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Garden Decorations using scraps
Garden decorations are always expensive. You have to design a garden with the help of a professional, and then search for things you need and buy them. Finally installing the products you bought and yet look artificial and bored? Why spend a lot of money on it and feel bad at the end of the day when you can design your own garden with just scraps?
Lot of scraps will be there after the construction like broken tiles, mosaics, marble pieces etc. You can create new and unique product s for your garden from these scraps. Wondering what can you make from the pieces of mosaics and tiles? Well you could make a new pot using the mosaics and save few dollars. See Garden Decoration is cheap now.
How to make a pot from mosaics?
Check out your store room you will be able to find several broken ceramic plates or a broken glass jar. You will need a hammer, a glass cutting knife, grouts, adhesive, glows etc. Cut the mosaics using the knife. Make sure that you are cutting the colorful part out of the mosaics. Now keep those mosaic pieces in a tray. Buy a cheap earthen pot or take the broken jar you found at the closet. Using a brush, apply the adhesive on the jar or pot. Now you can paste the pieces of mosaics. Clean the pot using a hand towel. Your personalized unique beautiful pot for your garden is ready.
Now we can make a Fountain or Trowels.
Trowels and fountains are integral part in Garden Decorations. You can make your own trowel using the pieces of plates and the unused tiles and mosaics you have as scraps. For that you need mortar and grout. It is not that hard to prepare mortar. You can buy dry mortar from a local store. Mix that mortar with two or three cups of water in a disposable container. You can paste the so formed grout into the trowel like vessel you chosen. After pasting the grout evenly using a wooden or metal spoon, you pick the colored tiles and mosaics and paste it. Please make sure that there is no gap between the pieces you can use different pieces to fit the puzzle. Your handmade beautiful Trowel is ready. Friends will praise you for your Garden Decoration Skill. Keep it untouched for 48 hours to get the grout set.
You can make all the products and ornaments you need for your garden like this. As the products are open to air all the time we should protect them from rain sun and winter. For that an additional coating is needed. Stone floor sealers are available in market. Apply two coats of sealers on the ornaments. Use a paint brush for this purpose. Please wait for twenty minutes after the first coat. It is better to do this outdoors as air circulation is needed to soak. It’s advised to seal the ornaments every two years. That will keep the charm of the Garden Decoration.
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