BLACK+DECKER™ Home How-To Outdoor Building is jam-packed with popular projects for better backyard living. From building an attached wood deck or a patio to designing and creating a shed or pergola, you'll see exactly how to get the job done in this illustrated guidebook.
Complete plans, including technical illustrations and even cutting and shopping lists, will lead you through the building process, punctuated by clear step-by-step photographs and how-to descriptions.
If you value entertaining, recreating, or growing vegetables and flowers in your own yard, you will find everything you need to create the structures and hardscaping that support your interests. The projects are all selected based on more than 30 years of publishing BLACK+DECKER™ books for the home DIYer. The most requested and most frequently chosen backyard projects are all included. Among them are:
- Attached wood deck
- Patios of multiple types
- Greenhouses
- Sheds
- Raised planting beds
- Pergolas and trellises
- Garden walls
- And more!
If you are ready to up your backyard game, Outdoor Building is just the spark you need to get started.
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Backyard Fire Pit and Rotisserie |
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