The extension of indoor living to the out-of-doors is a remarkable trend. As people enjoy more outdoor leisure time, they want garden areas for dining, relaxing, and entertaining. Garden Rooms demonstrates how to create such garden retreats.
How to grow living spaces—from concept to creation:
llustrates classic to contemporary styles:
Provides the details people expect from Better Homes and Gardens:
Outdoor rooms are an attractive option for gaining a little extra living space and providing a useful multi-purpose area for family fun, friendly get-togethers, and playtime. Country Living shows how to design the right open-air rooms for your needs, with page after page of ideas for setting up a relaxing haven, an upbeat entertaining spot, or even a romantic retreat. From quick and easy fix-ups—such as placing a chair and table in a shady corner—to elaborate layouts involving furniture, plants, and lighting, there’s something here for every size backyard and budget. Smart tips offer ways to cut down on maintenance, choose a garden style that enhances the house, establish focal points, handle awkwardly shaped yards, add walkways and arbors, and select eye-catching plants.
Sunsets new Before & After Garden Makeovers proves that even the most uninspiring yard can be transformed into a veritable garden of earthly delights. With 44 real-life before-and-after examples showcasing a variety of styles for every environment imaginable, youre sure to find beautiful inspirations for your dream garden. Features n Brilliant photo essays highlight 44 before-and-after gardens n How-to info includes garden designs, plans, and hands-on tips and techniques n Special features on adding lawns, installing flagstone paths, and building raised beds n Ideal for total redesigns or for specific areas, including decks, courtyards, and entryways n Gives the boost you need to tackle that all-important first step toward creating the garden youve always wanted
New Complete Home Landscaping is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning comprehensive book on landscaping for the home. It covers every aspect of home landscaping, from design principles to construction projects; plant selection to plant care. The book consists of three parts, Part One: Preparing to Landscape explains how to design and create a landscape. Part Two: Setting the Stage shows how to build such features as paths, ponds, walls, decks, and watering systems. Part Three: Planting and Growing describes how to select, plant, and care for flowers, trees, shrubs, ground covers, and lawns.
Thanks to the extraordinary photographs and gardening wisdom in this classic book, the elegant intimacy of the English cottage garden is a practical possibility for amateur gardeners in diverse regions of the United States. The author has analyzed the aesthetic and horticultural elements in ten representative cottage gardens--eight in England and two in the United States. Her spectacular photographs render the look and atmosphere of these gardens, while her text focuses on easily grown, readily available plants that are adaptable to a wide variety of climatic and soil conditions. In the back of the book--completely updated for this new edition--may be found specific horticultural information on a wide variety of cottage garden plants commonly available in the United States, glossaries of Latin and common names, and a list of sources for old rose varieties. The gardens in this beautiful book are not those of the great estates of England, manicured by staffs of professional gardeners. They are, instead, labors of love on the part of individual homeowners, many of whom started with bleak, rubble-strewn lots and went on to create the enchanted settings pictured here.
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 easy it can be to create eye-catching flowerpots, lanterns, stepping stones, tabletops, birdbaths, fountains, and other attractive accessories. Payne outlines all the tools and supplies needed to start out, along with time-honored techniques for making glass, mixed media mosaics, panels, and three dimensional objects using the copper foil method. If you thought working with stained glass would be too difficult and time consuming, this book will make you think again!
The Complete Guide to Creative Landscapes represents a new, innovative way to look at the yard and landscape. Up until now, landscapes have been considered mostly ornamental, and average homeowners were thought to be incapable of designing and creating a great landscape. This book will change all that.
Rustic woodworking is a technique that continues to attract both novice and experienced craftspeople. Through 30 attractive projects of varying difficulty, two experts in this traditional art teach the pleasures of working with sticks, twigs, and other found wood. No experience is required to construct many of the pieces, and illustrations and color photos provide help throughout. A woven twig birdhouse, beautiful diamond rose trellis, and the perennial favorite Adirondack chair: all the projects add decorative flair to a porch or deck.
Much more than just lawns, the backyards of today make full use of this area's unlimited possibilities for lounging, dining, playing, and communing with nature. Outdoor kitchens make cooking a treat for the senses while backyard fireplaces create a natural gathering place for friends and family. Decks, patios and porches can be transformed into fully furnished outdoor rooms with floors, walls and ceilings.
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