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The Complete Guide to Creative Landscapes : Designing, Building, and Decorating Your Outdoor Home (Black & Decker Home Improvement Library)

The Complete Guide to Creative Landscapes : Designing, Building, and Decorating Your Outdoor Home (Black & Decker Home Improvement Library)Author: Creative Publishing international
Publisher: Creative Publishing international
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 reviews
Sales Rank: 372820

Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.6

ISBN: 0865735794
Dewey Decimal Number: 712.6
EAN: 9780865735798
ASIN: 0865735794

Publication Date: August 1, 2000
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Product Description
The Complete Guide to Creative Landscapes represents a new, innovative way to look at the yard and landscape.

Up until now, landscapes have been considered mostly ornamental, and average homeowners were thought to be incapable of designing and creating a great landscape. This book will change all that. In refreshingly simple and practical language, The Complete Guide to Creative Landscapes teaches the seven secrets of good landscape design, shows how to plan a stylish landscape that meets practical family needs, and teaches readers how to build a functional, beautiful landscape. With this innovative method, readers will learn how to create a new or "remodeled" landscape consisting of outdoor "rooms" dedicated to various lifestyle activities. A landscape built using this method will be attractive and stylish-but more important, it will provide practical outdoor living space.

In addition, readers will learn how to put the finishing touches on a new landscape, thanks to comprehensive plans and directions for more than 20 beautiful and ingenious garden ornaments-ranging from simple cedar planter boxes to elegant copper archways and trellises.

Highlights:

**Includes more than 60 how-to projects that can be built with ordinary materials available at any home center. Each project includes complete directions and step-by-step photography.

**Includes a wide range of projects, from the very simple (creating a planting bed) to major hardscape features (building a retaining wall).

**Refreshingly simple and practical approach to the principles of landscape design-a book that is useful, not intimidating.

**The only "big book" of landscaping that includes a section on building garden ornaments.

**Innovative book design features an exciting blend of state-of-the-art color photography and elegant, hand-crafted illustrations.

**Contains a reference appendix, that includes helpful web sites, manufacturers, and an additional reading list. Also includes a complete index.


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5 out of 5 stars excelent information   August 12, 2009
Gabriel Enriquez (State of Mexico, Mexico Mexico)
This books has the content in a very clear and succinct way. The pictures help a lot!!!


5 out of 5 stars The complete guide to creative landscape   May 14, 2007
L. Rocha
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a great book with so many very well illustrated projects. I have just built a new home and am beginning to landscape my 4 acres I find this book very useful. All the projects are described in great detail with lots of pictures. Thanks L. Rocha


5 out of 5 stars It can't be replaced!!!   May 14, 2006
T. D. Hoops (nebraska city, ne usa)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful

I bought this book over a year ago. I've read through each project a dozen times. I love about 94% of them. Our house sits on a lot that is ~ 100 feet x ~ 120 feet. I was going to get crazy this spring and summer with a new patio, arbor, and several garden areas.

Sometime a couple of months ago, my book disappeared. I have searched nearly every square inch of our attic and basement, in addition to every closet, underneath every bed, and even in the garage. My wife has looked as well, but to no avail.

I'm 32 years old, and losing this book has nearly made me cry on at least four occassions. It's that good.

Our library doesn't have it. None of the hardware stores in town have it. We have one bookstore in town - and they don't have it. Last weekend, I finally broke down and bought two other books, thinking that by doubling up it would somehow take away the pain of losing my B&D Creative Landscapes book.

It hasn't worked.

I'm purchasing another copy on line this afternoon. There are just too many things in the book that I can't find anywhere else. It's nothing that difficult, but they do such a great job of making things easy to follow, and each project gives you ideas for three more.

Buy the book. Buy two copies. And be sure to hide one in your drawer where no one can take it.



5 out of 5 stars Great Book   May 12, 2002
K. Kainula (Canada)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

This book is so well layed out. I give this book 5 stars because it has excellent descriptions and pictures. I built the terra cotta fountain in the book and I love it so much.


3 out of 5 stars Not bad depending on what you are looking for   January 12, 2002
Greg J Berglund (Vancouver, WA United States)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful

This book is great as general advice. There are SO MANY different projects though that there is not a great level of detail on any one. Just enough of an overview and "how-to" to make you feel comfortable about taking some of these projects on for yourself or answering those questions that always used to make you go "Hmmmmm." Still, for a first time homeowner it will give you a lot of ideas and confidence to start making plans.

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