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Author :: ARA  |
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| Article Title :: Bring Art and Structure to Your Garden |
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(ARA) - Arbors, trellises and pergolas have been adding art and structure to outdoor living spaces and gardens for centuries For anyone looking to add space, style and elegance to their garden, these versatile wooden structures are practical projects that can be built in a single weekend. Fall is an ideal time to consider outdoor architectural upgrades. While it may be your last major project of the season, your appreciation for the effort will grow when spring 2004 arrives. The structure is already in place, ready to enjoy as plants grow and flowers bloom around it. A popular building material for a wooden pergola is Western red cedar. It’s stable, resilient, and (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Kathleen Wilson |
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| Article Title :: Bring Spring In!
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Fresh, Frugal Ideas! Here are some great ideas for bringing the freshness of spring into your home.Sponge paint your walls, or a key piece of furniture. Blues, greens, pinks, and yellows in pastel shades refresh a room, and the softness of sponging gives an “impressionistic” appeal.Take clippings from outdoor ivy, and root in water for FREE houseplants. Buy inexpensive shade annuals and pot them up for indoors- fuchsias, impatiens, begonias, and primroses are wonderful for bringing in color, and deal well with the lower light indoors.Dress up candles as natural works of art instead of putting them away for the warm months. Use a glue gun to attach organic (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Danielle Dickinson |
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| Article Title :: Budjeting for your Water Feature |
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| Budgeting for Your Water Feature
Anyone that has ever constructed a water feature will tell you that it can be surprising how quickly the cost of installing such a feature can escalate. For this reason it is imperative that careful planning takes place BEFORE you rush in and begin constructing your dream water feature. Such planning can prevent nasty shocks from occurring.
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The first, and often overlooked, consideration should be having a plan put to paper by a Water Feature Specialist. Frequently, your vision and a tradesperson's vision of what your feature should look like is a matter of interpretation. Plans put this issue and any other conflicts to rest. Als (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Cedar Creek Woodshop |
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| Article Title :: Build A Simple Planter Box |
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| Love flowers, but don't have the space -- or the desire -- to plant a garden? You may want to try making your own flower box, which can be just about any size you wish.This planter box is built with a top and a bottom exterior frame; then you affix cedar panels to the frame and add bottom panels. After that, just add plants for a touch of spring anywhere you want to put it! Expert tip: Always draw a diagram before you build anything. Remember: If you can't draw it, you can't build it! You don’t have to be Leonardo Divinci, just that YOU can read it!! Your diagram will be useful in helping you determine the size of your project and the amount of lumber (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Donald Rohde |
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| Article Title :: Building A Birdhouse: Things To Know |
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| So you want to build a birdhouse. A well-built birdhouse should be durable, keep out the rain, not overheat, and be easy to clean. Keep these requirements in mind and let's get started. 1. First, determine the types of birds you see around your backyard. Then figure out which ones will use a birdhouse. Some birds build nests in trees or bushes, such as doves, cardinals, and mockingbirds. Others may make their nests on the ground or even burrows down in the ground. Only cavity nesting birds will use a birdhouse. Examples of common cavity nesting birds are chickadees, flickers, and bluebirds. Determine the type of bird that you wish to use the birdhouse.2. Determine the dimens (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Steve Wilcott |
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| Article Title :: Building A Container Water Garden |
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| Once you’ve chosen a spot for your container water garden – remember, 6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day, no overhanging trees, and a nearby water source (and power source if you’ll be using a circulating pump for a waterfall) – you get to the fun part. Most home and garden supply store chains carry all the materials you need to create small ponds, including plastic liners – but you’re only limited by your imagination and a few basic rules in choosing a container for your water garden.It must be easy to drain.It must be non-porous.It must be deep enough to support the plants you want to grow.I’ve seen water gardens that use everything from old bath (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Phil Wiley |
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| Article Title :: Building a folding screen |
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Folding screens can add elegance and style to any décor. So just how to you build a folding screen? It really is relatively simple! Well I found building a folding screen fairly easy and I'm certainly no handyman.Firstly, to build a folding screen you need three interior shutters or panelled doors. Typically these will be light and not too wide. If you buy ones too heavy you'll find it hard to move the folding screen around the house. You will also need six hinges – make sure they match your décor! And a toolkit, of course.To build a folding screen you next need to glue or nail 1/2-inch or 3/4-inch rope molding around the front borders of each panel. Once you’v (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Samuel Murray |
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| Article Title :: Building A Garden From Nothing At All |
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| Gardening doesn’t have to be an expensive hobby. Some of the most beautiful gardens I’ve ever grown cost me nothing but sweat and sore muscles – and paid off with the kind of satisfaction you’ll never get from a paid-for landscape. Throughout the spring and summer, I have the pleasure of tending the miniature rose bush I got for Mother’s Day six years ago, the Virginia bluebells that grew in my mother’s garden, the border of hostas that my son dug up from behind a neighboring store (with the store owner’s permission, of course!) It is a found garden – a friendship garden – a special garden that was never planned, and is all the more beautiful because of it.Building (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Alison Cole |
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| Article Title :: Building a Gazebo |
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| Are you handy? Think you can build a gazebo from scratch? There are plenty of gazebo plans available free in libraries and online. There are also blueprints available for fees ranging from $8 to $200. The more expensive gazebo plans are architectural blueprints, which are much more specific and best suited to the experienced contractor. But a talented home improvement buff can make good use of the less expensive options available.
A good free gazebo plan is available from the Build Eazy website. There you will find links to complete plans for 5 basic gazebos of varying sizes and styles to suit most tastes and uses. There plans are free.
There are several things to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Mark J. Donovan |
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| Article Title :: Building a Home Additon |
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| Besides providing your home with more living space, a home addition can be a terrific investment. However, before embarking on such a project the homeowner should first consider several important items. These items include: home market values in the neighborhood, financing, size and scale of project, architecture, timetable for completion, personal disruption/inconvenience threshold and the sweat equity commitment level. Size of Addition and Market ValuePrior to actually breaking ground on a home addition, it is best to first determine what you are looking for in terms of additional living space. For example: How many square feet? What types of rooms? Once this is unde (read full article) |
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