24 Cool and Unique Birdhouse Ideas for Your Yard
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Attract feathered friends to your yard with one of these fun and quirky avian homes.
Not Just For the Birds
Birdwatching is a popular hobby that can be done anywhere, including your own backyard. While a birdhouse is functional and encourages birds to visit your yard, it can also express your unique personality. These birdhouse ideas include both traditional and eccentric designs that can be purchased online, or used as inspirations for your own DIY birdhouse projects.
Vintage Camper
This build-it-yourself birdhouse from Etsy seller 1Man1Garage is a scale model of a vintage camper that will lend a retro feel to your garden. It’s a creative birdhouse idea that makes for an easy DIY project because the pieces are packed flat and simply pop out and snap together. It’s available in a natural wood hue, allowing you to paint it yourself, though it’s also sold pre-painted in a variety of colors.
Get the Vintage Camper Birdhouse at Etsy, priced from $27.20.
Old West Saloon
Would your local birds enjoy a visit to a Western-style saloon? This DIY kit comes unpainted, allowing you to get creative with the final design. It has a medium-sized opening, allowing birds of various sizes to visit. The total height is 9.45 inches, making this a compact option that’s already assembled so buyers can simply add their own style in the finishing process.
Weathered Watering Can
This metal birdhouse comes ready to hang, and has a naturally weathered look for a rustic aesthetic. It’s shaped like a classic watering can, and can be simply hung by its handle from a tree branch or installed onto a flat surface. If you have a vintage watering can, the same concept can easily be recreated.
Get the Watering Can Birdhouse at Countryside Home Decor for $51.
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Two-Stepping Rooster
This cheeky and creative birdhouse from Etsy seller WestConcept is sure to get a laugh out of your guests. Shaped like a rooster dressed up in Western finery, it has dangling feet that dance in the wind. It’s sized to be well-suited for hummingbirds, chickadees, and sparrows. Despite its comical design, it’s actually built for efficiency, with holes and slits in the roof for optimal ventilation.
Rustic Treehouse
This treehouse-style birdhouse by WestConcept on Etsy is handcrafted from eucalyptus plywood and includes creative features like pine cone decor and a rough-hewn ladder. A sign reading “Welcome to our neck of the woods” greets your winged guests. The top opens, allowing you to easily add birdseed, which travels down a chute onto the platform below.
Get the Modern Birdhouse at Etsy for $39.99.
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Bookworm’s Haven
Budding ornithologists and book lovers alike will appreciate this creative birdhouse idea from BookwormBirdhouses on Etsy. Each book is handmade and custom-designed to feature any text or illustration you’d like in order to express your diverse interests. The bookworm birdhouse features a 1.25-inch opening and includes the necessary mounting hardware.
Cedar Wood Spirit
This artisanal, hand-carved birdhouse will lend a touch of whimsy to your yard. Because it’s made from cedar, it will age to a gray color over time when exposed to the elements. It can be hung or mounted, and features a removable bottom for easy cleaning. Each one of these wood spirit birdhouses is signed by the artist.
Mini Cooper
Modeled after a Mini Cooper S R53, this ready-to-build birdhouse created by WhatAGeekDesigns comes flat packed and simply requires a bit of glue to assemble. It can be left in its natural state or painted to attract different sorts of birds. DIYers with a laser cutter could also use this as inspiration for a DIY project because the cuts are all relatively simple.
Paisley Cottage
A fanciful fairy tale cottage created by PapaJonsflyinns on Etsy makes a perfect pit stop for your local birds. With a whimsical, curved roof design that’s supposed to look like a paisley, this bird house looks like it jumped right out of a story book. It’s made with distressed galvanized metal and cedar, and could easily be recreated by a crafty bird lover.
Get the Paisley Cottage Birdhouse at Etsy for $94.95.
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Gourd Cottage
Made from a hollowed-out gourd and a pinecone, this birdhouse by Etsy seller inmypaintedgarden would make for an easy crafting project. The gourd is hand-painted to look like an old English cottage with the pinecone acting as the thatched roof. It’s sealed with polyurethane to protect it from the elements and comes with a chain attached so it’s ready to hang.
Get the Old English Greystone Cottage Birdhouse at Etsy for $50.
Build-it-Yourself Wooden Cottage
All of the pieces of this build-it-yourself birdhouse by Etsy seller Carterwoodproducts are ready to put together, with nails, string, and hooks included in the package. Each piece has pre-drilled screw divots, making this a fun art project to complete with children. The design can also be used as inspiration to make a wooden bird cottage of your own.
His and Hers Birdhouses
Everyone needs a little privacy—even birds! This “his and hers”-style birdhouse by DutchCrafters features two side-by-side birdhouses on the same wooden base. The entire structure is made from solid wood with a rustic finish. It would make a great wedding or engagement gift for the couple who loves to birdwatch together.
Get the Amish Handcrafted His-Hers Birdhouses at Etsy for $60.
Maritime Lighthouse
Whether you live by the seaside or just want to bring a nautical vibe to your backyard, a lighthouse-shaped birdhouse like this one by ADLaserImages on Etsy will do the trick. The upper observation deck is a great place to sprinkle bird seed so you can watch feathered visitors in action. This one is constructed from plywood and comes unfinished, allowing you to paint or stain it in any color you’d like.
Chicken Coop
While it may not be large enough to fit actual chickens, this birdhouse by ADLaserImages is crafted to look like a minimalist chicken coop. It has a streamlined aesthetic, and a simple design that could easily be replicated. This version is made from birch plywood and is ready to be assembled and custom painted.
Get the Chicken Coop Birdhouse at Etsy for $30.75.
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Mid-Century Modern
