Castle making. Do-it-yourself castle from polyurethane foam Do-it-yourself miniature stone castles

05.11.2019

How to make your site or garden unique is the dream of many owners. Many people love to decorate their own estate, cottage, yard, but not everyone has extra money that could be spent on decorative figurines. But this is not a problem for those who at least know how to do something with their own hands.

It does not even require special costs.

So, for example, a fairy-tale kingdom on a garden site will become a good gift both small and adult dreamers.

Even a mini-castle built in the country will add mystery to the site.

Mini-castles in the yard or for the garden are large enough in volume, and building it completely is a bit difficult.

You can try to make some parts of the castle separately, so that later in any part of the garden, in the country, you can assemble it from ready-made elements, like from cubes.

An example of a design for building a castle in the country

easy to disassemble. To reduce the consumption of the solution, jars or bottles can be placed inside the cylinder, but the thickness of the solution around the ballast must be at least 5 cm.

The solution for pouring should be thick enough. He needs to be given several hours to grab to such a state that the formwork does not crumble when removed. The height of the cylindrical formwork should be chosen as follows: it should be approximately equal to the height of the tower, with a smaller size, the formwork will need to be disassembled and assembled a little higher than the already seized lower part.

Making a castle for a summer residence is easy if you have a couple of “golden hands” available.

The main material is sand and cement for the longevity of the composition. 2 parts sand and 1 part cement.

Elements of a typical design.

Let's start with the towers.

A cylinder of the desired radius is rolled up from a sheet of iron (I have about 2-30 cm). The cylinder is fixed with wire or self-tapping screws

Anything is placed inside the cylinder - bottles, cans - to reduce the consumption of the solution, but the thickness to the ballast must be at least 5 cm. Fill with a thick solution.

We give him several hours to set to such a state that when the formwork is removed, it does not crumble.

We immediately begin to cut the raw, slightly seized solution.

The cutting technology is the same as that of the sandboxes. For cutting, use a set of tools available to everyone.

Do not forget to make windows, loopholes, picking out the desired recess with a knife.

The mold is poured with a solution and after partial setting, carefully remove the cylinder formwork and make the required number of windows, teeth - as fantasy tells.

The roof can be made from tin cones, and this tin cone can also be used as a mold for pouring mortar. After complete setting, carefully knock out our roof from the mold. Do not forget that we are still preparing individual elements of the castle. We'll put it all together later.

Let's start building walls. Our walls will be either fortress (1) or an element of the building (2).

There is no difference in their production.

We assemble a rectangle of the right size from boards 5 cm wide. We put it on a flat surface, having previously placed either a film or a piece of roofing material so that the solution that is then poured is not absorbed.

You can place a metal arch in this frame - this will be a door or gate. Pour the solution into the frame. Where no windows or doors are planned, gravel or broken bricks can be poured to the bottom to save mortar.

After the solution is poured to the desired height, you can take pretty pebbles from gravel and poke them at the base of the foundation so that they protrude with flat edges above the general plane of the solution by about 5 mm.

Next, loopholes and windows are made. Draw whatever your fantasy tells you. To remove the remnants of the solution, I use a soft brush (probably seen in the movies how archaeologists work). In the end, you will have something like the following on your table.

Leave the finished walls for about a day on the table. When the foundation is prepared, we proceed to the assembly.

First install on cement mortar, previously applied to the foundation, for example, tower No. 1. We attach wall No. 1 to the tower for mortar. Then we install the tower number 2.

The castle is already beginning to take shape. You are filled with excitement. Next, add wall No. 2 and finish with the installation of tower No. 3.

Assembly diagram:

When this structure grabs, form over the building gable roof.
So, from the main basic elements, slightly changing them depending on your imagination, you can make a complex castle - like this for example.

Or a very simple one:

I had an idea to make a fix under the tree for garden pleasing eye, do it yourself. The choice fell on the mini lock , since it is most simple to enter it at any point in the site, taking into account its geological features. Moreover, you can build creatively, adding or changing its elements on the go.

The main material is sand and cement for the longevity of the composition. After experimenting, I settled on a composition of 2 to 1 (i.e. 2 parts sand and 1 part cement). Sand is best dried in the sun, then it is easier to mix with cement, and also sifted for use in elements with fine detail, as debris can ruin the part.
Lock It has a fairly decent volume, therefore it is unrealistic to build it all at once. To do this, first I make separate parts of the castle, so that later I can build it from cubes in a couple of days. Last, third lock was assembled in two days. Neighbors thought he fell from the sky when they saw him.
So, consider the elements of a typical design.

Let's start with the towers. A cylinder of the desired radius is rolled up from a sheet of iron (I have about 2-30 cm). The cylinder is fixed with wire or self-tapping screws so that it can be easily disassembled later. Anything is placed inside the cylinder - bottles, cans - to reduce the consumption of the solution, but the thickness to the ballast must be at least 5 cm. Fill it with a sufficiently thick solution. We give him several hours to set to such a state that when the formwork is removed, it does not crumble. You can choose the height of the cylindrical formwork yourself. It can be equal to the height of the tower, or less, but then the formwork will have to be disassembled and assembled above the already seized lower part.

We immediately begin to cut the raw, slightly seized solution. The cutting technology is the same as that of the sandboxes. For cutting, I use a set of tools available to everyone. I have these screwdrivers, chisels, a medical scalpel, a hacksaw blade for metal and various strips of tin to form various architectural elements.
A simple cylinder is boring, and this is where the flight of fancy begins. I make various grooves by wrapping a cylinder with a long strip of tin, using this strip as a guide, with a screwdriver or chisel I choose annular recesses. Then, in the lower part, you can imitate masonry, destruction, chipped plaster, cracks - after all, the castle is ancient.

For me, aging is the most exciting part of the process. At the same time, we do not amuse ourselves with making windows, loopholes, picking out the desired recess with a knife. If there is a desire to make a turret in the upper part of the tower, then we turn off the cylinder with a diameter a couple of centimeters larger and a height of 10-15 cm, insert a plastic bottle inside to save the solution (after complete setting, it will be removed).

We fill the form with a solution and, after partial setting, carefully remove the cylinder formwork and make the required number of windows, teeth - as fantasy tells. I cut the teeth with a hacksaw blade for metal - I make cuts of the required depth and pick off the excess solution between the cuts.

The roof can be made from tin cones, and you can use this tin cone as a mold for pouring mortar (I do this). After complete setting, carefully knock out our roof from the mold. Do not forget that we are still preparing individual elements of the castle. We'll put it all together later. So we figured out the tower. We have all the elements ready and stacked somewhere in the corner.

Let's start building walls. Our walls will be either fortress (1) or an element of the building (2).

There is no difference in their production. We assemble a rectangle of the required size from boards 5 cm wide. We put it on a flat surface (I have an old kitchen table) having previously placed either a film or a piece of roofing material so that the solution that is then poured in is not absorbed. You can place a metal arch in this frame - this will be a door or gate. Pour the solution into the frame. Where no windows or doors are planned, gravel or broken bricks can be poured to the bottom to save mortar. After the mortar is poured to the desired height, you can take pretty pebbles from gravel and poke them at the base of the foundation so that they protrude with flat edges above the general plane of the mortar by about 5 mm.
If there is no gravel, then after partial setting with a sharp knife or scalpel, you can imitate the foundation. You can also mark future windows with pebbles. Thus, your task is to make such flat elements. To speed up, I make 2-3 such rectangles at the same time. Having made such a wall once, you will understand that they are made easily and very quickly. As a rule, we are interested in the outer side of the castle, the inner part does not represent anything, because it is not visible.

So, after a few hours, the solution of our future walls seized very (!) This moment so that it was malleable, but did not collapse, and if it was overexposed, it would be difficult to process. We carefully disassemble the frame and we are left with a flat rectangle on the table. If you are making a wall with teeth, then we make the gaps between the teeth by gradually removing the solution with a flat tool (I use a metal ruler for this). Next, loopholes and windows are made. Draw whatever your fantasy tells you. To remove the remnants of the solution, I use a soft brush (probably seen in the movies how archaeologists work). In the end, you will have something like the following on your table.

Leave the finished walls for about a day on the table. Then they can safely be removed from the table and also put in a corner. When the required number of elements has already been made, we select a sunny day for mounting on suburban area. There is another important point here. The castle looks more beautiful on some kind of elevation, on a pile of stones. So prepare a foundation for it. If you use stones, always place the stones on a small layer of mortar first. If this is not done, then the stones will move over time and destroy your beauty.
When the foundation is prepared, we proceed to the assembly. First, we install it on a cement mortar previously applied to the foundation, for example, tower No. 1. We attach wall No. 1 to the tower for mortar. Then we install the tower number 2.

The castle is already beginning to take shape. You are filled with excitement. Next, add wall No. 2 and finish with the installation of tower No. 3. My towers were heavy, so men need to tinker. Thus on this stage Here is the design (top view)

But wall #2 will be part of the building, so I take some bricks and form a rectangle of this building. In order to prevent the solution from getting into windows or doors from the inside, I close them with something flat from the inside (I use pieces of flat slate or fragments of flat tiles).
I have the inside of the castle hidden. But if you want her to have beautiful view- you need to make both wall No. 3 and inner part for a monolith, fill it with concrete mortar or fill it with construction debris.

When this structure grabs, form a gable roof over the building. It takes me two or three bricks to do this (a mortar is thrown with a spatula and leveled under a cone).
So, from the main basic elements, slightly changing them depending on the fantasy (for example, if you are tired of round towers - make rectangular formwork and the towers will be square, etc.) you can make a complex castle - like this for example.

A castle made of concrete is not very beautiful. Need to decorate it.

About imitation. The boulders at the base of the foundation are made very easily as they are of arbitrary shape. Imitation brick requires more patience. Under the ruler, I scratch a series of horizontal lines and then make vertical notches at characteristic intervals. We brush off the debris with a brush. Where the surface is very rough, it can be smoothed by moistening with water from a spray and ironing with a soft brush. When the assembled castle is completely dry, you can tint it a little. Roof to give the appearance of tiles. I use acrylic paint with the right color, for painting brick imitation I purchased such colors for acrylic - black, red, brown, yellow. Green can be taken to simulate moss. With a soft brush, lightly touching the masonry different colors I color the surface. In this case, only the convex surface is painted, while the recessed part remains gray. The effect is amazing. From half a meter it seems that everything is made of small bricks. In one place of the castle, I even imitated a destroyed brick wall. I did not expect such an effect. For a year the castle survived the winter and the paint is like new.

Can you make parts at home? I work in a garage. But in principle, you can do it at home if you don’t litter too much. In this case, the details can be broken down into even smaller ones. Those. for example, make a wall in two parts - the upper one where the battlements and the lower one where the gate. Similarly, make a tower from two or three cylinders or cubes. Then it's easier to transport. This allows you to prepare the castle even in the winter-spring time, and in the summer to assemble it in a couple of days. This is how I prepare dry mix. I fill half a bucket with dry sand, add cement and it mixes very easily with a small children's spatula. I pour all this into a small tub and do the next batch until I fill it. Thus, the dry solution is always in sufficient quantity.

I wish you all success in your work. And be sure to share your results.

It does not even require special costs.

So, for example, a fairy-tale kingdom on the garden site will be a good gift for both small and adult dreamers.

Even a mini-castle built in the country will add mystery to the site.

Mini-castles in the yard or for the garden are large enough in volume, and building it completely is a bit difficult.

You can try to make some parts of the castle separately, so that later in any part of the garden, in the country, you can assemble it from ready-made elements, like from cubes.

An example of a design for building a castle in the country

easy to disassemble. To reduce the consumption of the solution, jars or bottles can be placed inside the cylinder, but the thickness of the solution around the ballast must be at least 5 cm.

Making a castle for a summer residence is easy if you have a couple of “golden hands” available.

The main material is sand and cement for the longevity of the composition. 2 parts sand and 1 part cement.

Elements of a typical design.

Let's start with the towers.

A cylinder of the desired radius is rolled up from a sheet of iron (I have about 2-30 cm). The cylinder is fixed with wire or self-tapping screws

Anything is placed inside the cylinder - bottles, cans - to reduce the consumption of the solution, but the thickness to the ballast must be at least 5 cm. Fill with a thick solution.

We give him several hours to set to such a state that when the formwork is removed, it does not crumble.

We immediately begin to cut the raw, slightly seized solution.

The cutting technology is the same as that of the sandboxes. For cutting, use a set of tools available to everyone.

Do not forget to make windows, loopholes, picking out the desired recess with a knife.

The mold is poured with a solution and after partial setting, carefully remove the cylinder formwork and make the required number of windows, teeth - as fantasy tells.

Let's start building walls. Our walls will be either fortress (1) or an element of the building (2).

There is no difference in their production.

Leave the finished walls for about a day on the table. When the foundation is prepared, we proceed to the assembly.

First, we install it on a cement mortar previously applied to the foundation, for example, tower No. 1. We attach wall No. 1 to the tower for mortar. Then we install the tower number 2.

The castle is already beginning to take shape. You are filled with excitement. Next, add wall No. 2 and finish with the installation of tower No. 3.

Assembly diagram:

When this structure grabs, form a gable roof over the building.
So, from the main basic elements, slightly changing them depending on your imagination, you can make a complex castle - like this for example.

Or a very simple one:

Beautiful garden decor makes the site special - it is pleasant to be here for both adults and children, and guests admire the skillful hands and imagination of the owners and take notes of ideas to implement them on their backyard territory. We offer 25 crafts and decorations for the garden, which are easy to make using improvised materials.

Butterflies - painting on stones

You can write any natural stones, both small and large. They look more spectacular “if the area of the painting is large - in this case, several images can be made on the stone. Butterflies in the photo above are an example of this. stone surface first rinse and dry, then apply a primer on it. When the coating is dry, paint it with a light background paint. So - creative work. If a suitable stones can't find it, let's do it

Rainbow butterflies over the flower bed

We cut out such butterflies from plywood - for this you need a jigsaw (or rather a jigsaw). To turn blanks into beautiful butterflies:

sanding the edges with sandpaper;
we apply impregnation for wood to the blanks on both sides to protect against moisture;
apply a primer;
paint with wood or acrylic paints;
after the paint has dried, we apply varnish for external work;
we fix the butterflies on long rods.

In the same way, you can make large fantasy flowers - they will greatly enliven the lawn.

Decorative balls or lamps

Let's make spectacular hanging balls to decorate the garden or lamps with round lampshades. The manufacturing principle is simple:

inflate big balloon or take a soft ball;
we wrap the ball or ball with twine (twine), fix it with PVA glue.
You can paint the twine before processing the workpiece with glue, or when it hardens.
We pierce the ball / ball inside, take it out.
We cover the ball with varnish.
If you use thin and flexible colored wire instead of twine. the work will be done even faster, and the decorative ball will last a long time - despite the winds and rains.

Figurines for the garden from pots

Garden decor from flower pots is a separate direction. What incredible interesting crafts for the garden can be made from inexpensive plastic flowerpots (although ceramic ones are also suitable)! Here, and here - You can fasten the pots into figures for the garden with a rope / twine / wire, which we thread into the drainage holes. Then - painting. We choose the paint depending on the type of material of the pots. If the pots are plastic, we take acrylic paint or specifically for plastic. If you are making a figurine from ceramic pots, oil paint or oil enamel will do. acrylic paint- universal, we also use it.

Cloud on the drainpipe

Such a rain can be arranged if you cut a cloud from a sheet of metal or plastic and attach it in the right place.

The first photo is almost a sculpture. For it, you need a panel of cellular concrete - it is easily cut.

In the second photo - a flashlight from a piece plastic pipe and mute. We paint it with acrylic paints.

Flowers on pedestals

A luxurious corner in the garden can be organized using tall stands for flower vases. we make them from poles, blocks or even just pipes - you can round, but always have a large diameter. Curly flowers are desirable - we will plant them in wide flowerpots or sulfinia.

Fairy tale castle made of pipes

We fasten several sections of pipes of different heights, in which holes are made (for example, with a crown drill). Roofs for turrets can be made from watering cans.

Plywood Garden Crafts

These figurines peeking out from behind the fence are very funny. But once they were ordinary plywood.

Site of concrete slabs

Decorative paving, in which the slabs are made on site.

We prepare the surface - we tear off small pits in the form of plates;
lay out a tape along the edges of the recess - it can be made of polyethylene or roofing material.
at the bottom of each pit we pour a little crushed stone with sand;
We fill with concrete.
Between the plates we sow lawn grass.

spiral lawn

Spectacular spiral of grass and stones:

we outline with a shovel a spiral on grass or earth;
pull out a spiral groove;
we put stones in the ditch;
we sow grass between the lines (if it is not there).

Garden of sand and stones

Exotic corner. But only stones and sand of two colors - yellow and white.

flower hose

A watering hose can also serve as a decoration for the garden. We drive hooks into the wall of some building, on which we wind the hose in the form of flower-petals.

Elephant from a tire or from pots

We cut the old tire with a regular hacksaw, if available circular saw cutting will be easier. We paint oil paint or rubber/bitumen.

The elephant in the photo below is from flower pots. For the head we use a ball, plastic or foam ball. The trunk is made of wire, here it is fluffy (chenille).

Tire sun and pipe tower

The sun from the tire - the decor is simple, but bright and pleasant. The complex of turrets is made of pipe segments.

Dogs from bicycle chains

You can do a lot of beautiful and original crafts for the garden with your own hands. And it is not necessary to buy some materials for this, old lids, basins, plastic bottles, tires, barrels, boxes, etc. Today I want to show you a very interesting master class on making do-it-yourself castle waste materials and polyurethane foam. The author of this master class is Nadezhda Gulak, she showed us and told us how to make a very pretty castle with your own hands for a garden of foam, cement and waste material. On the site you can also find many interesting and original crafts for the garden made from improvised, unnecessary materials. I think that each of you will definitely choose for yourself the right job. And now let's start making the castle and find out what we need for this.

To make a castle, we need:
* Self-tapping screws.
* Wire.
* Insulation.
* Rabitz.
* Cement mortar.
* Mounting foam.
* Unnecessary basins, barrels, etc.

How to make a lock:
We collect everything that we don’t need for the manufacture of the castle, various barrels, basins, boxes, etc. and start making.

And now the new settlers came to try out the fairytale palace)))

We take the wire and wrap our workpieces with it and twist it with self-tapping screws for strength. We do this so that later we have a better concrete solution.

To make a castle, we need everything and buckets too.

I think the cat is starting to like our castle)))

We take an unnecessary box and wrap it with insulation, then coat it with concrete mortar and wrap it with a chain-link mesh.

We pour cobblestones and clay into the boxes and put them in place. It's very hard work here. We also coat everything with concrete mortar and give time to dry.

We draw bricks, windows, in general, whatever our heart desires, on the blank of the castle.

We take iron and cut a cylinder out of it, we will make a roof with a lock from it.

We take the chain-link mesh again and wrap it around the central tower.

Now we will make a balcony for the castle, otherwise what is a castle without a balcony)))

We sculpt the frame of the balcony to the place where it will be located with us.

We make a canopy at will.

Also on the balcony there is a railing, we will make them from polyurethane foam.

We paint everything desired color, decorate, at the end of the work you can cover with yacht varnish. Garden lock ready with your own hands.

The cats really liked the castle, so it can also be called a cat's house)))

It remains to ennoble the area around the castle. Sprinkle gravel.

Do-it-yourself castle for the garden is ready, you can put a princess in it.