The Black & Decker Complete Guide to Creative Landscapes: Designing, Building, and Decorating Your Outdoor Home
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In addition, readers will learn how to put the finishing touches on a new landscape, thanks to comprehensive plans and directions for more than 20 beautiful and ingenious garden ornaments-ranging from simple cedar planter boxes to elegant copper archways and trellises.
Highlights:
- Includes more than 60 how-to projects that can be built with ordinary materials available at any home center. Each project includes complete directions and step-by-step photography.
- Includes a wide range of projects, from the very simple (creating a planting bed) to major hardscape features (building a retaining wall).
- Refreshingly simple and practical approach to the principles of landscape design-a book that is useful, not intimidating.
- The only "big book" of landscaping that includes a section on building garden ornaments.
- Innovative book design features an exciting blend of state-of-the-art color photography and elegant, hand-crafted illustrations.
- Contains a reference appendix, that includes helpful web sites, manufacturers, and an additional reading list. Also includes a complete index.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #155511 in Books
- Published on: 2000-04-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
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Great Book
This book is so well layed out. I give this book 5 stars because it has excellent descriptions and pictures. I built the terra cotta fountain in the book and I love it so much.
Not bad depending on what you are looking for
This book is great as general advice. There are SO MANY different projects though that there is not a great level of detail on any one. Just enough of an overview and "how-to" to make you feel comfortable about taking some of these projects on for yourself or answering those questions that always used to make you go "Hmmmmm." Still, for a first time homeowner it will give you a lot of ideas and confidence to start making plans.
great book!!
I have been in the search of a home for months now and the one thing I kept telling myself was that when I finally bought it, I would also buy this book. I looked at lots of books at Home Depot, B & N, etc. but this is one of the best and most creative landscaping books I have found. So today, knowing that I have a home and YARD that I can call my own, I am buying it!!



