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What do you think is the main decoration of suburban area?Many will say, lush green vegetation and bright flowerbeds with exotic flowers. Yes it is, but sooner or later, "having played" with the formation of flower beds, still come to the idea that we need some kind of a starting point, an important detail, which gave rise to the stylistic design of the site.

Here is a "point" can be a decorative windmill for the garden, which, along with the braided fence, well and gazebo nestled on the open spaces of the garden.Moreover, it is sure to become not only the colorful decoration of the garden, but also a key element of landscape design.Let's learn how to choose and use the site design?

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Garden windmill in landscape design

Types of decorative garden windmills

Garden windmills can be purely decorative, and can carry the functional load - it all depends on their type and purpose.The simplest mill, usually of small size, easy to disguise the protruding elements you would like to hide from prying eyes.It can be septic tanks manholes, pipe valves and other elements of engineering communications.Such mills may have a height of 0.5 m, but its function is performed on the "excellent".A more global in size wind turbines can easily mask the outside toilet.

In contrast, decorative windmills are of impressive size, and their area allows to build inside buildings, even a gazebo for relaxing.In another case, an element of landscape design you will be advised to use as storage sheds for garden tools.If this option is the use of the mill does not suit you, leave her the right to be a decorative element in the garden, surrounded by her entourage and accordingly let it brings joy to their owners and guests of the house.

But another kind of stylistic elements - decorative watermill - feels better near the small artificial pond or waterfall.You can also organize a recreation area, on summer evenings to watch the slow work of mill wheels and the like water, rolling on the blades, flows into the pond.

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Wooden Mill Garden

Decorative windmills

How to use decorative mill

Almost all mills are made of wood.And, despite the fact that the natural material is the best fit in the landscaping area, yet there are some subtleties placing decorative wood mills.First of all, you need to take into account the style of garden design to all elements combined with each other without causing discord.

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The easiest way - is to put a mill somewhere in the corner or on the lawn with tall grass.In this case, it is not necessary to take into account different combinations of component parts of the composition and can withstand a certain style of landscape design.While on the other hand, a negligent when all the elements are placed one at a time and it seems that they do not have a relationship to each other, too, has its own name, and it is called the "landscape style".In this case, even allowed to artificially age the mill so that it looked a little abandoned.

Decorative mill for the cottages, made in Russian style, can be both wind and water, but it is better to choose the first option.It can be placed next to the pavilions reminiscent of Russian log hut, hurdle fences, wells of logs and wooden bridge, thrown over an artificial pond.Also, organically fit into the landscape or rustic wagon wheel, "thrown" nearby.Making land described method, you can safely choose a beautiful mill in fairy-tale style and illustration of the cozy cabins can always be found in Russian folk tales.

Decorative windmill wood

far from the Russian style in the use of decorative elements and departed, and country-style, which, along with a windmill, used by all village device: the wheel, the cart, a simple bench, an old pit, garden bridge and evenscarecrow.All these elements, including wind turbine should be no strict forms and rounded corners and curved lines - so necessary in the village built in those days adaptation, have become today only decorative element.

Making garden in the oriental style, do not forget to decorate it with a watermill.As is known, a central element of landscape design, made in this style, a pond, and you just do not understand, if on it will not rise mill, gently rotating blades with water.Somewhere nearby, you can put a bench or arbor in the form of a pagoda, and to let him lead the-mill stone garden paths in oriental style.

Decorative watermill

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What is the best mill

Decorative mill can be one of the main components of the landscape design, so do not need to hide it in the backyard, it's best to put onelevated areas in the open or near the pond.

This necessarily correlate proportions of the site and the mill.On the spacious lawn of the small mill may simply be lost, it will not be seen here, and vice versa, too massive construction, disproportionate occupied territory, would look less ridiculous.

How to make the mill garden

If you are already interested in the value of this stylistic element, you probably noticed that it is high enough, which is why many domestic masters willingly take up work and create real masterpieces to decorate them later in his place.Decorative mill with his hands can be made of different materials, until the veneer, but the most beautiful specimens obtained from wooden planks, coated with lacquer.

So, how to make the mill for the garden on their own?Here is a simple option.The lower part of us will be executed in the form of a trapezoid, and at its top with the roof establish the triangular lobes.First you need to cut two rectangles of plywood, which will serve as a supporting structure.They fasten with nails four racks in the corners and the resulting design sheathe clapboard.If you want to make windows in the mill, be sure to cut them.

further bring down the board triangle and sheathe them across the lining - it will be the roof of the mill.Attach it to the base will be using nails or screws.After the loan blades.Not to split hairs, they can be cut out of plywood, connected to each other and to fasten the long bolts to the roof, and so that they can rotate freely in the wind.

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That's all!Our decorative windmill is ready for the garden!It remains to find a good place to set it up on the site, and can be considered their mission accomplished.