Do you dream to create a unique garden? Put on the plot of mosaic! Over each pebble, the obsiginal nature was worked out, carefully selecting the form, color and size. Now it has come to fantasize - take the bat!
Monophonic, striped or speckle, long and thin, thick and round or flat, like a coin, - nature broke, giving a unique shape to each pebble. And she also checked them for strength: the raging sea waves or river's rapid flows once tear off the angular boulders and there for a long time they were tired of each other, grinding, as the best jeweler in the world. Only after a long and thorough cut of the aquatic element of pebbles with a perfectly smooth surface appears on the river or the sea. Only the most persistent stone "fighters" adequately withstand the test!
Endurance, durability and diversity make gravel ideal material to create stunning mosaic compositions. Pebbles of different shades, sizes and shapes are an excellent basis for creative patterns or entire paintings. Even just laying the same color and dimensions of stones along or across the pattern looks like a work of art. The process of creating a mosaic is very fascinating, but requires patience, fantasy and time. Was it not to take it? Then for business!
How to make a mosaic
In order for the mosaic to be preserved for many years, It is important to take care of a reliable basis. Remove the upper fertile soil layer. The minimum depth is 25 cm (respectively, for the carriage part it should be greater).
- For sustainability Flooring is needed a border (for example, from a paving or boulders). If the patterned coating is exposed to an increased load, the edging is mounted on a cement solution.
- Put the trench carrying a layer of rubble (about 15 cm thick) and thoroughly sink.
- Flip crusheden The 10-centimeter layer of the dry mixture of sand and cement and gently press the pebbles into it. And do not forget to hide abundantly!
Recommended first lay out the pattern on the sand Using different templates, and only then move the motive on the "pillow" from the solution. Are you sure your eye-diamond? Make a miracle mosaic without a parque! For the "Feather Sample" it is better to choose a small platform and a simple motive. Lay out pebbles on dry sand mix with cement . Over the finished mosaic, put the board and press - so that the flooring turned out to be smooth. If necessary - plunge the sand-cement mixture: Pebbles must perform from the base of approximately 5 cm . Then carefully pour your masterpiece with water from the sprayer. It is possible to step on the surface of the product after the mixture is frozen, however For the next two weeks it is desirable to cover the mosaic A awake to protect against the sun and rain. Dare!
Next to the stone white flowers rush ribbons of red, brown, beige, gray and black gravel. Such a bizarre drawing gives the garden landscape grace and sophistication.
The unusual of this platform paved by a paving, attach interesting inserts from white gravel. Such engines can also be used for a spectacular design of roofing terraces from the plates.
Step by step go to the goal
To start do it Separate stepping plates (as in the picture below). The form for the "baking" of such gravel "pancakes" will serve as a large pallet for pots.
1. For making stepper slabs You will need cement mortar. The sand-cement mixture is water and fill it with a bending layer with a layer with a thickness of about 5 cm. Rang the surface.
2. Pattern You can come up with spontaneously or pre-practice in its "writing". To keep the stones well, indulge them on the edge, not flat sides.
3. While the design dries, Protect it from direct sunlight. Wait at least 24 hours before removing the slab from the form. The residues of the solution on the stones can be erased with a brush or washed.
Note that it is fully solved only after 14 days, and do not expose slabs with excess loads.
Pebbles are already waiting for their own hours. The best copies are suitable for creativity, ideally a variety of colors and shapes are suitable for creativity.
For a complex pattern, a large stock of stones of all kinds of colors and shades is required. The mosaic in the photo below complements gems from glass - of which brilliant wings of stone insects are posted.
The emptiness between the plates or the unsultified territory is the perfect "polygon" for a gravel mosaic that can take any form. "Ribbing" from the paving will not allow the stones to move.
Two perfectly combined material - shards and elements from frost-resistant ceramics - make up a spectacular contrast with a small rounded cobblestones of earthy and grayish colors.
We wish you bright "mosaic" ideas and pleasant creativity!
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