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and Landscape Project Plans and Building Guides from The Family Handyman Magazine
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For more than fifty
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Patio
Privacy Screen
This airy screen provides the perfect
solution to a less-than-private patio or deck by screening in your
outdoor living area.
Construct a Custom Fence
and Gate
Build a cedar or pressure-treated privacy fence that
looks good from both sides.
Build a
Copper Trellis for Your Garden
Use ordinary copper pipe and tubing to create this backyard accent.
Latticework Porch Trellis
A trellis is an elegant
way to get a degree of privacy for a porch, deck or even a patio.
It’s also a great place to grow climbing plants. This trellis offers
a unique design that allows you to adapt it to fit a variety of
sites.
Build a Privacy Fence
This article will help you avoid major pitfalls and costly mistakes
when you're planning and installing a privacy fence.
Build a Stone or Brick Patio
Add a welcoming feature to your backyard with this attractive,
long-lasting brick and stone patio.
Build a Flagstone and Stone Block Patio
Stone is always in
style, and it blends well with any backyard. Get step-by-step
information on how to build a classic, squared bluestone patio
enclosed by curved blue ledge stone walls.
How to Build a Stone Path
Weave a flagstone garden
path just about anywhere in your yard. There's no thick base to
install or difficult cutting and fitting.
How to Build a Garden Steps
Plan and build dry-laid natural stone steps and path, using flat
flagstones for the treads and thicker blocks of matching stone for
the risers.
Affordable Garden Path Ideas
Instead of an expensive,
labor-intensive formal path, save money and time with one of these
casual paths. They'll blend in better, and will look like they've
been in your garden forever.
A Stone Path and Steps
Learn special techniques for planning and building durable steps,
paths and retaining walls in a sloped yard using modular concrete
blocks.
Planning a
Backyard Path: Gravel Paths
Choose gravel, stone or pavers for your backyard or garden path or
walkway.
Build A
Brick Pathway In The Garden
Cut out sod and set a brick and paver path on a bed of sand in the
backyard.
How to Build Brick and Stone Pathways
Create an heirloom garden pathway or sidewalk by combining bricks or
pavers with natural stone accent pieces.
Pour a Concrete Sidewalk
How to make a new concrete sidewalk-curved or straight.
Stone Fire
Ring
Build this backyard fire pit with retaining wall blocks.
Treated Wood Retaining Wall: How
to Set It Up
How to build a retaining wall
from lightweight treated lumber.
Family Handyman Shed Plans
Build any of eight
different beautiful and unusual sheds in your backyard with these
free downloadable plans and illustrated step-by-step instructions.
Family Handyman Outdoor Living Spaces
Build any of five beautiful
backyard rooms with these
free downloadable plans and illustrated step-by-step instructions.
Family Handyman Arbor, Gazebo and Pergola
Plans
Build any of four different garden
structures in your backyard with these
free downloadable plans and illustrated step-by-step instructions.
Family Handyman Decks
Get up-to-date deck building
information with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, plans and
photographs.
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