Product Description: Selected as a Gardens Illustrated Recommended ReadHand-Built Outdoor Furniture covers twenty step-by-step, fully illustrated projects with hundreds of clear and easy-to-follow photographs. Finished pieces include simple items include a trellis, a flower box, and a plant stand and more complicated projects include a chaise lounge, a sectional with built-in storage, and a slat bench...read more

Product Description: Learn all about how to build sheds, feeders, fences, and other backyard structures to enhance your sustainable living! Garden structures: Raised beds, planters and arbors, self-watering beds, grow-light stand, soil blocks Fences and pens: Fence post basics, picket fence, solar electric fence, installing and stretching fences, hen pen and hurdle, gates, PVC hen pen Housing chickens: Basics for housing chickens, building a coop and run, complete material and cutting lists, exploded views, building an A-frame chicken tractor Building sheds: Basics for building, goat shed, saltbox garden shed, backyard-homestead shop, roofing alternatives Solar and wind power: Compressor and gearbox windmills, how solar works, erecting a windmill, installing a solar power system Aquaponics and hydroponics: Understanding aquaponics, understanding hydroponics, basics of a DIY aquaponic system, how to install a hydroponic system Building beehives: Langstroth beehive, Warré beehive, top-bar beehive (aka the Kenyan or Tanzanian beehive), step-by-step building instructions and exploded views Plumbing and wiring: Plumbing basics, ground-fault circuit interrupters, freeze-proof watering options, outdoor wiring, supplemental lighting A companion volume to Backyard Homesteading, 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead provides details on how to build more than 40 projects to enhance your sustainable living...read more

Product Description: Maximize your outdoor living spaces through creative woodworking!Today's challenging economic climate has motivated many homeowners to stay in their current homes rather than upgrade, and this has sparked a major trend in what is often called the "don't move: improve!" movement...read more

Product Description: For any do-it-yourselfer, nothing is more rewarding than completing a project that’s not only functional, but also makes a welcome addition to the home. Among these projects, outdoor furniture has always been a DIY favorite. Easy-to-Build Backyard Projects offers places to pot and display plants, furniture for cooking and entertaining, storage and utility pieces, some things the kids can call their own, and chairs from which to admire handiwork in comfort...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Create Your Own Outdoor Living SpaceBuild your own Garden of Eden and have the sanctuary you've always wanted! Be the master of your own domain and retreat from the pressures of the world.Make a peaceful walkway that leads you to an archway permitting entrance into your own personal private place...read more

Product Description: 17 practical pieces of garden equipment and yard accessories that anyone can build. Readers can make these handsome projects from affordable and readily available 1-by and 2-by lumber, using such basic woodworking tools as saw, hammer, drill, and clamps...read more

Product Description: Like never before, people have the time to get the most out of their gardens, so that, more and more, they are becoming extensions of the home in which to entertain, relax and, of course, grow every type of plant using a plethora of planting techniques...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: “Offers 20 outdoor projects for anyone who can hold a saw or drive a screw...beginning chapters cover woodworking basics, tools and techniques. The projects include a butterfly box, planter, potting bench and picnic table. Each project includes a cut list, recommendations for materials and hardware, and step-by-step instructions...read more

Product Description: You can build 'em yourself! Everything you need (besides the tools and lumber) to build 60 unique and practical backyard projects is in this book! That's right... even before you start building you'll know exactly what it takes to make these fun and functional backyard projects sent to us from readers across the country...read more

Product Description: For gardeners looking for interesting ways to display treasured plants, practical solutions to storage problems, and pieces of furniture to enhance the patio, or woodworkers seeking new ideas, this text presents a collection of woodworking projects for any garden...read more

Includes instructions for creating a dining set, garden bench, patio table, planter, wishing well, serving cart, garden swing, trellis, arbor, and gazebo

Product Description: -No fancy workshop or expensive tools needed. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Now you can outfit your deck, patio, and yard with sturdy, attractive wood furniture that you can build yourself. And all you need is a handful of tools, lumber and this book.

Provides plans and instructions for constructing outdoor furniture using basic tools and modestly-priced lumber

Provides plans and instructions for making benches, stools, chairs, tables, and trolleys, and includes advice on tools, materials, and techniques

Shows how to make a picnic table, benches, chaise lounge, planter, hammock, garden bench, and Adirondack chair