With the word "mailbox" in the minds of many, a dull metal box of blue (green, brown and other) colors with a narrow slit for letters and a small lock on the front wall are evaporated. This is not surprising, because such, another Sovdeopovsky sample, everywhere - a pond of a pride. Why not cross the stereotypes and do not build a one-of-a-kind mail box with your own hands?

A creative person is unpredictable and geniant in everything - from here and such a huge number of options for man-made mailboxes, especially those that "live" in the country. Samples are different in shape, design, manufacturing material and, ultimately, at a price. Some models are not difficult to make it yourself, for others you will need certain construction skills and skills, the perishability and acquisition of expensive materials.

Mailbox styles

Mailboxes for cottages are conditionally divided into several stylistic groups:

Standard

The mailbox is a small rectangular box with a slit for correspondence. It is usually done from metal or wood. Such a box for letters most often can be found on the streets of post-Soviet cities. The main advantage of standard models is the simplicity of manufacture and ease of use.

Today, in traditional mailboxes, many owners breathe new life - they are decorated with colorful images in a decoupage technique, giving an unsightly metal juicy attractive appearance.

American

The variety of forms of mailboxes of American citizens do not shine, but impressive originality of decorative design. Letters are put in a horizontal position if newspapers and magazines are large for the box, they are folded.

An interesting feature of the mailboxes in the American style is a small check box on the sidebar. If it is raised up, inside the box there is correspondence, waiting for shipments. Your mailboxes are always installed on support. It can be a wooden or metal stick, a volumetric decorative figure.

English

The traditional mailboxes of the British are the most solid, and are a metal box mounted in the wall of the building. Over time, the appearance of the box for letters in English style has changed somewhat - today it is a separate stationary cabinet, erected from brick. Inside a solid facilities spacious niche for correspondence. The mailbox is installed a few meters from the door leading to the site.

Original

In the mailbox, the plastic bottle or the system unit of an already not necessary computer can be reincarnated in an unusual way. Sometimes the extravagant of the original mailboxes is rapidly. Anyway, every non-trivial mailbox is the result of a bold flight of the fantasy of its owner.

Mailbox in the General Exterior of the Plot

Even if you do not wait as soon as possible to make a mail box on my summer cottage, having a little. To begin with, appreciate the general view of your cottage to understand what material to give preference in creating a mailbox.

1. Does your home hide behind the fence from the artificial garden? Make a correspondence box in the same style - so you will achieve the unity of the color and textured gamma.
2. If your cottage is a small house in a village with a lush fruit garden, an obdicated frequenza, you will definitely need a wooden mailbox in the country style.
3. Mailbox to be memorable with its originality as it is impossible to fit into the exterior of a small country site.
4. An elegant wrought box for letters will benefitly emphasize the subtle vyg of wrought fence patterns.

Important moments in creating a mailbox

The correspondence box is a functional design that should serve for more than one year. How to make it more durable?

1. The gap to lower correspondence must be covered with a small visor that will protect the letters inside from moisture of snow and rain. This recommendation is particularly relevant when the mailbox slot is located on its top panel.
2. The door for the removal of letters, as a rule, is made on the front wall or in the bottom panel of the mailbox. If the mail is removed from below, the door is better to make a folding. The door on the front side of the letterbox for letters is certainly more convenient, but only under one condition: the dimensions of the holes and doors should very accurately match each other. Otherwise, when the door does not fit tightly to the box, the gaps passing the rainwater and snow in the niche for correspondence appear on its front wall.
3. All elements of the wooden mailbox are bonded by corners that ensure the strength of the design and facilitate its repair in the future.
4. A small, but reliable lock is cut into the door - from unscrupful lovers of someone else's correspondence.
5. Do you know that any mailbox can be equipped with alarm system? It's very simple! An old magnetic relay or telephone switch can be found each. From there we will need contact plates. With the help of a plywood or plastic sheet installed on the springs, take the second bottom in the mailbox. At the interval between the first and second bottom, the contacts are inserted, which will respond to filling mailbox with letters. As soon as the letters or newspapers are devastated to the bottom of the box, the contacts are closed, and the light bulb comes with them, reporting the owner.

How to make mailbox do it yourself

Consider one of the least complex ways to assemble the mailbox yourself. The tree is a pleasant and malleable material even in the hands of a beginner. In addition, wooden bars - the material is common and relatively inexpensive.

First of all, go back:

• brucks made of wood (for example, from pine) or by mounting rail;
• dense plywood;
• self-made;
• a small castle;
• a protective agent for wood processing;
• tools for working with wood.

Getting to work:

• cut out the main parts of the future mailbox from the bar. To create a frame, the mounting rail is suitable for the following parameters: the length is 30 cm, the width is 2 cm and the thickness - 1cm. Moisture-resistant plywood is needed for the skin, you will need two plywood sheets of 30x25 cm (on the facade and rear wall of the box), two sheets of 30x6 cm (on the side panels) and two sheets 25x6 cm (on the upper and lower part of the drawer);
• before assembly, you need to process all the wooden elements with a special protective agent so that moisture and insects did not spoil the man-made beauty before;

• using self-tapping screws and a screwdriver, we collect 4 rakes, rear and side panels, lower part of plywood;

• it was done - we got a box that you need to equip the front wall with the lock and the upper part with the contact with correspondence. We proceed to install the top panel. Not everyone boasts a rich experience of working with plywood, and therefore the need to make a neat slot for letters in a solid sheet of material can be a real problem. In this case, we recommend going along the path of least resistance: cover the top part of the box not one plywood panel with a width of 6 cm, and two small (2.5 cm each), leaving in the middle of the gap 1 - 1.5 cm;
• install the front wall on the mailbox - the door with a small lock. Fresh panel for small, but durable loops so that it can open to any convenient side for you. From the outside of the door, we screw two loops for the mounted lock;

• from above over the scapps for letters, we screw the suitable metal visor that will protect your letters and newspapers from raindrops and snow. Classic mailbox for the cottage is ready!

Mailbox installation options

1. On a solid surface. Make a multiple holes in the metal or wooden gate, as well as in the back of the mailbox. With bolts and nuts, screw the design to the surface.
2. On the fence. To a wooden or metal feck box for letters fasten with simple metal clamps. On the rear panel of your product, ride two slots for mounting, thread through them. Clamps and put on their horizontal fence supports. Before tightening the clamps, align the mailbox on the fence.
3. On the wall of the house. To install the Schema of the same: Make two holes in the mailbox and the wall that you are going to hang it. "Put" the product on a dowel or small anchors.

As you can see, there is nothing difficult in creating a cute heart of country accessories - there would be a desire to create!