With the right ideas, you can turn your balcony into an outdoor living room. You can do this even with little money. You just have to be a little creative.
Anyone who has an apartment in the city usually longs for a little piece of greenery where they can really relax and enjoy the sun. Unfortunately, not everyone is lucky enough to own a garden. You can be really happy if your own apartment has a balcony. Here you can also let the sun shine on your nose and enjoy the warm temperatures.
Of course, feeling good and relaxing only works if the balcony is comfortably furnished. But that doesn't mean that you have to buy expensive lounge furniture and extravagant decorative items to make the balcony comfortable. You don't actually have to invest a lot of money. If you are a little talented with your hands, you can conjure up a beautiful outdoor living room with little money. Here are a few ideas and suggestions.
You can do it all yourself
❶ Balcony furniture made from Euro pallets
Anyone who thinks that balcony furniture is always made of polyrattan or aluminum and has to be bought accordingly is very wrong. You can also easily make balcony furniture yourself - for example from wooden pallets. It's absolutely trendy at the moment anyway. Not only because there is something very special about garden furniture made from wooden pallets, but because they are also cheap to produce.
Basically, all you need is a few screws, foam, and pillowcases. You can also sew the covers yourself. You can see how the whole thing is assembled in this video.
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❷ Privacy Screen
If you want to keep prying eyes away from the street, then you need to disguise the balcony railing. This works best with bamboo mats, for example. You can get 1.5 x 4 meters from Amazon for only 14.95 euros. If you like it more natural, you can also go higherplant growing flowers or shrubs in tubs and then place them on the ground.
If the balcony railing consists of a kind of lattice, you can of course also use climbing plants such as pipe bindweed. Here are more privacy screen ideas for the balcony.
❸ Mini Pond
In summer it's the most beautiful thing to sit by the water. If you don't always manage to do this in time, you can bring the water home. In the form of a mini pond for the balcony. You don't even need much for that. Only a mason's bucket, gravel, stones, pond pots and water plants.
- Take the mason's bucket and fill in a layer of gravel at the bottom. White pebbles are then placed on top, as these look particularly beautiful.
- Now take pond pots and fill them with the white stones on the bottom. Then put the pond plants on top and fill up the rest with the stones. This keeps the pond plants in place.
- Now you can position the pond plants in the bucket and then fill it with water. The mini pond is ready.
- If you like, you can place plants around the pond so that it is not immediately obvious that it is a mason's bucket. You can also dress it up with a cut bamboo mat or jute fabric.
Alternatively, you can also create a mini pond in the barrel. You can find out how this is done here.
❹ Shelf made of fruit crates
Next time you go shopping, keep an eye out for wooden fruit crates. These are usually thrown away anyway. So just ask if you could have them. The same applies to wine boxes. Then you can stack them on a wall of the balcony and you have created a great wall shelf. You can also screw individual fruit boxes to the wall. If you like, you can color the boxes beforehand.
❺ Canned Flower Pots
Of course you don't have to buy flower pots either. You can easily make these yourself from tin cans. Wash cans, dry well and then paint or spray paint. There are no limits to your imagination when it comes to design. With little means, it is quick and easy to make your balcony or terrace cozy and yet inexpensive.
❻ Jar Lanterns
You can also conjure up lanterns from the cans. But you need a cordless screwdriver for thisincluding the matching bit set, and drill holes or a pattern in the cans. Then color and the lanterns are done. You can find out how exactly this is done here.
You can also use preserving jars and turn them into lanterns. Simply embellish the glasses with decoupage, paint or ice spray. But you can also stick them with shells or artificial flowers. Just let your imagination run wild.
Conclusion
As you can see, you don't need a lot of money to furnish the balcony comfortably. You just have to be a little creative. Then you can even design a complete garden with little money or bring it back into shape. After all, there is always something to do here after winter. A few ideas for little money, with which you can make your green oasis fit for spring, can be found here, for example, compiled by the smava editorial team. On the other hand, you can find many creative ideas on how to make garden decorations yourself on Pinterest.