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Backyard Idea
Book
Create
Inviting Yet Functional Backyard Living Spaces
Backyard Idea Book showcases hundreds of creative, practical ideas
for planning and decorating inviting yet functional backyard spaces.
From porches, patios, and decks to pools and retreats to kids spaces
and storage, this book is filled with fresh ideas to help you create
a beautiful backyard that reflects and enhances your lifestyle. |
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Backyard
Playground
Tips and
Ideas for Creating Recreational Landscapes & Play Structures
By combining building projects for children's
play structures with tips and ideas for creative landscaping, this
book goes much further than any other to helping readers create a
fun, safe, and interactive outdoor play area for their children in
an environment that is useful and appealing to adults. The projects
in this book include a broad range of designs, for toddlers to
teenagers. The play structure project is the classic, timber-style
set found in many yards and can accommodate several accessories and
future modifications. Kids will find adventure, privacy, and a
connection to the outdoors. The climbing wall project provides
kids-and parents-with a fun way to develop strength and
concentration. There are also projects for playhouses and forts that
kids can help build and several plans for child-size outdoor
furniture. |
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Building and Designing
Decks Book
Professional carpenter
and deck builder Scott Schuttner takes you step by step, detail by
detail, through the entire deck-building process. Guided by
clear descriptions and detailed drawings, you'll be able to build
whatever kind of deck your budget and skill allow -- anything from a
basic, single-level deck to elaborate, multilevel masterpieces. To
help you get started, a 16-page photo gallery gives you over 40
inspiring examples of superb deck designs.
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Complete
Guide to Decks -
Black & Decker
A Step-by-step Manual for
Building Decks
This is the most comprehensive, useful manual for building and
maintaining decks available to homeowners, containing detailed
chapters on ideas, planning, repair and maintenance, and
accessories. Expanded to 320 pages, this edition now includes
complete plans and directions for 10 complete decks, and also
includes directions for additional deck accessories, including the
installation of low-voltage lighting systems, built-in bench seats,
an integrated overhead arbor, wood-sided privacy walls and
decorative railings. |
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Containers With Style
Over 300
Step-By-Step Photos Help You Create Colorful Plant Containers for
Indoors and Out
Containers with Style
features unique projects that will add instant style to both indoor
and outdoor spaces. More than 300 step-by-step photos show you how
to create and plant containers that will transform any space into a
lush, colorful oasis. Sample Projects Include: Window Box, Mosaic
Tile Pot, Hanging Basket, Herb-Filled Planter, Tabletop Water
Fountain, Trellis Planter. |
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Creating Beds and Borders
Create
Eye-Catching Island Beds and Borders for Your Garden
Creating Beds and Borders delivers practical advice and innovative
ideas for creating eye-catching island beds and borders. Selected
from the pages of Fine Gardening magazine, the articles in this book
will help you make the most of sun and shade, choose the best
plants, and design for long-season good looks. All this information
from talented designers will inspire you to create a beautiful
garden of your own |
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Exterior Siding, Trim,
and Finishes
Essential design and installation information
A home’s appeal depends a great deal on its exterior paint or
stain, brick and stonework, siding, trim, and other details -- and
it’s not just the type of finish that’s important. It’s also how
well the job was done. This first-ever collection of Fine
Homebuilding magazine’s most popular articles on the subject
provides you with ideas for choosing the correct finishes for
exteriors, plus solid how-to information covering everything from
building shutters to the much debated use of PVC. |
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Fences
& Retaining Walls
Everything you need to know to run a
profitable business in fence and retaining wall contracting. Takes
you through layout and design, construction techniques for wood,
masonry, and chain link fences, gates and entries, including
finishing and electrical details. How to build retaining and rock
walls. How to get your business off to the right start, keep the
books, and estimate accurately. The book even includes a chapter on
contractor's math. |
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Front Yard
Idea Book
A
Hands-On Guide That Puts Curb Appeal Within Reach of Every Home and
Budget
Front yards make strong first
impressions. The Front Yard Idea Book gives you the tools you need
to make your yard's first impression spectacular. The first outdoor
book in the popular Idea Book series, this book is filled with
practical ideas on everything from creating an inviting entry and
driveway to lighting for mood and safety to designing the right
foundation plantings. Dozens of site plans and creative solutions to
common landscaping problems make this an invaluable hands-on guide
that puts curb appeal within reach of every home. |
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Gardening In Small
Spaces
America's
Best Gardeners Share Their Secrets for Designing Beautiful Gardens
in Small Areas
Gardening in a small space has its challenges, but with little
imagination and a few design tricks, any homeowner can create a
beautiful garden. In Gardening in Small Spaces, the experts from
Fine Gardening magazine offer practical advice and innovative ideas
for creating wonderful gardens out of small areas. More than 15
talented designers will help you design a garden that suits your
home and lifestyle, no matter what the size of your yard. Even the
smallest urban lot can be transformed into a place of beauty,
privacy, and comfort. |
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Graphic
Guide to Site Construction
Over 325 details for builders and designers
From one end of the property line to the other, Graphic
Guide to Site Construction provides you with the essential
details on a vast array of residential site construction projects --
from basic walkways to driveways, retaining walls, septic systems,
decks, terraces and exterior lighting, and more. As with all Graphic
Guides, Site Construction provides clear and authoritative
information through more than 350 illustrations. |
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HeavyCalc Pro
The Only Calculator Designed Specifically for Heavy Construction
Pro's, Excavators & "Dirt" Contractors
Excavators, heavy construction, engineering and
design pros will save time, reduce material and labor costs, and
eliminate costly errors on all construction jobs. Built-in functions
for area/volume/weight, slopes, swell, and shrink, cut/fill and
more. Works in and converts between all building dimensional
formats, including Yard, Feet-Inch-Fraction, and even Metric. |
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Home Outside: Creating The Landscape
You Love
Extend Your Home Into The Great
Outdoors with Great Landscaping
A well-designed landscape extends your home beyond its four walls.
Landscape and garden designer Julie Moir Messervy shows readers how
to create living spaces outdoors in her new book, Home Outside:
Creating the Landscape You Love. Messervy believes most people are
more comfortable fixing up rooms than yards, so she seeks to instill
confidence by taking a step-by-step approach. She addresses
real-life challenges, such as limited time, budget constraints and
neighborhood association rules, and provides a wealth of ideas and
photos for inspiration. |
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Landscaping Estimating Methods
Learn How to
Create Accurate Landscaping Estimates for Clients
Updates the landscape
material, equipment and methods to the latest used in the industry.
Includes up-to-date cost data and information budgeting for
landscape maintenance and determining the cost of the landscaping
over its full life cycle. An essential tool for landscape
contractors and designers who are striving to accurately estimate
the cost of their work and prepare proposals for clients. It is also
an important reference for facility and maintenance managers
responsible for developing budgets for creating and maintaining
their landscape projects.. |
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Landscaping For Dummies
Turn Your Little
Patch of Earth Into A Personal Paradise
A
beautiful landscape reflects well on your house, making it a
welcome part of a neighborhood or native terrain. And it
dramatically increases your home’s value. Landscaping also makes
your house and yard more useful and better able to complement your
family’s lifestyle. Trees shade your home to reduce energy use.
Thorny shrubs deter prowlers. Lawns reduce dust from bare ground and
give children the perfect play area. Patios and decks are great for
entertaining. And a vegetable garden can yield fresh, delicious
salads to eat on that patio or deck. Landscaping for Dummies
has everything you need to turn the little patch of earth you call
your own into a personal paradise. Whether you’ve waited for the day
to have property to landscape, you’d never given it a second thought
until you had to, or you want to improve on an existing landscape,
this book is the answer. |
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Patios
And Walkways
Easy and
Stylish Projects That Increase Your Home's Curb Appeal
Patios and Walkways features easy and stylish projects that extend
your homes living space into the outdoors and significantly increase
its curb appeal. More than 300 step-by-step photos show you how to
enhance your homes livability, style, and value. Projects Include
Patios, Walkways, Garden Path, Low Voltage Lighting, Raised Beds,
Concrete Steps, Entryways. |
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Patios
And Walkways Idea Book
Create
Innovative Patios & Walkways from Entries, Pool Decking, Outdoor
Kitchens & Paths to Retaining Walls and Terraces
Patios and walks no longer consist of bland expanses of concrete or
an unimaginative rectangle tacked onto the back of a house. Designs
are elaborate and materials abundant. There's no better way to get a
glimpse at how you can transform your landscape than with the
inspiration in Patios & Walkways Idea Book. This book has it all,
from front entries to back patios, pool decking to outdoor kitchens,
paths through the woods to retaining walls and terracing close to
the house. In addition to the wide-ranging examples of styles and
materials, you'll find advice for all the practical concerns you
have questions about. |
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Pool Idea Book
Create the Ultimate Swimming Pool for Any Lifestyle or Budget
The Pool Idea Book showcases the latest innovations in pool and spa
design, offers creative design ideas for decks, outbuildings, and
landscaping, and addresses practical issues such as screening,
security and storage. A highly visual book, it features
approximately 350 color photographs, 20 illustrations and dozens of
useful sidebars to help you design or choose the ultimate pool for
any lifestyle or budget. Whether you own a pool or just dream of it,
the Pool Idea Book will whet your appetite and give you all the
ideas you could ask for. |
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Repairing Your Outdoor
Power Equipment
A new resource which shows you how to successfully service and
repair your favorite outdoor power equipment, including: lawnmowers
and garden tractors, snow throwers, leaf blowers, chain saws,
portable pumps, and more! Complete with step-by-step photo sequences,
this book will introduce you to the professional failure analysis
and servicing techniques you need to keep your equipment in top
condition, while highlighting the operation of basic two-stroke and
four-stroke engines. |
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Site
Engineering for Landscape Architects
The Leading,
Comprehensive Introduction to Site Engineering for Landscape
Architects and Site Engineers
The fully updated edition of the
leading fundamentals book on site design and engineering Site
Engineering for Landscape Architects, Fourth Edition continues a
long tradition as the leading, comprehensive introduction to site
engineering. This revised edition is fully updated to address
emerging theories, applications, the increasing use of CAD and
CAD-related technologies, and much more. From interpreting landform
and contour lines to designing horizontal and vertical road
alignments, from construction sequencing to designing storm water
management systems, this book offers an integrated presentation of
site engineering concepts essential to practicing landscape
architecture today. |
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Stonescaping Idea Book
Stonework Designs Add Graceful Contours to Your Landscape
There's nothing quite as functional -- or as beautiful -- as
nature's own building blocks. Often shaped and weathered by natural
forces, each stone has its own unique look and feel. From cover to
cover, this delightful book offers hundreds of practical design
ideas illustrated with colorful photographs and drawings, all
divided into six sections: Paths and Steps, Terraces Patios and
Garden spaces, Walls, Pools Ponds and Fountains, Finishing Touches |
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Water Garden Idea Book
Ponds,
Pools, Fountains, Waterfalls, and Other Outdoor Landscaping Ideas
Want to make a big splash in your landscape? Add a water garden -- a
bubbling urn, soothing fountain, naturalistic pond, or cascading
waterfall. Water Garden Idea Book brings these ideas to
life, with more than 300 creative examples for any type of
landscape. Sage advice on design and placement ensure your water
feature will look at home, either as a striking focal point or
subtle addition in the landscape. Instruction on how to install
simple water features makes this a complete visual sourcebook.
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Wooden Fences
A
Beautiful and Informative Guide to Building Wooden Fences
Who can resist the allure of a white picket fence? In this visually
stunning guide, we celebrate the art of the wooden fence in its full
range of styles, with practical information on designing, building,
and maintaining a fence. Color photographs by veteran National
Geographic photographer James P. Blair make this book as beautiful
as it is informative. An experienced carpenter and talented writer,
Nash traces the evolution of the American wooden fence from Colonial
times to the present. He discusses the various types of fences, and
explains how to design a fence to meet every conceivable need --
including how to be a good neighbor.
From laying out the fence to
digging postholes, anchoring the posts, and installing gates and
fence boards, Nash provides a variety of practical and useful
information. There's even a troubleshooting guide for
maintenance and repair. |
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The Art of the
Kitchen Garden
Landscaping
For Dummies |
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