A paint coat applied to a clean, oil-free surface will last more than one season. To decorate the flowerpot, you can also use the remains of car paint in aerosol cans, which can be sprayed on the side walls and the leg of the flowerbed in just a few minutes.
It is advisable to paint not only the outer part of the flowerpot, but “grab” the top 10-15 centimeters of the inner surface.
When decorating a flower bed, it is better to use light shades that will partially reflect the sun’s rays, preventing the soil from overheating in the container
Variegated flower beds look original, painted in contrasting shades and decorated with outlandish patterns
Glued glass pebbles that look like frozen dew drops can become an unusual addition to the ornament. But when decorating the flower beds, you should not be too zealous, since the planted climbing and creeping plants will cover most of the walls of the flower bed.
