Garden path made of wooden saw cuts
Wooden saw cuts look very organic on the site. Here, this natural material is most often used to create paths. Garden paths made from wooden parts can be very diverse, but the manufacturing principle is the same for all.
Saw the tree into round timber 5-10 cm thick. Treat all parts with a special compound that will protect the material from cracking and rotting and thus increase its service life. Level the area. Place dried wooden cuts on it. Tamp them down thoroughly. The simplest - single-row - track is ready.
Fill all free space with any mulching material: bark, sawdust, pebbles, etc. Soil is also poured into the holes between the round timbers.
When creating a more complex path with several rows, always lay the largest round timber first. When they take their places, begin to fill the space between them with cuts of a smaller diameter. And at the end, fill the remaining gaps with mulch.
Some people frame a garden path made from wooden saw cuts with a border. You can use ready-made concrete fencing as a border, or you can make it yourself from boards or stones. Flower lovers plant low-growing flowers along the path - the result is a lively and bright border.
How to make a slab from wood
To make wood slabs with your own hands, it is important to choose the right raw materials. For these purposes, in the spring and summer, trees with a large number of branches, branches and growths that will look impressive when sawed are selected. After choosing the appropriate option, you need to decide on the cutting method:
- You can take the log to a professional sawmill, where it will be divided into the required number of parts. However, this method involves transporting raw materials, which is not always possible.
- It is quite possible to cut wood into slabs yourself using a manual sawmill. The power of such a unit is significantly lower than industrial, but for occasional use it is quite enough.
When working independently. You will have to choose from two technologies:
- The classic method involves dividing the log into equal parts, excluding the core. The middle segment is thicker due to its tendency to crack.
- Dissolution for gluing somewhat contradicts the traditional definition of weak, but is also used by some craftsmen.
After the question of how to make a slab from wood with your own hands has been studied, it is necessary to understand the intricacies of drying the raw materials, because most of the success of the entire production depends on it. Technologically, drying can be carried out:
- naturally;
- in specialized drying chambers.
It is much easier to ensure natural drying using your own efforts. To do this you need:
- Choose a suitable location. It should not be too sunny or damp.
- Build a canopy and stack each piece so that there are always air gaps between them.
- Wood dries out by about 2-2.5 cm per year, so to obtain a piece of medium thickness you need to wait at least two years. The degree of humidity is measured with a special device - a wood moisture meter.
Do-it-yourself wood slab processing
When making slabs from wood with your own hands, the finishing treatment depends on the purpose for which the finished product will be used. You can add special strength and wear resistance using:
- polyurethane varnish;
- epoxy resin;
- specialized oil for working surfaces.
If you need to create products from wood slabs while maintaining a unique structure that can be felt, then it is better to use:
- oils with a high percentage of solids;
- furniture wax
Fence made of wooden saw cuts
Another way to use wooden cuts in your dacha is to make fences out of them. There are a lot of options here. The parts can be stuffed or glued onto a dull picket fence.
You can combine wooden saw cuts of different diameters and artificial stone in one fence. The fence looks not only impressive, but also quite unusual.
Stones are most often used to fill gabions. However, other materials, such as wood cuts, are often placed in the space between the mesh. As with any wooden structures located outside the home, they must be treated with protective impregnation before use.
- How to make gabions with your own hands?
Gabions are being used more and more often in landscape design. What it is? Is it possible to make gabions with your own hands?
Saw all the logs into round timber of the same thickness. To create a gabion, you can use any saw cuts whose size exceeds the size of the cells. Fill the grid from bottom to top, immediately placing smaller ones in the spaces between large elements.
Choosing a tree to decorate a wall
A panel from wood cuts can be made from any type of wood, because there will be no load on the wall, which means even soft wood will be suitable. The only thing you should pay attention to is treatment with antiseptics, because some wood suffers greatly from rot.
From the point of view of aesthetic beauty, the choice is more difficult to make than from the practical side. Here everyone should give preference to their own taste, here are some types of wood, the cuts of which will make the walls look interesting:
- Pine - has a pronounced pattern with thick and dark concentric circles; such a cut of wood in the interior will organically fit into the design of a house in the style of classicism or Provence;
- Cedar - has a more delicate color scheme, it is suitable for any design style, the lines barely stand out on light wood;
- Larch has a bright color, and a panel made from such wood will look colorful in any home; it is perfect for giving a unique shade to a room with a monotonous design;
- Oak - characterized by “rays” coming from its core, crossing all concentric circles with light stripes, this is the most successful option for a house in the style of a Slavic hut. Walls made from oak cuts can decorate the entire house;
- Aspen is a softer wood, it will be much easier to work with, and its yellowish tint will harmonize wonderfully with sunlight on the wall illuminated by it;
- Apple tree - cuts of this tree are rarely used in construction due to low strength, but for decorating walls they are simply perfect. The unique pattern inherent in apple tree cuts will enliven any room, the dark core, and the light edges in its pattern look simply magical;
- Boxwood is quite rare in our area, but if it is possible to use its cuts to decorate a wall, then this would be an excellent solution. Bright orange stains radiating from the core of the cut alternate with a pleasant light yellow tint of concentric lines, which gives the wall the appearance of a setting sun;
- Pear – lends itself very well to processing, in particular grinding. It is used as an imitation of mahogany, and the shade of pear really resembles it, but it is not worth making panels on all the walls in the room from pear slices, the room will turn out too gloomy;
- Walnut - the color scheme of this type of wood alternates between dark and light shades, which gives it a certain gothic feel; walnut will look great in a wooden house with high ceilings and strict outlines;
- Linden - only young saw cuts can be used to decorate walls with this type of wood, because in old ones, over 10 years old, the core begins to rot and the appearance deteriorates greatly;
- Juniper is a shrub, but cuts of its thick branches can be used to decorate walls; they have a pleasant pinkish-white sapwood shade and a dark brown core.
Table made of wooden saw cuts
Wooden saw cuts are also used to create furniture, most often tables and chairs. A massive wooden table made from a huge old tree will, of course, not fit into every setting. However, in the right environment it will certainly dominate the interior.
Tempered glass is often used as a tabletop. It will add lightness, airiness, and the table, despite the base made of wooden cuts, will not seem so massive.
Small tea tables are the easiest way to use round timber. For such a table made from wooden saw cuts, you only need metal legs and wood impregnation.
These tables can also be used as bedside tables or as flower stands.
Hot coasters
The process of creating square coasters for hot dishes from wooden saw cuts consists of the following steps:
- Take the trunk of any tree with a diameter of 1 to 3.5 cm. Saw it into round timber about 1.5 cm thick.
- On a sheet of plywood, starting from the edge, begin gluing the cuts with any wood glue. Use both large and small parts as you work.
- Fill the plywood to the width you need. After complete drying, cut it into strips of the desired size.
- Sand the workpieces thoroughly. They must be completely flat. After this, cut the strips into squares.
- Saturate the stands with wood oil.
- If desired, to protect the table, you can glue silicone legs to the bottom. Your coasters are ready.
The stands can also serve as a board for cutting food. To save space, they can be made two-tiered.
Room decor with wooden cuts
Wooden cuts are often used to create decorative elements.
Watch
Take apart traditional and unremarkable watches. From there you will need a clock mechanism and hands. In the center of the wooden cut, make a hole equal to the size of the clock mechanism. Draw numbers on the outside of the clock using a stencil. Attach the arrows and insert the battery. Agree, wooden watches look much more interesting than plastic ones.
Mirror frame
You can also trim a mirror frame using wooden saw cuts. Cut a circle out of plywood. Attach a mirror to it and trace its contours with a simple pencil. Use white acrylic paint to paint the part of the plywood that will be covered by the wood cuts. When the paint is dry, glue the round timber onto the plywood without going beyond the line. Try to ensure that the cuts that go along the outside cover the edge of the plywood. Treat the frame with varnish and attach the mirror to the plywood.
Wreath on the door
You can also make an interior wreath with your own hands from wooden cuts. Saw the tree into thin, up to 1 cm, round pieces (photo 1). Find a round base, such as a bowl of suitable diameter, and place the pieces around it (photo 2). Carefully, trying not to move the circles, remove the base. Take a new circle and apply hot glue to both edges. Glue this cut so that one of its edges is on one round piece of wood, and the other on the other. So repeat until the end. The top row will connect all the elements of the bottom row. All you have to do is decorate the wreath.
We hope that after our selection, your interior will also include several items made from wooden sawn cuts.
Wood flooring
Since wood is often used as a flooring material, log houses have also found their place here. The idea is quite interesting, the appearance of the final result will also not leave anyone indifferent.
It is important to note that the branches used to cover the floor are absolutely not suitable for log houses. Here the design will be carried out using larger wood elements.
Please note that the thickness of the cut for the flooring will play a significant role, because the constant load in terms of furniture and other factors must be calculated. One more thing - do not use soft wood, because it simply may not withstand constant load.
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The process of finishing the floor itself will be a little more complicated than, for example, walls. It is lined with ceramic tiles, and a special solution is used during installation. After the elements are installed, workers perform grinding so that in the end we can get a perfectly smooth and beautiful surface.
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The final stage is treatment with varnish, which will prevent the floor from becoming dirty in the future.
