Product Description: No projects offer more aesthetic or financial satisfaction than DIY masonry and stonework projects. Homeowners can routinely save thousands of dollars in labor costs by buying and installing materials that are now readily available for routine purchase...read more

Product Description: The secrets of buying and building with natural stone   Urban, suburban and exurban alike, homeowners everywhere have rediscovered the classic beauty of natural stone—the original low-maintenance building material. But along with such backyard standards as bluestone and slate, engineered products that replicate the look and feel of real stone have made considerable inroads into the stonescaping marketplace...read more

Product Description: The wonderful, timeless, practical, aesthetic value of stoneThis book will contain a brief history of how and why stone has been used in structures throughout the world. It discusses stonework projects for the home and how to create them, whether they are do-it-yourself projects or ones that require masons and contractors...read more

An experienced stonemason shares his more than fifty years of expertise to show homeowners how to use stone in a variety of interior and exterior designs, covering such areas as how to select the right type of stone, essential tools, the techniques of drystacking and mortaring, when to hire a professional stonemason, and dozens of projects for the home and garden. Simultaneous.

Accompanied by natural stone projects for both the home and landscape, this revised edition furnishes the latest information on decorative concrete finishes, new tools and building materials, and much more. Original.

Product Description: Stone is one of the most beautiful, enduring building materials available. Cody Macfie, a third-generation stonemason and writer whose work has appeared in "Fine Homebuilding" and other magazines, is unequalled at explaining how to work with this wonderful resource...read more

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