Concrete is not just for roads and pavements! Look at concrete in a completely different way as you create everything from bookends to a Venetian bench. It's a diverse material that can be formed, carved and modelled, as well as beautifully enhanced by colour, mosaics and embedded designs. * Concrete Basics * Mixing Concrete * Custom Recipes * ...
From rustic dwellings to fairy mansions, this beautiful collection of photographs depicts these small structures and whimsical habitats in woods, parks, backyard gardens, and even at the beach. Enticing a fairy to stop by for a visit, building fairy houses can be addictive for all ages and encourages exploring the outdoors, being creative, using ...
Experience the gratification of watching birds gobbie seeds and other treats from your homemade bird feeder. Look on with delight as a mother bird tends to her babies in the protective hideaway of a bird house you have lovingly constructed from a dried gourd. Create a sunflower plantation, a bird teepee, a tent-style twig feeder, a pedestal ...
Brighten your porch, patio, deck, or garden with colourful, decorative mosaics you can easily make yourself. Over 25 projects will add charm to all your outdoor settings. You can use either new or recycled materials for both the surfaces and the tesserae that cover them; just imagine, for example, a worn out table enlivened by patterns formed from ...
With the 25 delightful projects in Garden Mosaics readers will discover how to revitalize their outdoor living spaces in charming and enduring ways inexpensive to create frostproof and colorfast the mosaics in this guide are perfect projects for beginners and experienced artists alike. Readers will learn to craft: -An ivy hanging pot -A bird bath ...
Weekend warriors can furnish outdoor living spaces with projects simple enough for a novice to complete. Whether your yard needs a picket bench, your terrace craves the privacy of a woven-willow screen, or your patio barbecue needs shelving or an outdoor game table, Simple Handmade Garden Furniture helps you customize for ultimate leisure. Each ...
Concrete is not just for roads and pavements! Look at concrete in a completely different way as you create everything from bookends to a Venetian bench. It's a diverse material that can be formed, carved and modelled, as well as beautifully enhanced by colour, mosaics and embedded designs. - Concrete Basics - Mixing Concrete - Custom Recipes - ...
Here is a dazzling array of projects that are easy to make with simple tools and materials. The thoughtfully designed projects are simple to assemble with screws, glue, and nails, yet the results are truly attractive. Includes illustrated, step-by-step instructions for more than 60 projects to brighten the lawn, garden, deck, and landscape. 500 ...
There are so many reasons readers will get attached to this new edition of Sunsets best-selling Trellises & Arbors. For starters, its all new, and expanded with 32 pages and over 250 brand-new photographs, many of which show how other homeowners have used obelisks, arbor benches, eye-catching
Norm Abram shares his legendary woodworking skills, inviting us into the workshop to build ten outdoor furnishings: picnic table, sandbox, workbench, wheelbarrow, planters, and more. Provides clear instructions for all phases of construction.
For the gardener who has never used a screwdriver as well as the DIY fan, this book deals with choosing, using and maintaining all the non-living things in the garden.
Vicki Payne, internationally recognized craft and home improvement expert and the host of two national television series, helps crafters bring the irresistible sparkle of stained glass outdoors and into the garden. With its magnificent variety of textures, patterns, and finishes, these projects showcase the versatility of glasswork--and prove how ...
Contains 20 step-by-step projects, from the sleek lines of an Adirondack chair to the sturdy scissors of a family picnic table. Over 700 color photographs and illustrations.
The 40 projects in this fully illustrated workshop resource book are designed mainly for novices, and each can be built without a high-tech workshop or specialist tools. Ideas range from a practical compost bin and bird feeder, to a sundial and pyramid planter. For more experienced workmen, gazebo and footbridge projects are included, but all ...
Now in paperback, this elegant primer by a master stonemason imparts the fundamentals of building traditional New England-style dry stone walls. 22 illustrations.
With the 52 projects in this guide, the reader can choose just the right easy-to-make additions for every outdoor area. Redecorate your front porch in Victorian, Southern, country, formal or shabby-chic. Refresh your windows, inside and out, with eye-catching planter boxes, shelves and cut flowers. Decorative yard displays include a nostalgic ...
The truly creative gardener can find design inspiration in castoff materials, and this book provides tips for transforming old barrels, pallets, wood scraps, and used tiles into things that are both decorative and useful.
From whimsical to dignified, charming to refined, each of these projects will find a place in your garden -- and your heart. With minimal materials and a few minutes of time, you can have a watermelon pot to hold your pansies, seashell candleholders for a romantic glow, and a barometer in a life preserver.
This unique new book combines gardening and crafts in a practical guide to creating handcrafted features for your garden. Every major craft is covered, including mosaic, metal, wire, glass, pebble, wood, coppice work, and willow. There are ideas for both practical and ornamental features, including decorative pebble paths, hanging glass panels, ...
From sundials and birdhouses to containers and pergolas, "Country Living Garden Decorating" explains how to use these garden elements effectively, how to make the most of one's space, and how to decorate a garden so that it remains interesting even in winter. 70 full-color photos.
Drawing on the traditional English garden, this guide features clean, functional designs which are stylish enough for indoor use but able to withstand decades outdoors with minimal maintenance. These 30 projects involve varying levels of woodworking skill and tool inventory. They include plans for chairs, tables, benches, screens, gates, trellises ...
A collector's guide to some 300 individual decorative objects from American gardens from 1740 to 1940. 400 photos, 100 in full color. 12 line drawings.
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