Decks, Patios & Outdoor Books
Books on Building Decks, Patios
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Decks, Patios & Outdoors

Art of the Kitchen Garden
Blending Herbs, Vegetables, and Flowers for a Stunning Kitchen Garden
Inspired by elegant Old World garden designs, Jan and Michael Gertley mingle flowers and vegetables to create gardens bountiful in color and produce. In this book they share their garden designs, including grid drawings, full-color planting plans, and brilliant color photos. These ready-to-use plans are suitable for a yard or garden of any size. Plant colors, textures, heights, and shapes work together to create lush designs that produce an abundant harvest. Every step of the process, from turning the first shovelful of earth to harvesting, is explained. Growing tips and design ideas come from two experts who make their living producing robust flowers and vegetables and vivid images. These gardens are perfect for the vegetable gardener wanting to add color and artistic flair and for the flower gardener wanting to grow fresh vegetables for the dinner table.

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.

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.

Black & Decker Complete Outdoor Builder: From Arbors to Walkways
150 Do-It-Yourself Projects To Enhance Your Outdoor Spaces
Adding beautiful, functional patios and walkways to the yard has never been easier thanks to this book. Over 150 projects and hundreds of instructional photographs combine with informative tips, tricks, and inspiration for the most comprehensive patio and walkway book on the market. From low-cost, curb-appeal walkways to expansive, estate-quality decorative concrete patios complete with outdoor kitchens, this book presents each project with step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs as well as informative tips, tricks, and inspiration

Building a Shed - Build Like A Pro
Instructions and plans for building four shed projects
Once you’ve enjoyed the extra space a shed provides, you’ll wonder how you managed without the backyard addition. Joe Truini provides complete step-by-step instructions and plans for building four popular shed projects: A Saltbox Potting Shed, Garden Storage Shed, Storage Barn and Lean-To Tool Locker. You will learn how to design the right structure for you and build it from the ground up. Sound construction techniques and time-saving tips will help you build your structure quickly and efficiently.

Building a Deck - Build Like A Pro
Pro-level information is carefully explained and presented so that a serious do-it-yourself can tackle building a deck with confidence. The definitive guide to building the most popular exterior construction project there is, Building a Deck walks you through the entire process of creating a quality, custom deck: from the planning stages, through construction, to the custom details that can make your deck one of a kind.

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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Building Outdoor Structures - Build Like A Pro
Building Outdoor Structures leads you from start to finish through 10 projects
From choosing the right woods and tools to measuring with dead-on accuracy to using finishes that will stand up to the elements. Build your outdoor structures...and delight your family and visitors with an enchanting garden for years to come. Like the idea of a lovely pergola, charming picket fence, or inviting garden gate gracing your yard? Now imagine your added satisfaction if they were built with your own two hands.

Building Porches and Decks
Design and building details that include foundations, framing, decking materials, and railings.
Porches and decks add beauty and value to a house, and they also make it easy to enjoy being outdoors. But these spaces have to be properly designed and built to stand up to the weather. Building Porches and Decks, a collection of articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine, gives you expert advice on not only creating durable structures that won't rot and warp but also designing porches and decks that complement your architecture and lifestyle.

Complete Guide to Decks
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.

Complete Guide to Outdoor Wood Projects
Practical and Beautiful Projects for your Backyard and Patio
Wood furnishings and accessories for the landscape are enormously popular, and most are very easy to build using ordinary hand power tools. The Complete Guide to Outdoor Wood Projects provides an exciting mixture of these projects, ranging from the basic, practical storage projects to decorative, ornamental accessories. Some projects can be built in an hour or two, others might require a weekend, but each project includes foolproof directions, clear illustrations, and color photography to guide you every step of the way.

Complete Photo Guide to Outdoor Home Improvement
No matter what your goals, The Complete Photo Guide to Outdoor Home Improvement shows how to get the very most out of your outdoor home. It includes more than 150 complete projects; some aimed at creating beauty, others at improving the function of various spaces, but all dedicated to making your landscape more enjoyable for you and your family

Construcción de Terrazas (Spanish)
Complete Spanish Language Step-By-Step Guide to Building Decks
"Building Decks" is a new Spanish language book that takes readers, step-by-step, through a the process of building decks. Get expert advice on everything from what materials and tools you'll need to design help. This book is beautifully illustrated with detailed, full-color photos showing the key aspects of each project.

Curb Appeal Idea Book
Inspirational Ways to Make A Great First Impression That Lasts
At first blush, every house has something to say to passersby. It's warm and inviting. Quaint and colorful. Charming with a touch of elegance. From the outside, your home has a look and feel that can be as unique as you are. With distinctive flourishes and artful ideas that express your sense of style. A style that can make people slow down to take it all in. When you flip through the pages of this colorful idea book, you'll discover hundreds of ways to transform the outer look of your home. Here are some of the delightful ways this engaging volume will help you enhance your curb appeal.

Deck & Patio Idea Book
Experts Help You Choose the Right Deck or Patio for Your Home
Deck & Patio Idea Book provides a photographic exploration of the varied decks and patios that can be built, and the features that define them. You'll be inspired by hundreds of photographs of everything from simple platform decks and brick patios to multilevel creations complete with arbor, hot tub, and outdoor kitchen. You'll find a wealth of information about siting, materials choices, railings, landscaping, and outdoor structures. You'll have what you need to transform an ordinary outdoor space into a beautiful outdoor room.

Deck Construction Based on the 2009 International Residential Code
Details Residential Code Requirements for Deck Construction
Designed to put the 2009 IRC® code text in the hands of the deck industry in a customized format that includes explanations, full colored photos and illustrations related specifically to deck construction. Provides the 2009 IRC® sections relevant to deck design and installation. Deck contractors, designers, homebuilders, plan reviewers, inspectors, and manufacturers will all find this book helpful in completing their work in accordance with the 2009 IRC® provisions, and in enhancing their comprehension of how the code applies to deck design and construction. This book is not a "how-to" book, and does not intend to teach novice deck builders about the fundamentals of deck construction. Rather, individuals that have a basic understanding of deck construction can now take their skills to the next level, with a deck-specific comprehension of the leading residential code adopted in the United States

Deck Designs: Plus Pergolas, Railings, Planters & Benches
Choose a Deck Design That Works Both Functionally and Aesthetically
Deck Designs, an updated and expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's leading deck book, offers a comprehensive guide to planning and choosing a deck that enhances the home while also serving the family's needs. The first part of the book covers topics such as how to decide on a design, tips on identifying uses for the structure, and common building themes and variations. Part 2 offers readers some of the best designs from four of the top deck builders in the country. Featuring 30 professionally-built structures, more than 120 full-color photographs, and 230 color illustrations, Deck Designs provides countless ideas for creating these beautiful additions. Amenities like overhead structures, railings, benches, and planters are also detailed, making this book a complete, one-stop resource for planning and choosing a new or remodeled deck. 224 pages.

Decks 1-2-3 by The Home Depot
Learn How to Design, Build, Accessories, Repair and Maintain Decks
The latest in Home Depot's how-to series, Decks 1-2-3 really delivers the goods. Not only do the editors provide the homeowner with simple steps and checklists for the project, but they also provide designer tips and a skill scale to give you an idea of what you're in for before you plunge right in with one of their projects. 75 projects teach how to design, build, accessorize, repair, and maintain decks. Includes expert tips on customizing plans. 192 pages, Published by The Home Depot.

Design Ideas for Decks
Provides Fantastic Design Ideas for Your Building Your Own Deck
A successful deck makes the outdoors more enjoyable and functionally expands living space. Design Ideas for Decks provides the design inspiration homeowners need to create the deck of their dreams. Through portfolios of lavish photographs, readers experience the latest trends in deck layouts, decking patterns, built-in seating and storage, railings, and finishes. An easy-to-follow design guide assists readers in creating the deck that best suits the needs of their family and home. This book proves that decks need not be simple, square slabs, but can be distinctive, graceful structures that enhance the appeal - and value - of any home. 128 pages.

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.

Fireplaces - A Practical Design Guide
A Practical Design Guide to Fireplaces and Stoves Outside and In
How to tackle problems unique to room additions, such as requirements for basement conversions, reinforcing ceiling joists for second-story conversions, handling problems in attic conversions, and what's required for footings, foundations and slabs. Explains how to design the best bathroom for the space. Even covers how to handle upgrades to electrical work in additions. Besides actual construction techniques, you'll find help in planning and designing and estimating room additions.

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.

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.

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.

The New Outdoor Kitchen
A One-of-a-Kind Book To Spark Your Imagination and Fire Up Plans for Your Own Outdoor Kitchen.
Guidance every step of the way for planning an outdoor kitchen ideally suited to your site, style, needs and finances. (Setup, built in, Modest, or forgive the pun - all out. We'll help you make the right choices right from the start.) 300 full-color photos show you outdoor kitchens all over the country, from "Italy In Texas" to "Urban Oasis." (See what's cooking in some celebrity chef backyards along the way.)

On The Porch
Creating a Wonderful Porch Can Change The Way You Live In Your House.
A porch can change the way you live in your house--it can entirely change the way your house looks--it can change the way you relate to your neighborhood. There is, simply, something magical about a porch. It slows you down, it tells you to take some time, to read the paper, to sip a glass of lemonade, to watch the weather roll in. For those dreaming of a front porch or those with porches in need of redesign, On the Porch will be their bible, the only book to cover the topic from porch types to planning and design, to tips on good construction, to maintenance and porch adornment (lighting, overhead fans, rockers, hanging plants, trellising).

Outdoor Entertaining
The Ultimate Design Guide for Outdoor, Backyard Fun
Featuring hundreds of fresh, inspirational photos and jam-packed with thousands of ideas and nuggets of expert information about creating outdoor entertaining spaces. Filled with gorgeous photography and inspiring instruction, This book will help anyone create an amazing backdrop for their next get-together. Whether its for an intimate dinner party or a bustling family reunion, Natalie Ermann Russell shows homeowners how to create a wonderful variety of inviting outdoor spaces, from a fully functional kitchen to a contemplative garden room. She also lays out a full-course menu of plans for dining rooms, dry and wet bars, lighting details, media centers, and more.

Outdoor Kitchen Ideas That Work
Creative Kitchen Design Solutions for Outdoor Kitchens.
Over 300 ideas covering today's range of outdoor kitchen equipment and furnishings plus top-notch design advice combine to create the only outdoor kitchen design sourcebook you'll ever need. Inside you'll learn how to make smart choices about what you really want in your outdoor kitchen and dining areas plus options for how to combine everything to create an outdoor environment that works for you.

Outdoor Living Idea Book
Outdoor Kitchens, Outdoor Dining & Entertainment, Furniture & Accessories, Pools & Recreation, Landscaping & Storage.
One of the hottest trends in home design is the creation of outdoor rooms with all the comfort of the family room, kitchen, and dining room in an al fresco setting. Interior designers are now applying their skills to exterior spaces, while landscape designers now have a much broader palette of materials and furnishings from which to choose. Whether that means cooking a gourmet dinner for friends, relaxing in the spa, gathering around the fireplace with family, retreating to a backyard studio, or playing bocce ball with your neighbors, you can design an outdoor living area that makes the most of your property and makes it fun to spend time at home, outdoors.

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.

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.

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.

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

The Ultimate Guide to Above-Ground Pools
Make a Big Splash With a Lot Less Cash
Let Terry Tamminen, "poolman to the stars," show you how to have a beautiful, hassle-free pool for thousands of dollars less than commercial installers charge -- by doing it yourself. Pool expert Tamminen helps you purchase, install, repair, maintain, and upgrade above-ground pools. You get parts and tools lists, tricks of the trade for each procedure, and a difficulty rating to help you decide if it's time to call a professional.

Treehouse Book
Design and Build Fabulous Treehouses Using Sustainable Materials
Featuring spectacular photography of exteriors set up among the trees, and interior shots that offer design ideas for living the “high” life, The Treehouse Book offers a fairy tale castle, a thatched cottage, a complete hotel, and much more. Each project was designed using computer technology and built using sustainable materials to create structures that only seem like fantasy. Each is cleverly fitted to the chosen trees, avoiding long-term damage to these remarkable structures

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.

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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